Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 756
Soon, Minister Hu brought Zhou Zhi back to another small courtyard next to the Forbidden City. There was still no signboard at the door, but Zhou Zhi had been there before and knew that this was the Porcelain Appraisal and Restoration Center of the National Museum.

"Elbow?!" In the office, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang were studying two hanging screens with a magnifying glass, and Zhou Zhi recognized them at a glance. They were the pair in the living room of the old man's meeting in the morning.

"Come and take a look, Chenghua Colorful Gourd Vase." Mr. Wang waved to Zhou Zhi: "I just delivered it from the West Flower Hall. This thing is even rarer than the Tianzi Jar!"

Chenghua Wucai is the ancestor of hard pieces of Chinese colored porcelain, which are basically small cups and jars.

Small cups are famous for chicken crock cups and Sanqiu cups. The small pots are often called "Tianzi pots" because the word "天" is often written on the bottom.

It's really rare that you haven't noticed it after hanging in the West Flower Hall for so long? !Zhou Zhi secretly slandered in his heart.

But he said in his mouth: "Really? That must be a national treasure!"

Qi Lao said cheerfully: "It's really dark under the lamp. This hanging screen has been hanging there for decades. At that time, the appraisal work was not done carefully. It was regarded as all from the Qianlong Dynasty. I didn't expect to see this gourd. The five colors are actually from Chenghua official kilns."

"The main reason is that the staff were deceived by the words 'Sanxitang Jingjian' on the bottom of the bottle, thinking it was something from Qianlong's later years, but they didn't know that it was engraved later." Zhou Zhi said.

Qianlong was a seal maniac. In addition to stamping various ancient calligraphy and paintings, he also liked to grind the seals of various dynasties and engrave his own characters, and he also liked to engrave characters on his favorite porcelain.

In fact, the craftsmanship of engraving porcelain is very admirable, but it is too much to engrave your own crooked poems under the celadon narcissus basin of Ru Kiln in the Song Dynasty.

"Eh? Elbow, how do you know it has the Sanxitang mark engraved on it?"

Minister Hu smiled and said, "Old Qi, Elder Wang, Zhou Zhi discovered this special place where the screen is hung."

"What?! Him? How did he get there?!" Wang Shixiang couldn't help being taken aback.

"I didn't tease you." Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded by Minister Hu's black gun: "The main reason is that I don't know what to say, whether it should be considered a confidential matter..."

"The situation is indeed a bit special." Minister Hu said: "We won't go into details about the specific process. Let's talk about the problems we are facing now."

"Then let's sit down and chat." Qi Lao said, "Let's talk about the big things first, and then look at the pictures."

So everyone sat down, and Minister Hu gave a rough overview of the matter, and then said: "The current organizational decision is to allow Zhou Zhi to join this Unicode organization as an individual."

Of course, Mr. Qi and Mr. Wang understood the weight of Zhou Zhi's suggestion, and were very pleasantly surprised by his actions, but they were a little confused: "We two bad old men, I'm afraid we can't help you with this matter? So you come here today... ..."

Minister Hu asked: "There is a calligraphy work that we have lost abroad, called "Chunhua Ge Tie". Do you know, Mr. Qi?"

Qigong's long white eyebrows twitched twice: "But... Prince Cheng's "Linchunhuage Tie"?"

"That's right, there are four more copies of the Song version that should be posted." Minister Hu nodded.

"I know this too well!" Qi Lao became a little excited: "Did you receive the news that Li Qiyan is going to post?"

"Uh... there seems to be some rumors." Minister Hu said: "But we are more concerned about Mr. Li's eldest son, Li Leshan, who is a professor of information engineering at Yale University. He is a member of the Unicode Alliance and can serve as Zhou Zhi's recommender .”

"There are rumors? Then we have to follow closely!" Qi Lao was a little anxious: "Speaking of this "Chunhua Ge Tie", it is a treasure in the calligraphy world of our country."

"Mr. Qi, please tell us about it. My family also mainly studies monuments." Zhou Zhi hurriedly picked up Mr. Qi's old background.

Qi Lao said: "As we all know, the peak in the history of Chinese calligraphy is undoubtedly the calligraphy of Jin people."

"However, Jin people's calligraphy, even the calligraphy of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, in the Song Dynasty, there are very few surviving ink traces, and the world rarely sees them."

"Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi inherited the meaning of Taizu Yanwu Xiuwen. During the Chunhua period, he built a special book pavilion for collecting various calligraphy and ink marks, which was called "Chunhua Pavilion" in history."

"In the third year of Chunhua, Emperor Taizong took the famous books of the Han, Jin, and Tang dynasties collected in the pavilion, and ordered Wang, a scholar of calligraphy, to edit the order of the catalog, mark the scriptures, and copy and engrave them on the jujube board. There are ten volumes in total, and they are included in one hundred. Ling Sanren's Dharma book, 420 posts. This is the first Dharma post in history, "Chunhua Ge Tie."

"The first volume of "Chunhua Ge Tie" is the books of the emperors of the past dynasties, the second, third, and fourth volumes are the books of the famous ministers of the past dynasties, the fifth volume is the ancient scriptures of Zhujia, and the sixth, seventh, and eighth volumes are the books of Wang Xizhi. , its ninth and tenth volumes are the books of Wang Xian."

"This is the earliest collection of calligraphy and ink marks in the history of our country. It collects all the masterpieces of calligraphers before the Song Dynasty. In addition to introducing the calligraphy of 'Two Kings', it also explores and compares the calligraphy of Wei Zhongxu and Jin famous scholars. .”

"In addition, it is more convenient than the extension of monuments and giant tablets, and can accommodate more different forms of calligraphy. Affected by the times at that time, there are very few regular script components in the post, and most of them are 'manuscripts', which are lifelike. The spirit is complete, and the title of the frontispiece uses the word 'Fa Tie', so it is called the originator of Fa Tie."

"The birth of "Chunhua Ge Tie" has driven the trend of engraved and imitated posts in China for thousands of years, and formed a "tie study" in the calligraphy world that competes with the "tablet study". It has spread to our calligraphy, especially It really played a great role in promoting the development of running script in the Song Dynasty. It has always been hailed as the "crown of Buddhist scriptures" and has a great influence on later generations of scriptures."

Zhou Zhi's calligraphy was practiced by Si Biao's uncle, who was a great expert in Weibei and European style, so it was natural that he was "learning from steles", and Zhou Zhi didn't even study copybooks.

Ke Qi always came from a bannerman, so he naturally went all the way to the court. He himself is a great collector of postcards, and of course he is very clear about the famous postcards in China.

After listening to Qi Lao's introduction, Zhou Zhi also sighed with emotion: "Although it has flowed out of the country, it has been passed down after so many years. This is also a blessing among misfortunes."

"Huh?" Old Qi laughed and said, "You are also a handicraft practitioner. If you want to go to the Yellow Valley, you can't escape the school. It seems that you haven't made any progress in this year?"

"Mr. Qi, please forgive me." Zhou Zhi hurriedly cupped his hands: "This year, I've almost exhausted my practice of writing questions, so how can I still have the time to brush?"

"That's right, you're taking the college entrance examination this year!" Elder Wang remembered this kid graduating from high school this year: "How did you do in the exam?"

"He did very well in the exam. He was the number one student in liberal arts in Shuchuan Province, and he still has 25 full points." Minister Hu said, "Let's talk about copybooks."

"Mr. Hu, do you know my grades? How many points?" Zhou Zhi was shocked: "You don't mean to make me happy?"

"Just after the results came out, the Shudu Education Commission called in the morning. 510 two."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help rolling his eyes, and he suddenly realized that this was simply because Minister Hu had some kind intentions, and most of it was done by chance when he organized an investigation into himself.

"You did well in the exam." After boasting, Mr. Qi put it away: "Let's talk about "Chunhua Pavilion Tie"..."

Zhou Zhi is being silly again, a majestic number one scholar in liberal arts in the province, not even worthy of a congratulation?
But this sentence can't be said here, all of them are doctoral supervisors, so you have the nerve to talk about the college entrance examination?
I had no choice but to continue to listen to the doctoral tutor.

"What Elbow said just now is a bit ignorant. In fact, the original version of "Chunhua Ge Tie" was unfortunately all burned down because of the accidental fire in the palace during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty."

"Hi!" Zhou Zhi patted his thigh: "Should have thought of it! The fire created by the court lady burned two-thirds of the treasury of the Song Dynasty! The fire burned for half a month, and the inner palace was almost completely destroyed!"

"Exactly, so the original version of "Chunhua Ge Tie" was seen by very few people in the Song Dynasty." Qi Lao said: "But fortunately, Song Taizong used the double hook method to make some copies based on the original, and reward everyone My servant, this version of "Chunhua Ge Tie" is called the 'ancestral block edition'."

"The ancestral engraved version is an early official rubbing, and the number was very limited. At that time, only a high-ranking official in the Central Secretariat and the Privy Council could get an official rubbing."

"Therefore, the early official rubbings of "Chunhua Ge Tie" were also very precious, and they were valued by the world at that time."

(End of this chapter)