Chapter 837 Statue of Mrs. Maya

After collecting three statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva in a row, Jin Muchen finally came across something more interesting.

But rather than saying that this is a more interesting thing, it is better to say that this is a more interesting set of bronze statues.

This set of Buddha statues is composed of a dancing bronze statue of a woman, plus three half-squatting and kneeling bronze statues.

Originally, Jin Muchen thought that this set of bronze statues was finally separated from the religious theme, because the shape of this set of bronze statues did not look like a Buddha statue no matter how you looked at it.

The bronze statue of a woman standing and dancing, her clothes fluttering, and judging from the shape of her head, hair accessories, and clothes, she looks like a woman in the Tang Dynasty.

And the few half-squatting and kneeling bronze statues around them all look like sergeants of the Tang and Han dynasties, wearing armor in the style of the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty, but the buns on their heads are indeed those of the sergeants of the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty. modeling.

Just seeing the armor and hairstyles of two different dynasties appearing on the body of a bronze figurine can quite give people a feeling of time and space in which Guan Gong fought Qin Qiong.

This is too out of line, right? Who made this bronze statue?

If his Chinese master knew that he could actually create a bronze statue like this, he would have to jump out of the grave in anger and beat his brains out.

Looking at the introduction below the set of bronze statues, Jin Muchen was relieved.

This turned out to be a set of Maya statues made by Japanese craftsmen in the Asuka period, that is, in the seventh century AD.

Speaking of Mrs. Maya, people who don’t understand Buddhism may not know it. If people who understand Buddhism, they will definitely know such a great person.

If you put it into Western mythology, this Mrs. Maya is simply the Virgin Mary in their mouths. This is **** Christ his mother!

According to historical records in India, Mrs. Maya was the biological mother of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, so she is listed in Buddhist scriptures. Considered the Queen Maya, she was the wife of the King of Pure Rice in Kapilavastu of ancient India. She is the daughter of King Shanjue of the neighboring Tianji City.

According to the legend of Mahayana Buddhism, she married King Jingfan for 20 years, but she was still childless. Then suddenly one day, Mrs. Maha dreamed that a white elephant entered her left flank and found out that she was pregnant.

After ten months of pregnancy, she returned to her mother’s home to give birth according to the custom at that time, and stopped at Lumbini Garden on the eighth day of April, when she raised her hand to rest on a branch in the garden. Shakyamuni was born from her right rib.

Legend has it that the holy pond in the garden is where she bathed before giving birth, and where she bathed Sakyamuni for the first time afterwards.

Therefore, in Buddhism, Mrs. Maya has a very important position.

Later, Buddhism became popular in China during the period of the Five Husbands and Chaos. Later, when it came to the Tang Dynasty, it was even more out of control. Especially the Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty was a great believer in Buddhism.

Because of her female identity, she secretly encouraged the Buddhism at that time to vigorously promote this Mrs. Maya. He even hinted on many occasions that he was the reincarnation of Mrs. Maya.

Of course, most of these claims belong to some minor unofficial history. There is no clear record in the official history books.

After Buddhism was introduced to the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese also began to believe in Buddhism, because their Buddhism was deeply influenced by the Buddhism popular in the Tang Dynasty, and they had not developed their own school at that time.

Therefore, it can be said that in the Asuka era, it is not an exaggeration to say that Buddhism in Japan copied the Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty in its entirety.

It is precisely because the Buddhist allusions of the Tang Dynasty are copied that the Japanese also know that there is such a name of Mrs. Maya in Buddhism.

Later, after Buddhism flourished in Japan, some good men and women hoped that the temple could cast a full set of Buddha and Bodhisattva statues in Buddhist allusions. And then for the people to worship.

So there is this set of Mrs. Maya statues, but because Buddhism was just beginning to become popular in Japan at that time. And the craftsmen who were responsible for casting these bronze statues didn’t know what Mrs. Maya looked like, so they just followed their own ideas. to cast this Mrs. Maya statue.

The statue of Mrs. Maya they cast was simply imitated from the pottery statue of a beauty in the Tang Dynasty, which was popular at the time. Because Mrs. Maya had a more noble status, they simply decided on their own to match Mrs. Maya with three attendants. .

But at that time, what kind of birds did the Indians look like? These Japanese slaves had no idea at all, so they simply made up some Indian appearances in their minds.

As a result, such a mixture of soldiers of the Han and Tang dynasties was created. After all, in the impression of the Japanese at that time, the two dynasties that were the most powerful and had the greatest influence on them in the Eastern Land and Tang Dynasty were also. The Han and Tang dynasties.

So there is such a set of strangely shaped Mrs. Maya portraits!

Just such a set of four dissimilar things, if you take it to China, I am afraid that you will come to any antique market, as long as you take it out, it will lead to jokes.

People will laugh at you for being too fake just by looking at the appearance of your bronze bodyguard. They don’t even think about making fakes. They are just doing things behind closed doors.

He must have been stabbed in the spine and looked down upon.

But in Japan, this set of things is different. According to the temple records of Horyu Temple, this set of bronze statues of Mrs. Maya is definitely not small.

This was the Emperor Shengmu of that year. In order to commemorate the grandmother, Emperor Yuanming, who made him the crown prince, it was specially made by the people of Horyu Temple.

Because after believing in Buddhism, Emperor Shengmu unconsciously imagined his wise and martial grandmother as Mrs. Maya.

Later, as I got older, I thought more and more. In the end, I simply asked the people of Horyu Temple to cast such a set of Mrs. Maya statues and put them in my own home. Every important festival, I took them out for worship.

Therefore, this set of things has undoubtedly become the heirloom of the Heavenly Royal Family, and it is also a very rare treasure!

After all, this set of bronze Buddha statues, although they look different, and the workmanship is rough, but after all, in the Heavenly Royal Family, they have extraordinary meanings.

In the hearts of the Heavenly Emperor, the long-sleeved and dancer Mrs. Maya is their ancestor, the forty-third generation Emperor Yuanming!

Therefore, the status of this set of Mrs. Maya portraits is immediately unusual!

In front of this set of Buddha statues, although so much has been said, there are many things that Jin Muchen can guess with just a guess.

Since it is something so important to the Heavenly Royal Family, I can only laugh at it.

Anyway, the emperor of Japan, the famous family, has also caught a lot of good things from us Chinese.

It is said that the only copybook of Wang Xizhi that has been handed down to the world is hidden in the house of the dog emperor.

During World War II, this family did not know how many treasures were collected from China. Although those treasures were not taken by the people of the Imperial Family who went to China to **** them, they were also those mad dog generals under their family who were looting from China. After scraping, it is dedicated to their home.

After World War II, the family had been lying at MacArthur’s feet pretending to be their grandson. If it wasn’t for the ugly appearance of the emperor’s wife and daughter, the dog emperor might even have given his wife and daughter to MacArthur to sleep with.

It was because of this shameless kneeling and licking that their family was forgiven and protected by their godfather MacArthur.

And it is precisely because of MacArthur’s forgiveness and protection that the Chinese government encountered many difficulties when it later sought the cultural relics from the Tianhuang family.

Whenever we pursue cultural relics, these gang of turtle grandchildren will always push two or six five, or they will play stupid, or they will play tai chi with you, anyway, they can’t get anything back.

Since their family likes to rob our Chinese treasures so much, then they shouldn’t blame Jin Muchen for being rude today.

Isn’t this the ‘spirit card’ of your ancestors? Hey, I’ll go to Lao Tzu today, so that you will have nothing to worship in the future!

After getting a set of Mrs. Maya’s portrait, Jin Muchen was in a good mood, and finally got a set of things that he could see.

He continued to walk inside, but what he saw next made him stunned.

This is actually a pair of stirrups, but it is not the same as the stirrups in Chinese history. The stirrups in Chinese history are all open and front.

And this set of stirrups turned out to be sealed. The front was made in the shape of a shoe. When the seal was sealed, the shape looked like half a shoe.

I really don’t know what the Japanese craftsmen thought at that time.

To be able to make such a wonderful stirrup, if such a stirrup was taken to China, it would definitely be sprayed to death with saliva.

But in Japan, this thing is a special national treasure~www.readmtl.com~ Although this is the stirrup used by a certain generation of the emperor of the imperial family! ~

Well, although he didn’t like it very much, Jin Muchen could only bite the bullet and put this set of stirrups in his pocket.

Continuing to move forward, I finally passed the exhibition area of ​​the Asuka era, and then I saw rows of bronze mirrors.

These bronze mirrors have various shapes, but the regulations and patterns are basically the same as those of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, and it can even be said that they are copycats made by the Japanese.

If it weren’t for the fact that these bronze mirrors were used by the imperial family of Japan, Jin Muchen would have no regard for these bronze mirrors. He had too many bronze mirrors in his hands.

Many of them are top works of ancient China.

And these Japanese knockoffs, if you take them out and compare them with our top bronze mirrors, you won’t be able to see them at all.

But after all, these were used by the royal family, and they were also made by the top craftsmen in Japan back then, so it is a matter of course that they were rated as Japanese national treasures. (To be continued.)