Chapter 864 Scourge in the mountains

Whenever he thinks of these things, Jin Muchen can’t help but hate Pu Wei, who wants to reverse the course of history, and grit his teeth.

Just such a bastard, how much loss and suffering has it brought to the Chinese people?

Therefore, he loves the Xinjueluo family and does not perish, so there is no reason for it. Although they love the Xinjueluo family and enter the Central Plains, they have indeed brought us a lot of benefits in China and the territory.

For example, the right to rule over Tibet, the right to rule Inner Mongolia, and the right to rule over Xinjiang to the end, is indeed of great help to the expansion and formation of China’s current territory, etc., but they love the later descendants of the Xinjueluo family. Man, that’s enough shit.

As long as their grandchildren can enlighten their minds a little, they will not withdraw from the stage of Chinese history in such a disgraceful way.

Just in terms of the protection of ancient Chinese cultural relics, what the sons and grandsons of Aisin Gioro have done is absolutely innumerable. overseas.

Not only this little Prince Gong’s Prince Puwei, but also his younger brother Pu Xin once sold a large number of calligraphy and paintings left by Prince Gong’s mansion to foreigners.

In 1927, Yi Yuanji’s “Picture of Gathering Apes” was sold to the Japanese by Pu Ru, the younger brother of the two brothers.

It was first collected by Fangjiro Abe, and later was collected in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art. Wen Zhengming’s “Garden Pond Atlas” in the Ming Dynasty was sold by Puxin to Japan’s Saito Etsuzo in 1928, and is now in the collection. Unknown.

In 1930, Pu Wei pawned Yan Zhenqing’s “self-confession note” to Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation at a high price, and has been unable to redeem it since then.

In July 1930, the Japanese calligrapher and painter Nakamura bought it from Mitsubishi for 30,000 yen. Now this work is stored in the Japanese Calligraphy Museum.

Ming’s Zhu Yunming’s “Linhuangting Sutra” and “Hetao Drinking Poems”. Qiu Ying’s “Plum Blossom Princess Picture Vertical Scroll” in Ming Dynasty, Fang Cong’s “Colorful Landscape Picture” in Qing Dynasty, and Li Shizhuo’s “Imitation Zhao Qianli Listening Spring Picture Vertical Scroll” in Qing Dynasty. Zhang Zhao’s “Linmi Tianma Fu Tie” in the Qing Dynasty, these six paintings. In 1931, he was sold by Puxin to Japanese Yamamoto Tejiro, and his whereabouts are unknown.

The Five-Colored Parrot Scroll of Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty was also sold by Pu Xin to Yamamoto Tijiro in 1931, and was later sold to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by this Yamamoto Tijiro. Now it has been acquired by Jin Muchen. .

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Rong pawned the Nine Dragons Scroll, which was sold by Napu Xin to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1917, and is now taken back by Jin Muchen.

Song Dai Anonymous’s “Picture of Scattering Cattle Shepherding” was sold by Pu Xin to the Japanese Abe Fangjiro for collection. It is now in the collection of the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.

It can be seen from this that the three brothers in Prince Gong’s mansion are really prodigal. It is just the so-called son who sells the lord and doesn’t feel bad. These famous calligraphy and paintings are all because they love Xinjue Luo’s family. When they were emperors, they used various means received.

But these are the treasures of our Chinese art. As a result, these guys sold these things to those Japanese and Americans for money.

Do it now. If our descendants want to see the relics of these ancestors’ calligraphy, they will either go to Japan or the United States to see them.

Even more unfortunate. Those good things sold to the Japanese have been destroyed by the war because of the bombing of Japan by the United States during World War II.

Among them, the most heart-wrenching piece is Wang Xizhi’s “Youmu Tie”, which is one of the few authentic works left in the world by the calligrapher Wang Xizhi, but it was also sold to the Japanese by the unworthy descendants of Prince Gong’s mansion. , but it was finally destroyed by the American bombing of Japan. As a result, the surviving authentic works of Wang Xizhi are now the “Mourning Posts” collected by the Japanese Imperial Palace.

And that “Mourning Post” was even more popular among the Heavenly Royal Family. It is regarded as a fairyland, and it is taken by the emperor’s old king and eight families. It’s hard to see, let alone showing it in the Tokyo National Museum, even my own family can’t easily see this copybook.

And we Chinese don’t even think about it. Unless Japan is taken down, I am afraid that we modern Chinese, even for a lifetime, will never want to see the original copybook.

Many of these calligraphy and paintings were imported into Japan or the United States through the hands of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce.

The Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce also made a fortune in these transactions, and after the 1920s, the activity of the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce in China expanded even more.

Because Japan became a victorious country in World War I at that time, its international status suddenly improved, and it won a lot of war dividends. In addition, Japan openly invaded the Jade Bird area of ​​Shandong, and its sphere of influence in China continued to expand.

And the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce also took this opportunity to become more and more arrogant, making a fortune in the heads of the Chinese people.

At that time, the nature of their work in the China branch was no longer limited to areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, sitting at home and waiting for others to deliver goods to the door to buy.

Instead, they began to go out of their homes and searched all over China. They went deep into the hinterland of China many times. For example, they stole and dug up a large number of bronzes in Zhouyuan, Shaanxi, such as Zhougong Ding, Sanshi Pan, Big Yu Ding, Xiao Yu Ding, etc. It is a ritual vessel that marks the Sheji of the Western Zhou Dynasty; it has also been to the Mangshan tombs in the north of Luoyang, where a large number of underground tombs have been robbed, and where did they obtain a large number of cultural relics, such as Tang Sancai, pottery, bronze, ancient jade, etc. .

It is through these illegal means that the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce has been able to obtain various treasured cultural relics from China.

And they use these cultural relics, on the one hand, they are important people from the political and business circles in China to act as a protective umbrella for them, and they also generously donated a lot of treasures to museums all over Japan.

On the other hand, they also transported the vast majority of Chinese cultural relics to Europe and the United States for sale, thereby obtaining sky-high profits and making a fortune.

While grabbing huge profits, they are also famous in Europe and the United States, so that many European and American collectors, whenever they want to get a Chinese antique they like, the first thing that comes to mind is the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce.

If they don’t find such a treasure in the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce’s store, they will place an order for the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce and let them go to China to find it.

At this time, the Chamber of Commerce in the Mountains is no longer just an antique shop. They have completely transformed into cultural relic robbers and antique squatters.

Just behind this three-piece set of red sandalwood is a sitting statue of the Tathagata from the Tang Dynasty. This sitting statue is from the 21st cave of Tianlongshan Grottoes in Taiyuan.

There is actually a saying about this seated statue.

In 1923 of the last century, several major museums in New York in the United States were desperately searching for antiques and cultural relics that came to China. On the one hand, they sent their own “exploration teams” to search everywhere.

On the other hand, I also contacted the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce and asked them to help scavenge a batch of stone statues from China, especially Buddhist stone statues, which they were particularly interested in.

And because the Buddha statues in the caves of Tianlong Mountain in Taiyuan are especially famous for their exquisite carvings, several large museums in the United States have specially placed orders for the Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce. As long as they can get them, these museums are willing to buy at high prices. .

So for this business, in 1924 and 1926, Yamanaka Singjiro, the head of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, personally brought it back and went to Tianlong Mountain in western Shanxi twice. The purpose of each time was very clear. A large number of exquisite Buddha statues in the grottoes were stolen and shipped abroad.

There is always no clear record of the American’s quotation, but how much is it, but at this time, Yamanaka Singjiro was already successful, and he was not bad for money. How high are those Americans bidding?

And this Yamanaka Singjiro did not return empty-handed every time. With the help of his assistants and some local mercenary traitors at that time, his robbery plan can be said to be very successful.

As long as the Buddha statues in the Tianlongshan Grottoes are well preserved, there is almost nothing he can’t do.

There is no complete statistics on how many Buddha statues he looted from the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes.

And this grandson, the worst thing he did was that while he was looting the Buddha statues in the grottoes, he was still destroying them.

You must know that there are not only Buddha statues in those grottoes, but almost every grotto where Buddha statues are stored will have exquisite murals, but while he steals those Buddha statues, he does not cherish those murals at all, and wantonly destroys them. Murals~www.readmtl.com~ Fortunately, there are enough Buddha statues in Tianlongshan Grottoes. Although he stole some of them and destroyed some of them, there are still more than 1,000 statues left. This is also thanks to the ancestors. We are left with a solid foundation.

Otherwise, it would be very difficult for us Chinese today to even take a look at the Tianlongshan Grottoes.

And now, what appeared in front of Jin Muchen was the one who came to Cave 21 of Tianlong Mountain, a statue of the Tathagata leaning on his back.

The reason why this seated statue of the Tathagata appeared here is also because when Yamanaka Dingjiro stole the Buddha statue, he was not careful, and the head of the Tathagata statue and the front of his right arm were missing, and the colors were almost all gone. flaking.

Such a sitting Tathagata statue would be of little value if it was sold in the market, so this guy pretended to be generous and donated this broken Tathagata statue to the Tokyo National Museum, as a good man.

However, although this Tathagata statue is incomplete, the relief technique on the Buddha statue is extremely superb. The texture of the clothes and the beautiful but well-proportioned round Buddha body revealed from the light cassock clearly show the Buddhism of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The high artistic level achieved by the statue. (To be continued.)