Chapter 475. "Thousand Characters"
By the way, this "Thousand Characters" was originally named "The Thousand Characters of the Second Rhyme Wang Xizhi's calligraphy" and was a long rhyme verse used to teach children's basic Chinese characters. It is an article composed of a thousand non-repetitive Chinese characters. It is said that Emperor Wu of Liang of the Southern Dynasty practiced calligraphy for his princess and entrusted his minister Zhou Xingsi to create it.
Li Zhuo's "Shangshu Gushi" records: Emperor Wu of Liang ordered his minister Yin Tieshi to write the stele of the stele of Wang Xizhi, and asked to draw out a thousand characters that did not repeat each other to give them to the Eight Kings. After the Yin Tieshi was bridged, these more than a thousand characters were not associated with each other. Emperor Wu of Liang ordered Zhou Xingsi to compile these thousand characters into meaningful sentences, "You have talent and will make me happy." Zhou Xingsi compiled them overnight.
All the collectors here know that the Thousand Characters are composed of "Heaven and Earth" to "Yan Zaihu", a total of 250 four-character short sentences with rhymes and rhymes. The content includes astronomy, geography, politics, economy, society, history, and the entire article does not repeat any word.
The Song Dynasty served his good qi once wrote "Continuation of Thousand Characters"; Xu Qingteng of the Ming Dynasty once wrote "Collecting Thousand Characters"; Wu Shenglan of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Content of Thousand Characters"; "Content of Thousand Characters of Gongqing Emperor's Seventy Years of Life"; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also had "Imperial Thousand Characters Imperial Edict", etc., and the contents of the "Thousand Characters" are different, but they are all named "Thousand Characters".
So, which version of the "Thousand Character Classic" that is revealed now?
Just when everyone was confused, Lin Yi shook his eyes at Professor Liu Yu and then Professor Liu began to turn on the book.
Then everyone saw a big red collection seal. As expected, it turned out to be a collection of books in the "Yi Song Tower"!
In an instant, people began to talk.
"How is it possible? It's really a collection of books in the 'Yingsong Tower'!"
"Yes, why is this happening? Didn't the Song version of the 'Yingsonglou' be sold to Japan?"
"Is this a collector collected by a large collector in the late Qing Dynasty, and was not bought by the Japanese, and finally left to Taiwan?"
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"The collection of books in the 'Yingsonglou' is really rare."
"Yes, compared to the 'Guoyun Tower' in front, this 'Yuesong Tower' collection is even more precious."
"It's rare to be expensive. Now the collection of books in the 'Yuesong Tower' has been spread to Japan. It's already rare to see it here!"
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"It's been an eye-opener! It's really an eye-opener!"
"I don't know who is so lucky to win the bid."
"Don't talk about that first, let's take a look at the contents of this book!"
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As everyone was talking, Professor Liu Yu continued to turn the inner page of the book.
"Thousand Characters" finally reveals its true appearance--the elegance of the Song Dynasty's version is immediately revealed from the inner page. The entire page is surrounded by fish scale patterns, which surrounds it. It is a good name in ancient books, called "Golden Scale Pang Ri". The center of the page is only one-half of the entire page, surrounded by golden scales, and looks very exquisite. This is not counting. At the mouth of the book, there is the name of this book workshop - "Tokyo Ruyifang".
Tokyo is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. As the greatest dynasty in China, many inventions and cultures were basically born here. As the capital, Tokyo Bianliang was the political, economic and cultural center of the time. It can be seen that this engraving workshop should be very famous. As for the engraving master, it is signed as "Huang Shisen".
Many collectors are not familiar with this name, but as long as those who like to collect Song versions of books, they are "really known" because Huang Shisen was the most famous carving master in the late Northern Song Dynasty. He once carved imperial jade seals for Emperor Huizong of Song, helped Tong Guan, and carved his mother's epitaph. Therefore, this Master Huang has a great background, and can even be said to be an art master in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Looking at the entire ancient book, at first glance, it looks like a mirror used by a beauties to dress up, with fish scales and gold edges inlaid. The font of the Thousand Characters is even more amazing, because it is not ordinary regular script or running script, but the "slim gold style" that the Song Dynasty was amazed.
As we all know, the "slim gold style" was created by Emperor Huizong of Song and was very popular in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Jing, a powerful official of the Northern Song Dynasty, was also good at this calligraphy to please Emperor Huizong of Song.
For many ancient book collectors, in addition to the age of these ancient books, each ancient book also has its own unique history. These history is revealed from various aspects such as handwritten prefaces, postscripts, and seals of each ancient book.
Therefore, everyone is very curious about who wrote this "Thousand Characters" in the thin gold style, who was sculpted by Master Huang, who collected it first... and so on and so on, and all the answers are in this ancient book, waiting to be revealed.
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The scanner continued to scan the inner pages of this ancient book. The preface and postscript came out. What was shocking was that Cai Jing wrote it himself and asked Ruyi Study to engrave the daughter of Song Huizong.
Who is Cai Jing, a powerful minister of the Northern Song Dynasty; Who is Song Huizong, the Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. These two people gathered together and made such a book, and the value of it can be imagined.
Not to mention these, look at the collection afterword. This book began to be displaced from the Song Dynasty. It was collected by the Yuan Dynasty Prime Minister Tutuo during the Yuan Dynasty. Then in the Ming Dynasty, it was collected by Shen Wansan, a famous rich man in the Ming Dynasty. Shen Wansan was jealous of helping Zhu Yuanzhang build a city, and the Shen family was ruined. This book fell into the hands of the prince Zhu Quan again...
It can be said that the collection history of this book is the vast thousand-year history of China from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China.
Heavy and confusing.
At least at this moment everyone was stunned by the heavy history of collecting the collection condensed by this Thousand Characters. Therefore, the eyes of looking at this book were amazed and amazed.
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Lin Yi gently tapped the table with his fingers, bringing the imagination to his senses.
All the collectors, including Mr. Lu San, began to feel hot again. What was originally condensed was ignited by Lin Yi's fire, burning in his chest and internal organs.
Lin Yi knew that the time had come. Sometimes, auctioning ancient books was like cooking beef brisket, and you had to master the heat. The heat was too small, and the beef brisket would not be cooked; the heat was too large, and the beef brisket would be cooked so hard that it would lose its chew.
The moment was just right, and everyone's passionate hearts were already aroused. It depends on what price they can pay.
So Lin Yi knocked on the table again and said, "Now the bidding starts, four collectors, you can write down the bid in your heart. The old rules, those with the highest price will be. You can testify."
The tense moment is about to begin again. For some reason, despite experiencing many incidents, these collectors still couldn't help but take a deep breath and then waited for a big battle with all their hearts.
Chapter completed!