In order to find these cultural relics lost overseas, our government has spent a lot of time. For example, in 2002, China specially set up the "Special Fund for Collection of National Key Precious Cultural Relics" to buy back those fine cultural relics that have been lost overseas.
However, the funds raised are obviously not proportional to the rise in the price of cultural relics. In the first year, 5,000 Wan Li was invested, and only one calligraphy work cost 29.99 million. This calligraphy work has only 39 words. Why is it worth such a high investment?
First of all, let's take a look at what kind of calligraphy works this is. This book, called Yan Mingshan, was first circulated among China folk collectors, but somehow it spread to Japan. Speaking of the process of recycling it by the state, I also borrowed a lot of favors. It means that this calligraphy is far more than 29.99 million yuan. The seller sells half of it and gives half to China.
The author of Yan Mingshan is Mi Fei, a famous calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. This name is familiar to everyone, and it has been listed in middle school history textbooks. At that time, he was also called "Song Sijia" with Cai Xiang, Huang Tingjian and Su Shi, showing how high his status was. And this "Yan Shoujuan" was carefully produced by Mi Fei, and the price naturally rose.
Speaking of Yan's creative story, it's also quite interesting. According to legend, Mi Fei got a strange stone in his later years. Because it looks like a mountain, it can also be used as an inkstone to grind ink, so it is called "inkstone mountain" by Mi Fei. Mifei, who got the strange stone, couldn't put it down, almost inseparable, and even wrote a small poem for him, which was an inscription on the mountain.
Of course, it's not just 39 words. After the scroll is unfolded, there is a hole in it. A * * * is divided into three volumes. The first volume is Mi Fei's calligraphy, which is backed by paper. The 39 words are "The colorful water floats on Kunlun Lake, and the dark clouds hang on the dragon's strange lightning marks. No matter the thickness changes, close the door and cherish the front porch of Jinshan."
The second volume is Mi Fei's painting for "Yanshan Mountain". In order to let future generations understand his love more intuitively, he also wrote in official script on the side of the painting, "The flower covers the peak, the moon looks beautiful, the jade bamboo shoots go down the hole, and the next hole is folded to the upper hole, so you can taste it and wander among them." In Longtan, it will be wet when it rains, and it will be inexhaustible after ten days of dripping. " It vividly depicts the amorous feelings of "Yanshan".
The third volume is the number of famous people who collected the calligraphy and painting in the past dynasties, including the inscription by Mi Youren, the son of Mi Fei, "You Yan Ming Shan, the former first minister, and the Minister of Mi Youren Jian Gong". Mifei's nephew also wrote an inscription. In addition, there are seals of important cabinet officials in the Song Dynasty, such as Jia Sidao, Ke Jiusi and Yu Teng.
Because so many historical celebrities have left traces, the gold content of this calligraphy and painting naturally belongs to the best in Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting, and what can compete with it is the level of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.
Now this "Yan Mingshan" is collected by the Palace Museum and has become one of the treasures of the Palace Museum. Nearly a thousand years later, we can still see that Mi Fei's brushwork is vigorous and magnificent. Readers, if you want to see the original Miffy, don't miss it.