As far as Chen Wenzhe knows, the "King Yu Monument" on Yuelu Mountain is believed to be a copy of the damaged mother stone of the "King Yu Monument" on the Gongqi Peak of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue!
So, when was the piece in front of you carved?
As for whether it is the authentic Monument of King Yu, Chen Wenzhe really doesn't believe it, because he doesn't believe that Li Tianqiang is so lucky.
Of course, he didn't quite agree that the stone tablet, which was only four thousand years old and had no writing left on it, was the real Monument of King Yu.
But where is the authentic Mother Stone of King Yu's Monument hidden? It is really possible for Chen Wenzhe to find it.
This requires him to go to Hengshan to see in person. Perhaps through Hui Shuo, he can also see what the situation was like in the Southern Song Dynasty.
As long as He Zhi didn't forge a rubbing just to flatter him back then, with the ability of the Marquis of Sui Pearl now, he might be able to find the Monument of King Yu where he found it.
However, that will happen in the future, and now Chen Wenzhe has a bit of a headache.
He looked at several other stone tablets. If these were genuine, they could really support a large museum.
It's a pity that except for the ancient Egyptian slate fragment, everything else should have been carved.
However, these carved stone tablets are all of high quality, and they are not modern reproductions.
Don't think that the ancients would not carve these things. Especially during the Republic of China, the carving of ancient stone tablets reached an extremely crazy level.
For example, the Wei stele in front of you is definitely a fake.
Chen Wenzhe couldn't see anything else, but Chen Wenzhe could still see the degree of weathering on this stone tablet.
Depending on the time, it would be the Republic of China at most.
Because no matter how you look at it, this stone tablet cannot exist for more than two hundred years.
It must be almost a hundred years old, because this stone tablet must have aged a bit.
The ancients also made forgeries. Look at this Wei stele. The forgery in the Republic of China was so great!
The standard Yangluo body, however, was made during the Republic of China.
If you don't look at the degree of wear, even Chen Wenzhe can't see any flaws.
The lethality of this fake product is too high, so be careful.
If a master can make it look old, it might be sold as an authentic Wei stele.
Needless to say, this Wei stele must have been carved by masters during the Republic of China period.
I just don’t know why, but it wasn’t made old back then.
I don’t know if anyone has discovered that people in the Republic of China are particularly fond of forgery, and the owners of monuments are usually hermits or religious figures.
The reason for creating such an ownerless tablet is probably because it is difficult to find it in the history books.
Fake inscriptions are extremely profitable, and one inscription can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Republic of China.
For example, Li Bi's epitaph seems to cost 300 silver dollars, which has also made the forger professional.
To this day, this is still the reason for counterfeiting, it is profitable, and it is hugely profitable.
Especially regarding the Wei stele, Chen Wenzhe has studied the issue of forgery of epitaphs in the Northern Wei Dynasty before.
That time was in Chang'an Forest of Steles. After seeing so many stone steles, he once studied them in his dream.
Since it was not his main job, he had experienced it in his dream, which showed that he did not study it intentionally.
However, he still knows what needs to be known.
In short, there is only one reason why there are a lot of fake epitaphs in the Northern Wei Dynasty: driven by economic interests.
After the rise of steleology in the Qing Dynasty, various epitaphs unearthed from the Northern Wei Dynasty were particularly popular.
Not only are the rubbings of Northern Wei epitaphs highly sought after, but the epitaph stones themselves are also more expensive.
That was the case before and it is still the case now.
There are still many epitaphs from the Northern Wei Dynasty on the market that are suspected of being forged or forged.
The history of forgery of epitaphs in the Northern Wei Dynasty is quite long.
It roughly started in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and has never stopped until now.
As long as the epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty continue to be sought after, fake epitaphs will definitely continue to appear in the future.
Therefore, the attitude towards new discoveries and newly unearthed Northern Wei epitaphs must be evaluated.
Don't completely conclude that it is real, but you should combine its form, content, genre, glyph structure, pen and other elements.
It is best to conduct a comprehensive analysis before determining whether it is genuine.
For epitaphs that don’t feel real, it’s better to assume it’s fake first, and then slowly decide that it might be real.
This pursuit of eliminating falsehoods while preserving true ones is the correct mentality for studying and studying the epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The specifications of the epitaph slabs of the Northern Wei Dynasty are usually square, with the length and width roughly equal.
The number of squares drawn in advance is roughly equal vertically and horizontally.
In other words, the overall number of squares on the epitaph of the Northern Wei Dynasty still looks like a square, just like a Go board.
If there are some relatively large deviations in the above parameters in the newly unearthed epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty, then you should pay attention.
The reason for this deviation is whether it is due to some insufficient conditions limited to the Northern Wei Dynasty, or it is due to fraud and other reasons.
As for counterfeiting, Chen Wenzhe is also a professional.
The counterfeiting process is not difficult, but it is extremely time-consuming.
Of course, this is a high-quality product. If you just do it casually, with the help of modern carving tools, the speed will be very fast.
The process of forging epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty is actually similar to other inscriptions.
It would be more intuitive if we use the current Zhang Santi to describe it. After all, this is an example and it is very cruel.
Zhang San recently heard that epitaphs from the Northern Wei Dynasty were more profitable, but he couldn't get a real epitaph.
Therefore, Zhang San came up with the idea of creating a fake epitaph of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Zhang San’s role is the mastermind of the forgery of epitaphs in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Forgery of epitaphs cannot be accomplished by just one person. He needs to form a forgery team.
So, Zhang San found Li Si, who had relatively rich historical knowledge.
Then let Li Si go to the history books of the Northern Wei Dynasty to find a little-known figure.
Finally, write an epitaph for this little man.
This manuscript should try its best to imitate the writing style of various epitaphs in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After everything was ready, Zhang San asked someone to pick a stone slab.
The stone slab is roughly square, and according to the number of words in the fake epitaph written by Li Si, people put grids on the front of the stone slab.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]
The number of these squares is roughly more than the total number of words in the epitaph written by Li Si.
After completing the above steps, Zhang San asked Wang Wu, who knew calligraphy, to be in charge of the calligraphy of the fake epitaph.
Shudan is to use a brush dipped in red ink to write on a stone tablet.
The glyphs of the calligraphy tablets also try their best to imitate the writing style of the epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After the calligraphy work was completed, Zhang San hired the stonemason Zhao Liu to take charge of the engraving work of the calligraphy.
After the above work was completed, Zhang San asked people to bury the fake epitaph in the soil.
After some time, the epitaph will be dug out of the ground.
The epitaph was already covered with soil, and at this time, some corners were deliberately broken to make this fake epitaph look more like a real epitaph from the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Then, Zhang San is responsible for finding buyers who are willing to be cheated.