Chapter 156: Four Seasons with Kongming Locks and Treasures (2)
Chapter 156 Four Seasons with Kong Mingsuo and Treasures (Part 2)
When everyone came to the collection room of the ancestor, He Qing's eyes suddenly lit up. The interior was very open, like a specially built collection room, rather than a small collection room in the form of a study. At a glance, he saw
It is a row of relatively tall exhibition cabinets, with antiques neatly placed on the cabinets and shelves. This is not a collection room, it is simply a large-scale private museum, but it is not open to the public.
He Qing and Lin Haitao stepped into the collection room filled with "baoguang". At that moment, He Qing couldn't help but admire in his heart. It really opened his eyes.
"Brother Qing, have you seen it?" Suddenly Lin Haitao said in his ear with a smile, "Isn't the collection of the ancestor's collection room very rich?"
"Well, it's very rich!" He Qing nodded vigorously and said, "Isn't the grandmaster's entire life collection here?"
Lin Haitao nodded and said: "Well, yes, his lifelong collection is condensed in this collection."
He Qing said solemnly: "It can be seen that the collection is really rich!"
"That's right." Lin Haitao said as if he were counting treasures. "My ancestor's collection covers almost all categories of antiques, including ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, jades and miscellaneous items, and there are many fine products among them. For example, the ceramics include the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty.
, Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln, Ding kiln, but the Ru kiln, the first of the five famous kilns, is somewhat lacking. It is not a complete piece of porcelain, but repaired by porcelain pieces. It is a Ru kiln.
The kiln brush wash. Although the repair is now relatively perfect, it was patched together. Those porcelain pieces were not obtained from the same piece of porcelain."
"That's also very good!" He Qing said in an approving tone, "Ru kiln is so precious, so rare!"
"Isn't it?!" Lin Haitao nodded heavily and said, "Ru kiln is even rarer than Yuan blue and white. A small brush washer sold for a sky-high price of more than 200 million - oh, by the way, Brother Qing, come on
Didn't we go to the Liu brothers last time to inquire about the Ru kiln porcelain pieces? Have the Liu brothers provided you with any useful information now?"
He Qing shook his head gently and said, "No."
Now he couldn't tell Lin Haitao the truth about the secret batch of Ru kiln porcelain shards. At least he had to wait until the porcelain shards were repaired. He couldn't trust such a good thing to an ordinary porcelain repairer to restore it.
, he plans to find a top master in this field or absorb superb repairing skills from the artifacts.
Lin Haitao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "We went there in vain that time. There is basically no hope for that matter. But let's just consider it as a good deed. We bought more than two hundred kilograms of pork belonging to the eldest brother of the Liu family and sent it to him.
Children’s Welfare Home!”
"Haha, yes." He Qing said with a smile. Then the two of them changed the topic and talked about the various antiques in the Grandmaster's collection.
In a large collection room, the lights were brightly lit at night, and the soft light reflected the various ceramics on the cabinet shelves that He Qing and the others passed by, emitting bursts of dazzling light, which was simply dazzling.
"Eh?! What is that?!" He Qing was walking forward calmly. Suddenly, He Qing's eyes widened. Wherever he could see, there was a row of bronze statues, but they were not figures, but animals.
A bronze statue. And it’s a bronze statue with an animal head.
"Then...that can't be the bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animals in the Old Summer Palace?!" He Qing immediately exclaimed, "It's amazing!!"
He could hardly believe his eyes. How could the lost bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads of the Old Summer Palace be in the collection room of the ancestor, and not one of the twelve was missing.
Although He Qing has no research on the specific characteristics of the twelve zodiac bronze heads in the Old Summer Palace and their artistic value, he is familiar with the unbearable history. At that time, the Qing government was corrupt and incompetent. In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China, burned the Old Summer Palace, and burned down the Old Summer Palace.
They looted countless treasures inside, and the bronze statues of animal heads began to be lost overseas. However, he had no idea what happened afterwards, and he didn't know whether they had been recovered. At this moment, he saw the twelve bronze statues in the collection of the ancestor.
First of all, he felt extremely wonderful. This was simply unbelievable. Could it be that the Patriarch was really omnipotent and had received such a precious national treasure?
For some unknown reason, at that moment, the blood in He Qing's chest boiled.
"Brother Qing, are you kidding me?" Lin Haitao smiled and said, "How could it be the bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animal heads in the Yuanmingyuan? It's just a handicraft, but in order to imitate the twelve bronze statues, the founder didn't
Do you know how much manpower and material resources were spent! It’s not bad, isn’t it? It’s quite similar, isn’t it? The material is high-quality red copper, which is similar to the real bronze statue, but it is still an imitation and cannot be compared with the real thing!
"You should also know that as of 2012, the bronze statues of cow heads, monkey heads, tiger heads, pig heads, and horse heads have returned to China and are collected in the Poly Art Museum; the rat heads and rabbit heads are collected by the French, and the dragon heads are currently in the collection of the Poly Art Museum.
In Taiwan, they are well preserved, but they will not appear in the short term. The whereabouts of snake heads, chicken heads, dog heads, and sheep heads are unknown. The bronze statue of animal heads in the Old Summer Palace has become a symbol of the cultural relics lost overseas in the Old Summer Palace. The founder has always been very concerned about it.
The return of the twelve zodiac bronze heads. In order to commemorate the lost bronze heads of the twelve zodiac signs, he specially made twelve handicrafts. But it was a pity. He was afraid that he would not see all the heads return to the motherland. At least
There are still four pieces that are still missing, and no one knows in whose hands they are."
"Yeah, I know." He Qing nodded and replied. He couldn't help but think about it in secret. Others didn't know where the four lost and missing bronze zodiac statues of the Old Summer Palace were, so he might not have any way to find them.
The magical ability of his eyes is unparalleled in finding mysterious antiques, and he has a unique advantage.
At that moment, the two of them approached the row of twelve zodiac animal heads and handicrafts against the wall and took a closer look. After reading it, He Qing was full of praise.
In fact, it is not difficult to judge, because those bronze statues do not emit "precious light", which proves that the things may not be genuine and are worthy of investigation.
After watching for a while, I suddenly heard Lin Haitao greeting me: "Brother Qing, let's go over quickly. Grandmaster seems to be calling us. There is going to be an event."
"What activity?" He Qing turned around and asked casually.
Lin Haitao replied: "I don't know very well. I will know after I go there."
"Well, okay." So He Qing followed Lin Haitao and walked towards the place where the Patriarch and the others gathered.
When he walked forward, He Qing immediately noticed that there was an antique purple-red desk placed next to his ancestor. The table top was rectangular, like the long desk used by ancient officials or literati for their offices.
He Qing immediately noticed again. There was a relatively small box placed on the table. The box was also of ancient style. What caught He Qing's eyes was naturally the red light shrouded in the box. The light shone and appeared purple, indicating that the
The box or its contents have an extraordinary origin.
"Are you young people here?" Grandmaster said to He Qing and the other juniors with a smile on his face, "Today is Lao Zheng's birthday, let's play a game while we are happy. There is a Four Seasons Series in this box.
Kong Ming Lock, but it is locked. There is a treasure inside the locked iron box. Whoever can open all Kong Ming Locks within the specified time, the treasure inside will belong to him. If no one can open it, then the treasure inside will belong to him.
There's nothing you can do about it, it's up to you to seize the opportunity."