"Teacher Huang, not long ago I got a Dalong stamp by chance. Now that I think about it, the first day cover of the Dalong stamp has never been found." Luo Tian had an idea and immediately remembered this worrying matter. He had also confessed it to some acquaintances.
Please help keep an eye out and see if you can be lucky enough to find the first day cover of Dalong stamps.
"Yes, for China's stamp collectors, this is the first stamp issued by the Chinese after all. This is an important deal. Xiao Xu, this must be recorded." Huang Lide closed his eyes for a while and said.
: "I also thought of something."
"What is it?" Luo Tian asked.
Huang Lide said: "It's too boring to just tell it like this. Why don't you take a guess? I can tell you a clue, which is a picture of characters."
"Lanting Preface." Luo Tian said with certainty.
"That's right, it's the preface to Orchid Pavilion." Huang Lide put his hands behind his back and sighed: "On March 3, the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, his friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and other celebrities, relatives and friends, a total of 41 people gathered in Orchid Pavilion to perform the ritual of praying for evil spirits.
, drinking and composing poems. Later, Wang Xizhi compiled poems from everyone into a collection and wrote a preface, which is the famous "Preface to the Lanting Collection". It is said that at that time, Wang Xizhi took advantage of the drunkenness of wine and used silkworm cocoon paper to
, this preface was written in a quick pen, with a total of 28 lines and 324 words. There are some repetitions, but they are all different and exquisite."
"But its whereabouts have become a mystery. There have always been two theories. One is that it was in the hands of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. He couldn't bear to let go of it and ordered someone to use it to bury him when he was about to die. According to historical records, "Lanting Preface" is in
Li Shimin's edict stated that it should be placed under his head. That means this treasure should be in Zhaoling. However, Wen Tao, the governor of Yaozhou in the fifth generation, stole Zhaoling, but there was no "" in the list of unearthed treasures he wrote.
"Lanting Preface", then there is a high probability that "Lanting Preface" is hidden in Qianling. According to folk rumors in the Qianling area, there has long been a theory that "Lanting Preface" was buried with Wu Zetian." Luo Tian said: "Maybe Uncle Feitian
You can know something."
Glancing at Xiao Xu, Huang Lide said, "Invite him to come over tonight and see what this skinny monkey knows." This kind of meeting was informal, and Luo Tian understood.
Xiao Xu interjected at this time: "Teacher Huang, I think you missed one of the most important things."
"You're talking about Jiuding, right?" Huang Lide put it bluntly.
"Yes, yes." Xiao Xu was a little embarrassed, he had underestimated the two people in front of him.
"In the early years of the Xia Dynasty, King Yu of Xia divided the world into nine states, and ordered the governors of the nine states to contribute bronzes and cast nine tripods. He engraved the famous mountains, rivers, and strange objects of the nine states across the country on the nine tripods. One tripod symbolized one state, and the nine tripods were concentrated in Xia.
The capital of the dynasty. In this way, Jiuzhou became synonymous with China. Jiuding became a symbol of the supremacy of royal power and the unity and prosperity of the country."
"It is said that after Yu the Great established the Xia Dynasty, he used the gold tribute from the nine pastoralists in the world to cast the nine tripods to symbolize the nine states. During the Shang Dynasty, there were strict regulations on the tripods that represented the status of the royal family: scholars used one tripod or three tripods,
The great officials used five tripods, but the emperor could use nine tripods. They performed the great ceremony of nine tripods when offering sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth. Therefore, the tripod naturally became a symbol of the country's political power, and then became a national treasure. It is said that the tripod was used by the Qin Dynasty in the second year after the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty.
The Jiuding of the Zhou royal family moved westward to Xianyang. But when Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, the whereabouts of the Jiuding were unknown. Some people say that the Jiuding sank in Pengcheng, Surabaya. When Qin Shihuang visited Pengcheng, Surabaya, he sent people to dive and salvage it, but the effort was in vain."
Luo Tian said: "In fact, the Jiuding also has some myths and legends. When casting the Jiuding, the strange objects from the mountains and rivers all over the country were drawn in advance and then engraved on the body of the tripod. After the Jiuding was cast, it was displayed outside the palace gate to attract people's attention.
At a glance, you can tell what ghosts and spirits are there in order to avoid evil and bring good luck. It is said that this move won the praise of God, so the Xia Dynasty received the blessing of the Emperor of Heaven."
Huang Lide said: "In ancient times, myths were usually used to govern the country and promote the power of heaven. Whether you believe it or not, the most important thing is that some historians believe that there are not nine Jiuding, but only one, because it represents Jiuzhou.
It is also called Jiuzhou Ding, or Jiuding for short. After the Jiuding was lost, it was recast in later generations. The most famous ones are Wu Zetian's Long Live Tongtian first year and Song Huizong Chongning's twice in three years."
"Wu Zetian's regime was stable at that time, and the Nine Tripods have always been regarded as a symbol of power. She recast the Nine Tripods to show her imperial power to the world, which was actually a political method." Luo Tian said: "The same is true for Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty.
Therefore, it is nothing more than its symbolic meaning that it touched the hearts of emperors of various dynasties."
"The shape and format of this tripod is only mentioned in "Shi Yi Ji" - Yu cast nine tripods, five of which are in response to the Yang method, and the fourth are in the shape of Yin numbers. The craftsmen were ordered to use female gold as the Yin tripod and male gold as the Yin number.
Yang Ding. The tripod is always full to account for the weather. When Jie was in Xia, the water in the tripod suddenly boiled. At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the nine tripods were shaken by salt. This should be a sign of destruction. Later generations of saints, because of Yu's traces, became famous from generation to generation.
The tripod was cast." Huang Lide said: "Look at the details here and remember, this Jiuding should have indeed existed."
"According to the unearthed pottery decorations at that time, it is speculated that the decorations of Jiuding are also animal faces, dragons and phoenixes, animals, clouds and thunder, fire, geometry, etc." Luo Tian said: "As for the "Supplementary Notes"
As mentioned in, there are two kinds of gold, male and female..."
"It may be based on the hardness of the metal." Huang Lide said: "This Jiuding is even more mysterious than the handed down jade seal. Not only is there no definite basis for what the thing looked like, but we also don't know where it was lost.
, this is probably an eternal mystery.
Xiao Xu quickly searched for information, and this time he was finally ahead of the two of them: "After Shang Tang drove away Xia Jie, he moved Jiuding to his capital. After Pan Geng established his capital in Yin, Jiuding moved here. Zhou Dynasty
After King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he publicly displayed the Nine Tripods. After King Cheng of Zhou came to the throne, Zhou Gongdan built Luoyi and moved the Nine Tripods to the city. He also asked King Cheng to personally preside over the ceremony and placed the Nine Tripods in the Ancestral Temple. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began, Zhou Dynasty
The royal family of the dynasty declined, and various princes began to covet the royal power. During the reign of King Zhou Ding, King Zhuang of Chu "asked for the throne" for the first time, but was rejected by Zhou Dafu Wang Sunman. Later, King Ling of Chu also wanted to seek the throne, but failed due to a rebellion in the country. Qin Hui
When he was king, Zhang Yi formulated a strategy, hoping to seize the Jiuding to command the princes. King Qingxiang of Chu and King of Qi also hoped to compete for the tripod. King Nan of Zhou circled between the two countries, Wei and South Korea to restrain each other.
To secure the Nine Cauldrons is not to be lost. These contents come from "Mozi • Geng Zhu"."
Luo Tian said: "There is something missing here, and that is what happened next. In the second year after Qin destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, it moved the Nine Tripods of the Zhou royal family westward to Xianyang. But by the time Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, the whereabouts of the Nine Tripods were unknown.
, but there is no record of how it was lost, and it has completely become a mystery."