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Chapter 235 Zhang Lie Monument of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the family and national conditions of the ancients!
Did you dig something out again?
The car that Yang Jianlong had just started stalled immediately. He rubbed his hands excitedly: "Baimao, if you play tricks on me, you know the consequences."
Baimao also knew that Yang Jianlong was joking, so he pretended to be distressed and said, "Brother Long, do you think I dare to deceive your godfather?"
Without further ado, Lin Ran interrupted their chat and walked quickly down the construction site.
A warning cordon was set up around the construction site, which stated that the area was dangerous and trespassers would be responsible for their own consequences.
There was a security guard watching nearby, but the security guard obviously knew Baimao. When he saw Baimao bringing people over, he took the initiative to open the cordon and let them in.
"Last time, we carried out excavation work according to your drawings, Mr. Lin. As you expected, we dug out a pit. No, it was not so much a pit as it was an ancient building, but it was already rotten. Looks like it."
Bai Mao introduced them while leading the two to the construction site.
A huge pit of six meters appeared in front of me. In order to facilitate entry, earthen steps were thoughtfully made.
Going down the steps, the structure of a house appeared.
But just like what Bai Mao said, it has collapsed into disarray.
After all, it is a wooden house. After being buried for a long time, the wood has long been oxidized and will break at a touch.
The wooden door in front of me has been cracked, and I can see what's inside.
Lin Ran was just about to go in, but Bai Mao stopped him.
"There is a danger of collapse inside at any time. I'll ask the workers to take out the contents." Bai Mao then waved his hand to his men to go in and get it.
But Lin Ran refused: "Workers' lives are also lives. Just do a good job of protection."
In fact, Lin Ran is worried not only about the safety of the workers, but also about the workers not knowing the goods and destroying the precious cultural relics left behind.
"Okay, you must pay attention to safety." Bai Mao took the safety helmet from a worker and handed it to Lin Ran. Then he also put on a hat and followed him into the house.
It was originally a house of about fifty square meters, but now the movable range is less than twenty square meters, the light is very dark, the air quality inside is turbid, and you can smell a rotten smell when you open the door.
The wooden table in the room was completely broken and there was no use taking it out.
But there was a wooden shelf on the side, with some porcelain stained with mud on it, and there was also a wooden box.
After checking all the items in the house, only these items are valuable.
"Don't touch the shelf. It is the shelf that supports the internal structure. Take out all the porcelain on top and the boxes at the bottom." Lin Ran finished checking the house and turned to leave.
Leaving the physical work to the workers, soon all the porcelain and boxes were hauled out.
The workers were also in high spirits and wanted to watch the unpacking ceremony.
But he was pushed away by Bai Mao: "Is the work done? The excavation work here has ended. You go dig the foundation. Finish it early and get your wages early."
"Yes!" Although the workers were interested in cultural relics, money was more important to them. After being scolded by Baimao, they quickly left and returned to work on the construction site.
The wooden box was worthless and heavy, so Lin Ran decided to open it on the spot.
When I opened the box, a layer of dust immediately rose up, and a rotten smell hit my nose.
Lin Ran fanned his nose with his hand. When the dust dispersed, he discovered that there was a stack of ancient paintings in the box!
Zhao Mingcheng was originally a lover of epigraphy and stone and collected a large number of calligraphy and paintings!
Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao are the founders of the collecting world.
They were not financially well-off after their marriage, so they had to live frugally and buy ancient calligraphy and painting books.
They even built a Return Hall specifically to store cultural relics.
Just when Zhao Mingcheng was promoted, Jin soldiers had already formed a siege on Bianjing.
After three years as an official, he collected a large number of cultural relics and was worried that they would be destroyed by the Jin soldiers.
So before the war came, he used his connections to move a large number of cultural relics to other places.
This homestead is where he hides his things!
However, the capital at that time was very close to the area ruled by the Jin people, so there were fewer collections placed here.
The calligraphy and paintings placed on the top of the box turned out to be rubbings!
The text on the rubbing is in classical Chinese, and it is exactly the stele of Zhang Lie from the Eastern Wei Dynasty recorded in "Inscriptions on Stone".
Lin Ran looked extremely excited.
Rubbings are paper rubbings of the shapes of cultural relics such as inscriptions, stone carvings, bronzes, and the words and patterns on them.
After engraving it, use rice paper and ink to make a clear copy.
Although it is a rubbing from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it can be regarded as a cultural relic of the Song Dynasty.
This is Zhao Mingcheng's lifelong hobby. As an epigrapher, his greatest pleasure is collecting rubbings.
Lin Ran suddenly figured out something. This rubbing was buried in the capital, but was finally collected by a French museum. This was probably the reason why the previous owner suddenly became so successful.
This is a priceless treasure of China. It is really shameful to sell it to the French!
In order to prevent him from falling into the hands of the Jin people, Zhao Mingcheng traveled from Bianjing to Qingzhou in the name of attending a funeral, looking for ways to hide cultural relics along the way.
This is one of them.
Fortunately, in this life, he got ahead of that person and took the rubbing as his own.
There are five rubbings in the box, but only the Zhang Lie Monument of the Eastern Wei Dynasty is the most famous.
Several other pieces of porcelain were already covered in dust, but judging from their appearance, they should be matching celadon tea sets that he wanted.
If nothing else, they should all be Jingdezhen porcelain.
The Song Dynasty was an era when porcelain flourished across the country and a hundred schools of thought contended. However, with the invasion of foreign tribes, the five major official kilns were completely wiped out.
In the end, only the Jingdezhen kiln and Yaozhou kiln survived, and the Yaozhou kiln also perished in the late Republic of China.
Lin Ran was filled with emotion. At the bottom of the wooden box, there was a piece of handwriting written by Zhao Mingcheng.
"The war is urgent today. This is the national treasure of the Song Dynasty. If you find it and cherish it, you must not fall into the hands of barbarians! Thank you, Zhao."
After Zhao Mingcheng hid the treasure, he just hoped that history would not be destroyed by foreigners and did not care whether it would be discovered by others.
Unfortunately, he died of illness not long after he left Bianjing. Although he left behind ten rooms of collections, they were still plundered and most of them destroyed by the Jin soldiers.
Lin Ran suddenly remembered the previous book, and Zhao Mingcheng also knew that as an official of the Song Dynasty, he would definitely plunder his hometown after the Jin invaded.
Therefore, those ten rooms of cultural relics are actually just a cover.
He had already dispersed precious cultural relics across the country, and may have originally intended to hand them over to his descendants for collection.
Unfortunately, he died after completing everything and left no descendants. Li Qingzhao also remarried.
This period of history has been forever sealed in dust.
Lin Ran looked at the handwriting on it, and he could feel his unwillingness.
Put away the rubbings and writings and ask Yang Jianlong to help take a few pieces of porcelain home.
There are a total of 12 burial sites, but the one in Jiangxi is specially marked and is obviously the most important to him.
As for that piece of land, Lin Ran had no relevant excavation records in later generations' memory, which meant that it was a corner that no one knew about.
When I have free time, I must go to Jiangxi to visit.
To hide the treasure so far away, Zhao Mingcheng obviously spent a lot of money!