Chapter 812 Young Man
In the collection of the Forbidden City, there is a scroll of this poem in large cursive script. Zhou Zhi saw it in the internal calligraphy and painting album issued by Qi Lao to him.
The calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Wen Zhengming has a strong reference significance for Zhou Zhi’s calligraphy. Zhou Zhi paid special attention to it when he saw the album, and now he immediately recalled it when he saw it.
This is interesting. The same poem appears twice. Either Wen Zhengming liked his poem very much, or he was struggling to ask for his old work and a painting to make up the number.
Judging from the artistry and calligraphy of this painting, it should be mostly the former.
The "New Autumn" hanging scroll with large characters in running script in the National Palace Museum was identified by Qi Lao as a work after Wen Zhengming's late calligraphy mastery. Now it seems that the poem was written at least more than ten years before the scroll came out.
Exactly how long ago, this has to be answered by literary and historical experts who have done special research on Wen Zhengming, but in any case, it is an indisputable fact that the value of this fan has been seriously underestimated.
The value of cultural relics often lies more in the stories they carry. Because of the duplication of poetry and the collection of the Forbidden City, this fan already has story-telling, and its value will skyrocket immediately.
If one year the Forbidden City holds an exhibition on the talents of the Fourth Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Zhi sends this fan to hang next to the hanging scroll of running script, the price of this fan will soar more than ten times before the exhibition is over. .
Currently, communication between the two places is not smooth, and the country is still relatively closed. Many domestic collections have not even been announced to the outside world, resulting in people outside not knowing about them at all.
This "New Autumn Picture of White Rammies" has both front and back fans hanging on scrolls, and I was very satisfied with the careful photography.
The next few collections were taken away by others because Zhou Zhi did not pursue them because the prices were not suitable.
After a piece of "Magnolia and Cloud Brocade" by Yi Gui from the Qing Dynasty was auctioned for five million Hong Kong dollars, the grand finale finally began.
The name of "Magnolia Cloud Brocade" is very nice. The picture is of magnolia flowers and white peacocks, which means "wealth in the jade hall", which is quite auspicious.
Zhou Yigui was a court painter of the Qianlong Emperor. He was a master at painting flowers and birds. This painting is huge, so it was expected that it would fetch such a high price.
However, everyone was so anxious that they even forgot to applaud.
Seeing this, Lin Wanqiu said nothing more: "The last item to be auctioned is the cursive scroll of the Maha Nikki Sutra by the great master Kukai of the Tang Dynasty. The starting price is HK$5 million. Bidding starts now!"< br>
"Boom..." The signs in the hands of the big guys in the front row of the venue were erected all of a sudden.
The Mahavairocana Sutra is the fundamental sutra in the realm of esoteric esoteric Buddhism. Together with the Vajra Sutra, it is the sacred scripture on which the two esoteric secrets of the island country Dongtai are based. It is the most important sacred scripture of the Shingon sect and is divided into seven volumes. .
This sutra was translated by Shan Wuwei, Yi Xing and others in the Tang Dynasty. This sutra is a sutra spoken by the Great Sun Lord at the Vajra Realm Palace. It aims to reveal the endless splendor of the pure bodhicitta of all sentient beings and show their original existence. The Rigpa mandala is the main theme and declares the expedients of the three secrets.
This sutra is quite long, and the current scroll is a fragment. It mainly contains the content of the first part of the mantra sect's mind.
“This is what I heard: At one time, Bhagavan was staying in the vast Vajra Dharma Realm Palace blessed by the Tathagata, and all Vajra holders gathered together.
The Tathagata’s letter explained the magical changes in the game, and gave birth to the king of the great palace, Gao In the middle, there are various decorations of the great and wonderful treasure kings, and the body of the Bodhisattva is a lion...
At that time, the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra was the supreme leader, and the Lord of the Vajra Secrets was the superior leader. Vairocana Tathagata blessed him, and he manifested himself in the endless splendor of the treasury. The endless treasure of splendor cannot be obtained except from the body, speech, or mind of the Buddha Jeruchana.
At that time, the Lord who held the Vajra Secret was sitting in the assembly and said to the Buddha:
World Honored One, why is it that the Tathagata is the one who is fully aware of the offerings? Gain all wisdom?
All the wisdom of Peter is widely performed and distributed for countless sentient beings. He preaches all wisdom according to various interests, sexual desires, and expedient paths.
It may be the Sravaka Path, or the Pratyekabuddha Path, or the Mahayana Path, or the Five Paths of Wisdom, or it may be the wish to be born in the heavens, or among humans, and it may be the dragon, the Yaksha, the Gandharva, or even the wish to be reborn in Ma. Huluojia method.
If there are sentient beings who should be saved by the Buddha, they will appear in the body of the Buddha, or the body of a voice-hearer, or the body of Pratyekabuddha, or the body of a Bodhisattva, or the body of a Brahma, or the body of Narayana, a Samana, or even a Mahāna. Bodies such as Huluojia, human beings, and non-human beings all have their own words and sounds, and they live in various majestic manners. And all this wisdom and wisdom have one taste, the so-called taste of Tathagata's liberation.
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This is a cursive script of more than 300 words. It should be what Kukai recorded casually at that time. The reason why it is said to be a casual description rather than a copy is that the cursive writing is very smooth and the writing style is very smooth. Hearty and hearty, calligraphy achievements are extremely high
Empty. The scroll with the largest number of words preserved today is the "Heart Sutra", the ancestor of the island country's regular script, with less than 300 words and a lot of repetition; and the highest achievement of cursive script is "Feng Xin Tie", which was written by Kukai to Zen Master Saicho A collection of three official letters with fewer words, it is known as the national treasure of the island country. Now stored in Todaiji Temple in Kyoto
Although the current "Dainichi Sutra" is a fragment, the number of words exceeds that of the "Heart Sutra", and the calligraphy achievement is comparable to that of "Fengxintie". The two together. Together, and the fact that the ancestral scriptures were written by the founder of the Shingon sect of the island country, this guy insists on using Chinese To use an analogy, it is equivalent to the birth of the "Yi Jin Jing" handwritten by Bodhidharma. There is also an additional premise, that is, Bodhidharma must be a calligrapher comparable to the two kings.
So this is what happened. The value of this fragment to the people of the island can be imagined
Of course, for non-Islanders, its value can also be imagined.
In the blink of an eye, the bidding price for "Dainikkei" soared to over 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
The hotline outside the venue has also become lively. In addition to the hotline of Lin Wanqiu Studio, there are also three internationally renowned auction houses. Their agents are directly stationed here to accept instructions from customers over the phone and participate in Quotation.
This battle is too scary. Phenomenal scenes have occurred in the auction market recently.
Finally, after the early excitement passed, the customers who continued to bid were finally revealed.
Needless to say, Anzhai Yingyi, among the remaining people, Li Jianchen, an antique dealer in the new island, Hou Zhongjin, An Siyuan's agent, as well as the famous Christie's auction house phone seat, and Hong Kong Island's great collector Xu Zhantang, participated in this auction Among the people who have just made a big harvest in the meeting is Huang Yinghao, who is already in a semi-retired state.
Lin Wanqiu's voice was very soft, and Zhou Zhi almost understood now. When this woman's voice was gentle, it meant that she judged that the bidding was far from over based on the situation, and in this way, she conveyed the hint to all guests.
"Eleven million! Mr. Zhou bids eleven million!" Lin Wanqiu's quotation continued.
It was only then that everyone discovered that there was actually a young man hiding among the big guys bidding!
This young man has been sitting in the front row, sitting next to the second son of the Li family in the VIP area!
(End of this chapter)