Chapter 1771 Pan Fang Lei
“According to villagers’ oral accounts obtained by experts from the Hunan Provincial Museum later when they visited Maoshan Valley, Ai Qingyan was still a teenager at the time. Once, he carried a dung rake to the village. Grandma's family asked someone to carry the coffin, but they accidentally stepped on a pile of dirt. There was a big black lump in the dirt, and the light was still shining in the mud. The family dug it out, and it has since become a strange ancient tripod passed down by the villagers."
"Five years later, Shi Yuzhang, an antique dealer from Yiyang, came here because of its reputation. When he saw the object, he was willing to sell it. It was four hundred dollars to take away. It was lunch time. Ai Qingyan's elder brother came home and heard that the strange artifact was about to be bought, so he took the lid and went to Xinmin School in Qijiahe to find the principal Zhong. Feng Yu palmed his eyes and wanted to ask, 'How can such broken copper be worth so much money? '"
"Principal Zhong is a famous local cultural person. When he saw the words "Father Ji Zun Yi" on the cover, Tadpole knew that this thing was extraordinary, so he left the lid and immediately expressed his willingness to pay 800 yuan to buy the whole thing." Mr. Wang smiled and said, "Ai Qingyan's eldest brother is young after all. Sheng was very excited when he heard this. Before he reached the village, he shouted, 'Get rich, get rich! Oops, this business is going to be bad! I hurriedly dropped the four hundred yuan, not caring that the stuff was too heavy, and ran out of the village with a body weighing nearly a hundred kilograms, and ran away."
"Eh? Then the lid and body of this Fang Lei are separated?" Host Wang asked.
“Yes, the body and the cover have been separated since then.” Mr. Wang said: “And this division has been separated for nearly a hundred years.”
“Zhong Fengyu, as a cultural person , knew the importance of this cultural relic and was concerned about the body, so he used his influence to publish an article in Ta Kung Pao titled "Antiquities from the Ancestral Temple of the Shang Dynasty were discovered in Taoyuan, but they were regretted to be purchased privately for others", reprimanding Shi Yu. Zhang "purchased it for only 100 yuan in foreign silver in an attempt to attract foreigners and profit from it" and was a "public enemy of the whole country", and he implored the authorities to inspect along the way."
"This incident of cultural relics loss caused concern to the then Director of Education, Zhang Shizhao. attention, so he asked Hunan Province to investigate. "
"So the Changsha Internal Affairs Department issued an order and asked Yiyang County, where Shi Yuzhang was located, to do its best to investigate."
"It's a pity that there were no strict laws on the protection of cultural relics at that time, which allowed merchants who colluded inside and outside to resell antiques to take advantage. Coupled with the war, even though the artifact was traced to Yang Kechang's antique shop in Changsha, it was protected by local forces and could not proceed. The investigation only requires Shi Yuzhang to be brought to justice within five days. Son."
"When Duan Qirui's government collapsed in 1926, the decree to 'recover' Fang Lei immediately became a piece of paper."
"At this time, the warlords began to fight, and the Hunan army began to fight. Western Hunan was being recovered from the Sichuan and Guizhou warlords, and the local power was in the hands of the garrison leader Zhou Pan. But the profiteer Shi Yuzhang still wanted to get the cover, so he asked Zhou Pan, the leader of the Hunan Army, for help. "
"Zhou Pan was also a famous figure at that time. Before the Pingjiang Uprising, Zhou Pan was Mr. Peng's boss, and the two had a relationship. They were close friends in life and death, but they parted ways because of different ambitions.”
"Zhou Pan garrisoned behind the Qijia River in Taoyuan County. Shi Yuzhang asked someone to find Zhou Pan and offered him 50,000 silver dollars, hoping to help buy back the Fang Lei cover, and promised to give him another 30,000 silver dollars as a reward after the completion of the project. Zhou Pan When Pan heard this, he felt that this matter was not trivial, but he did not agree in person. ”
"When Shi Mou left, Zhou Pan immediately rushed to Changde and reported to the division commander He Yaozu. He Yaozu was eager for money and quickly sent troops to search for Principal Zhong's house, but returned without success."
"Military With such an instigation of troops and crowds, Principal Zhong was worried that he would be guilty of having a jade, so he had to take the initiative to find Zhou Pan and confess. He wanted to donate the Fang Lei Gai to the country in order to fund the establishment of the school. Zhou Pan immediately paid Principal Zhong 5,000 silver dollars and a promissory note of 5,000 yuan, but kept the Fang Lei Gai for himself. "
"This fund did play a big role at the time. Zhong Fengyu used the money to establish education, and Xin Min Xue The school became the best school in the eight neighboring counties at that time. "
"Zhou Pan, who occupied Lei Gai, was promoted to division commander during the Northern Expedition, and later fled to the southwest and became the deputy commander of the 14th Corps. Captured in Kunming in 1999, this Li Gai was finally returned to the hands of the people. In 1952, it was transferred from the government to the Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee. In 1956, the Cultural Relics Management Committee merged with the Hunan Provincial Museum, and the Lei Gai was stored in the Hunan Provincial Museum from then on. In the turmoil, even the cultural relics have a bad fate," said host Wang with emotion.
"But compared to Lei Shen, Lei Gai's fate can be said to be lucky." Mr. Wang began to shake his head as he spoke.
“Yes, after the body was taken away by Shi Yuzhang, what happened to it after it arrived at Yang Kechang’s antique shop?”
“To talk about this, I have to talk about the time in Hunan. Director of Provincial Museum, bronze expert Gao Zhi was overjoyed. "Mr. Wang said: "Because the reason was not explained during the handover in 1952, for a long time, cultural experts in Hunan Province did not know the origin of Fang Lei Gai. ."
"Also It was by chance that Gao Zhixi discovered Zhou Pan's "Supplementary Confession Material" in the archives and learned about Fang Leigai's life experience. "
"Because this is an important cultural relic, Gao Zhixi. Zhixi began to inquire about the body of the device. The whereabouts of Pan Fang Lei were finally discovered in an overseas book, "History of Chinese Art" by a French scholar in 1928. It turned out that the Lei body had been dispersed from Changsha long before that. Overseas! ”
"Gao Zhixi continued to search for information about the body of this square Lei vessel. Finally, he found Huang Jun's "Auspicious Gold Pictures Seen in Zunguzhai" published in 1936 and Rong Geng's "Shang and Zhou Yi Ware Comprehensive Works" published in 1940 After the examination, there was no news about the vessel."
1"In 1964, Gao Zhixi summarized his feelings about Pan Fang Lei. During the research, when he was editing the "Illustrated Catalog of Cultural Relics of Hunan Province", he first published the material of the square Lei lid, and detailed the dimensions of the square Lei in it, because it is the largest square Lei currently known in my country. Therefore, it was named 'King of Fang Lei'"
"In 1989, Gao Zhixi published another article in "China Cultural Relics News". "The author wrote an article about the tortuous and legendary story of Pan Fang Lei's separation, which attracted a certain amount of attention in the industry." Xiong Chuanxin received a call from Ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai Museum. Ma Chengyuan said with absolute certainty on the phone It was claimed that Fang Lei’s body was found, and it was in the hands of Nitta Toichi, a collector from the island country!”
“It was a coincidence that Ma Chengyuan was invited to attend a cultural exhibition conference in the island country. After the meeting, he did not follow everyone there! Instead of admiring the cherry blossoms, I went to visit my old friend Nitta Toichi.”
"Dongichi Nitta, formerly known as Peng Kaidong, was born on the Japanese-occupied Taiwan Island. Later, he changed his name and went to Japan to develop. He can still speak authentic Hokkien and less standard Mandarin."
"In the island country, His career is going very smoothly, and collecting has always been his personal hobby and a way of nostalgia for his hometown."
"After a serious illness in 1952, Xintian specialized in collecting Buddhist statues, so he became an old man. Ma went to visit him At that time, Nitta did not place the collection of bronzes in a prominent position in his villa. "
"But Lao Ma's eyes immediately focused on a majestic, gorgeous and familiar bronze. It was determined that the bronze vessel in front of me should be integrated with the cover of the HUN Provincial Museum.”
“So impressive?” Host Wang couldn’t help but be surprised: “Just take a look?”