Chapter 1782 Round and Square Ritual Utensils
However, the main theme today is still happy, followed by media interviews, symposiums and luncheons, the overall atmosphere is still very good.
In the next two or three days, big names in the industry began to gather in the capital. They were all sent by Mr. Wang and Mr. Qi to come to the capital to appraise the paintings of the six dynasties and four families.
Zhou Zhi and Lao Ma are also very busy. They are responsible for taking international friends around the capital.
Actually, let alone international friends, even Zhou Zhi is quite curious about the capital. Although he has been to the capital many times, he usually visits the airport and several offices of the National Museum and Forbidden City, and once went shopping for a large willow tree. , a Rongbaozhai.
Even Zhou Zhi has never been to his own courtyard houses.
Now those courtyards have been transformed into bed and breakfast hotels full of old Yanjing style. Mr. Ma is also responsible for the management. Zhou Zhi is not greedy for the store's income. The main reason is that if no one lives in the old house, it will It is easy to lose maintenance and break easily.
Except for the set at Haichao'an which has been sold to Cui Ruzhuo and replaced with a set of 310 Shi Tao Arhat albums and a masterpiece "Lotus Wind in the Golden Age", the remaining nine places have all been Renovation completed.
So Ma Ye’s clique of writers and literary and artistic people in the back room of Demian Hall were noisy and affected everyone’s appreciation of the collection. It no longer happens now. They moved to Zhouzhi from Huizhou. An old house called "White Elm" that was moved and restored to its original state was noisy.
During the Wanli period, there were many cultural societies in Huizhou, among which the Baiyu Society chaired by Wang Daokun was the most famous.
Wang Daokun was a leader in the literary world at that time, as famous as Wang Shizhen, the leader of the Seven Sons Sect. One of them borrowed the financial resources of Huizhou merchants, and the other borrowed the financial resources of Wudi merchants to recruit scribes from various places and made great contributions to the development of cultural undertakings in both places.
It is not clear whether this old house with the name "Baiyu" inscribed on the stone gate is the former site of Baiyu Society. It is anyway an Huizhou building with very elegant and outstanding features. When it is renovated After that, Zhou Zhi thought that since there was an allusion to the Baiyu Society, it would be the best place for a literary gathering.
Master Ma is stupid. He rents a house to entertain cultural people to eat and drink. One Haima Club lost dozens of courtyard houses because he lacks management methods and does not know how to follow the idea of "playing for fun" in collecting. , buy a place, use it, and then wait for the value to increase.
In order to provide international friends with good food, accommodation and travel convenience, Zhou Zhi did not let Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro stay in a hotel, but lived in a small courtyard in Dongjiaomin Lane.
The small courtyard is different from the other houses. It is more like a "mansion". It is the former residence of Wu Zonglian, a diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wu Zonglian was an active diplomat and translator during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. He first studied French and Russian at the Shanghai-Shanghai-Guangzhou Dialect Museum and the Yanjing Tongwen Museum of the Qing government. After graduation, he worked as a French translator at the Beijing-Hankou Railway Bureau. Later, he served as prime minister of various countries. He served as an official in the affairs bureau, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and signed the Tsarist-Russian treaty with Li Hongzhang. He later served as an interpreter in Britain and Russia, and has been active in the diplomatic community since then.
I have done a lot of things and translated many foreign works. The most interesting thing is that I introduced eucalyptus trees into China and named them, and I also married a French girl as a side house.
This house is Wu Zonglian's old house when he was active in the capital. The house is not big, but it is very "three-dimensional". It is similar in style to the surrounding old consulates, old embassies, etc., and is full of "foreign style" .
In the Republic of China, such a three-story building should be called a small foreign-style building.
The first floor is a hall, where a dance salon can be held. The second floor is an office, with a small living room and five or six offices. The third floor is a home with smaller rooms. The distribution is a bit like a small hotel. There are about ten From the look of the room, Wu Zonglian probably used it here for both public and private purposes.
The renovation of this place is the most troublesome, because it involves maintaining the original appearance of the street on the outside, and the internal renovation requires approval from the Cultural Heritage Bureau. Therefore, this small western-style building was renovated last and was just used to receive Nitta Toichi and Bengoro.
This place is located in the alley behind the National Museum of China. It is only a 500-meter walk to the National Museum and more than a kilometer to the Palace Museum. A few people can even walk there.
The return of Saragata Lei has brought about a very good public response, and the treatment of Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro has also been improved. These two guys are easy to accompany. They are not going anywhere. You can’t get out of the thousands of collections in the National Museum and the Palace Museum.
In his early years, Nitta Dongichi mainly collected bronzes. After a serious illness in the 1950s, he began to collect cultural relics related to Buddhism. The bronzes of the National Museum are the best in the country and even the world, so several people I never want to leave here.
In addition to the group on display, several people also received temporary permission to observe the "artifacts" stored in the warehouse that are not on display.
This kind of treatment is not available to ordinary people.
For example, for a super national treasure like Li Gui, several people can not only watch it at close range without any separation, but can even touch it.
The museum also specially assigned experts to explain to several people.
“Researcher Wu, I have a question to ask.”
"Elbow, tell me, let's see if I can answer."
"Mr. Ma was able to confirm that the body of the Panfang Lei was with Mr. Nitta because of an inscription: Panzuo's father respects the Yi."
< br>"This inscription is very similar to the inscription on the lid of the 粍 collected in the Hunan Provincial Museum, 'The whole work of the pan, the father respects the Yi', so it is concluded that it is the same set."
"Although it is indeed the same set. It's Lei But since the inscription states that it is Yi, shouldn’t we respect the naming of the ancients? Why should we name it Lei according to the classification method of later generations? "
Researcher Wu is a San A teenage woman, wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, heard the words and said: "Mr. Wang said that you can recite "Shuowen Jiezi" backwards and forwards. For this reason, you have to go to the original text to find out."
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Zhou Zhi suddenly understood: "Xu Shen's original word, Yi, is a common utensil in ancestral temples. Later generations interpreted it as holding silk and rice in both hands to offer sacrifices to the gods. But according to the new discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, this word means holding chickens in both hands to offer sacrifices."
"Congsi is because the ritual utensils must be covered with silk, Congyu is the shape of holding rice, and "Liu Yi" has "Six Yi" ' It turns out that the Yi on the Pan Fang Lei does not specifically refer to 'Fang Yi', but should be interpreted as 'ritual vessel'. It is a general term!"
Researcher Wu said with a smile: "Yes! Here! The meaning of "Dan Er Quan Zuo Ji Zun Yi" is translated as: "Dan", as a son, prepares this for his father. A sacrificial ritual vessel. "
"Gui, like Yi, was also interpreted as a square vessel in the past. Duan Yucai's "Shuowen Jiezi Annotation" annotated it as: millet. "Zhou Li Sheren's Notes" says: "Fang is called a 簠, and round is called a 簋". br >
"Then Xu Shen said that Gui is square and round. Zheng Xuan said that Gui is round and square. This is called "different teachers". Now the Gui mentioned in our bronzes has both shapes, with a square shape at the bottom. The top of the base is a circular container, which is also in line with the ancients' original concept of 'a round sky and a round place'. ”