Chapter 1796 Good News
“There’s no rush for this.” Mr. Wang quickly stopped everyone’s discussion: “So far, this painting has only been restored and repainted. The mounting has not started yet, so there is no rush. ."
After that, he started to divert the trouble to the east: "Let's discuss which museum is more suitable for storage after the exhibition of Panfang Lei is completed."
Given the importance of Panfang Lei as the "King of Fang Lei", this kind of with inscriptions, The vessel is the first in its category and is usually stored in the National Museum.
There is only one special place, and that is the Shaanxi Museum, which covers the cultural relics of the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties. In Zhou Zhi’s mind, the importance of the Shaanxi Museum is actually the same as that of the National Museum and the Forbidden City.
However, the lid of Panfang Lei had always been in the collection of the Xiang Museum, so the Xiang Museum was eligible to compete.
The important researcher and discoverer is Ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai Museum. Ma Chengyuan is also a good friend of Nitta Toichi. Nitta Dongichi also prefers the Shanghai Museum, because there is money in Shanghai, and the Shanghai Museum’s All conditions are second only to the National Museum.
Although it has gradually become the norm for domestic museums to borrow cultural relics from each other, and even the National Museum of China has begun to make various museums complain, such as "borrow once and not return it for three years" negative reviews, but At least it means that such exchanges have already begun.
But even if exchanges become common, which museum's collection the cultural relics belong to is very important for the improvement of the museum's qualifications.
The level of the Hunan Provincial Museum is also very high. There are many national-level and national key titles. The reason is that the museum collects Changsha kiln porcelain, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Qi Baishi's paintings, He Shaoji, and the four famous officials of Zhongxing. Collections of calligraphy works, ancient Chu lacquerware, etc.
Of course, these things alone cannot support a national key museum. The improvement of the status of the Hunan Museum is mainly due to the discovery of a great treasure in 1973 - the Mawangdui Han Tomb.
The Mawangdui Han Tomb cultural relics, only those that have been moved to warehouses and built for protection, have been cleaned up for more than 20 years and have not been completed. According to Xiong Chuanxin’s estimate, it may take another 30 years. .
In the end, after intense discussions among the big guys, and with the opinions of the donor’s representative, Zhou Zhi, everyone still selected the Hunan Provincial Museum as the collection hall for the Pan Fang Lei. After all, the main purpose of this artifact is The stories all took place in Hunan Province, and the lid has always been preserved in Hunan Province. They were reunited in Hunan Province, which has special regional significance.
For such a great thing, of course everyone wanted to let Gao Zhixi and Xiong pass on the banquet. As important guests, Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro had to take care of their tastes, and finally the banquet was held in Wangfujing.
A Japanese restaurant opened there a few years ago, called Yoshinoya, which sells matsutake sashimi, buckwheat soy sauce and clear sake. These three items are quite expensive in the island country, and now they have become It is the preferred place for islanders in China to receive their domestic guests.
Two hundred grams of large matsutake mushrooms were put on the table, and the chef used a long Japanese kitchen knife to cut them into thin slices and put them on the plates in front of the guests who gathered in a circle. They combined them with seafood sashimi and ate them with buckwheat soy sauce and wasabi. .
Also, refer to the Yi nationality fire pit barbecue stove, put the matsutake on the pine cone charcoal and bake it until half-cooked, then tear it apart and eat it with roast beef and grilled eel. For islanders, it is a hometown flavor. , it’s also exotic and definitely has a good reputation.
Of course Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro were happy, and even thought that the reception was a bit too grand, but a bunch of Chinese old men felt that they were very pitiful. They couldn't eat enough at such an expensive price, and they couldn't drink enough. Finally, each person needs to add a bowl of udon noodles.
The most ridiculous thing is Zhou Zhi. The matsutake mushrooms, sake, and buckwheat soy sauce sold by Yoshinoya are all pulled out of Liangshan by the Saturday Group with great effort. If I want to eat these, I don’t have to come here. ? There is an old saying in Sichuan - tofu has become the price of meat!
Just as they were seeing off the two of them, Sakamoto Goro kept talking to Zhou Zhi. What he meant in his words was that when the island country's ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting books need to be restored in the future, please go to Zhou Sang, and Zhou Sang must take action.
This attitude of the people of the island country actually makes Zhou Zhi speechless. They tend to judge others by their own opinions. Many Chinese calligraphy and paintings in the island country are national treasures, from the earliest monastery masters in the ancient Kamakura and Muromachi periods. and daimyo, to the Kansai nobles during the Meiji period, especially around the Revolution of 1911, the island nation became one of the important channels for China’s important cultural relics to disperse to Europe and the United States.
In addition, war and plunder have led to the loss of many important Chinese calligraphy and painting collections in the island country, such as Wang Wei's paintings, Su Dongpo's calligraphy, representative works of many famous artists in the Song Dynasty, and posts by famous artists such as Wang Xizhi and Zhiyong. , these are the essence of Chinese civilization.
Even if Goro Sakamoto doesn’t go around these twists and turns, can Zhou Zhi just sit back and watch?
After sending Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro away, they received good news from the Science and Technology Commission when they came back.
The text research and analysis on Li Gui has produced results.
As a "pre-experimental project" of the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty Project", Director Song is determined to use the accurate time estimation of the Battle of Makino as a breakthrough.
In addition to the records of Li Gui, literary and historical experts also found records in "Guoyu·Zhouyuxia", "Shangshu·Muo", and "Yi Zhoushu·Shiprio", and got several Key data.
First of all, the Makino War was a dynasty change node in Shanghe and Zhou Dynasty, and it was a very important time specimen.
Secondly, the Li Gui inscription font has the same physical structure as Shang oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. The inscription font is long and flat, the handwriting is dignified and steady, and it retains the characteristics of the Shang Dynasty inscription font that is thick at the beginning, end, and middle, which is in line with Representative characteristics of bronze inscriptions in the early Western Zhou Dynasty.
Third, Li Gui records that the battle of "King Wu's Conquest of Merchants" took place on the morning of the "Jiazi" day of a certain year, when the "Sui" star was at the zenith. Due to the lack of physical data, there have been many disputes in the historians over the past thousands of years regarding the specific date of the Battle of Makino. Scholars in the past have calculated dozens of dates based on relevant records. Now it can be confirmed that Li Gui has confirmed the dates and celestial phenomena at this time.
Fourthly, the record in "Shangshu Mu Shi" that "the day of Jiazi was refreshing, and the king went to Muye in the suburbs of Shang" is consistent with Li Gui; "Huainanzi·Bingluexun" and other ancient documents record that " "The country of Zhou was defeated in one day of fighting" is also consistent with Li Gui;
These four aspects basically confirm the reliability of Li Gui inscription, and then the scientists came on the scene.
The first is the result of carbon 14 dating experts. Many relics from the early Western Zhou Dynasty have been found in Shaanxi and Henan provinces. The dating of unearthed carbon samples has also been in progress. Experts based on some early Western Zhou dynasties at the Chaoge battlefield Carbon sampling in the remains has basically determined that the war took place in the chronological range of 1050 BC to 1020 BC.
This reduced the time to thirty years. Later, astronomers used the computer model developed by Zhou Zhi and An Chunjia to use the astronomical trajectory of Jupiter, the ancient year star, to calculate that it was in Chaoge Celestial phenomena visible through regional observation.
(End of this chapter)