The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Hearing his brother-in-law’s question, Zhang Nan just scanned the surrounding situation with his eyes, and then glanced at the statue of a strong man in front of him a few times, and said: "It should be from the Tang Dynasty, it is probably the prosperous Tang..."

Zhang Nan has a good habit of playing antiques during his two lifetimes: If he is in an environment where competition may occur, he will browse all the objects at the fastest speed and quickly select the items that need to be focused on.

This situation is often used when visiting the antique market, lest the extravagant branches are preempted by Cheng Yaojin, who may be halfway through.

But if it’s in a private environment, Zhang Nan will not rush or slow down. He will definitely watch one after reading one. He will never have to look at everything in a rush, lest people think that he is anxious and sees his heart. Real thoughts.

The latter method is used when viewing goods among private individuals or when receiving goods from land: In this case, Cheng Yaojin is generally not available. If so, the seller will be 100% on the blacklist of customers in Zhang Nan’s mind. Because this Cheng Yaojin is 100% a trust, this kind of customer has no need to continue dealings.

This meeting is actually in the TV station’s warehouse, and it’s no different from your own private warehouse. Even if Bush comes, he won’t be Cheng Yaojin. You can watch it slowly and enjoy the fun of acquiring the collection.

Just bend down and continue to look, or look back and forth.

"It should be the portrait of the strong man in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. In all likelihood, it was stolen from the Longmen Grottoes in Luo-Yang. The portrait of the strong man in other places is a little different from the portrait of the strong man in the Tang Dynasty during this period. There is no such emphasis on the sense of power."

Zhang Nan said so utterly, Guan Boss's cool face had a "just blow it" expression, which Zhang Nan was deeply disdainful of!

"Brother Guan, don't believe me, this is what we have learned, it is absolutely true!

The director of the agricultural curator in Yongcheng is a sword sculpture from Jiangnan. He has published a professional academic report on this kind of statue of a strong man in the Longmen Grottoes of the Tang Dynasty. I have read it carefully and compared many photos.

Let's look at the Buddha statues or grotto statues in the famous temples. The images of the Buddhas are similar. No matter how much you look at them, they seem to be familiar, and even the statues of Lishi are similar.

However, the Longmen Grottoes are an exception. They like to highlight the body and strength, especially the statues of the strong man with more naked and exposed parts of the body.

The portraits of the strong men in the Longmen Grottoes are rare works of art that express the characters' personalities through muscle lines in ancient China, especially exaggerated expressions of body, movement and expression.

Compared with other statues, the statue of the strong man in Longmen is particularly resolute and mighty, while the statues in other places often express the differences in personalities through changes in clothing.

When are we free, we can go to the Longmen Grottoes to have a look. The statue of a strong man over there is similar to this one, not fierce, but mighty. The expression of muscle strength is somewhat similar to Western sculpture, and is similar to the Chinese tradition. The sculptural techniques differ greatly..."

As he said, he fell silent, bent his upper body tired, and simply squatted down to study a small place on the flanks of the base of the strong man.

"It's a **** shit, you don't want to steal things completely, there are only half of the words left!"

Hearing this, Xiang Weirong also knelt down to look.

The lighting in the warehouse is good, and you can vaguely see the words on the right side of the base.

But it was still not bright enough, so I just used a flashlight.

"In the first year of Tiaolu, De... will wean me here! Grandma-a bear!"

Zhang Nan cursed a few words, stood up and said: "It is a Buddha statue of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It is a period of rising national power, and it is powerful!"

"Tiaolu, which emperor?"

Xiang Weirong has never heard of it, and the same is true for Guan Boss, not to mention the others.

This is obviously a year number, but it seems that the year number sounds so untuned.

"The reign of Wu Zetian's husband, Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi, took two years. It should be 679 and 680 AD. This reign was originally the name of a piece of music. As a reign, it probably meant to harmonize nectar and make things grow prosperous. .

At that time, Emperor Gaozong of Tang caused tracheitis. The name was changed because Pei Xingjian calmed down the Western Turks in June of the fourth year of Yifeng, rebuilt the four towns of Anxi, changed the Yuan Tiaolu, and amnesty the world.

However, in the second year, Crown Prince Li Xian was abolished, Wang Zhe was established as Crown Prince, and Yuan Yonglong was changed.

Li Zhi’s bronchitis reigned for 33 years. He used fourteen reign titles such as Yonghui, Xianqing, Yifeng, Tiaolu, Yonglong, etc., and changed it like a house. In the end, Li Tang changed it to Da Zhou. "

However, it is also strange that during the decades of the Tang Dynasty, the domestic high-level officials were repelled by a woman, but the territory of the Tang Dynasty was the largest in the Gaozong period!

From the Korean Peninsula in the east, the Aral Sea in the west, and the Caspian Sea, Baikal Lake in the north, and Hengshan Mountain in the south, this kind of territory has been maintained for 32 years, and the land area was not so large in the heyday of the New Century!

Needless to say, a very precious statue of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, this superb sculpture and carving art is still the best of the finest works.

No one asks the value of Zhang Nan's statue of a powerful man with the exact date. This statue should not be judged by money.

Zach, who stood a little further away, didn’t understand the Chinese spoken by the boss, so he looked at a few bronze statues that were neither tall nor exquisite in the corners, and they saw one that was only a dozen centimeters high and simple in shape. , There are words on the back of the gilt statue that is mottled to the point of falling out.

"Boss, there are also words on the back of this bronze statue."

Hearing Zach’s words, Zhang Nan walked over and took a closer look: "This is incredible, the earliest batch of Buddha statues in China, from the Sixteen Kingdoms period!..."

Zhang Nan explained that during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, from 301 to 460 AD, Wuhu, dominated by the Huns, Jie, Xianbei, Qiang and Di, were successively established in the northern part of China. s country.

Because a historian of the Northern Wei Dynasty named Cui Hong wrote "The Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms" in 16 countries, namely Wuliang, Siyan, Sanqin, Erzhao, Yicheng, Yixia [, so later generations of historians Calling this period the "Five Hus Sixteen Countries", in fact, the number of countries in this period is far more than 16, which is too chaotic!

"...In the fourth century AD, the Buddha statues in the entire Yellow River Basin of China were in this form. No matter where they came from, they were generally three to five centimeters high. Seven or eight centimeters were considered to be large. Ten centimeters would be great!

I think this one is 15 cm high, which is amazing!

The Buddha statue should have flowed into China during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The earliest bronze Buddha with a definite date should be a bronze statue of Zhao Jianwu in the fourth year of the Wuhu Sixteen Kingdoms period and 338 AD.

At that time, China had just regarded Buddha statues as objects of individual worship. Earlier there were statues of Buddha. Except for the Western Regions, they were all embossed and brick-relief in the Central Plains. They were not objects of worship, but more like decorations. "