[Observer Network Text/Li Na] "You are Chinese, then you know what is called the roots of fallen leaves, the same is true of utensils, my roots are rooted in China for more than three thousand years, I can't do without... I want to go home! In the "National Treasure" broadcast on January 14, Huang Bo, who usually has a humorous aura, brought tears to the eyes of the audience.
In this episode, the Hunan Provincial Museum selected the national treasure Dish Fang Wei (pronounced "Lei"), which is the largest and most exquisite piece of Fang Wei excavated so far, known as the "King of Fang Wei", which was very influential during the Shang Zhou Dynasty and a representative work of the heyday of China's late Shang bronze ware.
Huang Bo and Wang Jia jointly served as the guardians of The Dish Fang. The reason why the two guards the same national treasure is because the body of the vessel fangyi was once exiled overseas, and it was separated from the lid for a hundred years. Obviously, they are born of one flesh, but they have suffered for a long time after this life. This century-old way home of the vessel body has made many people look red-eyed...
In 1919, Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, local villagers dug out a bronze vessel on the hillside, five years later, in order to let the children continue their studies, the villager used the lid as a tuition fee, but the principal recognized it as an antiquity of the Shang Dynasty Taimiao Temple, and when looking for the body of the instrument, he learned that it had long been taken away by antique merchants, and from then on the cover of the instrument went to China, and the body was lost overseas...
Huang Bo's role as The vessel Fang Wei woke up and found himself in Paris, France, in the hands of cultural relics dealer Lu Qinzhai .
Lu Qinzhai called it "protection", but in fact it was just to sell for money.
The body of the instrument is sad like a child of more than 3,000 years old: "You are Chinese, then you know what is called falling leaves back to the root, the same is true of the utensils, my heel has been rooted in China for more than three thousand years, I can't do without it." ”
However, in the eyes of the self-interested cultural relics dealers, if there is any local plot, it is imperative to sell the cultural relics brought out of China for a good price. You know, this foreigner he likes you!
But after leaving my home country, I want this "value" to be of what use!
At the other end, the lid of the vessel fell into the hands of Zhou Pan, the commander of the local garrison. Compared with his brother, whose whereabouts are unknown, he is still safe. Brother Si's heartfelt brother is calling every day.
In the 1930s, the vessel moved to Japan, first in the collection of Asano Maggi, and then in 1950 at the Nitta-to-Ichiya family. At this time, he did not know that in 1956, the lid of the vessel had been collected into the Hunan Provincial Museum.
In 1992, Mr. Ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai Museum, visited and saw the inscription on the body and learned that the body of the vessel was here. Then Nitta Dongyi went to the Hunan Provincial Museum to visit the instrument cover, brought the news of the instrument body, and after he returned to Japan, the director of the Hunan Provincial Museum also personally inspected the body.
From the moment the curator brought the news of the instrument cover, the brother looked forward to the day when he would be reunited with his younger brother. But Shinda's words extinguished the spark of hope that had just been ignited in his heart.
Reunion in Japan? No, I want to be reunited, but what I want more is to go home.
Nitta Dong was puzzled, as long as they are reunited, where is not home? What's so different about this!
Where would he understand the special significance of returning home to The Dish Fang. At that time, the Cai family moved all the way south with the Dish Fangwei and did not abandon it, because it was a true confirmation of the existence of a family.
The inscriptions of the body and various ornaments are nothing more than the pinnacle of Chinese bronze technology for foreigners, but every word and every line in it is telling our descendants what our ancestors worshipped, what they believed, and what they relied on to live on, which is very important to Chinese. Therefore, only by returning home can we not waste our brothers waiting for three thousand years.
In 2001, the Xintiandong family entrusted the body to Christie's in the United States for auction, and as soon as the news came out, the Shanghai Museum and Poly Art Museum were raising a huge amount of money to bid it back.
At Christie's Spring Auction in 2001, the vessel body encountered a bronze cheng that was also an auction item.
The bronze cheng, which has been lost overseas for many years, has long lost hope of returning to its homeland. This "come over copper", in turn, persuades the body of the body that wants to go home.
Reconciled? There is no such thing, I don't know how to write the word "confession"! I can't go back this time and I'll go back next time.
At this auction, The Dish sold for $9.246 million, the highest auction price for bronzes in China (at the time). Unfortunately, the winner of the bid was a Frenchman, and his offer was 40% higher than that of the Chinese side at that time, and the body and lid were once again reunited and failed.
"Since the day has been seen again in the chaotic world, there has been no day." This sentence of the bronze cheng has spoken the voice of many overseas cultural relics.
In 2014, the vessel body became an auction item again, and finally the Chinese side negotiated with the seller to buy it for 50 million US dollars, although fortunately returned to the homeland, the auction process was full of twists and turns.
Tan Guobin, director of the Changsha Art Museum, as the initiator of "Returning to Xiangxiang", told us that after negotiating with the seller that year, the other party offered a high price of 50 million US dollars, but if the auction procedure continues, it may be auctioned at a higher price and avoid entering the auction process, which is the most effective and most economical way at that time.
In order to reduce the risk of national treasure returning to China, we finally decided to negotiate the purchase, led by the Hunan Provincial Government, Mainly Hunan Radio and Television, and six enterprises jointly funded, raising a total of more than 30 million US dollars, what about the remaining gap?
In order to unify the global Chinese front and get the full support of Chinese collectors around the world, Tan Guobin drafted a letter.
"On behalf of Chinese collectors around the world, I would like to pray that this national treasure can return to China smoothly and add a brilliant chapter to Chinese culture, and I would like to ask your company to facilitate this matter." At the same time, we would like to appeal to chinese collectors around the world: We implore Chinese collectors at home and abroad to put the overall situation first in the auction, never to inflate prices with personal likes and dislikes, and look forward to the global Chinese Tibetan community to work together in harmony for future generations, to promote the grand event of returning home as a national treasure, and to achieve another good story of Chinese collection. ”
Under the efforts of private collectors, overseas Chinese collectors, Hunan Provincial Museums and enterprises, the two sides finally negotiated a successful purchase!
When it was announced that The dish Fangmu was successful in negotiating and no longer participating in the auction, all the Chinese collectors present cheered and thundered, but Tan Guobin was not on the scene, because he was paying a deposit, five million DOLLAR deposit, each time can only brush five thousand, brushed a whole day card, The road to the return of the century of the dish Fangyun finally came to a perfect end.
Although he swiped the card 1,000 times and signed the name 1,000 times, Tan Guobin was particularly sweet when he thought of going home: once he brushed it, the national treasure was closer to home, and once he signed it, he was closer to the road. The return of The Chinese People's Republic of China reflects the importance that a country and a nation attach to its own cultural heritage, and is the voice of our Country, gentle but firm.
From the time the old curator saw the vessel in his home in Xintiandong in 1993 to the return of the vessel to Hunan, it took fifteen years to prepare. Behind the successful return of national treasures, how many people have silently made a comeback and let all the national treasures that have passed away go home is a complex that all Chinese have been difficult to let go of for a long time.