First, Mr. Qin spent 90,000 yuan to buy a robe, which hid a quilt full of incantations, and he did not expect that it was Qianlong's shroud! Later, the quilt sold for 130 million yuan.
Mr. Qin saw the robe at an auction in Beijing, and he thought it was a little strange at the time. Ordinary robes are made by sewing small pieces of cloth together, but this robe is a whole piece of yellow satin, which faintly reveals a delicate pattern, as if there is writing.
Mr. Qin paid 90,000 yuan to buy the quilt. When he got home, he unwrapped his robe and a sutra covered with Sanskrit mantras appeared in front of him. After the appraisal of Qianlong's descendants and experts, this sutra was covered by the Qianlong Emperor when he was buried.
So how did this sutra get into the antique market?
Back in 1928, Sun Dianying, the "Great Thief of Tanglin", blew up the cemeteries of Cixi and Qianlong, looted the cultural relics in the cemeteries, and installed dozens of carriages.
However, Sun Dianying and his men were all big and rough, and all they saw were gold and silver jewelry and antiques. Many of the famous calligraphy and paintings in the cemetery were abandoned by him, and the Silk Dravidian sutras covered on Qianlong's bones were even thrown aside by him.
I don't know who sewed this bed into a robe and entered the antique market as a "yellow satin robe in the late Qing Dynasty".
In 2008, Mr. Qin sold the Sutra to a lady for 65.5 million yuan. In 2010, the passage was auctioned for 130 million yuan.
So why can a quilt be auctioned off for such a high price?
First of all, the process value is extremely high. Silk reeling is the pinnacle of Textile Technology in China. The Qianlong Silk Sutra was used in a complex double-sided silk reeling technique, and today it is almost impossible to find a weaver with such exquisite craftsmanship.
Secondly, raw materials are extremely rare. The quilt is made of Tibetan antelope cashmere, camphor velvet and other twisted silk. Cashmere only takes a very small amount of fluff on the tail of the Tibetan antelope, and to make such a quilt, it is necessary to collect tens of thousands of Tibetan antelope fluff. Now the Tibetan antelope is a nationally protected animal, and the silk sutra can no longer be copied.
Again, the quilt is exclusive to the emperor. Such a sutra was used by the royal family and could not be seen by the people. At present, there are only two surviving sutras, which belong to Qianlong and Cixi. Qianlong's is just yellow, Cixi's is bright yellow satin bottom, and the size and style are not as good as Qianlong's.
Finally, the religious significance of the sutras is extraordinary. The sutra is written in four languages: "Brahman, Tibetan, Manchu, and Han", and the main body is a stupa full of "Dravidian Sutra". It can help the deceased to detach as soon as possible and live in Elysium.
After more than 200 years, the Sutra of The Silk Dravidian is still intact, and the golden brilliance is very dazzling, which shows that this sutra is indeed not an ordinary thing, and it does not live up to the reputation of "one inch of silk, one inch of gold".
Second, Hunan Mawangdui unearthed two pieces of yarn that shocked the world, and it took experts 13 years to barely copy clothes that could be similar to them. Unfortunately, one of them was stolen and burned. After more than 2,000 years of yarn, it disappeared, which made people strangle!
In 1971, when a hospital in Changsha dug an air raid shelter, it was found that there were unknown flammable gases under the ground, and the soil layer became loose. As a result, the Mawangdui Han Tomb reappeared in front of the eyes of the world.
The tomb owners of the three Han tombs in Mawangdui are Li Cang, the minister of the Western Han Dynasty Changsha State, and his wife Xin Chai, and his son Li Feng. A large number of treasures have been unearthed in the cemetery, two of which are plain gauze Zen robes, which shocked the world.
These two plain gauze Zen robes are made of yarn, have no color, and can be described as "thin as cicada wings and as light as smoke". One weighs 48 grams and the other weighs 49 grams, less than one or two. If you remove the heavy edges of the neckline and cuffs, the weight of the clothes is only half two or more. The plain gauze Zen robe weighs only 15.4 grams per square meter of yarn, not because of the sparse density, but because the silk is thin and the light yarn is as thin as the air.
Silk fabrics are prone to decay because of the special preservation conditions in Mrs. Sinchai's cemetery. It is very rare that these two plain gauze Zen robes can be preserved intact to the present.
However, in 1983, the plain silk Zen clothes were stolen, although the police quickly solved the case. But the 48 grams of Zen robes have been destroyed, which is sad.
In order to better protect the plain gauze Zen robe, the experts are ready to copy one. However, after many tests, the weight of the first finished product reached more than 80 grams, almost twice that of the original.
Later, after careful study, experts found that the silkworm babies bred now are much fatter than the silkworms in the Western Han Dynasty, and the silk spit out is much harder. As a result, experts have spent a lot of effort to study how to raise silkworm babies like the Western Han Dynasty.
It took 13 years to finally reproduce a similar plain gauze Zen robe. However, experts did their best, and the replica weighed 49.5 grams, still 0.5 grams heavier than the prototype.
Some people say that this dress is a close-fitting garment, which increases the interest between husband and wife. However, the size of the clothes is larger, and some people say that this is a gauze coat covered with brocade, and it is flowing when worn.
Either way of wearing it, this dress represents the highest level of Textile Technology in China. The wisdom and craftsmanship of the ancients is truly amazing!
Third, xinjiang's exquisite ancient city, a mummy with a piece of brocade tied to his arm, written on eight mysterious words: five stars out of the East to benefit China. Could it be that the rise of China, the ancients have long predicted?
Located in an oasis on the banks of the Niya River in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, known as the "Sea of Death", jingzhiguo existed in the Western Han Dynasty, with only 3,360 people in the country, and was a small country.
However, although the country is small, it is quite rich because it is located on the oasis of the Silk Road. Strangely enough, the country disappeared silently and silently in history.
In 1995, archaeologists carried out a conservation excavation of the ruins of this ancient city. When a coffin was opened, two mummies, a man and a woman, appeared in front of the experts.
The man's right arm is tied to a brightly colored arm guard. The above eight Chinese characters are written in the book "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefit China", which catches people's eyes and rushes straight into people's hearts, making everyone present shocked to a dizziness.
So, what is so special about this tapestry that will surprise the well-informed experts?
First of all, a cultural relic from more than 2,000 years ago actually implies a metaphor. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the study of wei was popular, and the shaman observed the heavens and divination to obtain the revelation of heaven. The aggregation of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn will only occur once in decades or centuries, and the next occurrence will be in 2040.
More coincidentally, the person in charge of the excavation led by the archaeological team this time is called Qi Dongfang, and this piece of brocade was found by him, which corresponds to the "out of the East". Could it be that the ancients 2,000 years ago predicted the current great power?
Second, this tapestry tells us that more than 2,000 years ago, the Xinjiang region was undoubtedly part of China. The font on the brocade is an uncompromising Chinese character, and Chinese civilization has had a deep influence on the Xinjiang region more than 2,000 years ago.
Third, the value of the art of brocade weaving is extremely high. A piece of silk fabric that is easy to corrode and decay, can be well preserved to the present, it has to be said that it is a miracle. The brocade is embroidered with phoenixes, birds, unicorns, white tigers and other beasts and auspicious clouds and grasses as ornaments, with brilliant colors and exquisite incomparable.
Whether it is a prediction or a coincidence, China's rise is already a real fact. Let's take the eight words on this tapestry as a blessing from the ancient ancestors.