Japan snatched away China's ancient paintings, estimated at 400 million yuan and questioned? Expert: Zoom in 10 times and you get it
In the last century, Japan and other great powers invaded the land of China and snatched away many precious cultural relics of our country, and many people believe that China's cultural relics began to be lost during this period, but in fact, it was not, as early as the Ming Dynasty, China's cultural relics began to be lost. At that time, Japan was called Wokou, since the Tang Dynasty, Japan accepted the culture of the Tang Dynasty, it was very yearning for Chinese civilization, they are very fond of Chinese cultural relics, so since ancient times, they have been coveting Chinese cultural relics. During the period of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, the Japanese army took away millions of Chinese cultural relics, and after other great powers took away China's cultural relics, they began to sell them, resulting in the loss of precious treasures lost in these wars to hundreds of countries, and it was impossible to find their traces.
The treasure house of Chinese civilization was plundered, and the "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map" flowed into the Japanese museum
During the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Yuanmingyuan became the object of their main plunder, and the Yuanmingyuan at that time could be said to be the "treasure house" of the royal family, and many treasures were hidden in the Yuanmingyuan, and the treasures gathered here were unimaginable to ordinary people. The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, and feudal society had a characteristic, that is, imperial power was supreme. In such a social environment, as long as it is a treasure, it is basically the palace. Therefore, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded not only the Yuanmingyuan, but also the treasure house of Chinese civilization, which brought together all the most precious treasures from ancient times to the present.
"Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map" is one of the precious cultural relics snatched by Japan, this painting is a landscape painting from the Song Dynasty, its author is Ma Yuan, one of the four masters of the Southern Song Dynasty. Ma Yuan's painting skills are profound, his paintings have a very strong sense of space, this "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map" has always been treasured by the royal family, from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, this painting has never left the Forbidden City. However, the painting was taken to the Yuanmingyuan collection by the emperor, and was taken by the Japanese invaders during the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China. After the Japanese invaders took the painting, they sold it back to collectors, who changed hands several times, and now the painting is now in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum.
The value of the "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Chart" far exceeds the value of the "Six Dragon Chart", and the estimated price is more than 400 million
Why is the painting valued at 400 million, and why is it questioned? To know that the Japanese army took away a lot of ancient paintings, but basically all of them were bought by private collectors, the rest were acquired by the museum, in 2017 at the New York Christie's auction, there was a Song Dynasty ancient painting appeared, this painting is not "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map", but "Six Dragon Map", which is a commodity brought by the Fujita Museum of Art in Japan, they intend to sell this painting to raise funds for the reconstruction of the art museum. "Six Dragon Map" sold for 300 million yuan at this auction, and the buyer was a Chinese. Later, some experts estimated that if this "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map" is auctioned, it will not be lower than the "Six Dragon Chart", and its price may be far more than 400 million.
Experts say this because after the painting is magnified 10 times, there is a detail that is very amazing. After enlarging the "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map" by 10 times, it can be clearly seen that the person fishing in the Hanjiang River in the painting has a very wonderful fishing rod in his hand, and this fishing rod looks very advanced, which is very similar to modern fishing rods. Although this painting focuses on the loneliness, melancholy and cold feeling of hanjiang solo fishing, in the details of the painting, it also reflects the social prosperity of the Song Dynasty, which is very interesting and inexhaustible.
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Unfortunately, this painting will never return to China, the National Museum belongs to the state, and Japan has not yet returned any of our cultural relics. The same is true of the Female Historiography, which was lost to the British Museum, which was also stolen by British invaders during the plundering of the Old Summer Palace, and after the painting was brought to Britain, it was not well preserved, so the painting was almost destroyed by the British. Later, after the British Museum discovered the problem of ancient paintings, it quickly found the best ancient painting restoration experts to restore the "Female History Zhentu", and now people see that they are restored works, which are different from the original works.