"Heavenly Dao Yi Humble Endowment": The high one suppresses the lower one, and the one who is selfless; the one who bends to the past stretches, and the spirit is far away. Selfless dedication is a traditional virtue in China for thousands of years, but in the face of real money and silver, how many people are willing to give up the silver of white flowers and choose selfless dedication?
There is a humble family in Anhui, although the family is generally poor, but the man told him not to sell the heirloom after his death, he really can't go on, and then take them out, his son Gong Xuren, nodded, he buried several wooden boxes in the courtyard, he himself did not expect this box of antiques to be worth 1 billion in the future.
Gong Xuren's father is called Gong Xinzhao, born in 1870, Anhui Hefei people, the Gong family is Anhui silk merchants, the family is well-off, Gong Xinzhao grew up reading poetry, 19 years old, 26 years old and middle soldiers, at a young age into the dynasty as an official, before the abolition of the imperial examination system, Gong Xinzhao served as the last imperial examination examiner.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Western powers opened the door of the Qing court with guns and cannons, and people of insight in the Qing court, based on "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth", carried out the foreign affairs movement, and when Gong Xinzhao entered the DPRK as an official, the foreign affairs movement was already at the end, and he was executed as a diplomat in Britain, France and other countries, serving as the consul general of Canada.
For more than ten years, Gong Xinzhao in addition to foreign affairs, like to collect some cultural relics, quite a few fine works, up to the Warring States period, down to the Qing Dynasty calligraphy and paintings, most of them are fine products, the value is not great, such as the Qin State of Shang martingale copper Fangsheng, which is the Shang martingale 1 liter copper measuring instrument, on three sides are engraved with inscriptions.
The left wall is inscribed: "Eighteen years, Qi (rate) Qing Dafu came to hire, winter December Yi Unitary, Daliang martingale, The accumulation of sixteen (inch) five points of zun (inch) one for the liter, the handle is engraved "heavy spring", the bottom is the twenty-six years of qin shi huang's edict, which shows that after Qin Shi Huang unified the whole country, he began to follow the measurement after the shang martingale transformation method, and comprehensively implemented the "book with the same text, the car on the same track".
There are also the Sword of the Yue King of the Warring States, a hundred pieces of Chu Gold Cake of the Chu State, more than 2,000 squares of copper, jade and stone officials and private seals of the Six Dynasties, as well as calligraphy and paintings of famous artists such as Mi Fu, Ma Yuan, xia Gui and other famous artists of the Song Dynasty, the Song Ru kiln plate, and the purple sand pot made by Shi Dabin, Xu Youquan, Chen Mingyuan, Chen Mansheng and so on.
These are all valuable precious antiques, casually shot can cause a huge wave in the cultural relics industry, in 1912, Puyi announced his abdication, the Qing Dynasty officially became history, Gong Xinzhao moved from Anhui to Shanghai, originally wanted to inherit his father's business to engage in the silk business, but he had no business experience, can only do a little investment business.
Gong Xinzhao witnessed the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and also experienced the War of Resistance Against Japan, he buried all these antique cultural relics in the ground, afraid of accidents, in 1949, Gong Xinzhao was seriously ill, he himself was about to die, he let his son dig out several large boxes, and told him the value of these antiques one by one, and told him not to sell them.
"PiFu is innocent of his guilt", it is not easy to keep the family collection, 10 years after his death, in 1960, Gong Xuren's wife was seriously ill, the family really had no money, he took out a piece of gold cake, wanted to sell, but the gold is too eye-catching, experts at a glance recognized this is a Chu state cultural relics.
Under the continuous visit, the experts found Gong Xuren, and under the persuasion of many times, Gong Xuren donated 500 cultural relics in his collection despite careful consideration, including Qin Shang Martingale Fangsheng and Chu Guo Golden Cake... These more than 500 pieces are at least 1 billion in the preliminary estimate, and the selfless spirit of Gong Xu people has been commended.