There was an ancient saying that "it is difficult for a clean official to judge family affairs", and this is indeed the case. The so-called husband and wife, the romance of "birds with wings and even branches", or the mutual respect of "raising eyebrows"; two people live for a lifetime, always inseparable from "chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea", as said in the dream of the Red Chamber: either the east wind suppresses the west wind, or the west wind suppresses the east wind; either you surrender me, or I surrender you.
Speaking of this, perhaps some friends laughed at "what is called 'east wind pressing the west wind, west wind pressing the east wind', to put it bluntly, is not the wife strict management" The elegant point mentioned here is called "Hedong Lion" or add a "roar"; of course, it is a bit ridiculous to say so, according to the historical records: ancient times was the environment of male superiority and female inferiority.
Today, some friends will laugh and retort, "What is called 'wife management strict', that is called 'love', can men beat women?" This is a kind of romance; but if it is placed in ancient times, it will annoy people, such as qi Jiguang, a famous general who is famous for his resistance, who is a famous "general who is afraid of the inside", as well as Yang Jian, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Fang Xuanling, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Wei Zheng, who is said to be afraid of his wife.
To look at it this way, the ancient "male superiority and female inferiority" can not be generalized, this "fear of internal culture" is even reflected in cultural relics, which also leads to an interesting story about "private money" more than 600 years ago.
To illustrate here, the "story" takes place more than 600 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, but the "thing" takes place in modern times; in 2016, a Chinese, more than 600-year-old wood carving appeared at an overseas auction.
Really exquisite, "wood carving" in Middle-earth has a thousand years of history, carving masters like Wang Shuyuan abound; not to mention this wood carving at the auction today, it is probably a "Luohan statue", the carving is so vivid that it is worth a lot.
The key is not yet the "Statue of Arhat". According to the rules, the lot must be tested before bidding, in order to ensure its "antique" status; this test does not matter, it was found that this "Luohan statue" was actually hollow, which also caused a dispute.
Generally speaking, the ancient carvings are carved and formed from the whole piece of wood, and in theory, the "Luohan statue" should also be "solid"; now the instrument shows that the "Luohan head" is hollow, and insiders immediately think of two results: either the "Luohan statue" is a imitation made by modern technology, or the wood carving has been "moved".
Either of these two possibilities could have plummeted the value of this 600-year-old artifact; for this reason, collectors naturally vigorously defended it, claiming that this wood carving was neither a modern imitation nor had it been touched.
"I haven't moved", that is, "someone else has moved"? It's hard to say, because the wood carving is not the property of today's collectors, but was bought elsewhere by his ancestors, who, according to their ancestors, were the property of an official during the Ming Dynasty in China.
The latter things do not need to be introduced, China's cultural relics in overseas auctions, indispensable to the modern historical origin; how this wood carving is inherited, this is entangled, since it is not clear, collectors in order to prove their innocence, decided to let cultural relics experts open the wood carving, must see what the "hollow place" is.
Here to explain, the "Statue of Luohan" is a product of more than 600 years ago, and it is also valuable if it is auctioned normally; if it is really "opened" now, it is basically equivalent to destroying this cultural relic. But in order to prove their innocence, collectors insist on "opening", experts hesitated and began to carefully observe this "wood carving"; of course, "opening" also has a method, always can not take a saw, axe to split the wood carving.
In this way, the long "cultural relics identification" began again, and finally the experts found a way to "open the wood carving". It turns out that behind the head of the "Luohan Statue", experts found a gap; perhaps because of the age of the relationship, this gap has long been filled with mud and other things, and it is really difficult to find with the naked eye.
To put it simply, experts really "opened" the wood carving according to this "gap"; to illustrate, the "hollow" initially detected was not as exaggerated as imagined, but it was a "small hole" that was deliberately hollowed out.
Since it is "deliberately hollowed out", there are hidden things in it. After that, the expert carefully took out a piece of "paper" from the "Luohan Statue"; when it came to this, some friends may say, "I am really discouraged, and I thought that there was some treasure hidden, it turned out to be just a piece of paper." ”
Knowledgeable friends may think of the Song book of "one page of yellow paper and one or two gold", if this "paper" is really a product of the Song Dynasty, its value is really difficult to assess; but it is still necessary to explain that this wood carving is the product of the Ming Dynasty 600 years ago, and the "paper" inside will naturally not be a product of the Song Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago.
So is this "paper" so hidden so secretly valuable? Later, it was identified that this piece of paper was also a product of the Ming Dynasty more than 600 years ago, or the circulating currency of the time, "Jiaozi".
Knowledgeable friends should not be unfamiliar with "Jiaozi", to put it bluntly, it is the "paper money" of the Ming Dynasty; this Jiaozi is printed with the six words of "Daming Pass Treasure Banknote", indicating that it is a currency used during the period from the eighth year of Ming Hongwu to the thirteenth year of Hongwu.
What is special is that the denomination of this "paper currency" is "consistent", according to the conversion at that time, it should be "24 two", of course, to exclude the factors of the subsequent sharp depreciation of the Ming Dynasty paper money. Speaking of this or having a friend a little disappointed, "What is so special about this, '24 two' is not precious, as for hiding?" ”
That's where the "fun" comes in. Some experts speculate that if the original owner of this wood carving was a Ming Dynasty official, it should also be a master who was "afraid of the inside"; otherwise, how could the "24 two" be hidden in such a secret place, which may be his "private money".
According to today's thinking, this speculation is also correct. If you think about it, the wood carving is a "Luohan statue", and the ancients worshiped Buddhism very much, and no one will take the "Luohan head" to look over and over again, and in theory, no one will notice here.
In the "Art of War", there is also the saying that "the most dangerous place is the safest place", if this "24 two" is really the "private money" of the ancients, it is indeed hidden here.
Of course, this view is somewhat ridiculous. What is the reason why this "consistent 24 two" was hidden here is still a question; but this is not a question of "cultural relics", as far as this "jiaozi" is concerned, although similar cultural relics have appeared many times today, due to the fact that paper is not easy to preserve, coupled with its age, the cultural relics that have been preserved today are somewhat damaged.
But the "cross" found today is different. Wood carving "hollow" can be described as providing a "pure natural" preservation environment, plus more than 600 years of no one has touched; now this "jiaozi" can be described as new and new, more than 600 years later there are such complete cultural relics, its value even exceeds the wood carving.
Speaking of this, a friend laughed, "This 'private money' is hidden a bit of a loss, although it has been hidden from the wife's search, and the result has not been spent for more than 600 years, which is too dirty." ”