The original copy of the Tang Dynasty's "Tao Te Ching" that was snatched away by the British is now in the British Museum, which is enough to go down in history!
There is a contemporary British actor surnamed "Zhang" who once satirized the scarcity of domestic museums in an interview, and everyone touted the variety of foreign museums, especially appreciating the collection of the British Museum in britain.
As everyone knows, most of the collections of some museums in Europe and the United States are looted in the past years, and the domestic treasures are all domestic cultural relics handed down from the ancestors.
In today's British Museum in Britain, there are many treasures that have been lost in China, and there are many extremely rare categories in the field of calligraphy, which have flowed into Britain. Among them, in the British Museum, there is a very precious authentic "Tao Te Ching" from the Tang Dynasty of China.
This volume of the "Tao Te Ching" is also the only authentic Manuscript of the Tang Dynasty found in the academic circles, with a total of more than 5,000 words in the whole volume, which is really difficult to estimate and its artistic value, and it is far from being comparable to the "Lingfei Jing" which is known as "the first small kai in the world".
Regarding the origin of this "Tao Te Ching", there is such a record in the Tang Dynasty's "Records of Books", the Tang Dynasty from the Zhenguan period to the Wenzong period, the Inner House, there are special "Hongwenguan" people responsible for copying some extremely important classics, the purpose of transcription is to be able to retain these precious classics, in the era of underdeveloped printing, in addition to manual transcription, is to imitate the stone.
This volume of the Tao Te Ching was one of the texts copied by the Inner Government at that time, and most of it was stored in various cities across the country, and no part of it has been lost in the dust of history, but only a scripture hidden in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, was preserved by chance.
"Dunhuang" is the Han and Tang Dynasty western region important town, but also the most prosperous city in western China at that time, in this area has a large population, is a trading city, but unfortunately in the Middle Tang Dynasty, experienced the "Anshi Rebellion" disaster, the rebels interrupted the "Silk Road", so that this famous thousand-year-old western region town began to decline, so in the Northern Song Dynasty, people will be a large number of classics and religious instruments coefficient sealed here.
This is the well-known Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes "Tibetan Scripture Cave", this cave, in 1900 by an unknown person inadvertently opened, unfortunately most of the cultural relics in this cave were shipped to their own countries by overseas explorers and collectors at a very small cost, especially the French Bo Xihe snatched the most refined, to the British Stein snatched the most Bo.
This extremely rare Tang Dynasty Xiaokai authentic "Tao Te Ching" is one of the important cultural relics looted by Stein in that year, and is now in the British Museum in the United Kingdom.
From the perspective of calligraphy writing, this "Tao Te Ching" is the best among the Tang Dynasty writing works, the dot painting is delicate, the changes are rich, not the writing method of the mediocre hand straight, it is obviously the product of extremely rigorous training, any point painting is rich in meaning, and it has a strong Tang atmosphere in the glyphs. It's more than the Spirit Flying Sutra! Moreover, because of the huge number of words, it is far from being comparable to the Spirit Flying Sutra.
Now, after many searches, we have carried out a 1:1 reproduction of the original work of the Tang Dynasty "Tao Te Ching" hidden in the British Museum in the United Kingdom, restoring the works that are no different from the original works, and equipped with hand-framed for everyone to learn to copy and preserve the collection.
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Dunhuang Xiaokai's Tao Te Ching is a complete volume
