There is a saying that is called "gold in a troubled world, antiques in the world", which means that in the era of war, only gold can be used as a "hard currency" for barter. And those works of art such as royal antique treasures are only vase-like existence in the chaotic world, and no one cares. On the contrary, in a peaceful and prosperous world like today, antiques have directly spawned a trillion-level collection market, and a random piece of ancient literature is worth thousands of dollars.
In the 1960s, the mainland was in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, and a so-called "Breaking the Four Olds" movement was being carried out throughout the country, with the initiators treating the items of the ancient feudal society in private storage as "feudal tumor playthings" and collecting these antique works of art door to door for destruction.
However, in order to protect local folk cultural relics, the Shanghai Museum specially sent several cultural relics experts to mix into the "Breaking the Four Olds" movement community to find valuable ancient cultural relics to find ways to protect them.
The cultural relics expert team sent by Shangbo was led by Wan Yuren, a senior treasure expert, and they went to a warehouse at a raiding site to clean up the cultural relics that had been called. The huge warehouse is full of all kinds of items, all kinds of antiques and cultural relics, home appliances, clothing and other items are placed in the garbage heap.
Wan Yuren was the first to rush to the warehouse and began to select valuable cultural relics among various "garbage", and when he picked up a bamboo basket, he suddenly found a lump of crumpled paper inside, which looked like a painting or a poster.
Lao Wan carefully spread it out, and sure enough, it turned out to be a poster with a total of 7 lines and about 60 words written on it. Relying on his many years of experience in identifying ancient calligraphy and painting works of art, he immediately concluded that the origin of this poster was not small, and secretly hid it.
After escaping the inspection of the "Broken Four Olds" society, Lao Wan successfully took the poster to the Shanghai Museum. He invited several equally senior calligraphy and painting experts to screen it together, and it turned out that it was originally the calligraphy god of the book Saint Wang Xizhi, "Shangyu Ti". The post is 24 centimeters long and 26 centimeters wide, and the cursive writing of the 58 characters written on it is extremely natural, quite like the charm of Wang Xizhi's style.
It was not until the end of that absurd movement that the Shanghai Museum began to put the private collection of "Shangyu Ti" out for public display, and it immediately caused a great sensation in the calligraphy circles at home and abroad. Today, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works are hot in international auction houses, and his calligraphy posters can sell for a sky-high price of five or six million a word, so some experts estimate that the value of "Shangyu Ti" is at least more than 300 million
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