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Recently, the stall culture has been on fire, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Jiangxi, Gansu... Fireworks in many Chinese cities are back.
This kind of human fireworks may be a bowl of soy milk in the morning, ten lamb skewers in the middle of the night. This makes the topic related to the "stall economy" become a hot search for professional households, and the circle of friends has exploded.
Since ancient times, China has a vast land and countless Treasures of China, but in some historical periods, many of these treasures have been lost, and some of them have even been destroyed and burned to the ground.
Among them, some of the national treasures that have survived are inseparable from the efforts and struggles of countless ancestors.
This dusty past that has been sealed for many years is still touching today.
In the 1960s, a vigorous "breaking the four olds" movement was set off throughout the country.
In just one year, thousands of artifacts and antiques have been confiscated and piled up in warehouses, temples and basements. Before long, the "dross" of these old societies were piled up into hills.
Some of these "crap" were sent to ironworks for fire, and some were placed in handicraft import and export companies, ready to be sold cheaply to foreigners.
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In June 1970, a handicraft export company in Shanghai received 600,000 pieces of calligraphy and painting. In order to sell these rags, the company initially priced it at 10 yuan a piece.
But then the manager was worried that the price was too high for foreigners to buy, and wasted transportation costs, so he simply set the price at 1 yuan a piece and chose at will.
After the news came out, many foreign collectors rushed to buy and "swept away" the so-called rags in large bags.
As everyone knows, there are countless national treasure-level ancient paintings in these 600,000 pieces of "rags", and after foreigners buy them with 1 yuan, they will change hands and make tens of thousands of times the profit.
In order to rob this batch of treasures, some foreigners even offered a high-priced honorarium of $8,000 per day, asking employees of import and export companies to help grab treasures.
A few days later, the news reached the ears of the master of calligraphy and painting, Xie Zhiliu, who was one of the heads of the Shanghai Museum at the time. After Elder Xie heard about this, he was so angry on the spot that he smashed the teacup to pieces, and sighed three times in a row: "Loser, violent creatures!" What a tyrannical creature! ”
"National treasures can't be sold so cheaply, even if they fight for their lives, they must fight for it!" That night, Xie Zhiliu found Zheng Wei, Cheng Mingshi, Zhong Yinlan, Zhu Hengwei, Wan Yuren, Huang Guizhi and other cultural relics experts to form two teams;
One route was led by Chengming Shishi to Cixi, Zhejiang Province, to clean up the cultural relics stored here by the Shanghai Import and Export Company; the other road was led by Xie Zhiliu and Zheng Wei to clean up and identify cultural relics in Shanghai's Jade Buddha Temple and other places.
Wan Yuren's rescued "Shangyu Ti" is now in the Shanghai Museum
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Xie Zhiliu, Zheng Wei and others took the lead in entering the Jade Buddha Temple to treasure, and when they pushed open the gate of the Jade Buddha Temple, they found that the main hall was full of bundles of ancient paintings, and these ancient portraits were discarded like garbage.
Zheng Wei casually pulled one out of a bundle of paintings, and when he looked at it carefully, he suddenly exclaimed: "This is The Eight Mountain People Zhu Yun's "Cai Yongfu". "And looking at the price, only the list price is 1 yuan."
In the entire Shanghai Museum, only one piece of Cai Yongfu has survived, which shows its high value. In addition, there are also large-scale Chu Suiliang authentic relics and other important cultural relics.
Bada Shanren Pro "Cai Yongfu"
At the Jade Buddha Temple, they selected more than 500 precious cultural relics and then quietly hid them in the basement for safekeeping.
Subsequently, they entered a warehouse. The iron shelves in the warehouse are piled with calligraphy and paintings, and Zheng Wei found a true painting of Tang Bohu of the Ming Dynasty on the iron shelf, and this treasure is also a treasure worth tens of millions of dollars today.
In Cixi, Zhejiang Province, Cheng Mingshi and others also fought overnight to rescue the national treasures in the pile of cultural relics. They have found more than 20,000 precious national treasures, so that these cultural relics and treasures can avoid being lost overseas.
In two years, under the leadership of Xie Zhiliu, the team selected 100,000 national treasure-level cultural relics from 600,000 works of calligraphy and painting.
In the process of identifying and storing these cultural relics, many of them risked their lives to keep the cultural relics, and some even spared no expense to regain the treasures from foreigners.
The actions of Elder Xie and others to turn the tide and save the national treasure are admirable, their deeds have been passed down as a good story, and their spirit is worth learning and remembering for future generations.
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