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In order to explain the principle of accumulating less into more, many idioms have been born in Chinese history. Such as accumulating soil into mountains, accumulating water into abysses, gathering sand into towers, and gathering armpits into fur. If you reluctantly add a quasi-idiom, it can be called "jiyu into a tree". Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the initiator of the "Collection of Jade into Trees", and he built a shrine outside the palace, with jade trees planted in the forecourt. The so-called "plant" is actually a mixture of trees, because its jade tree "has coral as branches, jasper as leaves, and flowers are green or red, and they are made of pearls and jade." ”
The story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "planting" Yushu was compiled into two volumes of the "Tales of Han Wu" by a good person during the Six Dynasties, and was first recorded in the Sui Shu Jing Zhi. It is this story that has influenced Many big names such as Li Bai, Du Fu, yan Jidao, etc., and thus has become a typical image that frequently appears in Tang poetry and Song poetry. In Du Fu's famous passage "Eight Immortals in Drinking", there is a sentence that "Zong Zhi is a beautiful young man, looking at the blue sky with white eyes, as bright as a jade tree before the wind". "Zongzhi" is Cui Zongzhi, but a "second generation official" (the son of Cui Riyong, the prime minister of Xuanzong), only one poem has been passed down, but because of Du Fu's poem, he and Li Bai, Zhang Xu, He Zhizhang and other big celebrities have been in the annals of history, and called "eight immortals in drinking", and have also become the exclusive spokesperson for the idiom "Yushu Linfeng".
Li Bai, Du Fu, and Yan Jidao had never seen Emperor Wu of Han's Yushu, but they frequently used it as a metaphor, a metaphor to a metaphor, and the Yushu became synonymous with a beautiful man in later life, and no one even wondered what it looked like. Mr. Cui Yizhong, a 65-year-old collector in Jinan this year, is a gray jacket and a pair of cloth shoes under his feet, which is difficult to associate with a handsome and handsome man from the appearance. It is such a simplely dressed old man, but he has a luxurious dream of restoring the jade tree in his heart.
In 1979, the 22-year-old Cui Yizhong went to visit his seriously ill aunt, who gave him a jade pendant that had been worn for many years as an heirloom to the only man of the Cui family. This antique that condensed family affection was regarded as a treasure by Cui Yizhong, and he was also fascinated by literary play and became a person who was involved in literary play in the early days of reform and opening up. There are "endless leaks and endless medicines" in the literary play circle, and it is necessary to "endure loneliness and endure difficulties", and it is also necessary to be willing to eat light rice with a golden rice bowl. Cui Yizhong is good at research and credibility, and has done a good job in Jinan and even shandong literary play circles. When others came and sold to make quick money, he saved up the pieces of ancient jade he had exchanged, and no matter how much others bid, he was reluctant to sell one. "People who know me well know that in my collection, the most reluctant thing I want to sell is jade!"
For more than forty years, he has searched thousands of large and small literary and play markets across the country, and within the scope of financial resources, he will buy the jade he likes. Looking at the ancient jade at the bottom of the pressure box from hundreds or thousands to tens of thousands, the idea of a super local tycoon flashed in Cui Yizhong's heart: There was a legend of jade trees in ancient China, if these ancient jades were gathered together, placed into a jade tree and exhibited to the outside world, how spectacular would it be? This thought was immediately poured cold water by reality. Because, this jade tree needs a museum to exhibit Chen, but Cui Yizhong's silver earned from the operation of cultural play is consumed by the ancient jade collection, not to mention building a museum, that is, changing a larger house is a luxury. Cui Yizhong's heart added a little sadness to this. Shortly thereafter, the appearance of another collector, Liao Huanan, untied Cui Yizhong's knot. Liao Huanan is a young man with a successful career, although Cui Yizhong is more than ten years younger, but both of them collect jade, hide jade, and ponder jade culture, at first sight, from strange to irresistible. Under the discussion, a vision of Liao Huanan building a venue and exhibiting the collections of Chen chen came into being and was put into practice. This private museum is named Huayi Museum, which is taken from Hua of Liao Huanan and Yi of Cui Yizhong.
Another ten years passed. In the meantime, the Huayi Museum, jointly organized by the two collectors, has developed into a large-scale private museum, which is located in the Tiantai Sun Tree Community on the south side of Jinan Sun shuncheng, with an exhibition area of more than 1,300 square meters and a collection of tens of thousands of cultural relics, including jade, porcelain, Buddha statues, calligraphy and paintings and other categories. In the past ten years, they have traveled all over the world to continue to search, and the sand is looking for "jade". A 60-square-meter, leafy jade tree was finally creatively designed and assembled not long ago. This collection of heavy vessels that embody the efforts of the two collectors for decades is named "Yushu Linfeng", which is composed of more than 7530 pieces of Ming and Qing Hetian jade pieces creatively combined, embellished and decorated on the "jade tree" There are more than 600 forms, there are jade plates of different sizes and patterns, jade interstitial screens, jade screens, jade step shakes, there are unique shapes of jade hairpins, jade chopsticks, jade washes, jade stones, as well as rare jade grips, jade han, jade jue... Carefully examine those inconspicuous small pieces, many of which are the best of Hetian mutton fat.
The first time I saw "Yushu Linfeng", many people were shocked, and the first thing they thought was how much it was worth? In the eyes of the collector, he will first think, how much time does this have to take? Because, even if you have enough financial resources to buy tens of thousands of contemporary jades in a short period of time, it is impossible to gather these more than 7530 pieces of Ming and Qing Dynasty and Tian jade together for decades.
The story of Yushu Linfeng tells the world that time is fair to everyone, and everyone's time can be converted into a great thing, and Cui Yizhong and Liao Huanan have done it.
Published in The A09 edition of Qilu Evening News on February 18, 2022
One Point Institute of Literature and History