600 years ago, a small official named Li Shunfu of the Yuan Dynasty bought back a "big plate" from outside, and Li Shunfu said to his wife: "I thought you would bake cakes, and I saw that it was particularly fond of it, so I took it home, and it was found in a villager, and it didn't cost much." ”
After hearing this, the wife also smiled happily, and went to the kitchen with the "big plate". But it is very coincidental that Li Shunfu had some friendship with the Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Xian Yushu, and Li Shunfu was bent on asking for The calligraphy and painting of Xian Yushu, so the two had contacts.
One day, Xian Yushu came to Li Shunfu as a guest, and he accidentally bumped into Li Shunfu's wife with a "big plate" pancake, and Xian Yushu also took a look at this "big plate", but did not think that it could be used for baking cakes, Xian YuShu usually likes to study antiques in addition to calligraphy, so he feels that this "plate" is unusual.
Xian Yushu then asked Li Shunfu to see the "plate", Li Shunfu did not know much about antique cultural relics, but he was arrogant, and immediately took the "plate" from his wife's hand and handed it to Xian Yushu. Xian Yu Shu carefully examined the inscription on it, and it was clear that this was a valuable cultural relic, so he spent money to buy it from Li Shunfu's hand.
It turned out that this was the "Bronze Xijia Plate of the Fifth Year of King Xuan of Western Zhou", which recorded that Xijia followed King Xuan of Zhou to conquer the Xuanhu and levy tribute to The Southern Huaiyi. Xi Jia was Yin Jifu, the Western Zhou Dynasty Sage, and Jin Wenzuo Xi Jia, who was also the collector and compiler of the first poetry collection in the mainland, the Book of Poetry.
The Xijia Pan was unearthed during the Southern Song Dynasty, and later the Southern Song Dynasty fell, and many antique cultural relics in the palace were plundered, and the Xijia Pan was also lost to the people. The Xijia plate originally had a disc foot, but because the people did not know that this was a cultural relic, it was usually used as a kitchen utensil, so the disc foot was broken.
According to relevant records, Xijia Pan to the end of the Qing Dynasty, is collected in the late Qing Dynasty famous seal engraver Chen Jieqi, Chen Jieqi's father Chen Guanjun was a jinshi during the Jiaqing period, successively served as the Ministry of Rites, Officials, Works, Bingbu Shangshu, because of the relationship between his father, Chen Jieqi grew up in the capital to study, and especially like antique cultural relics, Chen Jieqi in The 30th year of Daoguang (1850) built the "Ten Thousand Seals Building", used to collect nearly 10,000 square Qin and Han ancient seals and more than 10,000 pieces of cultural relics he collected from all sides.
After the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Xijia plate disappeared, due to the war, many precious cultural relics on the mainland were lost overseas, so Japan and other countries have reported the news of the discovery of the "Xijia disk", but it was eventually confirmed to be forged.
Until 2010, an unnamed Chinese living in the United States found a "xijia plate" at a small auction and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy it. In 2014, Xijia Pan quietly returned to the domestic exhibition, and was identified as genuine by a number of authoritative experts.
The Xijia plate has a high historical value, and the inscription on it also talks about many detailed inscriptions such as the official system, wars, rewards, taxes, slaves, trade management and so on in the Western Zhou Dynasty of the mainland.
On July 15, 2017, Xijia Pan appeared at the 2017 spring auction site of Xiling Printing Agency, and was auctioned for a high price of 185 million yuan, plus the commission transaction price, which was more than 200 million yuan, which once again refreshed the auction record of mainland antique art, and the title of "the most expensive pan" of Xijia Pan did not go away.