introduction
During the ancient Song Dynasty on the mainland, the art of painting was unprecedentedly prosperous, and due to the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty, the long-term division of feudal towns and villages ended the situation, which led to the rapid development of commercial handicrafts in society, the unprecedented prosperity of the national economy, and the improvement of artistic level.
From a political point of view, the Song Dynasty may have failed in the history of the mainland for thousands of years, but from the perspective of culture and art, the Song Dynasty can be ranked among the best, and in the song dynasty for more than three hundred years, there have been many famous poets and painters, who have left many precious cultural assets for future generations.
Especially at that time, Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Tuo, himself was very fond of painting, and opened a studio in the palace while also recruiting famous painters from all over the world, allowing them to create many famous paintings.
Throughout the Song Dynasty, many very famous paintings were born, such as Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming River Map", Li Tang's "Cewei Tu", and Ma Yuan's "Ta Ge Tu", all of which are very famous paintings in the history of the mainland.
At that time, in addition to the high prosperity of painting art, there were also many painting theory works in the folk, such as "Picture Seeing and Hearing" and "Lin Quan Gaozhi", which made more and more people love painting and know how to appreciate painting, forming a very good literary and artistic environment.
Most of these paintings were collected in the court at that time, and even though there was a change of dynasties later, these exquisite works of art were always cherished by the rulers and continued to be continued backwards. However, in the history of the mainland, there have been incidents of foreign invasion by foreign enemies, and their burning and looting behavior has caused a large number of precious literary and artistic works on the mainland to be lost overseas. In addition, after the collapse of the Qing government, many precious cultural relics in the imperial palace were taken by the palace eunuchs and fled outside the palace, plus the last emperor Puyi himself also brought a lot of precious calligraphy and paintings inside, which caused the mainland literary and artistic works to suffer very serious losses.
Most of these precious paintings brought to the folk are sold at low prices by them and then held by folk collectors. In that turbulent era, being able to sell a calligraphy and painting could ensure that they were not hungry, so many eunuch palace women would bring precious cultural relics with them when they fled, which was a very common phenomenon. It is worth mentioning that after the Qing government was overthrown at that time, the emperor and the Manchu nobles could continue to live in the imperial palace, they could continue to live in it, and they would receive a large amount of subsidies every year, that is, the preferential treatment policy of the Manchu Qing royal family implemented at that time.
Therefore, at that time, the young Puyi would often lie on the city wall and look at the army coming and going outside, at that time he did not understand what was happening outside, only that everyone in the palace did not allow him to go out, and he could only live in the palace. As Puyi grew up, he realized his situation, knew that his dominance had been overthrown, and there was a risk of being expelled from the palace at any time, in order to let him continue to live in the folk, he brought out a lot of precious calligraphy and paintings from the palace through his brother Pujie to ensure the needs of future life.
Sure enough, in 1924, Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, but fortunately, at that time, he had already taken out a lot of calligraphy and paintings through his brother, and all of them could be sold to make a living. There are many excellent works of these calligraphy and paintings, including the "Ten Yong Tu" of the Song Dynasty, and it is also coincidental that Puyi did not sell this painting, but gave it to his personal bodyguard. In this way, this "Ten Arias" was treasured and passed on by the guard, and it was passed on to his grandson's generation before he took it out again.
The old man's surname is Sun, according to himself, this painting was obtained by his grandfather from Puyi's hands, and he has been treasured after taking it home, and has never shown it to outsiders. The reason why I chose to let this painting see the light of day is because my family has become poor and difficult to survive, so I have to sell this painting painfully. At that time, many people did not believe his words, thinking that how could such a poor old man in the northeast have authentic handwriting in his hands, but after the museum experts investigated, they found that what he said was actually true, and this painting was really the "Ten YongTu" that Empress Dowager Cixi liked very much.
The old man wanted to hand over the national treasure, and also asked for 8 million yuan, but the expert said that he was only willing to pay 10,000 yuan at most, and the expert said that the painting was originally a collection in the Forbidden City and should be owned by the state, but it was not pursued due to the loss of the war, hoping that the old man could sell it to him at a price of 10,000 yuan, and he would donate it to the museum free of charge. But the old man was not satisfied with this price, in his view, this is a famous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was passed through the hands of Lafayette and Puyi, and should not only be sold at such a cheap price. The old man turned around and auctioned out a sky-high price of 19.8 million, sold the painting back to the Palace Museum, and now we can see this authentic painting in the past, from 10,000 yuan to 19.8 million yuan, I believe that the old man's heart has experienced ups and downs like a roller coaster, and he wants to thank his grandfather for being able to pass this treasure down.
epilogue
Some people may think that this practice of the Palace Museum is too stupid, this is the country's cultural relics should be directly recovered, but to know that this painting was personally rewarded by Puyi to others, but also before the founding of the country, we should follow this principle, with their own reasonable way to get back the country's treasures, the facts have proved that the Palace Museum this practice has been highly praised by many people, it protects the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly, is worth affirming.
References: "Picture Seeing and Hearing" "Lin Quan Gao Zhi"