Ma Jia's Collection: Pu Ru's Blood Piercing and Writing "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" 丨China Guardian 2024 Spring Auction
This season's spring auction "Pen and Ink Articles: Letters and Manuscripts Special Session" has collected more than 40 pieces of Hanmo inscriptions from the five generations of the Ma Jia family and Sheng Yin's family, including miscellaneous notes, poems, books and ink related to several generations of Ma Jia family members and relatives, friends and friends, spanning nearly 200 years, and has important documentary and historical value. Among them, the old collection of Ma Shiliang, a descendant of Puru's mother, Ma Jia's family, Puru's blood piercing and the book "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" are the most eye-catching
Ma Jia, one of the eight surnames of Manchuria, the early Qing Dynasty university scholar Tuhai, Kangxi Emperor Rongfei, Daoguang Shi Rite Department Shangshu Sheng Yin, etc. are all members of the Ma Jia clan. After the Xinhai Revolution, Ma Jia's family changed his Han surname, taking "Ma" and "Ma" as his surname, and the descendants of Sheng Yin changed their surname to Ma. Ma Shiliang's name is Yunyun, the great-grandson of Sheng Yin and the second son of Shaoying.
Pu Ru's father Zai Ying is the second son of Prince Gong Yi, and Zai Ying was originally married to Ma Jiashi as Shao Ying's niece and Ma Shiliang's cousin. According to the clan relationship, Pu Ru called Ma Shiliang his uncle. This Heart Sutra was written by Pu Ru in 1939 on the death day of his biological mother, Mrs. Xiang Tai, and was later given to Ma Shiliang to support his mother Ma Jia, who died early. During the special period of the sixties and seventies of the last century, this scripture was torn up, and the middle section did not exist, and it was later supplemented by Ma Yanyu. The Puru blood piercing and the book "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" seen in this season are the treasures of the Ma Jia family, and they are extremely rare to reappear after the catastrophe.
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Lot 3762
Confucian
Piercing blood for the ancestors and the book "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra"
Written in 1939
1 roll and 1 frame on paper
手卷全长：369.8×31.5 cm.
溥儒心经第一段：119.5×31.5 cm.
溥儒心经第二段：57.5×31.5 cm.
Inscription: Pu Ru wrote the scriptures.
Inscription: On the death day of the first concubine in November (1939), he took the blood book of the body and the blessing of Pu Ru.
Chen Qibo inscribed a poem: The sense of filial piety and heirloom is declining, and the goose is more who returns. Now the door is declining late, and the abdominal pain is Huang Yu Pepsi (Mr. Fu Ziru and Brother Ling are in the same official department). Sexual appreciation and rich collections, cold tools without suspicion of dirt. Shihu Garden has been victorious, and the old traces have been rediscovered (Mr. Zhang Zhihe Shihu Garden). Brother Wang and Sun are relatives to me, and everyone from all over the world knows this painter. Handwritten Heart Sutra is more, Biye Zifu drama Kanzhen (Mr. Pu Ru wrote the Heart Sutra).
Ma Yanyu's inscription: After the sale of Puru's mansion, he moved to the Jieshou Hall of the Summer Palace. After the death of Xinji's mother, he pierced the blood and the heart sutra of the book many volumes, and sent it to the ancestor with a volume, saying that he was the first mercy to offer. I am very grateful for the warmth. However, this sutra was torn by the □□□ in the □□□□□, and most of it was lost. Today, the lost part of the paper is used to make up for the missing part and frame it for collection. But Yu is not good at writing, and he is ashamed to be unable to work. Jihai year Xiaoxue, Ma Yanyu respects the book.
Confucian
Pu Ru believes in Buddhism, his mother is filial piety, in 1937 his biological mother Mrs. Xiang died, in order to give his mother a funeral according to the ancestral rites, he did not hesitate to treasure half of his life "Pingfu Post" sold to Zhang Boju. Because of the Buddhist culture has the saying that "peeling the skin into paper, princing blood into ink, and burning the finger into a lamp", he vowed to prick blood into ink and write scriptures to show his piety. Today, the National Palace Museum in Taipei has a volume of Pu Ru's book "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" written by Pu Ru for his mother's blood, which was written by Pu Ru when Mrs. Xiang died 23 years ago in 1960, which is upright and dignified, and is a rare treasure.
The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra seen this season was written by Pu Ru's biological mother, Mrs. Xiang Tai, in 1939 with blood and cinnabar, and was later given to Ma Shiliang to support his mother-in-law Ma Jia, who died young. Due to the special period of the sixties and seventies of the last century, the middle section of this scripture no longer exists, and was later supplemented by Ma Yanyu, the son of Ma Shiliang. At the beginning and end, there is Ma Yanyu's inscription and inscription, and the inscription details the ins and outs of this volume: "After the sale of Puru's mansion, he moved to the Jieshou Hall of the Summer Palace. After the death of Xinji's mother, he pricked blood and cinnabar book Heart Sutra many volumes, and sent them to the ancestors in one volume, saying that they were offered for the first mercy, and they were extremely grateful."
Ma Shiliang's son Ma Yanyu inscribed
In addition, there is a page of Chen Qibo's seven-word poem, talking about the Heart Sutra written by Pu Ru, according to Ma Yanyu's inscription, it can be known that the title is given to Ma Shiliang's work.
Chen Qibo's seven-word poem
Ma Shiliang is the second son of Shaoying. Pu Ru's father Zaiying is the second son of Prince Gong. Zaiying was originally married to Ma Jiashi as Shao Ying's niece, Ma Shiliang's cousin, Ma Jiashi died early, and Zaiying later married Hesheri. Pu Ru is the second son of Zai Ying, and was born to Zai Ying's concubine Xiang. Therefore, according to the clan relationship, Pu Ru called Ma Shiliang his uncle. Another lot in this lot, Pu Ru's half-brother Pu Yu, inscribed it as a gift to Ma Shiliang, and the manuscript calls it "Uncle Yun's Clan", which can confirm this fact.
Lot 3761
Tang Yuan
The manuscript of "Sitting on the Seashore Stone with My Nephew on a Moonlit Night and Drinking and Singing After Getting Drunk".
Written in 1950
1 sheet
120×24.5 cm
Seal: Pu Fu, Shu Ming, and poetry are my family affairs
Title: On a moonlit night, he sat on the seaside stone with his nephew and drank and sang after getting drunk. The servants have been in the house for many years, and they are uncoupled, and they don't know that there are dealings between friends. The day before yesterday, Uncle Yun's family was in vain, and he asked for a book. This was a common thing more than a decade ago, but today it is gratifying. The old work should be taught, the poem is not good, and it has not been written for a long time, and the words are also clumsy. However, I know the meaning of my uncle's family, and if there is no such thing, I will not be able to do it with this. Geng Yin, the summer Manshu Pu and the puppet.
Pu Kui's Manuscript for Ma Shiliang (Detail)
Ma Jia is one of the eight surnames of Manchuria, living in Changbai Mountain, Suifen (now Dongning County, Heilongjiang), Ningguta (now Ning'an County, Heilongjiang), Huifa (now Huinan County, Jilin), Hada (now Kaiyuan County, Liaoning Province) and other places, in the early Qing Dynasty, the university Shi Tuhai, Kangxi Emperor Rongfei, Daoguang Shili Shangshu Shengyin, etc. are all members of the Ma Jia clan. After the Xinhai Revolution, Ma Jia's family changed his Han surname, taking "Ma" and "Ma" as his surname, and the descendants of Sheng Yin changed their surname to Ma.
Shao Ying (1861-1925), the grandson of Sheng Yin, Ma Shiliang's father, the word Yue Qian. Yiyinsheng was appointed as a member of the military department, and then went to Japan with Wu Rulun to inspect academic affairs, and after returning to China, he took over the Chongwenmen tax customs, the military department, the promotion of the Jingshi University Hall, Tanglin and other things. He successively served as the Minister of Commerce Zuo Cheng and the Minister of the Du Branch. At the beginning of the Republic of China, he served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Qing Imperial Family, and was later awarded the Taibao. He is the author of "Shaoying's Diary" and "Commentary on Zhu Zi's Sexual Reasoning".
Ma Shiliang is the great-grandson of Sheng Yin, the second son of Shaoying, the name is Yunyun, graduated from the Department of History of Peking University, and served as the magistrate of Anping County, Hebei Province during the Republic of China. Fine history, like collection, good poetry. He has correspondence with Zhang Yuanji, Liang Shuming, Chen Yinke, Li Jishen, Huang Yanpei, Cheng Qian, Zhang Shizhao, Ye Gongxuan, Chen Shutong, Qi Baishi, Feng Zikai, Yu Pingbo, Qi Gong, Xuyun, Yuan Ying, Zhao Puchu, Wang Xuetao, etc., and has been collected and published in "A Hundred Years of Stopping Clouds".
The Heart Sutra of Prajnaparamita, or Heart Sutra for short, is a Buddhist Mahayana canon with a short text but profound and subtle interpretation, which condenses the essence of the 600 volumes of the Great Prajna Sutra in only 260 words. Emperors, generals, monks, calligraphers, and writers of the past dynasties advocated writing the Heart Sutra and often wrote it. Thinking of Pu Ru, who has been a gray old man, with his ardent thoughts for his biological mother, he writes the Heart Sutra in blood, chases the eternal admiration, and prays for the blessing of the underworld, and the piety and persistence revealed between the lines are moving.