In the golden stone collection circle, there are almost no people who do not know Chen Jieqi, and there are almost no people who know Chen Jieqi who do not know the Western Zhou heavy weapon Mao Gongding. Mao Gongding (毛公鼎) was a ceremonial vessel from the late Western Zhou Dynasty during the reign of King Xuan, named after its maker Mao Gong. It is 53.8 cm high, weighs 34.7 kg and has a diameter of 47.9 cm. On the rim of its mouth, there are two large ears, the abdomen is round and deep, and there are nearly 500 inscriptions inside, which can be called a huge work on the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
In the 23rd year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1843), Mao Gongding was excavated in Baicun, Qishan Village, Shaanxi. It was quietly sold to Beijing by antique dealers. After several twists and turns, it was sold at a high price to Chen Jieqi, a goldstone and collector in Beijing, who was the first collector in the true sense of Mao Gongding.
Chen Jieqi (1813~1884), Zi Shouqing, No. 100 Zhai, Late No. Haibin Medical History, Qi DongTao Father. A native of Weixian County, Shandong (present-day Weifang, Shandong). Daoguang twenty-five years (1845) into the priesthood, the official to the Hanlin Academy editing. After he got this ding, he was very happy and took Mao Gongding back to his hometown weixian in the name of Ding You, and from then on he no longer became an official, immersed himself in the study of jinshi, and tunneled into a generation of jinshi people. Chen Jieqi died less than ten years after collecting Mao Gongding. After his death, Chen Jieqi's family was forced to take Mao Gongding out due to the compulsion of life, and was later purchased by Duan Fang, the governor of Liangjiang at the time.
The strange thing is that mao gongding changed hands many times after leaving the Chen family in Weixian County, and everyone who got Mao Gongding brought disaster.
In November 1911, Duanfang, the first to collect Mao Gongding from the Chen family, was sent to Sichuan to suppress the Baolu Movement, only to be killed by the revolutionary army, and then Duanfang's descendants sold their property because of the fall of the family road, and Mao Gongding changed hands again.
The second person in the collection of Mao Gongding was Ye Gongqi, the director of transportation of the Beiyang government and later the director of the Guoxue Museum.
After many haggling as a businessman, Ye Gongding took Mao Gongding into his pocket and hid it in his apartment in Shanghai. Although Ye Gong used a pseudonym when he bought Mao Gongding, he was still known to the Japanese and almost took Mao Gongding away.
After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, it rewarded those who provided Clues to Mao Gongding. Ye Gongchao's concubine Pan Shi, who remained in Shanghai, reported to the Japanese gendarmerie that Mao Gongding was in Ye Mansion, in the hands of Ye Gongchao, Ye Gongchao's nephew, so Ye Gongchao was invited to the Japanese gendarmerie.
Ye Gongchao swore to death that he would not admit to knowing Mao Gongding's whereabouts, and the Japanese gendarmes entertained him with a tiger stool and pepper water.
Ye Gongchao was tortured to death in the Japanese gendarmerie, and in order to save his nephew's life, Ye Gongchao, who was far away in Hong Kong, asked the master to imitate a fake Mao Gongding and handed it to the Japanese, and after Ye Gongchao was released, he secretly fled to Hong Kong with Mao Gongding in 1941.
Ye Gongchao and Mao Gongding had just arrived in Hong Kong, Hong Kong was also captured by the Japanese army, and the Ye family entrusted German friends to secretly transport Mao Gongding back to Shanghai. Soon, Ye Gong was seriously ill and economically in difficulty, so in desperation, he took Mao Gongding to the bank and had no connection with the Ye family ever since.
The third person to collect Mao Gongding was Dai Kasa, the head of the Kuomintang secret service.
Chen Yongren, a big businessman in Shanghai, received the news that Mao Gongding had mortgaged his mortgage in the bank and ransomed it. As a heavy gift bribed Chiang Kai-shek's cronies, the head of the secret service Dai Kasa.
On March 17, 1946, when Dai Kasa flew from Qingdao to Nanjing by special plane, he had to fly to Shanghai due to the dark clouds and thunder and lightning over Nanjing, but at this time, the weather in Shanghai was not suitable for the plane to land, so he could only fly to Xuzhou to land, and died in a crash at Daishan in the western suburbs of Nanjing on the way.
After Dai Kasa's death, when the Shanghai Enemy and Counterfeit Materials Management Committee sent someone to check Dai Kasa's property, it was found that Mao Gongding listed on the list could never be found, and finally found it in the military command secret service office. Since then, Mao Gongding has been annexed to the government of the Republic of China.
Mao Gongding was nationalized and did not preserve the Republic of China. In 1948, on the eve of the victory of the Liberation War, Mao Gongding, together with a large number of cultural relics from the Nanjing Museum, was transported to Taiwan, and later collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, becoming a national heavy weapon for guarding the treasure island of the motherland, Taiwan!