At 9 o'clock on May 11, 2011, in the Gushan Pavilion area of the Zhejiang Museum, a Ford van slowly drove out of the gate of the cultural relics warehouse.
In the drizzle, the car passed through the urban area of Hangzhou.
There is a safe with constant temperature and humidity on the car. Lying inside was an incomplete picture.
This painting depicts the early autumn scenery of the Fuchun River in Zhejiang Province.
Yan Ziling and Yu Dafu's Fuchun River.
The landscape is vast, and the people in the painting are either fishing alone by the river, or leaning on the railing to listen to the wind. Half a roll of paper, the heavens and the earth are boundless, and the artistic conception is high and far-reaching.
So much so that after some predecessors saw it, they were like a world away, and praised it with poetry:
Nagisa is far away from the hongjie, and the spring is not dreaming. Push the window bright moon out, on the shore to listen to the sound of the waves.
This painting, which was the work of the great painter Huang Gongwang of the Yuan Dynasty when he was 80 years old, was called the priceless treasure of the Orchid Pavilion in the painting by later generations.
Therefore, at the beginning of the volume is written a line of inscription:
Painting Garden Ink Emperor Yuan Huang Zi Jiu Fuchun Mountain Jutu Authentic.
Next, it will fly to Taipei by special plane under special escort.
In this way, this half painting is like a trembling old man, starting a journey across the mountains and seas.
Soon, it will be exhibited with another part of itself at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The last time they met was in 1650. At that time, Zheng Chenggong was still training troops in Xiamen, and potatoes had just been introduced to China.
This year, before dying, the collector of the painting had the idea of burning the painting for burial.
Thanks to his nephew's quick hand, the sharpshooter snatched the painting out of the furnace. But the painting has been burned in half.
A page of ups and downs, changing time and space. This is more than three hundred and sixty years ago.
Two and a half volumes of "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" (partial)
This journey of crossing the ocean to see you is what a group of people of insight on both sides of the taiwan strait have worked hard to win.
In order to make these two half-volumes can be displayed together, they rushed to the two sides of the strait and spent more than ten years to communicate, negotiate, and finally promote.
The obstacles and difficulties encountered during this period are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
One witness described the process in one sentence:
I knew it was difficult, but I never expected it to be so difficult.
However, these people have never had the idea of giving up, but they have become more and more courageous and determined.
It is in this way that there is the scene at the beginning of the article.
No, the other day just happened to be the tenth anniversary of the "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map".
Taking this opportunity, I will tell a few stories today.
Chinese civilization is not the oldest civilization in the world, not even one of the oldest.
But it is the only civilization that has continued uninterrupted to this day.
It is the result of countless people passing on the torch.
01
Mr. Zhang Boju said this:
It is not necessary to give to the body in the end, but to keep the land forever and pass it on to the world.
In the 1950s, he donated The Only Surviving Manuscript of Teacher Li Bai to the state.
With it, we know that the heroic prodigal son who embroidered half of the Tang Dynasty originally wrote such a word.
Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's "Post on the Balcony"
Today I want to talk about a person who is as tall and bright as Mr. Zhang Boju.
In April 1949, a million male divisions crossed the river and occupied Nanjing.
Within a few days, a large wooden cabinet quietly replaced the owner.
The cabinet is filled with the original appearance of Chinese characters, and more than 2,300 bone pieces with oracle bones written on them.
This is a Western oracle bone master, and the Canadian Ming Yishi collected it many years ago from our former colleague Lubeka's hometown of Henan.
Because she wrote her name at the 8-character intersection, Lubeka was admitted to the university. Now there have been many male readers who have inquired about her.
When Ming Yishi returned to China, these pieces of armor that had not been taken away were placed in the Canadian Embassy in China, filled with a large wooden cabinet.
A diplomat named Chester Langning noticed the oracles. He was about to withdraw from the museum and return to China, but felt that these things were Chinese cultural relics and should not be taken away. So he contacted a Chinese and gave him the cupboard.
Mr. Yang Xianyi.
Mr. Yeung and his British wife, Ms. Dai Naidi
An Oxford scholar who is well versed in history, he is also a talented translator.
Before him, the translation of Classical Chinese classics from Chinese to English was like the scene of a car accident, which was unbearable to see.
At that time, foreigners translated the titles of the four famous works like this:
Monkey Adventures
A Story of a Stone
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Stories of 105 Men and 3 Women
It seems that if you want to tell the Chinese story well, you have to roll up your sleeves Chinese.
In the 1960s, The China Foreign Language Publishing House approached Yang Xianyi and asked him to translate a Chinese-to-English translation of Dream of the Red Chamber.
Yang Xianyi gave an English translation name:
《A Dream of Red Mansions》
Hammer it out. This is recognized as the standard English translation of Dream of the Red Chamber, until now.
If I had left it alone, I would have had to translate it into "HONG LOU MENG."
It is not too much to say that Yang Xianyi single-handedly refreshed the era of Chinese classical masterpieces translated from Chinese to English. But that's all a story.
At this moment, what was in front of him was an opportunity to go down in history.
The information carried by these thousands of oracle bones in the cabinet is an inexhaustible treasure trove if it is used for research.
Whoever has this cabinet will sit firmly in the position of the first-rate grandmaster in the history of Chinese oracle bone science. What Guo Moruo, what Dong Zuobin, all are out of the question.
This cliff is the best way to go down in history, but this is not what Yang Xianyi wants.
In the face of this huge gift, he did not even let the door in, and called for a tricycle with his backhand and pulled it directly to the Nanjing Museum.
Nambo, who received heavy treasures, is naturally very grateful, because in the years of frequent wars, the loss of cultural relics is the norm.
Over the years, that cabinet full of oracle bones, what did the researchers at Nambo finally tinker with?
Well.
From these oracle bones, people found the first female general in Chinese history with written records:
The wife of King Wuding of Shang, the queen's wife.
It is hard for people today to imagine that she was a great military figure who once commanded 30,000 elite divisions to conquer the four directions and had been fighting for a long time. She helped her husband Wu Ding create the most powerful and glorious period in the history of the Shang Dynasty.
Her relationship with Wu Ding is definitely not inferior to the one depicted in the Hall of Eternal Life and the Song of Long Hate thousands of years later.
In the oracle bones of the Wuding period, the most mentioned person is the woman. It was full of the great king's prayers to heaven, and in today's parlance, they were like this:
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——Women have recently had toothache, does it matter, does it have an impact on the body?
Later, the woman died early at the age of 30. Wu Ding was so grief-stricken that he buried her next to his palace, hoping to see her again.
Through the oracle bones, people know that at the source of the Chinese nation, in the greatest period of a dynasty, there was such a vigorous love, and a woman with great martial arts and great strength.
This kind of true feeling, I think, can be interpreted by the song god Jacky Cheung's "Love is Eternal".
With me, there is you, and true love is never dead.
Through joy and sorrow, across life and death.
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Today, the statue of the woman is standing at the door of the Henan Yin Ruins Museum, smiling at us children and grandchildren.
Armed with a tomahawk, she seemed to be saying to us:
I heard that women now need to fight for rights?
02
In the winter of Beijing in the 1950s, the north wind called and dripped into ice.
In the cultural relics storehouse inside the noon gate of the Forbidden City, there was an old man over sixty years old, who was punching in a hurry.
The old man works at the history museum, arriving at 7 a.m. every morning and leaving work at 6 p.m. Come rain come shine.
His working hours are 11 hours, and he has to fight with the current Internet factory workers, and he does not touch the fish.
This old man, with a round face, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and loves to wear a dark long coat.
For decades, anyone in China who even considered himself a literary youth could not fail to read one of his novels. You can't help but remember the last words of the novel:
This man may never come back, maybe tomorrow!
He is the most famous countryman in China, Shen Congwen.
You know. Shen Congwen never wrote a novel again, and went to the China History Museum to conduct historical research.
At that time, open flames were strictly prohibited in the cultural relics warehouse of the historical museum, and the indoor temperature would often be as low as minus ten degrees.
Shen Congwen could only use the baked white potatoes he bought on the commute to keep warm, but the thing quickly froze into bricks.
However, it was in this environment that he engaged in a full decade of cultural relics research.
In the past ten years, there have been as many as a dozen kinds of cultural relics that Shen Congwen has studied and studied:
Clothing, bronze, jade, porcelain, lacquerware, furniture, paintings, coins, silk, carpets...
These things are relatively independent of each other. Any one of them is enough to study for a lifetime.
Any true cultural relics worker must also be a staunch cultural relics protector.
During the ten years of Shen Congwen's work at Libo, he has donated more than 20 cultural relics in his collection.
Among them, there is a ming dynasty printed paper painting, which is particularly worth mentioning.
This painting depicts the scene of Su Dongpo and his good friend Rafting Chibi.
Story printed paper painting of the Ming Dynasty's "Chibi Tour"
Thinking back to that year, Zhou Yu drew three cards with a heroic posture, shouted that Ru waited for a good look, and burned Cao Cao's 800,000 water army. It has been recited through the ages.
Seven hundred years later, China produced one of the most famous foodies of all time, Su Dongpo.
Yesterday, he was still running five kilometers in the morning on the Su Causeway in Hangzhou, and he was suddenly relegated to Huanggang, Hubei Province, which is rich in dense scrolls, and his mood must not be better.
People are like this, depressed, either drinking wine to pour sorrow or traveling to distract themselves.
But making choices is a child's business, and Su University scholars want both.
So he made two friends, and the three of them went to Chibi for a drink, and after drinking, they also drove the boat dangerously.
The names of these two friends are also in today's language textbooks.
One is called Huang Tingjian, an old watch in Jiangxi. There must be a middle-aged uncle with a belly next to you, and the WeChat signature is one of his poems:
Peach and plum spring wind a glass of wine, the night rain of the rivers and lakes ten years of lights.
The other was a monk, called the Buddha Seal. He famously said that you can use when others scold you:
This benefactor has something in his heart and something in his eyes. Amitabha, Zenza Zenza!
Su University scholar who drank to the top sighed a lot and gladly wrote the famous article "Nian Nu Jiao Chibi Huaigu".
Furious hair rushes to the crown, the great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters of the ancient winds and currents are flowing!
To the west of the old fortress, humanity is, Three Kingdoms Zhou Lang Chibi!
The scene of the three of them visiting has become a new ancient recitation. Hundreds of years later, in the Ming Dynasty, someone painted it into a painting.
It was this one donated by Shen Congwen.
For thousands of years, Chinese have been able to communicate with the souls of the sages on a spiritual level without obstacles, and resonate. It is the result of this passing on the torch.
Some people may think that this is nothing remarkable, but I would say:
The daily life you don't care about is the extravagance that others can't ask for.
Today, when other ancient civilizations have been broken or do not exist, only Chinese civilization is still shining and constantly bursting with vitality.
From Zhou Gongjin to Su Dongpo, from Ming Dynasty painters to Shen Congwen.
A series of names, stringing together the ancient and modern Chinese civilization, turned the waves in the rivers of time.
I think of a song, a song you're sure to sing:
The waves run, the waves, the gushing rivers never end;
Years, you can't take away, that string of familiar names...
03
On August 13, 1963, a memorial service was held at the Capital Theater in Beijing.
More than a thousand people attended the memorial service, sometimes as national leaders and the masses, as well as foreigners.
The object of mourning is the famous economist Ji Zhaoding in china.
He was the core figure in the early days of New China who broke the Western economic blockade and carried out economic and trade exchanges with foreign countries.
There is a sentence in the eulogy that those who do not know cannot see it at all:
Especially in the period of secret work, he can produce sludge without staining.
Yes, Ji Chaoding was not only a scholar and diplomat, but also a worker on the hidden front.
Ji Chaoding once lurked by the side of the old Jiang Lianxiang and Kong Xiangxi, the minister of finance of the Republic of China, and became Kong's confidential secretary.
The financial secrets and financial situation of the Kuomintang government he provided always allowed this side to accurately determine the next step of the other side.
It is said that the prototype of Xie Peidong in "No War in Peiping" is Ji Chaoding.
In his memoirs, Chen Lifu has two sentences that are the highest praise for Ji Zhaoding:
After the victory of the War of Resistance, we made a mistake in every move!
It was all a bad idea that Ji Chaoding gave song (Ziwen) a bad idea!
Some people have testified that Chen Lifu did not dare to directly accuse Chiang Kai-shek, so he had to find Ji Zhaoding as a scapegoat.
I would like to say to these students: Being a scapegoat also requires skill.
The contributions made by Ji Chaoding in his lifetime may never be known. But what is certain is:
This funeral is another beginning.
Because, before his death, he made a will to donate all the cultural relics he had collected over the years to the state.
These cultural relics from the Shang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the bits and pieces add up to more than 430 pieces, almost 5,000 years old.
The most numerous of them are the calligraphy works of his Shanxi compatriot, Fu Shan.
To say fu shan you may not know. But say Lord Fu Qing, you probably just say, "Oh! ——”
Yes, it is the fu qing lord in "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain" who has a lifetime of poignant integrity and rebelled against the cruel rule of the Qing court.
In the 06 version of the TV series "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", the role played by the veteran artist Yu Chenghui.
Fu Qing, the bearded lord who held Mo Qian's sword inside, had a famous line:
Don't ask for shame in the future, but pray for no regrets in this life.
Fu Shan lived in the era of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and when he saw the Eight Banners Iron Horse ravaging the mountains and rivers, his heart was anxious and sad.
As a troublemaker whose country was destroyed and his family was destroyed, Fu Shan especially liked Du Fu.
This is directly reflected in Fu Shan's calligraphy works, and he loves Du Fu's poetry. For example, this song "Qiu Xing Eight Songs · Four".
Hearing that Chang'an is like playing chess, the world has been sad for a hundred years.
The first house of the princes is the new lord, and the literary and martial clothes are different from the past.
Zhibei Guanshan Jingu Zhen, Zhengxi Che Ma Yu Shu Chi.
The fish dragon is lonely and the autumn river is cold, and the homeland is peaceful and thoughtful.
This poem, reflecting what Du Fu saw and heard during the Anshi Rebellion, just happened to poke at Fu Shan, who also had a hatred for the subjugation of the country.
Fu Shan's brushstrokes are smooth and uninhibited and dance wildly like a dragon. He is proficient in boxing and swordsmanship, and often takes advantage of the ink after practicing martial arts. Between the lines of this word, it really responds to the sentence of Teacher Gu Long at the beginning of "The Sword of the Three Young Masters":
The sword qi spanned thirty thousand miles, and a sword light was cold nineteen continents.
Fu Shan's Handwritten Book, Du Fu's Eight Songs of Qiuxing, Four
In this life, Fu Shan first studied medicine from Wen and then. He found that studying medicine could not save the Ming people, and he also learned martial arts and the art of war. In order to save the country, he tried almost everything.
Although in the end, all of Fu Shan's efforts failed, his integrity and spirit were passed down.
Perhaps, when he was young, Ji Chaoding was inspired by Fu Shan's spirit that he resolutely returned to China and threw himself into the cause of saving the dead and trying to survive.
This can also explain from the side why he likes Fu Shan's calligraphy so much.
Du Fu, Fu Shan, and Ji Chaoding, three Chinese of different eras but similar circumstances, have realized spiritual inheritance across time and space.
In 1984, in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, someone found an ancient boxing book and later handed it over to the state.
After expert appraisal, it was confirmed that this was the "Fu Shan Fist Spectrum" that only existed in the legend in the past.
The discovery of boxing has brought this ancient genre back to life.
Later, this ancient book was quickly published in volumes and classified as a school of Taijiquan. In 2009, Fu Shan Quan became an intangible cultural heritage project in Shanxi Province, which was promoted to primary and secondary school campuses.
At this point, Mr. Fu Shan's lifelong martial arts were finally able to be passed on forever in the land of the Three Jins.
Got it.
04
If you think that the people who donated treasures are famous and big figures such as Yang Xianyi, Shen Congwen, and Ji Zhaoding, then you are wrong.
A few years ago, the Chinese Cultural Relics Society made a statistic:
Since the founding of New China, museums across the country have received more than 400,000 donated cultural relics.
Among them, the Palace Museum received more than 30,000 donated cultural relics, with more than 700 donors;
The National Museum of China received more than 66,000 donated cultural relics, and more than 630 donors.
Among the donors of these more than 400,000 cultural relics, there are famous artists and big figures. But more often than not, there are ordinary people with no name.
Here, I'll tell you their story.
In 2018, the popular Qing Palace drama "Yanxi Raiders" had such a plot:
Qianlong's empress Fucha was afraid of heat in the summer, so she used an artifact called Ice Jian to chill watermelon juice to drink.
Ice appreciation, in fact, is a more elegant statement. To put it bluntly, this thing is the refrigerator of the past.
It is not for no reason that the TV series is filmed like this, because the Qianlong family really has a refrigerator, and it is still a pair.
At that time, there was an official ice cellar in Beijing, and there were many huge ice cubes in it. When it was hot in the summer, the palace would divide the ice cubes into small pieces and put them in the refrigerator. One is used to chill fruit food, and the other is to use the cold air coming out of the ice cubes to reduce the room temperature.
At that time, the summer ice cubes were the luxury of the yellow flag, and there were sky patterns on the top. The masses of the people cannot afford to consume.
Later, the pair of refrigerators used by Qianlong were brought to Tianjin when his descendant Puyi was bombed out of the Forbidden City.
The Qing Dynasty is dead, remember the ancestors? This grandson lacked money to use, so he sold the pair of refrigerators, and the selling price was 3500 yuan of ocean.
The buyer was the first president of Tianjin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lu Guanhu. The guarantor is Xu Shizhang, the younger brother of President Xu Shichang.
With this money, at that time, I could buy a courtyard with three in and three outs and more than twenty rooms in Beijing's West City.
Gee. At that time, Chinese medicine was really rich. At least not like now, in order to earn thousands of patients, almost caused medical malpractice, not to mention, but also exposed to the 1818 golden eye.
Far from it, we still talked back to the refrigerator. In 1985, Lu Yi, the daughter of President Lu, and david Pan, the grandson, donated the pair of refrigerators back to the Forbidden City.
In that era when there were just 10,000 yuan households, the Forbidden City decided to reward them with 10,000 yuan as a recognition.
Unexpectedly, they were unanimously rejected by the mother and son, and they said this:
No, no, absolutely not! This is the thing in the palace, we want to return the things to the original owner, we can't collect money!
The qualities that ordinary people inadvertently exude in the ordinary are always particularly dazzling.
So, what does this pair of unplugged refrigerators look like?
In the Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong Imperial Enamel Refrigerator was collected by the Palace Museum
This refrigerator, the box with the ice, was the most advanced technology in China at that time.
Perhaps, Qianlong also used this pair of refrigerators to freeze Tianjin's watermelons, after all, this guy is a watermelon-loving master.
In the Records of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong records this:
In March of the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong, he was stationed at Taitou. Commandment: In the past, the people offered melons, and their hearts were truly good.
This Taitou town is in Jinghai District, Tianjin, and Taitou watermelon is still a specialty here, the kind protected by national geographical indication products.
However, just when Qianlong was eating iced watermelon, Europeans were already engaged in the first industrial revolution, which gave birth to the later electrical era. Decades later, the real refrigerator was invented.
Since then, the refrigerator is no longer the privilege of the emperor and the general, and ordinary people can use the plug-in refrigerator.
The refrigerator that Qianlong used was actually nothing among the treasures of the Forbidden City that Puyi had smuggled out.
A feature of the Qing Dynasty is that the precious calligraphy and paintings of the whole country are basically collected in the palace, and many of them are rare treasures of Song Yuanming or even earlier. More than a thousand of the most precious pieces were smuggled by Puyi to the puppet Manchu Palace.
In 1945, Puyi did not have time to collect these treasures, so he arrested the Soviets.
Later, this batch of treasures was scattered throughout the country, especially in the three eastern provinces, during the looting of the chaotic soldiers, and became the best in the mouths of antique dealers - Northeast goods.
In 1964, a young man who spoke the standard Northeast dialect came to Rongbaozhai in Beijing and brought a large bag full of shredded paper.
The experts who heard the news were stunned. From this big baggage, they picked out more than 30 national treasure-level calligraphy and paintings:
Mi Fu's "Poetry scrolls of The Amaranth";
Li Gonglin's "Three Horse Diagrams" inscription;
Fragments of Fan Zhongyan's Shilu Erzha.
For these national treasures, the young man was paid: 1400 yuan.
He ordered the money and left, leaving no real name and address.
This became a pending case.
Mr. Yang Renkai, one of China's most famous cultural relics appraisal experts, said:
Although most of these cultural relics are fragments, each one is a national treasure. Without considerable ability to appreciate cultural relics, it is absolutely impossible to make this choice, and there must be more mysterious figures behind this young man.
The manager of Rong Baozhai said that so many important cultural relics can be preserved because of the great contribution to the country. The difference between 1400 yuan and the actual value was too great, so we reported to the leaders of the State Council at the time, hoping to give the young man a reward.
However, it was not until 1996 that the true story of the mother and son was reported by a newspaper in Harbin.
It turned out that the young man's name was Ding Xingang, and his father, Ding Zhenglong, had studied in Germany and France, and later served as Zhang Xueliang's secretary.
Shortly after Japan's surrender in 1945, Ding Zhenglong bought a batch of calligraphy, paintings and fragments from the puppet imperial palace from Changchun. Unexpectedly, he was killed by a friend who was interested in money on the way, and the calligraphy and paintings were taken away.
Ding Zhenglong's wife, Sun Manxia, was determined to avenge her husband and kept filing lawsuits, eventually bringing the murderer to justice and executing him by shooting. On the same day, she took back the paintings.
For more than ten years, she finally made up her mind to ask her son to find a more appropriate place for these calligraphy and paintings. This was the scene where Ding Xin had just presented the treasure to Rong Baozhai. Rong Baozhai donated these calligraphy and paintings to the Palace Museum.
Until 2004, CCTV "Exploration. The "Discovery" column went to Harbin to interview them, and the story of the mother and son donating treasures was widely known.
Northern Song Dynasty, Mi Fu "Poetry Scrolls of Cangxi"
Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's "Shi Lu Ti"
The trajectory of China's historical development is so long, and there are so many cultural relics left behind, but there is a wonderful connection between them.
This can show the coherence of the continuation of Chinese civilization.
In 1998, two herdsmen, Li Hongbin and Xi Wanmin of Xilin Gol in Inner Mongolia, donated a golden dagger they had dug up to the state.
Located just north of Beijing, Xilin Gol belonged to the Xiongnu more than 2,000 years ago. This magnificent dagger with gold as the handle and fine iron as the blade can be seen at a glance as a sharp weapon for the Xiongnu nobles to play with.
Han Dynasty, Golden Dagger, Collection of the Palace Museum
At the end of the 1990s, the people's wisdom had been enlightened. Clear-eyed people can see that this dagger does not say the value of cultural relics, that is, it is melted and sold gold, and it can also earn a large amount of money. But the two herders didn't think that much.
They just quickly came to Beijing and handed over to the state a few cultural relics dug up together.
Xilin Gol is the junction of Inner Mongolia and Hebei. It bordered Zhangjiakou in Hebei, a dai county of the Zhao state during the Warring States period, and was the forefront of the agrarian peoples' defense against nomadic peoples.
Brushing away the thousand-year-old wind and sand, Li Mu, the famous general of the Zhao State in the "Search for Qin", who was wise and courageous, broke the Xiongnu here, and beat Huma to dare not peek into the Central Plains for decades to come.
What a boldness. So much so that more than a thousand years later, there are still people who are still grateful for his industry.
In 1018, a 30-year-old young man went to Hebei, which was also a tour of the national defense front at that time. On the way he wrote a poem:
Taiping Yan Zhao Xu idle, thirty from the knowledge of the hero shy.
Dare to speak of poetry for the admiral, judas mercy and benevolence to the princes.
The sub-room drapery is fine, and Li Mugeng has autumn.
The people have to boast that the soldiers are handsome, so why should the Royal Rong ask yan worries.
This young man who wrote the poem was Fan Zhongyun. He wanted to build something like Li Mu's.
But what we can remember today are his two mottos:
The world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy.
05
A few days ago, it was the tenth anniversary of the "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map".
However, at this time, they can only lie in Zhejiang Bo and Taipei National Palace, facing each other across the sea.
When these two once briefly reunited pictures will be reunited is still a distant wish.
What we can do now is to pray that the two and a half scrolls will one day be able to merge and never be separated again.
I also hope that by that day, the two sides of the strait will realize true reunification and let the blood of the thousand-year-old civilization flow together.
Five thousand years of civilization was created by ancestors who passed on the torch from generation to generation.
Creation refers not only to creation itself, but also to protection and transmission.
There are people who knock out sparks, and there are people who pass on firewood.
The former is often famous in history, and the latter is mostly unknown.
But in the process of passing on the blood of Chinese civilization, they are equally important and equally noble.
Every name, every stroke, tells us where it came from;
Every protection, every delivery, tells us where we're going.
They are right between you and me. They are the country. Most of them have been forgotten by the forgetful us.
Because of them, we have been able to touch the past of the Chinese nation and not forget our own origins.
At the same time, take history as an anchor and sail further ahead.
During the voyage, whenever we look up at the vast galaxy, we should remember their efforts and be impressed in our hearts.