If you love collecting, you must remember such a group of people in history.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin loved to collect calligraphy and paintings, and his life and death could not be separated from the "Orchid Pavilion Collection".
Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong loved porcelain and made a wood kiln that has been riddled with for thousands of years.
Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, created the Golden Wrong Knife and the Book of Plackets to collect the calligraphy and paintings of the previous generation.
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We've heard too many of these stories.
By contrast, we seem to rarely hear stories about women obsessed with collecting and pursuing a lifetime for a particular treasure.
But in fact, people's pursuit of beautiful things is always similar, in the long river of history, there are also many female collectors, leaving their own strong mark.
【Good woman】
She was called Nuhao, and she was the first female general recorded in Chinese history.
The ancient city where she lived, later called Yin Ruins, was a "holy place" for Chinese archaeology.
From her cemetery, more than 1,900 artifacts have been unearthed, of which the number of jade artifacts is as high as 685.
At that time, jade was all imperial jade, which was an extremely scarce luxury item, and such an astonishing amount of women's tombs seemed to run counter to the preciousness of jade.
What's more, some of the jade artifacts excavated from the tomb of Nühao belong to the Neolithic period, more than 1,000 years before Nühao herself.
In the tombs of the same period, we have never found any jade objects of quantity and variety spanning so long.
The only reasonable explanation is that The woman likes to collect these things, so after her death, the Shang King Wuding buried all the jade objects in her collection. This is also very much in line with the ancient people's concept of life and death that "things die as things are born".
Chun, Bi, Huang, Ge, Qi, Spear, what we now seem mysterious and abnormal, may have been quietly played with in the hands of women thousands of years ago.
【Li Qingzhao】
Her name is Li Qingzhao, and she is the most famous first talented woman in the ages.
Her words are unique and self-contained in the song song garden of flowers and flowers.
But you may not know that in her lifetime, she only wants to be a collector of cultural relics.
All her life, she has dealt with various people in the gains and losses of collecting cultural relics, and even her life is written in a book on collecting cultural relics that has been handed down, which is known to future generations.
According to the Golden Stone Record, Li Qingzhao and her husband Zhao Mingcheng's collection has four categories: bronzes, stone tablet rubbings, ancient books, and famous paintings.
Cover of the Qing Dynasty Seal [Golden Stone Record].
Zhao Mingcheng wrote the "Golden Stone Record"
Troubled gold, prosperous antiques.
When the country is destroyed and the family dies, even the most precious cultural relics cannot escape the fate of dispersion.
Jin Bing invaded, Li Qingzhao and her family migrated to Jiangnan, but her collection of antique calligraphy and paintings and precious cultural relics was too much to take away, and finally, after many rounds of selection, it was still loaded with 15 cars.
And the bulky bronzes and stone tablets that could not be removed were all annihilated in the war.
After that, as Jin Bing approached, Li Qingzhao was forced to migrate again, and on the way, the 15 car treasures she had saved were looted again and lost.
The country was broken, the family was dead, and the things were scattered, and only six baskets of calligraphy and paintings and a dozen small dings were left, but unfortunately, even these calligraphy and paintings were stolen by a group of people with hearts on an ordinary night.
Li Qingzhao's collection has long since dissipated with the demise of the Song Dynasty, and now we can only glimpse her once glorious collection history in books.
Of course, it may also be because of the collection that she will write such a moving poem in the old paper pile!
【Princess Yuan Dynasty】
Her name is Xiang Ge Raji, and she is the great-granddaughter of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty.
Her aesthetic and taste may come from the cultivation of her mother's self-acceptance.
He liked painting, and once ordered Yang Shuqian to paint 12 paintings each of "Cultivation Map" and "Weaving Map", and Zhao Mengfu composed 24 inscription painting poems, which were also translated into Mongolian.
Influenced by this, Princess Dachang imitated the appreciation and collection behavior of the Han people, and put a private collection seal on the calligraphy and painting works she collected, and invited the courtiers to read and write.
In 1323, Princess Dachang held a famous literati gathering at Tianqing Temple, south of the capital, where Han, Mongolian, and Semu gathered to appreciate and taste her collection of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy.
Zhan Ziqian's "You Chun Tu", Huang Tingjian's "Zishu Songfengge Poetry Volume", Jasmine Shufang Tutuan Fan, the Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Chang's "Sketching Butterfly Picture Scroll", Wang Zhenpeng's "Boya Drum And Qin Tu" and so on are all in her collection.
Although there is no clear evidence in the historical records on how Princess Dachang influenced the Han cultural cultivation of the Emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, from the results, her nephew and son-in-law, Emperor Tu Timu'er of Yuanwenzong, was undoubtedly an emperor who advocated Han culture.
Her collection not only affected the cultural relations between Mongolia and Han in the Yuan Dynasty, but also played an extremely important role in promoting the development of art history in the Yuan Dynasty.
It is not difficult to find that in the past, collecting was often only the activity of the upper echelons of society.
And now, the collection is more and more deeply into the lives of ordinary people, more and more people, because of love, so pursue.
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