Chapter 554: Painting and Calligraphy
In fact, the original work of the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is now in Yang Jing's storage space, which has already shown many problems.
Since the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" that Li Er designated to be buried with him was secretly replaced by his son, it is naturally not surprising that this original work fell into the hands of Wu Zetian as Li Zhi's wife.
Wu Meiniang is definitely a bold master. She dares to steal the world of the old Li family. What is the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection"?
Wu Zetian also likes calligraphy very much. If Li Zhi really secretly replaced the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" that his father Li Er was preparing to be buried with, then what if Wu Zetian took this "Preface to the Lanting Collection" for himself after Li Zhi's death?
Perhaps because he saw Li Zhi secretly replace the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" that was originally buried with his son, Wu Zetian was also worried that his son would be greedy for his own burial objects after his death, so he placed the burial objects in this tomb in advance, including the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection".
But Wu Meiniang probably didn't expect that although his son didn't know all the things she prepared, her son was even more cruel and buried her and Li Zhi in the Qianling Mausoleum. The tomb that Wu Zetian carefully built for him was naturally useless. In the end, all the burial objects arranged in advance by Wu Zetian were cheaper.
Yang Jing, who had figured out all this, couldn't help but feel a little amused. He didn't expect that after more than a thousand years of going around, Wu Zetian, the emperor of the age, would have a fate with him in the dark...
But this is a good thing after all. First, the jade seals were passed down, then the precious inscriptions, and then the Buddhist scriptures handwritten by famous artists with inestimable value, and then the original work of Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection". If Wu Zetian hadn't done this back then, I wouldn't know which tomb robber would have cheaper these things.
Yang Jing happily put away the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" and began to shift his energy to the next goal.
Yang Jing was not allowed to distract himself. The closer he was to the center of the tomb, the more brocade boxes made of golden nanmu. There was no doubt that these brocade boxes were definitely filled with precious burial objects.
Sure enough, when Yang Jing opened one of the long brocade boxes, there was a scroll inside. Then Yang Jing decisively threw the box and paintings into the space just like he had just dealt with "Preface to the Lanting Collection".
After opening the scroll in the space, Yang Jing realized that the scroll was actually a painting painted by Yan Liben, a famous painter in the early Tang Dynasty.
This painting seems to be a prosperous scene when a shop in a shop in Chang'an opened, which is quite rare.
Yan Liben is good at painting figures. Whether it is "The Side of the Emperors" or "The Scroll of Emperors of All Dynasties", they all truly reflect Yan Liben's painting characteristics. Even Yang Jing thought that Yan Liben usually only paints portraits, but he didn't expect to see a painting similar to "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" here.
Of course, this painting is not as huge as "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", and almost half of Bianjing was painted. The size of this painting is not small, but it was taken by a scene in a certain street and then enlarged it.
If Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is large and complete, then this painting is small and exquisite.
Like the paintings of many painters in the Tang Dynasty, the paintings were on the left and the characters were on the right. There was also a paragraph at the end of the scroll indicating how the painting came about.
After reading the words at the end, Yang Jing realized that the painting was called "The Opening of Rice in Dongshi" was a painting called "Dongshi Rice in Dongshi" when Yan Liben passed by Dongshi after drinking with his friends. He accidentally saw a rice in Dongshi. It was very festive. So Yan Liben was very talented in painting, and wrote a painting on the spot.
But Yang Jing thought about it for a long time and did not remember any records about this painting in the relevant historical records. This means that the painting was not circulated outside after the creation was completed. Perhaps it was collected by the owner of the rice shop at that time, or it was directly included in the palace.
Yan Liben was a great painter who was even better than Wu Daozi in the early Tang Dynasty. Yan Liben died for more than ten years before Wu Daozi was born, so in the early Tang Dynasty, Yan Liben was the most awesome painter.
There is no historical record in this painting, but it does not mean that this painting is not precious. In any case, this painting is also a work of Yan Liben, and its style is completely different from his usual painting style, so this painting seems even more precious.
Put it away!
After discovering this painting by Yan Liben, Yang Jing discovered two portraits of Yan Liben's brother Yan Lide among the burial objects, as well as paintings by famous painters such as Zheng Fashi in the early Sui Dynasty, Lu Tanwei in the Southern Dynasty, and Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty.
These paintings are either unrecorded in history, or they are recorded but the original works have been lost but only copies are left. Now all of these paintings are found here.
Yang Jing originally thought about whether he could find one or two works by the painting Saint Wu Daozi here, but after searching for a long time, he didn't have any more laughter and cry after thinking about it carefully.
When Wu Zetian died, Wu Daozi was only in his twenties and had not yet become famous. Naturally, his paintings would not be taken away by Wu Zetian as a burial object...
Wu Zetian is worthy of being a queen of a generation. The burial objects she carefully prepared for herself will naturally not be bad. Of course, perhaps Wu Zetian respects Buddhism more, so these precious burial objects are placed together with other gold, silver and jewelry, unlike those Buddhist scriptures, which are placed separately in a tomb.
In addition to these paintings, Yang Jing also discovered more than a dozen calligraphy works, all of which were works by famous calligraphers from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Whether it is the paintings or these calligraphy works, they are priceless national treasures in modern times, but now these national treasures are scattered in such a mess on the ground of this tomb. It is obvious that Wu Zetian is far less concerned about these calligraphy and paintings than those Buddhist scriptures and statues.
No wonder, even Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is placed here, so the works of other calligraphy masters naturally cannot help but accompany the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" here.
Yang Jing cleaned up for a long time before he packed all the funeral objects that fell out of the wooden box that had been scattered into the storage space, and even the boxes that had been scattered into the six-dozen.
This is golden nanmu. Even if you take it out to create furniture after going back, it is still a treasure.
As these burial objects on the ground became fewer and fewer, more than a dozen larger things gradually appeared.
When Yang Jing finished packing up all the burial objects and the more than ten larger items revealed their true appearance, even though Yang Jing saw many national treasures today, he was almost numb now and was still shocked by the big burial objects in front of him.
Twelve golden gold men, more than one meter high, were placed in the center of the tomb. Among the twelve golden men, there were eight small and one large, with simple and different shapes...
When Yang Jing saw these things, he immediately took a breath of cold air...
Chapter completed!