stjorthotic Chapter 770: A New Year’S Gift That Makes People In The Past And Future Generations Envious And Jeal
Chapter 770: A New Year’S Gift That Makes People In The Past And Future Generations Envious And Jeal
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the second day of the first lunar month.
Yan Changqing, who concealed his identity as the vice president of Wanmin Agricultural College, looked at the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who had come to pay New Year greetings with their eldest sons early in the morning, and smiled gently. road:
"Your Royal Highnesses and Imperial Grandsons, Happy New Year!"
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes also raised their hands and replied:
"Happy New Year, Mr. Yan!"
The three little guys Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi also bowed and saluted:
"Happy New Year, teacher!"
For example, Zhu Shangbing, the eldest son of King Zhu Di of Qin, Zhu Youdun, the eldest son of King Zhu Ji of Zhou, Zhu Mengcong, the eldest son of King Zhu Zhen of Chu, and Zhu Xianting, the eldest son of King Zhu Bo of Qi, all these royal grandchildren shouted:
"Happy New Year, Dean!"
For Yan Changqing, the four little guys Zhu Shangbing, Zhu Youdun, Zhu Mengcong and Zhu Xianting are no strangers.
Although they are still young, they are still one or two years away, or two or three years before they reach the age where Yan Changqing can be considered an old city in Mongolia.
But every year during the New Year, as long as the princes such as King Zhu Di of Qin, King Zhu Fan of Jin, and King Zhu Zhu of Zhou are in Beijing, then all the princes will inevitably bring them over to pay New Year greetings to Yan Changqing
In the words of Qin King Zhu Di and other princes, even if it is not yet old enough to worship Yan Changqing as a teacher, you can still get acquainted with him in advance to enhance the understanding between future teachers and students.
In addition, every time he comes to pay New Year greetings, Yan Changqing will not only give them lucky money and red envelopes, but also give them some interesting toys.
Therefore, the four little guys Zhu Shangbing, Zhu Youdun, Zhu Mengcong, and Zhu Xianfei still have a very favorable impression of Yan Changqing, the future teacher.
After greeting each other and giving gifts, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes turned their heads and glanced at the attendants behind them. Their respective attendants immediately held out ancient huanghuali wood boxes and small-leaf rosewood boxes for them. to them.
Then Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also held the wooden boxes with both hands and presented them to Yan Changqing:
"This is a New Year's gift for your husband, please accept it!"
In response, Yan Changqing was not polite. He took it with both hands and put it aside properly.
As for what was placed in the huanghuali wood boxes and small-leaf rosewood boxes, Yan Changqing did not open them to take a look.
Because the things inside the huanghuali wood boxes and small-leaf rosewood boxes must be precious.
However, in terms of freshness, there is actually nothing new.
Because the New Year gifts sent by Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were inseparable from gold, silver, jade, antique calligraphy and painting.
For example, the year before last, Prince Zhu Biao gave him a piece of [Yan Changqing Seal] carefully carved from Top Grade mutton-fat white jade by top craftsmen, and the side of the jade seal was also hollowed out with the words [Prince Zhu Biao of Ming Dynasty and Hongwu Sixteenth Period]. At the beginning of the year, give a gift to Mr. Yan].
The King of Qin, Zhu Xi, gave him a piece of [Three Treasured Jade Sceptre of Wishes] that was also carefully carved by top craftsmen using Top Grade Xiuyan jade. The back of the Three Treasured Jade Sceptre of Wishes was also engraved with [The King of Qin in the Ming Dynasty] At the beginning of the 16th year of Zhu Hongwu's reign, he presented it to Mr. Yan.
Jin Wang Zhu Fan gave him a piece of "Jade Yuan Bao" that was also carefully carved from Top Grade Lantian jade by top craftsmen. It was also engraved on the bottom of the jade Yuan Bao with "In the early 16th year of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Wang Zhu Hongwu, The words "Gift to Mr. Yan".
King Yan Zhu Di gave a set of [jade wine bottles and cups] that were also carefully carved from Top Grade Dushan jade by top craftsmen, and the bottoms of the jade wine bottles and cups were also engraved with [The King of Yan of the Ming Dynasty] At the beginning of the 16th year of Hongwu period, Zhu Di presented the inscription "Mr. Yan" to Mr. Yan.
In fact, these are not outrageous. The most outrageous thing is the New Year gift sent by King Zhu Bo of Qi——a gold and silver mountain!!!
Well, literally.
King Zhu Shu of Qi used fifty kilograms of gold and eighty-eight kilograms of silver, and then melted them into a mountain of gold and silver weighing more than a hundred kilograms. At the bottom of the gold and silver mountain, he also carved the inscription "The Ming Dynasty Qi King Zhu Shu Hongwu Sixteenth At the beginning of the year, give a gift to Mr. Yan].
It has to be said that although this New Year's gift from King Zhu Bo of Qi is very simple and crude, it cannot even be called careless.
However, it is really shocking! Eye-catching! Dazzling enough!
Like Yan Changqing's reaction when he saw the New Year gifts from the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes, such as jade seals, Three Treasured Jade Sceptre of Wishes, jade ingots, and jade wine pots and cups. is very bland.
After all, in his previous life, he was just a science graduate student, and he spent most of his time in a scientific research institute. He had only a handful of opportunities to come into contact with jade, let alone have any understanding of jade.
The only time I came into contact with jade in my previous life was when I held a lottery in a shopping mall. It was said that you could get a chance to win a lottery for how much you spent.
The first prize is to buy a thumb-sized jade Buddha at a 10% discount.
Then Yan Changqing went to draw a lottery, and then he was "lucky" to win the first prize!
As long as Yan Changqing spends another 288 yuan, he can directly buy the jade Buddha with an original value of "2880 yuan", and it still has a "certificate for verification".
Yan Changqing, who had never been severely beaten by society, thought that he would suffer a loss and be cheated if he bought it for two hundred yuan, so he bought it.
After I went back and showed it to a colleague in Xinjiang, I realized that I had been fooled.
In shopping mall activities like that, as long as you go to the lottery, Tian You89 can win the first prize in China.
As for the purpose, it is to trick you into buying the jade Buddha at the so-called "100% discount price".
However, that piece of jade Buddha cannot even be called real jade, but synthetic jade. It costs about ten or twenty yuan each on a certain Alibaba website, and it comes with free shipping!
As for the certificate, it is even simpler. There is a website that specializes in this kind of jade certificate.
For a few to dozens of dollars, you can apply for a so-called "jade appraisal certificate" on the jade certificate website, and then scan the barcode on the certificate to see the relevant "jade appraisal certificate" on the website. ".
The cost of the whole set will not exceed fifty yuan, or even the maximum cost can be reduced to about ten to twenty yuan!
Yan Changqing couldn't help but feel speechless when he thought that the "Emerald Buddha" he had spent about 200 yuan on had only cost more than ten or twenty yuan.
Since then, Yan Changqing has stayed away from jade.
So even after hearing that Pei Lun, who has a little knowledge of jade, said that the New Year gifts given to him by Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were all extremely rare Top Grade jade.
Yan Changqing was not touched at all.
But the gold and silver mountain sent by King Zhu Shu of Qi is different. The golden and yellow gold is wrapped with snow-white silver inside. Anyone who is not blind can directly see its value.
Moreover, the entire Jinyin Mountain looks a bit like a snow-capped mountain scenery called [Rizhao Jinshan] that Yan Changqing had seen in his previous life!
It can be said that when he first saw the gold and silver mountain presented by Qi King Zhu Shu, Yan Changqing took a deep breath and was deeply shocked.
However, after the brief shock, this gold and silver mountain named [Rizhao Jinshan] by Yan Changqing was thrown into a storage room under one of his colleges as a New Year gift from Yan Changqing and other princes. went.
Because whether it is the Top Grade jade gifted by Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, or the gold and silver mountain gifted by King Zhu Bo of Qi.
No matter how high the value is, it is of little use to him, not even for appreciation.
So it may be because of this that last year, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes no longer gave him gold, silver, jewelry and jade as New Year gifts. [They all gave him antique writing rooms and other things as New Year gifts instead. .
For example, last year, the New Year gift given to him by Prince Zhu Biao was the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" created by Wang Ximeng of the Northern Song Dynasty!
Well, it’s the real and authentic kind!
The New Year gift given to him by King Zhu Di of Qin was also "Along the River During Qingming Festival" created by Zhang Zeduan of the Northern Song Dynasty!
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was famous and popular in Yan Changqing's previous life, and there were also many imitators of the tomb.
According to incomplete statistics from Yan Changqing's previous life, there are many copies of the existing tomb copies and forged copies alone.
However, it is now the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and there should not be that many tomb copies and forged copies of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".
Considering the identity of King Zhu Di of Qin, the painting "Along the River During Qingming Festival" he sent is also very likely to be authentic.
The New Year gift given to him by King Zhu Fan of the Jin Dynasty was "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" created by the former Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang!
Well, it’s the “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” that Yan Changqing had burned into two halves in his previous life, and then stored in museums on the mainland and on the treasure island respectively.
Of course, the painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in Yan Changqing's hands was naturally not burned into two halves, but an intact original.
Although "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" are jointly known as one of the top ten famous Chinese paintings handed down from previous generations, they can be regarded as precious cultural relics at the level of national treasures.
However, this is only relative to the previous life. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, although "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains" were valuable, they were far from as precious as they were in the previous life.
For example, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" was created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350. Now is the eighteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1385. There is only thirty-five years between the two.
A painting created thirty-five years ago, no matter how precious it is, is limited.
The reason why King Zhu Fan of the Jin Dynasty sent "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" to Yan Changqing was because after consulting his aides, one of them said that Huang Gongwang, the leader of the "Four Yuan Schools" in the past, used Cao Lai's strange calligraphy method in the painting. The momentum is majestic, the writing is perfect, and it is unique. It is known as "the peaks and mountains are thick and the vegetation is lush".
Therefore, the paintings created by Huang Gongwang can be regarded as masterpieces by famous artists.
Secondly, King Zhu Fan of Jin also knew that Yan Changqing had no shortage of gold, silver, and jewelry, so the New Year gifts he gave were mainly based on his heartfelt wishes.
That's why he finally found Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" and gave it to Yan Changqing as a New Year's gift.
In addition, the New Year's gift given to him by King Zhu Di of Yan was the "Essential Volume of the Shurangama Sutra Written by King Anshi of the Song Dynasty".
"Surangama Sutra" was translated by Tang Ban Cimi Emperor, ten volumes, excerpted by Wang Anshi. In it, Guanyin discovered the wonderful ear door, studied and meditated from listening, randomly changed the "Thirty-two Responses", and showed his own experience to obtain the "Four Kinds of Fearless Karmic Merit" .
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The full title of this sutra is recorded in the front of the volume: "The Surangama Sutra, the First of All Bodhisattvas to Practice and Realize the Secret Causes of the Tathagata on the Top of the Great Buddha." This is why it is named "The Purpose of the Surangama Sutra".
This calligraphy work created by Wang Anshi fell into the hands of Dao Yan for unknown reasons.
Later, when Zhu Di asked Dao Xing what New Year gift would be better to give to Yan Changqing, Dao Xing took out this "Song Wang Anshi Shurangama Sutra Essential Volume".
Then Zhu Di gave this "Song Wang Anshi Shurangama Sutra Essential Volume" as a New Year's gift to Yan Changqing.
A New Year's gift given to Yan Changqing by King Zhu Ju of Zhou Dynasty,
It is the cursive script "Zhu Shang Zuo" written by Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty.
The New Year's gift given to Yan Changqing by Chu King Zhu Zhen was the "Poetry Volume of Presenting His Tiaoxi Drama to Friends" written by Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The New Year's gift given to Yan Changqing by King Zhu Shu of Qi was "Traveling in Streams and Mountains" created by Fan Kuan of the Northern Song Dynasty.
And these calligraphy and paintings that were enough to be called national treasures in Yan Changqing's previous life, making countless people envious and jealous, are not very precious in today's Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.
expensive.
After all, the Song Dynasty was only two or three hundred years apart from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.
Perhaps at this time, calligraphy and painting works such as "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and "Essential Scroll of the Surangama Sutra Written by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty" would be more precious than "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains"
A bit more expensive, but not much more precious.
For this era, calligraphy and paintings from the Han and Tang Dynasties are truly precious antique calligraphy and paintings.
In addition, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also believed that the heart was more important, so they each found calligraphy and painting works from the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
Gave it to Yan Changqing as a New Year gift.
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The New Year gifts given last year were better than the gold, silver and jade gifts given the year before. At least the calligraphy and paintings given last year could be hung in Yan Changqing's courtyard.
Decorate the inside of the long office.
Although this year's New Year's gifts from Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Guomin Qing did not open them.
But after slightly weighing the weight of the wooden box in his hand, Yan Changqing estimated that the New Year gifts given by the princes this year were also very likely to be calligraphy and painting.
Fortunately, there are still several in his dean's office, which can be used to decorate them.
After receiving the New Year gifts from Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing also took out three red envelopes wrapped in red paper and looked at Zhu Xiongying,
The three little guys Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi laughed and said:
"Come here, the teacher will give you a new year's red envelope."
Then the three little guys Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi grew up and appeared in front of Yan Changqing.
The red envelopes he gave were not very precious. Each red envelope contained three coins made of gold, silver, and bronze.
But if you want to say something special, it is special.
Because these gold, silver, and bronze coins are engraved with the words "Zhu Xiongying is safe every year", "Zhu Jixi is safe every year", and "Zhu Gaochi is safe every year" on the front, and "Zhu Gaochi is safe every year" on the reverse.
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Yan Changqing cast the words "" for his students.
It can be said that there is only one of these gold, silver and bronze coins in the world.
Maybe it's not precious now, or even very valuable.
But if we put it thousands of years later, and add in the identities of Zhu Xiongying and others, these gold, silver, and bronze coins may not be as good as books like "Song Wang Anshi's Shurangama Sutra Essential Volume"
French paintings are much different.
After handing out three red envelopes, Yan Changqing launched four toy cars similar to those used by children in previous lives.
It's just that most of the toy cars in the previous life were electric, but the four Yan Changqing cars specially made by craftsmen were pedaled.
Use your feet to step on the foot pedal inside the car, and then the foot pedal will drive the gear, which will further drive the four wheels forward or backward through the conveyor belt.
It is just suitable for children aged three to five such as Zhu Shangbing, Zhu Youdou, Zhu Mengcong and Zhu Xianting.
After some small talk, Prince Zhu Biao looked at Yan Changqing and said with a smile:
"I heard the fifth brother talk about the management strategy of Northern Xinjiang that Mr. Yan had taught before. After listening to it, we all benefited a lot.
"I wonder if Mr. Yan will be free this year to continue teaching us new "Dragon Slaying Technique" knowledge?!!"
Yan Changqing looked at the curious and expectant princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Chong, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes. After thinking for a moment, Yan Changqing nodded and said:
"Okay, wait a few days, and after I have sorted out my thoughts, I will teach you the new "Dragon Slaying Technique"."
It has been two years since the last time I taught "Dragon Slaying Techniques". It is also time to teach some new "Dragon Slaying Techniques" to Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes.
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