Chapter 179 The museum’s treasure, Along the River During the Qingming Festival!

After visiting the outside of the hall, the tour guide led everyone into the hall, and Chen Lu and Anna followed in.

"Since the founding of China, the Forbidden City has transformed from the emperor's residence into the Palace Museum. It houses more than one million rare treasures. Let me introduce you to the ten most precious treasures in the Forbidden City!"

When they heard about the museum's treasure, everyone became excited.

【I don’t know what kind of treasure it is? 】

[What's there to see? It's definitely not as good as our British Museum! ]

[Is it possible that the cultural relics brought to the British Museum were looted from all over the world? ]

[If it weren't for the robbery, there wouldn't be many treasures in the whole of Daiying, right? ]

[You are the only ones who are proud of such shameless acts of robbery! ]

"This first piece is a treasure of calligraphy and painting - Along the River During the Qingming Festival!"

"Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a work by the great painter Zhang Zeduan. With his delicate and exquisite brushstrokes, he brought the lives of the people in the Bianjing area and on both sides of the Bianhe River during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty to life on paper!"

The tour guide led everyone to a painting.

The painting is extremely large, taking up most of the wall, and is carefully protected with various measures.

"Wow, this painting is so big!" Anna couldn't help but exclaim.

She has visited many museums around the world and seen many paintings and calligraphy by famous artists, but none as large as Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Generally speaking, the larger the painting, the more energy the painter has to spend.

A masterpiece like this would take at least several years to complete, right?
And since the picture is so large, the details will probably not be very delicate.

How can a painter have such energy?
The tour guide heard her and explained with a smile: "Along the River During the Qingming Festival is 24.8 centimeters wide and 528.7 centimeters long. It is in the form of a long scroll and uses a scattered perspective composition method to vividly record the urban appearance of Dongjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty."

"It depicts more than 500 characters of different shapes and sizes, and each one is vivid and lifelike! There are cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, carts, sedan chairs, large and small boats, houses, bridges, and city towers!"

[More than 500 centimeters, that's 5 meters, right? This painting of the Qingming Festival on the River in China is actually more than 5 meters long! ]

[There are five hundred characters? That's amazing! The Last Supper only has thirteen people in it!]

[It will take at least more than ten years to complete this painting, right? What an amazing perseverance! ]

[I bet the details of this painting are very rough, I don't believe the painter can handle it well. ]

[Details are rough? If you look closely, I can even see the characters' expressions! ]

When the foreigners observed carefully, they found that it was really as the comments said. Although the painting was extremely large in size, the details were depicted very finely and the expressions on the characters' faces were clearly visible!

The entire map is roughly divided into three parts: spring scenery outside Bianjing, scenes of the Bian River, and streets in the city.

A small boat is tied to the shore next to a small bridge in the suburbs. Farmhouses are scattered in the woods and bird nests on the trees are clearly visible.

A caravan was entering the city, and people were waving whips to drive their donkeys.

There are several stone mills on the threshing ground, which are used for threshing during the autumn harvest.

The Bian Canal was an important water transport hub during the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are all kinds of shops on both sides of the strait, and there are also a lot of vendors setting up stalls.

A grand wooden arch bridge spans the Bian River. Its exquisite structure looks like a flying rainbow, hence the name Feihong.

A large boat is crossing the bridge, and the boatmen are showing their skills. Some use bamboo poles to support the boat, some use long poles to hook the bridge, and some quickly lower the mast. The captain is loudly directing from the bow. The scenes depicted in the street market reflect the various aspects of people's lives at that time.

There are all kinds of shops lined up everywhere, selling silks and satins, jewelry and spices, incense and paper horses, fortune-telling, facials and plastic surgery. It can be said that there is everything from every walk of life.

There were merchants doing business, officials on horseback, hawkers hawking their wares, wandering monks carrying baskets on their backs, tourists asking for directions, children listening to storytellers on the streets, and disabled old men begging at the edge of the city. All kinds of people were included.

These vivid life scenes are the meaning and value of Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

"This second item is the treasure of jade—the green jade furnace with cloud dragon pattern!"

"It is also from the Song Dynasty, 7.9cm high, 12.8cm in diameter, and made of green jade. The whole body is decorated with the Chinese character "工" as the base, and is decorated with swimming dragons, auspicious clouds and sea water patterns."

"The bottom of the vessel is inscribed with a seven-character poem by Emperor Qianlong: In what year was the temple vessel praising the Heavenly Scripture? The four spirits of the Flying Dragon Hall were carved. Mao Bo and Xing Hou were different from the Zhou system, and Zu Ding and Fu Gui were similar to the Shang Dynasty!"

"The third piece is a ceramic treasure - a Langyao red-glazed straight-mouthed vase with a belt."

"There is a saying in Jingdezhen: 'If you want to be poor, make Langhong', because it is extremely difficult to make, and even hundreds of kilns can hardly make one."

"But this red porcelain vase is extremely perfect and is a well-deserved representative work of Chinese ceramics!"

The tour guide will give a detailed introduction to each cultural relic.

In this way, I took them to see all ten treasures of the museum.

The other treasures are equally exquisite. The reason they were not chosen as the museum’s treasure is not because they are not good, but because the other cultural relics are too good!
[If I heard correctly, he just said that there are more than a million cultural relics in the museum? ]

[Why don't they auction it off? They should be able to make a lot of money.]

[Do you think everyone would auction off cultural relics like Daiying did? ]

[Dai Ying is really shameless! Not only did he auction off his own cultural relics, he also auctioned off the cultural relics he had snatched back! ]

[Wardfa? If we take it back, won't it be ours? ]

The two spent half a day touring the Forbidden City and then left.

Chen Lu brought Anna to the construction site of Sanyuan Bridge, where Sanyuan Bridge was about to be renovated.

He planned to watch it with Anna, and broadcast it live to earn some recognition points, so that foreigners can see the speed of China's infrastructure!

Harvard University.

"Good afternoon, students!"

Bruce pushed up his glasses and greeted the students with a smile.

Ever since his class comparing Qin Shi Huang and Alexander, he has become completely popular and the most popular teacher at Harvard University.

There are countless people who want to take his class, and the last time people tried to grab the class, the class-grabbing system was completely destroyed.

The class, which originally had only a few people attending, is now packed. When there are no seats left, they bring their own stools, all wanting to listen to his lectures.

Bruce also didn't expect that the purpose of creating this course was just to hope that everyone would face China squarely and not live in the false lies fabricated by the BBC.

But I didn't expect it to be so popular now.

Many students also traveled to China and brought him various souvenirs. When they came back, they told everyone how great China was.

Bruce also wants to go, but he is too busy with schoolwork to spare the time. He will definitely go when he has time!
He turned on the slide and a magnificent bridge appeared on the screen.

(End of this chapter)