golden ear

Chapter 272
"It's still the treasure of Little Japan!"

Wu Tianyuan looked at the treasure map of Fengwen at the foot of the mountain with satisfaction. The most fruitful thing is to exchange it with a small Japan.

"Five Kings of Woodcarving in the Heian Era!"

"The Origin of Daigo-ji Temple on Paper in the Edo Period!"

"Pine-painted screen with a picture of crows!"

"The twelve gods on silk!"

"A statue of Fudo Myo with gold, jade and wood carvings from the Kamakura period!

"Ksitigarbha Statue!"

This time, they were all heavy weapons, Japanese collections of national treasure level. Wu Tianyuan asked Yasuda to contact Shosoin. They were old acquaintances, so they came directly to the museum to talk.

"Curator Wu, these are already the treasures of our Zhengcangyuan under the box! Look..."

The old guy distressedly handed Wu Tianyuan a list, there were only a dozen names on it, each of them was a secret treasure of Zhengcangyuan, which could only be used for the emperor's sacrifice.

"Picture of Northern Wei Emperor Respecting Buddha!"

"Northern Wei Gilt Bronze Maitreya Buddha!"

"Jin gold-plated bronze Buddha statue!"

"Nan Qi Stone Statue!"

"Tang Honglu well carved stone?"

"And the golden seal of the Japanese slaves in the Eastern Han Dynasty?"

Wu Tianyuan looked at the last two excitedly, they are really national treasures!
The stele of Honglu Well in Tang Dynasty is originally a camel-shaped natural stubborn stone weighing more than nine tons and more than ten cubic meters in a single unit.In 713 A.D., Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty sent Honglu Qing Cui Xin from Chang'an to Liaodong, and made Da Zuorong, the leader of Mohe, the king of Bohai County.

In the summer of 714, after the mission was completed, Cui Xin returned to Chang’an on the original road, passing through Duli Town. To commemorate this grand event, he dug two wells at the foot of Jinjin Mountain, known in history as "Hongyu Wells", and carved a piece of stone, which will be verified forever. .

There are a total of 29 characters inscribed on the stone, which are divided into 3 lines and written from top to bottom from right to left: "Imperial Chijie Xuanlao Mojie Shi, Honglu Qing Cui, and Xinjing two mouths are forever recorded. On May [-]th in the second year of Kaiyuan Eight days".As a historical witness of the Bohai Sea being included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, it is known in history as "Tang Honglu Well Carved Stone".

During the Russo-Japanese War, after Japan occupied Lushun, Tang Honglu's stone carvings attracted the attention of the Japanese army.

In 1905, Japanese secret agents came to Lvshun to inspect the carved stone, and wrote an investigation report the following year, believing that the carved stone was a rare Tang Dynasty stele in Liaodong, and then moved the carved stone to Tokyo, Japan.

On April 1908, 4, the Ministry of the Navy of Japan dedicated the engraved stone to the Japanese Imperial Palace in the name of the spoils of the Russo-Japanese War, and it was finally stored in Shosoin.

In order to recover the stele of the well, Chinese scholars started preparations early. First, they established the Tang Honglu Well Stele Research Association to deepen the historical research on the stele of Tang Honglu’s well, including the historical value of the stele and the process of losing it to Japan.

In 2001, six returning volunteers from the capital city established the first Tang Honglu Well Stone Carving Research Association in China.

In July 2005, Zhang Yongnian and Wang Weiming, two vice-presidents of Tang Honglu Well Carving Stone Research Association, went to Tokyo, Japan to investigate the current situation of Tang Honglu Well Carving Stone.At that time, with the efforts of all parties, the Japanese Imperial Household Agency entrusted the China-Japan Friendship Association to hand over 7 photos related to the carved stones of Tang Honglu Well to Zhang Yongnian and Wang Weiming.

Wang Jinsi, Director of the Cultural Relics Recovery Department of the China Civil Claims Against Japan Federation, said that the China Civil Claims Against Japan Federation has urged Japan to return the carved stones through letters, and will organize experts to visit Japan in the next step.If the return of cultural relics cannot be achieved through private efforts, we will refer to international precedents such as South Korea's discussion of the "Beigan Victory Monument" and ask the government to come forward.

After 1592 AD, the Japanese invasion of North Korea failed, and North Korea built the "Beiguan Great Victory Monument". After the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1905, the Japanese army looted the monument to Japan. Since 1970, the Korean people have been actively demanding that Japan return the Beiguan Great Victory Monument. In May 2005, the South Korean government formally asked Japan to return the monument, and Japan returned the monument to South Korea in the same year.

"Damn it, South Korea will return the Great Victory Monument as soon as it talks about Japan. China has not done it for more than ten years, and it still depends on me!"

Wu Tianyuan is very helpless, nothing can be done without unity!Forget it, let's rely on ourselves!
The gold seal of the King of Han Weinu has a square surface, with a snake-shaped button on the platform, the whole body is about 2.2 cm high, and the words "King of Han Weinu" are engraved on it.In the fourth year of Tianming, two tenant farmers named Xiuzhi and Xiping discovered it by accident when they were plowing and digging ditches.After the gold seal was unearthed, it went on for a hundred years until 1979, when a descendant of a family donated it to the Fukuoka City Museum in Japan, and then collected it in Shosoin.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Japanese king sent envoys to Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, to pay tribute, wishing to be the Hanchen vassal.He asked the Emperor of Han to give him a name, but Han thought he was short, so he gave it to the country of Wa.The king asked the Emperor of Han to give him a title, and Emperor Guangwu gave him the title of Japanese slave king.

At that time, Japan wanted to establish its own power and throne by submitting to the Han Dynasty, so the whole country was overjoyed.And was awarded the "King Seal of Han Wonu".

"Back then, the big Han was so powerful and mighty, and came from all directions, and the little Japan paid tribute every year, proclaimed his vassal every year, and knelt and licked to become our vassal state, hey!"

Wu Tianyuan shook his head. In fact, this golden seal is very controversial, because it is recorded in "The Book of Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty" and "The Biography of Dongyi in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty" that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty "in the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan, the Japanese slave country paid tribute to congratulations, Make people call themselves doctors, and Guangwu bestows seals on them.

Therefore, this golden seal, as the proof of the earliest exchanges between China and Japan, has become a Japanese national treasure.However, many experts have always had doubts about this. The first thing they doubted was the authenticity of this golden seal. In the era when the golden seal was discovered, there was already a technology to forge this small golden seal. It is doubtful that it is not a Chinese thing, or this seal was deliberately forged by the people of the time for a certain purpose.

Skeptical scholars believe that the inscription on the gold seal is "Wei" instead of "Wo".In the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", there is no other record about the slave country except that Emperor Guangwu granted the slave king Yinshun, and "in the first year of Yongchu, Wang Shuaisheng and others sacrificed 60 and [-] people, and I would like to see you".Scholars believe that the word "委" means appointment, which means that the printed text is interpreted as the king of the slave country appointed by the Han Dynasty.

The controversy caused by this golden seal has made the legend of this golden seal mysterious, but with the successive discovery of two Han Dynasty seals in China, the mystery is gradually being revealed.

In 1956, in Shizhai, Jinning County, YN Province, and the tomb of the King of Dian in the Han Ancient Tomb Group in Shanxi, a golden seal "The Seal of the King of Dian" was unearthed, which was bestowed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che to the King of Dian to taste the disease.The King of Dian was one of the most powerful states among the southwestern vassals in the Han Dynasty. The unearthed gold seal is also made of pure gold, with a snake button.According to textual research, this seal is indeed the "seal of the king of Dian" bestowed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.Regardless of the texture, font, button and size of this gold seal, it is the same as the gold seal of the "King of Han Wei Nu" unearthed in Japan.

In 1981, a woman in Hanjiang County, YZ City found a "Guangling Jade Seal" in the field near Ganquan No. [-] Han Tomb.The second seal is also made of pure gold, with turtle buttons.This is only one year away from the second year of Zhongyuan, which was bestowed by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the King of the Han Dynasty, and the font and technique of the two gold seals are very similar.Probably by one hand.

Seeing the distressed and helpless expressions of the old men in Zhengcangyuan, Wu Tianyuan was very happy!What I want is this feel~~~
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