In 2021, the Chinese cultural and museum community welcomed good news: the head of the Buddha, which was looted by the Japanese invaders and lost overseas for nearly a century, was returned to the motherland!
On CCTV Spring Festival Gala, I believe many people still remember the special program "National Treasures Go Home". The narrator Zhang Guoli and the director of Yungang Grottoes Research Institute Hang Kan jointly announced the news of the return of the Buddha's head to everyone. On July 24 this year, the Buddha's return ceremony was successfully held in Taiyuan City. TianlongshanBuddha Cave Buddha returned to its hometownTianlongshan in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. At this point, the Buddha's miserable fate finally put a sign of rest.
The eighth cave of Tianlongshan Grottoes was stolen and after stolen
(Source: Nanshan Gongxiu/Tianlongshan Grottoes)
What kind of value does Tianlongshan Buddha Cave have, and what is the origin of this Buddha head that is coveted by the Japanese? If you want to explore this issue, you have to go back to that era of chaos.
A Buddha head, more than ten thousand gold
In the late Northern Wei Dynasty, the world was in chaos and all heroes rose up. Erzhu Rong , Yuwen Tai , Gao Huan and other heroes have all appeared on the stage of history. After decades of war, the north entered an era of the cohesion between the East and the West. Gao Huan, who is entrenched in Jinyang (now Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province), became the boss behind the scenes of Eastern Wei .
At that time, the capital of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was nominally in Yecheng in Henan, but in fact, Jinyang where Gao Huan was located was the national administrative center. Here, Gao Huan built a large-scale construction to build a summer palace for himself, and also dug a grotto to worship Buddha on Tianlong Mountain in southwest of Jinyang.
Tianlong Shandong Peak
(Picture: Shanxi Dashuang/Tuchuan Creative)
Tianlongshan Buddha Caves are treasures of ancient Chinese Buddhist culture and sculptures and architectural crafts. With the excavation of all dynasties, the scale of the cave gradually expanded. By the last time of the Ming Dynasty, was excavated and repaired, there were 25 Buddhist caves in Tianlong Mountain, most of which were facing north and south, with different shapes, but in an orderly manner.
Inside the cave, there are more than 500 statues of various sizes, the large ones are several meters high and the small ones are about inch, but they are all delicately carved and mature in craftsmanship, showing the social style at that time and the brilliant glory of ancient Chinese sculpture art.
Tianlongshan Buddha Cave statues are not only exquisite in craftsmanship and cultural and historical value, but their sculpture style is also unique and is called the "Tianlongshan Style". Such treasures were gradually forgotten after the Ming and Qing dynasties, and only the monks and residents of nearby temples knew that there was such a group of Buddhist caves.
Around the First World War, Japanese archaeologist Satoshi Kane conducted a field investigation of the Tianlongshan Grottoes and affirmed the value of Buddha cave statues. A wave of "Tianlong Mountain fever" has started. Let this Buddhist holy land that has been silent for many years be returned to people's eyes. However, this caused this batch of national treasures to suffer disaster.
In addition to Guanye Satoshi
, the most famous in the field of research in the grottoes in China,
, also visited Tianlongshan Grottoes one after another,
(the first on the left is Changpan Dading, picture: "Shina Cultural Historical Sites")
This inspection attracted Japanese antique dealers Yamaaka Tashijiro . He brought people to steal the grotto cultural relics and bribed the abbot Jingliang with a lot of money. Many Buddha statues were beheaded.
A photo of Dingjiro Yamaakana and Monk Jingliang
(Photo: Shanzhong Chamber of Commerce)
Regarding this robbery, Dingjiro Yamaakana wrote: "Whenever I take craftsmen into a cave and chisel a Buddha's head, that kind of joy exceeds the gold of ten thousand taels."
(Tajiro Waimura "Tianlongshan Grottoes")
for a while, and more than 150 statues of Buddha caves, including the "Main Buddha's Head of the North Wall of Cave 8", were lost overseas.
(theft scene)
took mine, and they had to return it!
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country attached great importance to the Tianlong Mountain Buddhist Caves and repaired and rebuilt a number of grottoes and Buddhist temples that were destroyed in modern times. At the end of last year, overseas Chinese collector Zhang Rong bought the Buddha's head lost in Japan, which was lost to Japan, and chose to give it to the Chinese government.
According to the principle of origin, on July 24, 2021, a Buddhist return ceremony was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi, bringing cultural relics that have been lost overseas for nearly a century back to their hometown. This Buddhist temple, which inherits the cultural context of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and gathers the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, finally began to reveal its original appearance.
. Inside the Tianlongshan Grottoes statue protected by the masses
(Picture: 结结)
The upper floor of the ninth cave, Maitreya leaning on the seat
survived because of its huge size and it was difficult to move
(Picture: dimamoroz Adobe Stock/Tuzhun Creative)
The return of cultural relics was certainly not smooth. It was taken away by the Japanese in that chaotic era, and the Chinese people's unremitting efforts to invite national treasures home. There were many twists and turns. It also shows the Chinese people's determination to protect the national treasure: if you take mine, you have to return it to me!
In that turbulent era, there were countless cultural relics lost overseas in Tianlong Mountain Buddha Head. The newly released movie " Antique Bureau Zhongju " tells the way home of a "Wu Zetian Mingtang Jade Buddha Head" who has been in Japan for many years.
At the beginning of the video, a grand world view came into view before the audience.
The story took place in the 1990s, when the antique industry in China had been silent for many years. However, the identification of cultural relics and the quality of taste are still a necessity for collectors. In the market, people are mixed with people’s hearts and fakes are rampant.
This technique of identifying the authenticity of antiques is the secret of the five ancient families in China. These five ancient families are called the Five Vein: Qingmen is responsible for wood ware, Hongmen is responsible for calligraphy and painting, Huangmen is responsible for bronze and Ming ware, Xuanmen is responsible for porcelain, and Baimen is responsible for gold, stone and jade. The five meridians complement each other, but they are responsible for different aspects to control the entire antique industry, just like a small world.
However, in the Chinese Ancient Society, only four of the five veins were in the seat. After the Xu family in Baimen was shot to the Japanese because they handed over the head of the jade Buddha in Mingtang of Wu Zetian to the Japanese, they could no longer find a seat for the descendants of the Xu family to inherit the Baimen.
The third generation of treasure protectors crack the game, the middle game, the middle game,
, Xu Feng, played by Lei Jiayin, is the last person in the world of the Baimen Xu family. Master the secret of the identification of gold and stone that has been passed down for thousands of years in the Baimen family. In order to avoid the open and secret struggles of the ancient circle, we live a life of hidden identity. But unexpectedly, fate still came to the door.
Kana Kido, a descendant of the Japanese who plundered the Jade Buddha Head, called on him to return the Buddha Head to the descendants of the Xu family. And this Buddha head was worth hundreds of millions at that time, and its preciousness can be imagined.
The return of Buddha head has attracted the attention of cultural and ancient circles. The profit of 100 million is enough to make people crazy. Many forces competed around the battle for Buddha's head. Starring actors such as Li Xian , Xin Zhilei , Ge You , Yongmei , Aruna, etc., entered the venue and joined the treasure hunting team.
, and Xu Feng, as a descendant of the Xu family, was also targeted and became the center of the storm. The only force is alone and the only one has no choice but to make a wish. Even though he knows it is a situation, he must make a move.
is in this whirlpool, and no one can really control the situation. Even the young masters of aristocratic families, the vicious local snakes, and the old fried dough sticks who have been living in antiques for many years, they are still struggling to face this sophisticated and complex mechanism and mysterious puzzles. Can the wish without background be successfully broken through the secrets kept by the three generations of the Xu family?
It is worth mentioning that the Buddha head in the movie is made by 3D printing technology and took 7 months. The shape is vivid and lifelike.However, there is more than one Buddha head. Can the real national treasure be safely returned home? The infinite reversals and routines in
videos are amazing. The plot is very convoluted, as if it was a deeply immersive escape room. As all the puzzles were solved step by step, a magnificent era, a chess game that had been laid out for generations, was finally revealed to the world.
In the movie, we watch the open and secret struggles of various forces, and feel the charm of the "antique world". In addition to the movie, the reason why we can feel the "smooth" and "ignite" of the plot is not only the progressive plot of the movie, but also our understanding of this history. The reason why these national treasures are spread overseas is that the country has lost its territory and broken mountains and rivers in modern times, which has led to the robbery of our national treasures in foreign lands.
The Chinese have been working hard for decades to pursue the loss of overseas cultural relics. After repeated disappointments, we witnessed the return of the zodiac rabbit head and rat head of , the return of the Rabbit head in , Italy returned 796 pieces (sets) of national treasures, and other national treasures. This is the result of countless Chinese people's silent efforts, and it also shows the improvement of our country's comprehensive national strength.
The return of national treasure is equivalent to announcing the whole world that we are getting further and further away from that humiliating history. China has successfully staged a "counterattack script" with its own development.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-