Can you talk about the collection history and historical research value of the national treasure "Mao Dinggong"?

The National Palace Museum in Taipei collected more than 650,000 national treasures, and 1948 was removed. Everything is priceless, including the incomparable Mao Dinggong.

Mao reappeared in the world, which was discovered by Dong Chunsheng, a villager in Dongjia Village, Shaanxi Province, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, a businessman bought the tripod for 300 taels of silver, but was stopped by Dong Zhiguan, a villager, in the process of taking it away. The businessman paid a large sum of money to bribe the local officials and arrested Dong Zhiguan on the charge of possessing a national treasure.

After that, Mao took it away and handed it over to businessman Su Yinian.

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In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), Chen Jieqi, a epigraphist and collector, bought this tripod and hid it in his secret room. After Chen Jieqi's death, his descendants sold the tripod and finally fell into the hands of the Governor of Liangjiang.

Duanfang 19 1 1 was killed in the road protection movement in Sichuan. Later generations put Ding in Tianjin Huae Daosheng Bank because of their poor family. A British journalist wanted to buy Ding for $50,000, but his family refused to sell it on the grounds that the price was too low.

After that, Ye Gongchuo, a great collector who was then the transportation chief of Beiyang government, was admitted to the Bank of China.

1937 when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, he took refuge in Hong Kong and hid Ding in his apartment in Shanghai. Both Americans and Japanese covet this treasure, and both want to buy the tripod at a high price, but they are all rejected. Before he left, he bought Ding under a pseudonym, which made it impossible for the Japanese to find out Ding's whereabouts.

I told my nephew that I must protect Ding and serve the country in the future, which is touching.

194 1 year, fled to Hong Kong with Ding. After Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese army, he asked his German friends to send Ding back to Shanghai. Unfortunately, due to the pressure of life, Ye Jia mortgaged Ding to the bank.

Later, the tycoon redeemed Mao and donated it to the country in 1946. 1947 Mao was transported to Nanjing and collected in Nanjing Museum. 1948, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan Province Province and moved a large number of collections of Nanjing Museum, including Mao, to Taipei.

With the establishment of 1965 Taiwan Province Provincial Museum, Mao, a rare treasure, has become one of the treasures of the town hall, and has been placed in the most eye-catching position in the bronze exhibition hall, becoming an exhibit that will never be replaced.

Mao-Ding Gong

Look at Mao's birth history, sad and inspirational ~ ~

In order to enrich the national treasury, Zhou Liwang implemented dictatorship, which led to riots in China. After Zhou Xuanwang succeeded to the throne, he fought many times and suppressed strongly, and asked his uncle Mao Gong to help govern the country. Finally, he was at peace, at peace. Mao Gong cast this tripod to thank Xuan Wang for his trust and praise his virtue.

As we know, the tripod is an ancient sacrificial vessel, as well as a food container, and later became a special sacrificial vessel, symbolizing power and power. Generally speaking, the tripod is a structure with three feet and two ears, and its shape is square and round.

In recent years, many ding have been unearthed in China. Ding is a representative of bronze culture in China, and also a unique carrier and witness of civilization. Just like this Mao Dinggong, it is not only different in culture, but also unique in shape.

This tripod is 53.8 cm high, 47.9 cm in diameter and weighs 34.5 kg. Its most obvious physical characteristics are straight ears, animal hooves, hemispherical abdomen and short feet, and its shape is sincere, novel and solemn.

Ornaments are indispensable in ancient cultural relics. Mao's decorative pattern is plain and powerful, simple and natural, and the tripod mouth is a ring with heavy lines, which is engraved with mature inscriptions. The overall structure is correct and the production is fine.

The biggest feature that distinguishes Mao from others is that the inscription on Mao has 32 lines of ***499 words, which is the largest inscription among the unearthed bronzes at present and has high research value.

Unfortunately, although this tripod has many exquisite inscriptions, it is impossible to understand its meaning. Experts speculate that this inscription can be said to be a masterpiece of prose in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which has quite high artistic value.

According to the study of political history, this inscription on the tripod records one thing: In order to restore politics during the political crisis of Zhou Xuanwang period, Mao entrusted Ding Gong with the important task of governing the country, and gave him many privileges, warning him not to slack off on political affairs.

Mao inscription

In terms of calligraphy, Ding Shangming is more stable and standardized than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Although it reflects the style of bronze inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the font structure is uniform and the strokes are neat, which reflects the aesthetic trend of ancient people.

Inscriptions are strewn at random, naturally unpretentious, showing the highly mature font style of Da Zhuan, which is not unassuming and firm, and has various postures, from which we can see the naive artistic interest.

Therefore, the value of Mao lies in its philology value in ancient China, its calligraphy art value in ancient China culture and its rare treasure value.

From the appearance of Mao more than 3000 years ago to its twists and turns and collections, we deeply feel that it is not easy to protect ancient cultural relics. Thousands of years have passed, but the splendid civilization it left to the world will shine forever, and the wisdom of our ancestors will only become clearer and clearer as yesterday.

(The pictures in the article are from the Internet, if there is any intrusion)