Chapter 2360 The parchment scroll bought back by life savings
"Uh, I can only say that I can try to make them high-quality imitations..." Feilong scratched his head in a dilemma, and for a moment he felt that this problem was difficult to solve.
When Zhao Guoqin saw Feilong's appearance, he immediately spoke up to help Feilong: "This has become a helpless fact, so don't be too entangled. After all, we still need to look forward! By the way, Lao Jin, what does the second blood picture mean?"
President Jin turned to the second blood picture and said honestly to everyone: "To be honest, I only know that it is a treasure map indicating the direction, with the path and destination marked on it, and I don't know anything else."
Hearing this, Chen Tian couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Don't you know where there is this treasure map, the entrance and where the destination is?"
Dean Jin shrugged and said to Chen Tian seriously: "I'm sorry, my professional knowledge can only answer this. Can you see if Direliba can answer your question?"
"Oh, is it so mysterious?" Chen Tian couldn't help but frown and muttered.
Direliba smiled bitterly: "I can't answer the question that the teacher can't even figure out!"
Chen Tian nodded, tilted his head and looked at the third blood picture and said, "The portrait drawn on the last wax paper is obvious. It is clearly the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva in the 'Nine-Stock Building'."
"Well..." Dean Jin replied with a word and stared at the third blood picture in a daze. He was so stunning that he saw that he actually took off the golden glasses that he used to wearing on the bridge of his nose, and almost put his nose on the blood picture. The tip of his nose was almost dipped in the blood of Fat Dragon.
When everyone saw Dean Jin's strange look, they all thought they were surprised, but they couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so it was difficult to remind or comment on something, so they just watched silently.
After a long time, Dean Jin raised his head slowly, took a deep breath, and suddenly turned his head and asked Direliba who was standing behind him, "Dirliba, have you seen that this blood picture of Maitreya Bodhisattva statue is different from the Maitreya Bodhisattva statue in the 'nine-story' of Mogao Grottoes' in Dunhuang?"
Standing behind Dean Jin, Di Reliba pursed her lips, as if she had expected Dean Jin to ask this question. After thinking for a while, she replied: "Teacher, have we brought that thing with us this time?"
Dean Jin patted his forehead with a "splash" with his hand, and suddenly said, "I'm afraid I'm confused and I've forgotten this thing. Direliba, go and take that thing over!"
"Okay!" Direliba replied and turned around and walked into the camp.
Everyone looked at Direliba's back and guessed and looked forward to what the "that thing" brought back by Direliba would be in their hearts.
Soon, Direliba's beautiful and charming figure reappeared in everyone's sight. Unlike when he left just now, Direliba had a gray-brown sheepskin box in his hand, which looked very heavy, and the sheepskin could already be worn with white flowers, and it should be very old.
Direliba walked quickly towards Dean Jin, put the sheepskin box on the conference table with a "bang", and looked up to Dean Jin and said, "Director Jin, the thing is brought!"
Dean Jin nodded and said to Direba, "Thank you for your hard work", and then opened the sheepskin box under everyone's noses, so everyone suddenly saw the sheepskin box containing neatly-coded books.
Chen Tian looked blankly at the book carefully placed in the sheepskin box and asked involuntarily: "Is this... this a pampering roll?"
"This is the parchment," said President Jin with a serious expression, "and it is the fragment of the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang!"
As soon as President Jin said this, almost everyone suddenly opened their eyes: "What, these are the fragments of the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang?!"
Facing the shocked expressions of everyone, President Jin nodded and said seriously: "In 19oo, in order to convert some of the caves that had been abandoned for a long time into Taoist temples, Wang Yuan, a Taoist priest who lived in Mogao Grottoes, carried out a large-scale cleaning. When he was clearing the silt for a cave, he accidentally discovered a small door on the wall of the corridor on the north side..."
The anxious Feilong immediately shouted: "Is this small gate the famous Dunhuang Sutra Cave?"
President Jin nodded and said, "When Taoist Wang opened this small door curiously, a square cave was immediately seen in front of him. Images of Bodhi trees, nuns and other images were painted on the inner wall. There was a low altar in the meditation bed, with monks sitting on it. There were more than 50,000 cultural relics such as documents and paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery, etc., which were all very rare cultural relics."
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but exclaim "wow".
President Jin said in an extremely fascinating tone: "The Mogao Grottoes Cave is a very important appearance in Chinese archaeological history. Most of the unearthed documents are written, and a small number are engraved books. About five-sixths of the Chinese text are written, while the others are ancient Tibetan, Sanskrit, Qilu, Sogdian, Khotan, Uighur, Kucha, Hebrew, etc., which can be said to be diverse."
When Chen Tian heard this, he glanced at the sheepskin rolls and asked curiously: "Dean Jin, what is the content on these sheepskin rolls? What is it recorded?"
President Jin replied: "Chen Tian, the content of these documents is mainly Buddhist scriptures, and there are Taoist scriptures, Confucian classics, poems, historical books, cadastral books, account books, calendar books, deeds, letters, letters, and certificates, etc., which are all isolated and final books with important historical materials and scientific value."
At this time, Direliba also echoed: "By the parchment scrolls in the Sutra Cave, Dunhuang Studies has formed a discipline mainly focusing on the study of Sutra Cave documents and Dunhuang Grottoes art. Dean Jin is an expert and authoritative Dunhuang Studies, and is well-known at home and abroad. It can be called the Taishan Beidou in the industry!"
President Jin smiled bitterly, shook his head and sighed: "I dare not take the Taishan Beidou, but what makes me most distressed is that under the specific historical background of the late Qing government's corruption and incompetence and the invasion of China by Western powers, the cultural relics in the Cave of the Cave were basically lost in the many public and private collection institutions of Britain, France, Russia, Japan and other countries, and only a small part of them were preserved in China!"
After saying that, Dean Jin patted the sheepskin scraps in the sheepskin box with his hand, and said with a treasure of his own treasures: "These are the relics of the Buddhist caves obtained by an official in Dunhuang in the name of the official protection of the Mogao Grottoes. Later, they were privately collected by his descendants. Not long ago, I bought them back with my savings in this life, which came in handy!"
When Zhao Guoqin heard this, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up to President Jin and praised him admirably: "Lao Jin, you are indeed an expert in Dunhuang studies with both virtue and art. You are so noble to spend your entire life savings for cultural relics!"
Fei Long also slammed his mouth and shouted, "Director Jin, I respect you as a man!"
Dean Jin smiled and said, "These nine sheepskin fragments are religious documents related to the essays of Buddhism, Taoism and other religions. They have extremely important research value for the supplementary and proofreading of ancient Chinese documents. Oh, it's not too far. I have studied them with Direliba before. There are a few similarities to this third blood picture but different. Let's pick it up and compare it."
After saying that, Dean Jin and Direliba carefully picked out the sheepskin scraps in the sheepskin box and then selected them. Soon they picked the specific sheepskin scraps.
Dean Jin gave Di Reliba a look. Di Reliba nodded, immediately untied the silk rope tied to the sheepskin skeleton, found the section similar to the third blood picture, pointed it out, and said to Dean Jin: "Teacher, this picture is this one."
"Yes," said Dean Jin as he compared, "Direliba, do you see any difference?"
After Dean Jin said this, the others couldn't help but come over, staring at the sheepskin roll, hoping to see any difference. But after looking at it for a long time, the others couldn't see any difference. It could be said that they were almost exactly the same. Everyone couldn't help but wonder if Dean Jin would be confused.
Direliba looked at it carefully for a long time and thought, "This third blood picture is exactly the same as this sheepskin scroll and the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva in the 'Nine-Store Building', but each has its own different parts."
"What's the difference? Is it different?" Song Qianyue couldn't help asking when she heard this honest sentence.
Direliba turned around and smiled at Song Qianyue, and then said to everyone who was confused: "The right hand raised in this third blood picture of Maitreya Bodhisattva statue, the fingers are not the five fingers together, but the thumb is held. Have you noticed?"
With Direliba's reminder, everyone recalled the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva in the "Nine-story Building" and immediately realized that the hand shape of the Blood Picture was indeed different.
Fei Long immediately praised Direliba loudly: "Awesome! Direliba, I really didn't expect that you are not only beautiful, but also have such a delicate mind!"
Direliba's face turned slightly red, and she pointed at the sheepskin scraps and said to the others: "Look at the portrait of the sheepskin scraps! Is there any difference?"
When Direliba reminded him, he looked at him with his head tilted and then the difference between the left hand of the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva in this portrait and the statue inside the "Nine Floors": the left hand is held on the image of the sheepskin scraps, while the statue inside the "Nine Floors" is placed on the left knee.
"Wow, Direliba, you are so awesome, come, hug it..." Feilong immediately shouted.
"Okay, Feilong, stop making trouble," Chen Tian scolded and asked Direliba again, "Will the craftsman who made blood pictures and sheepskin fragments make a mistake?"
Direliba was stunned when she heard Chen Tian’s words. Dean Jin said firmly: “Absolutely not! Look, no matter the blood picture and the sheepskin scrolls, the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva above is the wrinkles and patterns of the clothes, these tiny details are exactly the same, not to mention the hand shape and the Buddha seals that are of great symbolic significance!”
"What do you mean?" Chen Tian asked with a wide eyelid.
Chapter completed!