Chapter 14 Rivers and lakes history

In Jin Yong's novels, there is a story that is unbearable to read: a persistent rare book collector named Ouyang Feng finally went crazy. For decades, he frantically searched for a precious ancient book called "Nine Yin Manual", and successfully obtained a copy.But the truth is: what he got was a "bamboo shoot", a fake that was dug up and modified, and finally made him mentally broken and insane. , is a tragic story about collection. In today's collection market, the market for ancient books is not high.However, in the Southern Song Dynasty around 1200 AD, the collection of rare ancient books became popular, and a precious ancient book called "Nine Yin Scriptures" attracted the most attention.

This is a systematic work on ancient physical education, including sports, human physiological science, ancient medicine and even psychiatric treatment (the method of moving souls), which has high cultural relics and scientific research value. This ancient book is rarely handed down from generation to generation. According to Jin Yong, only six versions have appeared in more than a century. The engraved version, the abbreviated version hidden in Yitianjian, and the falsified version by Guo Jinghong Qigong.Note that the first five editions are considered rare, while the latter is a forgery.

Collectors from all over the world have launched a fierce competition for this.They came from Northeast China, North China, Yunnan, the East China Sea and even the western border areas, and there were even vicious fights.For example, Mr. Ouyang Feng, a collector in the western frontier, beat Mr. Hong Qigong, a collector in North China, until he vomited blood. At that time, the highest hall of art auctions was the Huashan auction, equivalent to today's Christie's and Sotheby's.When auctioning the Huang Chang manuscript of "Nine Yin Scriptures", after three days and three nights of fierce competition, Mr. Wang Chongyang, a great collector, successfully bid for it.

Wang Chongyang is the chairman of the Southern Song Dynasty Collection Association and the curator of the Quanzhen Museum in Zhongnanshan, Shaanxi.After the auction, he issued a thought-provoking appeal: "Is the collection important, or is the unity and friendship of the entire collection industry more important? He also announced that the "Nine Yin Scriptures" will never enter the market." In addition to the "Nine Yin Scriptures", another precious ancient book "Wu Mu's Suicide Notes" is also the favorite object of collectors. According to Jin Yong, this ancient book is the only copy "written by Yue Fei himself", and its cultural value is inestimable.No wonder even Mr. Wanyan Honglie, a great collector, great archaeologist, and royal family of Jin Kingdom at that time, also joined the competition.

Wanyan Honglie hired a number of scholars to carry out the archaeological excavation of "Wu Mu's Last Letter", including Sha Tongtian, a representative of the Yellow River School, Liang Ziweng, an expert of the Changbai Mountain School, and Ouyang Ke, a graduate student of Professor Ouyang Feng of the Baituoshan School in Xinjiang, etc. . After some research, they first excavated in the Southern Song Palace in Lin'an, and then went to the nearby Niujia Village for scientific research, but found nothing.In the end, on a remote Tiezhang Peak in Hunan, this book was picked up by Guo Jing.

In addition to rare ancient books, it also describes the prosperity of other collection fields during the Southern Song Dynasty, which can be said to be full of flowers, which is surprising. For example, Professor Huang Yaoshi in the East China Sea likes to collect antique calligraphy and paintings. In order to meet his research needs, his graduate student Qu Lingfeng even went to the Royal Museum and stole a large number of valuable calligraphy and painting calligraphy and painting calligraphy and paintings, including Wu Daozi's "Songzi Tianwangtu" , Han Gan's "Picture of Herding Horses" and "Figures Crossing Water in Linquan" by Empress Li of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Even some extremely unpopular collection items are enthusiastic.For example, there is a gentleman named Qiu Qianzhang who likes to collect magic props; a young collector named Ouyang Ke who likes to collect beautiful women of all ethnic groups; and Mr. Temujin who is famous in history likes to collect land, city walls and population . By the way, Li also revealed that as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, there were large-scale imitation and counterfeiting of cultural relics.The most typical example is that Guo Jing and Hong Qigong frantically forged a copy of the fake "Nine Yin Manual".

They forged the preface and postscript, tampered with the text, and cut the table of contents.Regarding this counterfeit, Mr. Ouyang Feng, a great collector at the time, could not identify the authenticity, and was deceived for decades. It can be seen that the history of counterfeiting cultural relics in our country has a long history. You don’t have to be surprised by the “Made in Henan” that troubled countless cultural relics experts later. . This magnificent book begins with collection and ends with collection. At the beginning of this book, it tells the story of Qu Lingfeng, Huang Yaoshi's graduate student, who robs the Royal Museum and clashes with the security personnel.And at the end of this book, it is about the people of the Kingdom of Jin who sent a precious collection of thousands of pearls to the Mongolian leader Temujin, but they were despised by the Mongols, and Temujin rudely knocked the pearls over the grassland .In the following centuries, herdsmen continued to pick up and excavate pearls here.

At the end of the book, Guo Jing and Temujin also had a theoretical discussion on the topic of collection. Temujin believes that he has collected a large amount of land, city walls and population, and built the largest Mongolian museum in history - "From the center to the extreme ends of the world, there is a one-year journey in the southeast, northwest, and north", which can be called the largest museum in history. Great for collectors.Guo Jing sharply pointed out that the practicality of these collections is not strong, and they are not suitable for the elderly and infirm to appreciate and play.At the same time, Guo Jing secretly made up his mind to prevent Temujin from collecting Xiangyang City.

Facts have proved that Guo Jing successively destroyed the dreams of two great collectors.He made it impossible for Ouyang Feng to collect the "Nine Yin Scriptures" forever, and also made Temujin never collect them in Xiangyang City.The former went mad and died, while the latter vomited blood and died. Why does Guo Jing have such a big hatred with Temujin?According to my research, the answer is likely to be in collections—Guo Jing is a bird collector, and he especially likes to keep birds of prey, while Temujin is a carving enthusiast, and often uses birds of prey as targets.Their hatred is clear at a glance.