The Forbidden City is a place that many people have visited and played, it was once the residence of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with carved beams and paintings, and the momentum is extraordinary. The cultural relics in the Forbidden City are also of great value, and they are rare things for ordinary people to see in the feudal dynasty. But after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, many cultural relics were brought out, they were scattered everywhere, and occasionally one of them caused a strong shock in the cultural relics world.
Fujian once appeared a very rare imperial living item - the dragon bed. After the abdication of the Qingsun Emperor in 1912, many palace people would smuggle out some of the things in the palace and sell them for their own use, but the dragon bed was still relatively rare. On the one hand, it is not necessarily more valuable than those calligraphy and painting antiques, on the other hand, it is really difficult to transport.
This dragon bed in Fujian is enough
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Tons of weight, but the eunuch palace lady at that time still chose to transport it out, which shows how precious it is. The current owner of the dragon bed, Lin Rengui, is the honorary president of the Fujian Collectors Association, and he is in
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When he came across the news of the dragon bed, this bed was in the hands of a royal descendant in Linyi City, Shandong Province, and he spent it several times
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You can buy it.
When Lin Rengui first saw this bed, it had not been used for a long time, and the bed was covered with thick dust, making everyone think that its material should be rosewood. After transporting the dragon bed home, Lin Rengui spent more than a month cleaning it up before the bed revealed its true face and emitted a long burst of agarwood fragrance. At this time, Lin Rengui realized that this bed may have been made of agarwood.
Agarwood, that is much more expensive than rosewood, lin Rengui, who did not dare to be careless, hurriedly invited experts to check it out, and finally concluded that this dragon bed was indeed made of precious agarwood. And it is expensive in that it is made of a whole piece of agarwood board, without any splicing traces, which is indeed very rare.
At first glance, this dragon bed looks majestic and atmospheric, and the black wood looks noble and calm, but if you look closely at its carvings, you will find the subtleties in it. The top of the bed is supported by 6 bed posts, each of which is coiled with a domineering green dragon, and with the addition of the bed board, the panel, etc., there are 55 dragons carved on the whole bed, and there are many exquisite cloud patterns next to it. The bed is 2.4 meters high, 2.2 meters long and up to 1.8 meters wide.
After buying back this bed, Lin Rengui locked it in his home for many years, until 14 years later, when his "Guibaozhai" antique city opened, and this dragon bed was once again displayed in front of the eyes of the world. Lin Rengui said that in the past, when this bed was placed at home, he would occasionally rest in bed, but he never dared to spend the night, because he felt that he was not the emperor, and sleeping in the dragon bed might break his life.
After the news of the "sky-high dragon bed" spread, more cultural relics experts were attracted to visit and study, and for several years, many experts believed that the dragon bed did have a history of more than 100 years after looking at the pulp of the wood, and the wood was likely to come from Indonesia, at least the millennium agarwood. The large pieces of material used in the bed and the carved green dragon cannot be used by non-royalty, so it is undoubtedly a real agarwood dragon bed.
Some experts feel that this precious cultural relic should be handed over to the state, while others say that the dragon bed is worth at least 2 billion yuan and can be sold. In Lin Rengui's eyes, collecting is a hobby, he is not short of money, 2 billion is too much he does not want, to sell 500 million, because after all, it is a Chinese thing. Lin Rengui also promised that if there are foreigners who want to buy in the future, he will not sell 10 billion yuan.