Li Bai was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, who wrote countless poems in his lifetime, once he came to the Yellow Crane Tower, the poetry was flourishing, and when he was about to write a poem, he saw Cui Hao's poem, and he was ashamed of himself and sighed: "One punch smashes the Yellow Crane Tower, and one kick overturns Parrot Island." There is a scene in front of me, and Cui Hao's inscription poem is on the top", so he put aside his pen and did not write.
In this society, how many people spend their lives only for a house, and how many people who love each other part ways because of a house. If you own a house in a first-tier city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, how envious and hateful it is. In addition to the house in Beijing, there are also courtyards in this form of residential buildings, if you want to buy a set of courtyards in Beijing, you need hundreds of millions of dollars, such a prohibitive price,
But he used the money of 461 sets of courtyards to buy Li Bai's only authentic calligraphy, and now how much is it valued?
This work, which people bought for 461 sets of courtyards, is the only authentic work that Li Bai has survived
《On the Balcony Post》
Speaking of Li Bai, everyone will think of his widely circulated poems, but his calligraphy is little known. It was not until the publication of "On the Balcony Post" that people found that Li Bai's calligraphy was not inferior. They all say that words are like their people,
Although "On the Balcony Post" is only 25 words short, it shows Li Bai's wild and uninhibited personality, and the flowing font is as if it was written under drunkenness, which is worthy of the hand of Li Bai, a poet immortal.
"On the Balcony Post" circulated to and fro, fortunately did not flow into foreign countries, so that the world can see Li Bai's true deeds.
"Shangtai Ti" was first collected by the Northern Song Emperor Song Huizong, and after the northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, it was passed to the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty's traitorous minister Jia Xiangdao, and later to the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, who all loved Li Bai's true deeds.
Qianlong, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, also wrote four big characters on this masterpiece: "Qinglian Yihan" and stamped it, so now there are dense personal seals on the "Upper Balcony Post".
In 1921, after the fall of the Xuantong Emperor, he sold all kinds of calligraphy and paintings, including "On the Balcony", and Li Bai's only authentic handiwork was thus lost to the people.
It was bought by antique dealer Guo Baochang
。 As a businessman, of course, he wanted to make a profit from it, and it didn't take long to sell it at a high price.
After being bought by a famous collector in the mainland with 461 sets of courtyards, the national treasures of the mainland have not fallen abroad.
The person who spent 461 sets of courtyards to buy "Upper Balcony Post" was the famous collector Zhang Boju
Zhang Boju is the nephew of Yuan Shikai, a veritable rich and noble family, and he was a patriot who was influenced by Chinese culture since childhood. When Guo Baochang sold "On the Balcony" at a high price, he failed to scrape together enough money for a while, and watched as the treasures passed down from the mainland were about to flow into the hands of foreigners.
Zhang Boju had no other way for a while, and could only exchange the 461 sets of courtyards under his name
Many people may think that he spent a lot of money to buy Li Bai's real works in order to appreciate in the future to make profits from it, but this is not the case. Zhang Boju has a lot of research on calligraphy, and he was once hired as a special committee member of the Palace Museum, whose main job was to identify calligraphy and paintings and avoid the loss of cultural relics on the mainland. His famous quote for his work is:
I'd rather receive one fine item than a number of fakes.
When the Palace Museum could not purchase cultural relics, in order to prevent the loss of cultural relics on the mainland, he often bought them in his personal name and donated them to the state, and in this way,
He went from being a rich kid to being a debtor.
Zhang Boju bought the "Upper Balcony Post" with 461 sets of courtyards, which he originally wanted to give to the chairman of admiration.
But the gifts they received were all attributed to the state, so the "Upper Balcony Post" was handed over to the Palace Museum.
In fact, in addition to the "Post on the Balcony", the cultural relics collected by Zhang Boju in this life have been donated to the state.
In order to thank Zhang Boju for the protection of national cultural relics, the state decided to reward him with 200,000 yuan, but Zhang Boju refused.
Zhang Boju did not refuse because he lived a rich life, he basically spent all his savings for cultural relics, resulting in a very poor life in his later years, but he did not want to trouble the country because of himself.
When Zhang Boju was hospitalized due to illness, because he did not have money to change the ward, he asked the hospital whether he could change the senior ward for free for the sake of the cultural relics he donated that year.
He has always regarded money as an external object, and he will also bend over for reality, but his request was rejected by the hospital for the simple reason that the donation was a voluntary act of the individual, so the hospital rejected his request.
In 1982, Zhang Boju died of illness, and although the hospital's refusal was in line with the charter, it was chilling.
Zhang Boju paid all his efforts and money for cultural relics in this life, not because he valued these cultural relics, but to prevent the mainland's cultural logistics from falling to foreign countries, so he donated all the cultural relics to the state.
Leaving aside the rest, just use it
461 sets
The courtyard bought Li Bai's original "Upper Balcony Post" and put it on today's house price.
This 461 sets
The quadrangle is equivalent
at 46 billion
Above cash. pity
That 46 billion
It did not allow him to spend his last days in peace in the senior ward.
Resources:
Yellow Crane Tower
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