The mystery of the unearthed dish in Hunan

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Nearly a hundred years ago, Hunan had unearthed a beautiful bronze ware, which played an important role in the history of Chinese cultural relics. The appearance and spread of the dish of the Heavenly Kingdom has a strong legendary color, and there are still many unsolved mysteries.

[First time trading 400 silver dollars]

According to relevant information, the dish was completely unearthed by a rainstorm in a ravine in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province in 1922. Hubei merchant Shimou heard the farmers who got the device and sold them with 400 silver dollars. While the farmer was preparing lunch, the peasant's eldest son came home and learned that some of the treasures were purchased at a high price, and took the cover of Fang Fang to go to the nearby elementary school to find the headmaster of the clock. President Zhong saw that Fang Fanggai was not the same as the general antiquities, and immediately decided to buy 800 silver dollars to buy the device, and left the square cover, and sent it to the body. The eldest son was so happy to call all the way, so that his father would not tell the party to sell it to Shimou, just being met by Shimou, his feelings were not good, and he was rushing to escape. From then on, Fang Yi covered the body and began the fate of rolling and drifting and discreet.

[Second trading 1 million oceans]

After the headmaster of the school was capped, he once asked the head of the Taoyuan garrison, Zhou Wei, to "get the profiteer" and hoped to get the whole device. A few months later, Shimou also asked people to find Zhou Yi to buy the cover, and bid tens of thousands of silver dollars. However, Zhou Wei did not accept it. Shimou went to the school where the division commander sent troops to search for the principal of the clock. The frightened president of the clock, looking for Zhou Wei, said that he would like to donate Fang Shuga to the country, but asked for funding. Zhou Hao immediately invested to buy. At the same time, Fang Wei’s body was resold to Shanghai’s Li Wenqing and Ma Changsheng at the price of 1 million oceans.

[Three transactions of $800,000]

The Duan Qirui government learned of the news of the embarrassment and knew that this was a national treasure and wanted to be nationalized. Li and Ma were terrified in their hearts and feared that they would be sold to the British businessman and collector Barr (A·W·Bahr) for $800,000. So, Barr became the first real collector of Fang Fang. In this regard, there is a clear record in the auction file of Christie's in New York.

The Balzento people bought Zhou Fang for $200,000, but Zhou Wei’s asking price was 500,000. Zhou Wei graduated from Baoding Phase 3. After leaving Taoyuan, he went to the position of the 1st Division of the 8th Army of the Xiang Army and the position of the division commander of the 5th Division. It was once one of Peng Dehuai’s most famous old officers in the Xiang Army. After Peng Dehuai launched the Pingjiang uprising, Zhou Wei was deprived of military power. Later, he was engaged in staff and military education. He did not re-enter the mountain until the end of the Liberation War. He served as the deputy of Song Xizhen, the deputy commander of the 14th National Army of the Kuomintang and the 122nd army commander. After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he fled to the southwest with Song Xizhen and was captured in Kunming in 1950. In 1952, Zhou Wei wrote a "supplementary confession material" to the government, and took the initiative to confess the detailed process of the unearthing and circulation of the dish, and to offer the party cover, with a view to "making a sin." Although Zhou Wei finally failed to escape the fate of execution in the anti-sport movement, his name was closely linked to Fang Biaoqi because of his initiative to offer treasure.

[Japanese collectors want to buy cover]

According to relevant information, in the 20th century, the Japanese bronze collector Shinda Tony bought the body of this square from the hands of Barr and displayed it in his villa. Ma Chengyuan, a famous bronze creator in China, visited Xintian Dongyi in 1989 and was shocked to see this device. Xintian Dongyi, originally from China, Taiwan, moved to Japan very early, but his native voice has not changed. He speaks authentic Minnan dialects and less standard Mandarin, and communicates smoothly with Ma Chengyuan.

In 1994, Xintian proposed to the Hunan Provincial Museum that he was willing to invest 500,000 US dollars to donate a building to the Hunan Provincial Museum for use as a sophisticated showroom, plus a donation of a beautiful square cover in the early Western Zhou Dynasty in exchange for the cover. The proposal was not approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

[re-transaction of 9.245 million US dollars]

According to some data, on March 20, 2001, the auction hall of Christie's auction house in New York was packed full of seats. The auction of the whole body of the dish attracted the buyers from all over the world. The Shanghai Museum and a large domestic enterprise also participated in the bidding. Regrettably, the final party was bought by French buyers for US$ 9.246 million, setting the highest auction record for Asian art on the international market.

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