The Manchus lost the Old Summer Palace, and I, Xiao Letian, am trying to make up for it little by little, so the name of this Spring Festival exhibition is 'Mending the Sky'!
Who will mend the broken sky in East Asia? There is no more Nuwa in this era, only unyielding souls like Xiao Letian.
For a whole month of exhibition, Xiao Letian's private museum hidden in the mountains was empty. The head of state said that only 10,000 people could visit it a day, but people were queuing up all over the mountains and plains who wanted to visit.
Scalpers even appeared to resell tickets, and Xiao Letian was so angry that he personally ordered strict action!
It is impossible to meet the needs of the public with 10,000 people every day, but 10,000 people is really the limit of the museum. In fact, the museum venue can accommodate more than 2,000 people at most.
The scale of 10,000 people was achieved by compressing visitor time and ensuring that several more groups were admitted.
The six-hour exhibition time per day was extended to eight hours. When it was not enough, it was extended to another hour. Some people even proposed extending it to twelve hours. Now many cultural relic experts jumped out to oppose it.
People can take a break, but treasures can’t take a break! For many peerless treasures, human breathing is a slow damage to them!
The most famous of the three treasures of the Louvre, the Mona Lisa, is sealed in a glass frame, but today's technology cannot guarantee that there is no moisture or harmful substances in the glass frame!
Xiao Letian knew that for this kind of cultural relic, it can only be displayed for a long time by vacuuming it, injecting inert gas, and then conducting strict light protection tests.
Ten hours is already the limit. Simply relying on increasing the time to meet the viewing needs of the public is not enough.
There was no other way, so Xiao Letian ordered some important European bronzes and sculptures, which were relatively solid treasures, to be placed outside, such as the square in front of the Temple of War, the Parliament Square, and some leisure centers in residential areas.
In this way, people can get close to art, and this behavior makes Europeans who come to Naha for business and tourism envious.
The Chinese actually openly display sculptures from three hundred years ago in the streets and alleys. Bronze statues from the ancient Greek period are displayed in the open air like this?
The artistic atmosphere was immediately heightened, and the actions of the head of state also inspired the wealthy businessmen, nobles, and officials among the six nobles and eighteen Chinese nobles...
These people are also very rich, with many properties at home, and they are also arty, educated, and collectors. Some collect ancient books, some jade, some paintings, and some even have their own private museums!
The Yuan Dynasty has put his treasure on display, are you still hiding it? More and more people have joined this touring exhibition of art treasures, which has completely changed the false aloofness of ancient Chinese literati.
Ancient Chinese literati, perhaps to show the difference between themselves and you, shelved some antique books, calligraphy, paintings and other treasures and hid them!
Especially when you meet a few greedy emperors like Qianlong, who snatch any good things from the royal family, it is even more difficult to keep your wealth secret!
Therefore, the ancient Chinese literati always built the turrets of art treasures at the top of the ivory tower, and would not let farmers, handicraftsmen, and small traders see them among the people!
It is precisely this kind of selfish behavior that makes it difficult for the public to get a glimpse of China's top-notch artworks that have been passed down since ancient times, such as exquisite gold and silver vessels, calligraphy and painting displays, furniture furnishings, mountain stone sculptures... and even clothing. .
Xiao Letian clearly remembers that in his previous life, a batch of gold and silverware from the Tang Dynasty was unearthed in Hejiacun, Xi'an. Many of the exquisite craftsmanship have been lost to future generations.
In fact, China has suffered from this kind of disadvantage since ancient times. The aristocrats and dignitaries sealed the artworks in their small circles, making it difficult for the common people to pry into them, so they could not get the artistic influence of this aesthetic.
After the war breaks out, these treasures hidden in small circles will become the first batch of spoils of war, either destroyed or scattered, and eventually disappear in the long river of history.
This has caused too many treasures to be lost. The craftsmanship is easy to restore, but the unique artistic aesthetic of each era is difficult to restore!
How can a gold and silversmith who has never seen a great work of art and doesn't know what the gold and silver treasures in Hejia Village look like, how can he create a great art treasure with just a few artistic cells in his mind?
This probability is too low, so in the past dynasties of China, the loss of craftsmanship and the chronology of art are a common problem!
There is only one way to break this curse, and that is to open an open museum! Xiao Letian's museum is open every ten days on weekdays. Because there are too many treasures, it is still in the process of sorting and researching.
In the future, Xiao Letian's private collection and the cultural treasure house held by the entire Chinese aristocracy and powerful class must be shared by all people!
You have to let the people see what beauty is, and use this kind of atmosphere to cultivate them, and then the artistic level of the entire nation will be greatly improved!
The New Year of 1874 was Xiao Letian's bold attempt to use his reputation to force those at the top of the Chinese pyramid to change their minds!
This New Year is really meaningful. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties are still doing the same thing. The court carries out various activities to worship heaven and ancestors, and distribute New Year's money and food to the banner people.
All the people in the capital can think about is buying fabrics to make new clothes, and then buying more chicken, duck, fish, meat and refined grains. Anyway, the standard of living in the capital has also improved, and they no longer eat stick noodles during the Chinese New Year!
The atmosphere of posting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and joy was even more lively than in previous years, but in the eyes of the foreigners in Dongjiaomin Lane, the situation was different.
Delaney, the military attaché of the British Embassy, had just returned from an inspection trip to the Chinese. Comparing the gap between the two countries, he couldn't help but feel emotional. This is what he wrote in a letter to his boss at home, Benjamin.
"The gap between the Chinese and the Manchus has become wider and wider! If the Manchus' New Year's joy is just a celebration of food and clothing under the Tongzhi Zhongxing, the Chinese's New Year's joy has been completely upgraded to a new level!"
“In the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the living standards of the people have indeed improved a little, but there is nothing to supplement the ignorant thoughts of the people!”
"If there is something new to add, it is just people's yearning for money under the capital boom!"
"Not so on the streets of Naha. They are displaying art treasures from thousands of years ago, even captured from the war in France!"
"Xiao Letian is trying every means to improve the literacy of the Chinese people and enhance their sense of national identity, especially their national pride!"
"The Chinese are a rare and powerful enemy of the British Empire, not that they are so powerful at the moment!"
"What's scary is this amazing speed of development and their extremely brilliant strategic thinking!"
"I suggest that the support plan for Prince Gong should be accelerated!"
