Later Yu Ji returned home due to illness and spent his later years in Jiangxi. More than a hundred years after his death, the extraordinary stone found its way to Changzhou Prefecture and appeared in the "Zhenshangzhai" of a prominent Huaxia family in Wuxi. There are no detailed records of this person in Huaxia in history, and there is no exact year of birth or death, but one thing that is certain is that he had a rich collection of cultural relics and a first-class appreciation of cultural relics, and was known as the "Giant Eye of Jiangdong" at that time. Moreover, the talented men Wen Zhengming and Zhu Zhishan at that time were his very close friends. The most significant event that happened after that piece of spiritual jade was owned by Huaxia was directly related to Wen Zhengming.
When Wen Zhengming was 80 years old, he planned to create a picture scroll with the theme of his "Zhen Shang Zhai" for his old friend Hua Xia. Naturally, some exquisite and strange rocks were inevitably included in the composition. Wen Zhengming thought that the Lingbi stone in Huaxia Zhai could be the best reference. He borrowed stones from China and took them home. His eldest son Wen Peng and his second son Wen Jia took care of the pen and ink, observed the stones on the table, and started painting. The scroll was completed, and the stone was returned to Zhao intact. The only change was that there was a record of the loan and reward: "Wen Zhengming paid a visit to Table Mountain. Zi Peng and Jiashi." At this time, it was thousands of years away from Yu Ji. The number of days is extremely high. The ground is extremely deep. Pangu was extremely long. Therefore, heaven and earth are thousands of miles away. After that there is an emperor. The weather is cloudy, the sprouts are beginning, and then the heaven and the earth are divided, the universe is established, the yin is connected to the yang, and the vitality is distributed. It is pregnant and neutralized, which is how to be a human being. The first born was Pangu. Dying incarnate. Anger becomes a storm. The sound is thunder. The left eye is the sun. The right eye is the moon. The limbs are extremely high. Blood is a river. The muscles and veins are in the ground. Muscles are soil. Send it into stars. The skin is grassy. The tooth bones are gold and stone. The essence is pearl. Sweat turns into rain. All the insects in the body. Sensed by the wind. Turn into Lime. "From then on, there were more and more records about Pangu's creation of the world, and after his death, his head turned into Dongyue, his belly turned into Zhongyue, his left arm turned into Nanyue, his right arm turned into Beiyue, his feet turned into Xiyue, and his eyes turned into The sun and moon, tears turned into rivers, breath turned into wind, sounds turned into thunder and lightning, couples turned into yin and yang. "There is a crater on the moon named after Pangu. Died 201 years ago. Time moved forward to March 6, 2008. This stone appeared at the Beijing preview of Hong Kong Sotheby's 2008 spring auction. Surrounded by many elegant and sparkling ancient porcelain and jewelry, it occupied a corner, standing out from the crowd and attracting attention. People came to look at me with extraordinary curiosity.
Before the auction results come out on April 11, its worth is temporarily estimated at HK$3 million to HK$5 million. Its current owner is Huang Xuanlong, the master of Jiansong Pavilion from Taiwan.
It was not easy for Huang Xuanlong to obtain this stone.
In 1949, when the current situation was turbulent, this stone was carefully placed among the belongings that he carried with him and came to Taiwan from Wuxi with the descendants of the Hua family. It has been kept secret ever since. Many years ago, Huang Xuanlong learned that there was such a strange stone on the island, so he searched everywhere and tried every means to find the descendants of the Hua family. The first few times he visited, the Hua family didn't let him see the stone at all, but Huang Xuanlong was fixated on this stone and had to see it. If you can't see it the first time, go a second time; if it doesn't work the second time, go a third time. After going back and forth so painstakingly for countless times, the Hua family finally got over it and agreed to let him see it. "When I first saw it, I was speechless and didn't know what to do. I had never seen such an ugly stone before!" Huang Xuanlong described his shock when he first met the stone. In the world of stone appreciation throughout the ages, ugliness has been one of the important judgment criteria. It is said that "ugliness is regarded as beauty, and the ultimate ugliness is the ultimate beauty." This stone is exactly like this in Huang Xuanlong's eyes.
The stone was seen, but at that time the descendants of the Hua family had no intention of selling away their ancestors' belongings. Huang Xuanlong couldn't force it, but it turned out that ten years ago, two thieves appeared in the world. They were from the same sect, and they specialized in poaching ancient tombs everywhere. They succeeded every time, which made the government distressed. A few years later, the brothers accidentally obtained a secret map of Zhang Zhong's treasure. Unexpectedly, they clasped their fists for Zhang Zhong and said, "Don't worry, I'll do it right now, through fire and water, no matter what!" Having the map to themselves, the two of them actually turned against each other. As a result, the junior brother planned to kill his senior brother, but he never expected that before his death, the senior brother handed over the secret map to his only son, fled to a foreign land overnight, and has not been heard from since. The junior brother had no choice but to return to his old business. After working hard for several years, he also saved a lot of money. He donated money to become a county magistrate, and then he became a high-sounding official of Fang's parents. This person was Mr. Liu. However, the situation is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. Mr. Liu, while plundering people's wealth and anointing, secretly visited the ancient tombs of local wealthy families. A few months ago, Master Liu learned that his senior brother's secret treasure map had appeared in this county. Naturally, he was very happy, so he went to find out the information under the pretext of arresting tomb robbers. So I begged them that if they want to sell it one day, they must inform him. From then on every New Year, Huang Xuan said that good people will be rewarded with good things, and evil people will be rewarded with evil things. It’s not that there is no reward, the time has not yet come. Longdu went to Hua's house to pay New Year's greetings. This situation lasted for about six or seven years. During this time, some people in the industry also heard that there was such a stone, but the Hua family never showed it to the outside world. One day about ten years ago, Huang Xuanlong finally got the opportunity he had dreamed of. The descendants of the Hua family were willing to transfer the stone to him due to financial reasons. Since then, this stone has become a highly prized piece of Huang Xuanlong's collection. Because of the inscription, people saw that this kind of cauliflower resembled Hua Tuo's golden needles, so they used it to make soup for the patients. It is strange to say that the patient drank the daylily soup and the effect was immediate. The next morning, something new happened. In the two places of Zhuang and Dingzui, every daylily sprouted again overnight. Word spread quickly about the daylilies growing every night. There is no record that Huang Xuanlong thought of the Summer Palace in Beijing. It turned out that after He Shunzi rolled the bomb into the river, Feijiaolong gathered the gangsters in the town to avenge his "wife", and after planning for half a day, he decided to kill such a talented man in the bomb. , his cynical and arrogant character was not tolerated by this society. He had a rough life, and finally died of poverty at the age of only 18. Making a fuss about the bomb that didn't go off. The scoundrels were divided into two groups, waiting on the east and west piers, calling out to passenger and merchant ships, saying that there was a time bomb dropped in the river, and prohibiting all ships from passing. Although the ship bosses were dubious, no one dared to take risks in this year of war and chaos. Within half a day, both ends of Yinghe Town were filled with passenger and merchant ships. The main waterway was blocked, and the river defense team reported it to the town hall. The mayor Jing Laoquan sent someone to investigate, and immediately arrested He Shunzi and ordered him to fish out the bomb. In front of the longevity hall, there is a Taihu stone inscribed by Emperor Qianlong called "Qingzhixiu". It is named because its appearance is bluish and resembles Ganoderma lucidum.
Although the size of my stone is far different from "Qingzhixiu", its appearance is similar, so why not name it "Xuanzhixiu"? The word "Xuan" refers to black, and it also means mysterious and mysterious. There is no better way to name this stone.
Now, this stone named "Xuanzhixiu" has walked out of Huang Xuanlong's antique Jiansong Pavilion and has become the most expensive item in the world's first special stone appreciation auction. Prior to this, ornamental stones were only an inconspicuous member of the miscellaneous items in the study, appearing sporadically in auctions around the world. In Huang Xuanlong's memory, none of the ornamental stones that have been auctioned around the world and have been cataloged can reach the grade of "Xuanzhixiu". "Xuanzhixiu" can be said to be the best preserved scholar's stone. Shi, dealt with the wolf demon Cai Yuan and held a banquet. During the banquet, Cai Yuan said: "Why did this wolf demon come to me after it was already dead?". Naturally, his net worth is also the highest. But in Huang Xuanlong's mind, the estimated price of 3 million to 5 million Hong Kong dollars is far from the true value of this stone.
Selected from "Kehai Story Expo"
2008.8
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