Chapter 81 The regret of the masterpiece: an unfinished masterpiece.
#The most precious treasure of Yongan Museum. #
# "Journey to the West" original embroidery version#
Netizen: [So that is really the original work of Journey to the West?]
[Yes, I am from the History Department of Yanda University. Our department head has already gone to have a meeting with teachers from the Chinese Department.]
【Plus one, Soochow University said that our school is also spreading this story. 】
[It is probably true. The original embroidery is made entirely of gold thread. Plus the illustrations, I am really curious. ]
[I heard that after Mr. Wu finished writing Journey to the West, he went to Xian'an to collect folk songs and was bought by the then Yong'an shopkeeper.]
[I heard that Yongan Pawnshop was one of the earliest calligraphy and painting dealers in that era. ]
[Yes, our professional teachers are also discussing it, saying that they just saw the set of embroidery paintings, which not only has Teacher Wu's seal, but also has only one illustration, which is an embroidery version drawn by Teacher Wu himself. ]
【@Yongan Museum, Director Jia, when will you put it on display? 】
【I want to see plus one. 】
[One person wrote in blood, requesting a formal public exhibition.]
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As Journey to the West has an audience of all ages, discussions among netizens have become increasingly heated. At the same time, Yongan College also responded to this discussion in the form of a live interview.
Dong Lele: "Hello everyone, I am Dong Lele, the host of "Golden Years"."
[What the hell? Sister Lele? Is CCTV so quick to act? ]
[Is "Gilded Years" the CCTV program that promotes intangible cultural heritage? Why is it broadcast live using the Yong'an Museum's account? ]
After all, they have the same audience. Even though it uses the account of the Yong'an Museum, there are still many fans who have been paying attention to traditional culture for many years and recognized Dong Lele at the first time.
Dong Lele didn't keep the secret, but responded directly:
"Yes, as you can see, I changed jobs."
[Fuck, he changed jobs, but that’s CCTV.]
[So will the cast of "The Best Years" be replaced in the future? 】
Dong Lele: "Please be patient, everyone. I am glad that all the audience friends support our work so much."
"But please listen to me first. It is true that I changed jobs, but it is different from what everyone thinks. I was transferred to our Yongan production team with my program production team with the permission of our CCTV headquarters."
"Although we will no longer work for the Central Radio and Television Station, the program "Golden Years" will still be produced by our production team and broadcast on CCTV in the future."
Jia Wenyan: "To sum it up briefly, you can regard the Golden Years program group as the main station, providing strategic support for the construction of cultural industries for our Yongan Group."
"In the future, in addition to the original production of "The Golden Years", we will also produce many other types of traditional cultural derivative programs."
Dong Lele: "Yes, and soon, in addition to domestic programs, we will launch a program theme for international promotion."
"So we also plan to recruit some media workers who are proficient in other languages in the near future."
Jia Wenyan: "Yes, and not just for media majors. We also welcome students majoring in other languages to apply for our media publicity positions."
"Okay, let's get back to the point. I believe that many viewers clicked on our live broadcast room today because of the embroidered version of Journey to the West that has recently caused a lot of discussion."
Barrage: (Haha, if you keep talking like this, Sister Le’s job will be in jeopardy.)
Dong Lele: "So I want to confirm one thing here first, is the work that Yongan College is currently restoring really the original version of Journey to the West?"
"Yes, although this is definitely not the first draft written by Teacher Wu, this embroidery pattern, as a blueprint for the embroidery template, is indeed the first version recognized by Teacher Wu, and it has been carefully sorted and formatted."
"For reference, our Yong'an College principal Xu Yong and Ms. Xu have collected the copper movable type printing plates used for the printing of Journey to the West."
Jia Wenyan: "Please look at the pictures."
As Jia Wenyan spoke, she pressed the operating software on her phone and projected the photo that Xu Yonghe had sent her earlier onto the big screen behind her. The audience's eyes were also focused on the big screen that had been switched over along with the camera.
Unlike the "replica cultural relics" previously displayed by the Yong'an Museum, the movable type printing plate in the picture, even after careful maintenance, still cannot conceal the traces of erosion on the copper plate over the years.
Jia Wenyan: "I know everyone is curious about our movable type printing plate, but I must state in advance that the existence of movable type printing plates is a microcosm of printing technology in that era. Therefore, in order to ensure the clarity of the text, the blocks on this printing plate have been replaced countless times."
"So the movable type printing plate in front of us is actually the product of the last folding during the Qing Dynasty."
"But of course, in our Principal Xu's collection, there are still many metal movable type blocks that were replaced in the past."
"In the future, these metal letter blocks will be exhibited publicly in the Yong'an Museum along with the restored and supplemented embroidered version of Journey to the West."
Dong Lele: "I understand. However, since Dean Jia has mentioned the restoration issue, I would also like to ask specifically about the current restoration progress of this set of embroidery..."
Jia Wenyan: "Thanks to the efforts of the teachers at Yong'an College, we have basically completed the restoration of the existing calligraphy and painting embroidery. Next, we will work with the traditional Chinese painting teachers of Yong'an College to supplement the embroidery paintings that were not fully completed that year."
As Jia Wenyan spoke, she swiped her phone again, and in an instant the image on the screen quickly changed from the original movable type printing plate to pages of embroidered versions of Journey to the West.
Among these pages, the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the only chapter with illustrations.
There is an embroidery painting in the embroidery book. This is news that netizens have already confirmed from professional teachers from major universities, but Yong'an College has blocked the news about the embroidery book.
No matter how much these professional bosses inquired, they only knew at the time that there was a completed embroidery illustration in this set of embroidery books.
But which one it is remains a mystery.
Some people guess that it represents the birth of the stone monkey at the beginning of Journey to the West, while others guess that it is the grand scene when the four masters and apprentices returned from seeking the true scriptures.
Then come various famous scenes like "Havoc in Heaven and Three Fights with the White Bone Demon".
However, what people did not expect was that the embroidery in front of them was not only not one of the famous scenes mentioned by the public, but was even a scene that was often ignored by the world.
That was the scene when Sun Wukong became Bodhi Patriarch's disciple in the wind and snow.
Although it is a work with the main plot of the Buddhist journey to the West, it was the first to complete the illustrations of the story of Sun Wukong becoming a Taoist disciple.
Under the heavy snow, the little monkey, which had not yet grown up, knelt pitifully in front of the door of Patriarch Bodhi.
The light snowflakes made it look proud of its fur.
Obviously it is just a relatively general description, but people can be moved by the background of the little monkey working hard for his life... in the snowy night in the calligraphy and painting.
This is something that most netizens had not expected, but when looking at the scene depicted with gold thread on the embroidery, many people got another rather deviant idea when witnessing this picture representing the turning point in Sun Wukong's life.
[Our Wukong is indeed a polite golden monkey. ]
【One more thing, you always say naughty monkeys, do you think our Wukong is a cousin of Mount Emei? Our Kongkong is the Monkey King, the most handsome man in the monkey world, so of course he has to be a golden monkey.】
[The golden monkey embroidered with gold thread is so cute and vivid, but this painting is actually embroidered entirely with gold thread. I thought only the words were embroidered.]
Many netizens who saw the embroidery asked this question out of curiosity.
Yong'an Pawnshop chose gold thread in order to ensure the inheritance of embroidery paintings. This is the reason for the story that everyone already knows, but they really did not expect that in addition to the text, the illustrations were also completed with gold thread.
It's not just because of the cost it represents, but there is also a very important reason, which is the limitation of gold thread in color presentation.
As people who have received nine years of compulsory education, they know the stability of the gold element, but at the same time, the eye-catching gold is really not a suitable choice for painting with a single color.
But what is unexpected is that the embroiderers in Yong'an at that time actually relied on the changes in the "depth" and "shadow" of the gold thread on the embroidery pattern to present the scene of the stone monkey becoming a disciple under the premise of a single color scheme.
Dong Lele: "Okay, thank you Dean Jia for sharing. But I am also very curious about why this embroidery book was buried deep underground without being completed."
"Um... I only heard from Principal Xu about this, based on what she had heard from her ancestors."
"The reason why this set of gold thread embroidered books appeared is because the original shopkeeper of Yongan hoped to better pass on this work in its entirety. So he chose gold thread to embroider the manuscript on the silk cloth."
"But I think everyone knows the value of gold thread. Even though Yong'an Pawnshop has many years of history, it is impossible for it to turn a blind eye to the huge cost of this set of books."
"Besides, it is obviously impossible to entrust embroidery of this level to outsiders."
"Over the past five hundred years, the Yong'an Pawnshop has also gone through the joint efforts of several generations, or several generations of wives, to produce this entire text archive."
"As for why there is only one illustration, in addition to the fact that this is the draft left by Mr. Wu when he lived in Xian'an, there is another very important reason. Not long after this apprenticeship picture in the photo was completed, our Donghuang entered a turbulent period of invasion."
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