In the "Elegance of Vientiane: 16th-20th Century Collection Treasures and Jewelry Exhibition" on display at the Chengdu Museum, there is a national treasure-level cultural relic - the crown of 12 dragons and nine phoenixes of Empress Xiaojing of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. This key exhibit was recently discovered by attentive visitors: compared to the last time the exhibit was exhibited, it seems that a gem has fallen off.
The gem of the second dragon in the front of the twelve dragons and nine phoenix crowns in the middle of the left is actually gone? It's still there for the first few months! After netizen @嘈潮Hanfu's Shudu left a message pointing out this under the social platform account of the Chengdu Museum, it was quickly confirmed by other viewers. "Yes, no. ”
The 12 dragons and nine phoenix crowns exhibited at Chengbo this time.
According to the data, this exquisite phoenix crown weighs 2595 grams, and the top of the front of the crown is decorated with a dragon, seven dragons in the middle, and five phoenixes in the lower part; There are four dragons on the back and bottom; There is a phoenix and a dragon on both sides, and the lower part of the dragon is a green phoenix that spreads its wings and flies. The crown is set with 121 gemstones and 3,588 pearls. The eyes of each phoenix are inlaid with small rubies, a total of 18 pieces. And in the middle of the obverse, each of the seven golden dragons has a ruby in its mouth.
However, after the reporter took a closer look at the exhibition site taken by netizens, there was indeed a dragon that was "empty in the mouth".
The red circle is the missing gem from the dragon's mouth.
As for the exhibition of the gems in the dragon's mouth "a few months ago", it should be the "Ming Dynasty Classics - Dingling Cultural Relics Reunion Exhibition" hosted by the Ming Ming Tombs Museum in July last year, which gathered the golden crown of the Wanli Emperor and the four phoenix crowns of Empress Xiaoduan and Empress Xiaojing. Judging from the scene at the time, this gem is still there.
The Book of Ming Ding-Dingling Cultural Relics Reunion Exhibition", the gem in the dragon's mouth is still there.
The Red Star News reporter learned that there was indeed a situation where the gem fell off. In order not to affect the normal exhibition, the Chengdu Museum has properly stored the fallen gems in the warehouse, and when the exhibition is over, it will be sent back to the Ming Ming Tombs Museum to be restored by the other party's professional cultural preservation personnel.
Coincidentally, a few days ago, netizen @一肥喵喖 posted on social platforms that in the "Wanli Years - Wanli Cultural Relics Theme Exhibition" being carried out in the Nanshan Museum in Shenzhen, the white jade belt hook of the Ming Dynasty collected by the Ming Ming Tombs Museum should have been inlaid with red, yellow, and sapphire in the four gold trays on the back, and the dragon's forehead was decorated with emeralds, and the dragon's eyes were decorated with cat spars, but when they were exhibited on site, cat spars and red and sapphires were missing.
Netizen @一肥喵喵吖 took a picture.
The white jade hook of the Ming Dynasty that is on display at the Nanshan Museum in Shenzhen, three gems have been missing.
The netizen said that when it was exhibited at the Dingling Museum in January last year, the belt hook had a complete set of five gems; When it was exhibited in Shanghai last September, the largest sapphire was missing; Now that there are two missing again, I can't help but wonder, "Is it because the exhibition of cultural relics will consume 'blood', and the exhibition will lose one at a time." ”
It is reported that the belt hook is a practical ornament used to hook the belt in the ancient men's clothing, and after the Sui and Tang dynasties, it became a play reward, with copper, iron, silver, jade, gold and a variety of textures, among which gold and jade are the most precious.
The original appearance of the white jade belt hook in the Ming Dynasty.
After learning this information, the Red Star News reporter contacted Mr. Zhang, the head of the Dingling Museum, a unit affiliated to the Ming Ming Tombs Management Center in Changping District, Beijing, and said that after the cultural relics exhibition is over, "it will be restored to its original state as much as possible in strict accordance with the relevant procedures for cultural relics protection, and on the basis of expert evaluation opinions." Experts will be involved in the whole process, and we warmly invite enthusiasts who are interested in Ming culture to continue to actively supervise us. ”
Subsequently, the Ming Ming Tombs Management Center also sent reporters a "Statement on the Problem of White Jade Hook Gems Falling Off", which was stated in the article.
The Ming Tombs Management Center received the response from netizens to the reduction of gems inlaid on the white jade belt hook in the Ming Dynasty and the decrease in the gems of the phoenix crown. said that during the exhibition, due to the age of the exhibits, the adhesive was aging. The accessories and ornaments of individual exhibits have been loosened and falling off. For example, three gems on the hook of the white jade belt fell off, and the reaction of Weibo netizens was true. In order to prevent the loss of cultural relics, the loose and falling gemstones were stored in time and properly stored and protected. In response to this situation, experts have also been hired to formulate a plan for the protection and restoration of cultural relics, and the restoration work of cultural relics protection will be started after being submitted to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for approval. In the future, we will strengthen the curatorial planning of cultural relics, and refuse to exhibit some damaged and unsuitable cultural relics as appropriate, and strive to present the restored cultural relics, complete and exquisite cultural relics to the public.
Red Star News reporter Qiao Xueyang Zeng Qi editor Jiang Qing.
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