China News Service, Taiyuan, April 29 (Reporter Hu Jian) The news that cultural relics from the Yuan Dynasty about 700 years ago have been publicly sold online has recently been fermented on Chinese social platforms.
On the 29th, Shanxi officials said that the cultural relic was indeed a component of the west side hall of the "National Security" Fuyuan Academy. The public security and cultural relics departments have recovered it and seized the online seller.
On a well-known second-hand goods trading website in China, a glazed ridge ornament of "the first year of Taiding in the Great Yuan Dynasty" was publicly sold at a price of 88,000 yuan. It was photographed with netizens at Fuyuan Institute in Wuxiang County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. Compared with the pictures of the 1960s, no matter the appearance and the degree of damage, they are very similar to the components of the west side hall of Fuyuan Courtyard.
Tang Dahua's glazed ridge decoration in the West Side Hall in Fuyuanyuan in 2011.
Photo by Tang Dahua
The Cultural Relics Protection and Tourism Development Center of Wuxiang County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province responded to the incident on the 29th. After preliminary investigation by the police, the "Liu Li Ji Temple" sold online is indeed a component of the west side hall of Fuyuan Academy, Wuxiang The county public security and cultural relics department recovered the component in Taiyuan on the afternoon of April 28, and seized the online seller. The case is under further investigation.
According to the "Golden Makeup Inscription" of Fuyuan Academy, the West Hall was built in the Yuan Dynasty to the first year (1341-1370), and the inscription on the glazed ridge shows that the date of the glazed ridge decoration is in March of the sixth year of Taiding in the Yuan Dynasty. It was fired earlier than the West Hall, and the glazed ridge decoration with the Yuan Dynasty date is very rare.
According to public information, Fuyuan Courtyard is located in Beiliang Village, the old town of Wuxiang County, Changzhi, Shanxi Province.
On October 11, 2016, the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics approved the approval of the Fuyuanyuan protection and repair project.
On August 16, 2017, the bidding results of the protection and repair project of Fuyuan Academy were announced, and Shanxi Ancient Architecture Group Co., Ltd. carried out the protection and repair work.
Tang Dahua, a lover of ancient folk architecture, visited Fuyuanyuan in Wuxiang County in 2011. At that time, the glazed ridge decoration of the west side hall was in good condition.
From 2007 to 2019, the protection level of Fuyuan Institute was upgraded from a municipal-level cultural relics protection unit to a national key cultural relics protection unit.
As the province with the largest number of ancient buildings in China, in order to better protect ancient buildings, Shanxi officials implemented the "Measures for the Protection of Cultural Relics and Building Components in Shanxi Province" on January 10, 2017.
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