Chinese Scholar's 900-year-old Letter Auctioned for 207Mln RMB
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Viewers look at the letter "Jushi Tie" written by Zeng Gong more than 1000 years ago at a pre-auction exhibition on May 12, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

A letter of 124 characters written by a famed Chinese scholar about 900 years ago was auctioned for 207 million yuan (31.7 million USD) in Beijing on Sunday, jiemian.com reported.

CEO and tycoon of Chinese film production company Huayi Brothers, Wang Zhonglei, won the bid at a China Guardian Auction.

On Sept 27, 1080, Zeng Gong, a politician and literati who had been assigned to different local administrations over a 12-year period, wrote to a close friend whom he hadn't seen for three years.

61-year-old Zeng expressed gratitude for his friend's longtime support, and anxiety about not being able to serve in the royal court and fully implement his ideas about governance in the letter, titled Jushi Tie, which translates as "a letter on happenings".

The letter was once part of the collection of the Belgian couple Guy and Myriam Ullens, who sold it in 2009 for 108.64 million yuan (17 million USD) at a Poly Auction sale in Beijing.

 

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