Shengshibaojian

Zuo Xiaoqing's scalp tingled immediately.

After learning antiques from Shen Qiu for so long, this is the first time I feel the super shock brought by paintings.

The world only knows Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, but few people know Wang Wei's paintings.

Speaking of Wang Wei's paintings, we have to mention another great poet of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai.

Li Bai wrote both poems and paintings. His poems are characterized by boldness, unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, eulogizing the mountains and rivers of the motherland and the beautiful natural scenery, full of romantic spirit, and achieving the unity of content and art, which is called poetry by later generations. fairy.

With a fresh, distant, natural and refined style, Wang Wei created an artistic conception of "painting in poetry, poetry in painting" and "Zen in poetry", setting up a banner in the poetry world.

In terms of fame, Li Bai's poetic immortal is the first, Du Fu's poetic saint, Wang Wei's poetic Buddha, and Li Shangyin's Qinglian layman.

But when it comes to paintings, Wang Wei’s paintings can be said to be top-notch in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. His paintings are very picturesque, the colors are vivid and beautiful, and the combination of movement and stillness in the description of the scenery is especially good at expressing the light of nature in detail. color and sound changes.

Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty once said that when you taste the poems of Majie, there are paintings in the poems; when you look at the paintings of Mojie, there are poems in the paintings. This shows that Wang Wei's paintings have a very high status in the hearts of ancient literati and inkmen. Perhaps in modern times, Wang Wei's status is second only to Li Bai and Du Fu's existence, but in the hearts of literati of all ages, Wang Wei's painting status is definitely the existence of the highest palace in the flourishing Tang Dynasty.

In today's words, it can definitely beat Li Bai by a few blocks!

The most important point is the existence of Wang Wei's calligraphy and painting works. The representative work of Wang Wei's calligraphy and painting is "Wangchuan Tu", but his authentic works have long since ceased to exist. Most of the surviving works are copied by later generations.

In addition, there are only two pieces of Wang Wei's calligraphy and painting works in the world today, one is the "Snow Mountain Journey Picture" preserved in the Palace Museum, and the other is the "Jianggan Water Color Picture" preserved in Ridao.

The reason why Xiaoqing was nervous was that she first saw that the rice paper in this painting was dated to the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. The brush strokes are vigorous and powerful, and the painting method is clean and neat, without the slightest trace of muddy water. It is obvious that this is not the handwriting of ordinary people!

Xiaoqing has never seen the authentic work of Wang Wei, so she has no way of identifying whether this painting is the authentic work of Wang Wei. If it is, then the value of this painting is extremely high. Finding its authentic work is simply a miracle in the world of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and it has fulfilled the dream of thousands of literati throughout the ages.

"Mr. John...I...can you tell me about the source of this painting first?" Zuo Xiaoqing became nervous involuntarily, and signaled Zheng Guangrong, who was playing games next to him, to take a look.

The bearded man nodded and replied: "This painting, I spent the money of a villa in the United States in exchange for this painting. I saw this painting in the basement of a collector. When I saw it, There is only this part of the painting, but the collector has preserved it very well. Although he does not know who the author of this painting is, he can feel the artist's shocking handwriting from the details of this painting, so his preservation is also very good. With great care, it is preserved by vacuum sealing all around!"

"The first time I saw it, I could tell it was made by a famous Chinese artist, so I offered my friend a price of 100 U.S. dollars and wanted to buy it, but my friend is a shrewd A businessman, he seems to have read my inner thoughts, asking a price of [-] million US dollars!"

"I am also extremely helpless about this. I like it hard to buy! In the end, I only got this painting when we sold our villa. It is equivalent to exchanging our villa! Last year I even had it I took it to Yanjing City for appraisal. The experts in Yanjing City valued me at 30 US dollars. There are two reasons. The first is because my painting is a partial painting, two thirds of which are lost, and it belongs to the category of calligraphy and painting. Residual products, so the price will not be too high!"

"Secondly, they believe that this "Wangchuan Picture" is not the original work, it should have been copied by craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty, so the final valuation will be greatly discounted, only worth 30 US dollars, and now I heard that Master Shen Qiu He is the number one appreciating master in Yanjing City, so I want Master Shen Qiu to help me identify who made this painting?"

While the bearded man was talking, Zheng Guangrong also checked carefully: "Miss Xiaoqing, the paper of this painting is from the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. That's right! The traces on the paper are also similar to that era. Calculated to be at least about 300 years old, this timeline coincides with the Tang Kaiyuan period! So I look at this painting comprehensively..."

"I don't know if it is the work of Shifo Wang Wei. It is unlikely to be the authentic work of Wang Wei, because I heard the story of this painting from Boss Mao before. Later Tang Suzong Li Xiang had a special liking for Wang Wei's paintings. In the end, he insisted on bringing this painting into his mausoleum, that is, Zhaoling Mausoleum in Weihe County. This is why everyone has been looking for the authentic Wang Wei Wangchuan painting for so many years. It was brought into the mausoleum by Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty. How to find it?"

"Is this true?" Zuo Xiaoqing asked with a slight frown.

"Miss Xiaoqing, I don't know the specific situation. Boss Mao told me the story. I don't know how much water is in it!"

Zuo Xiaoqing didn't dare to draw conclusions casually, carefully put down the painting in his hand, called Shen Qiu, and roughly described the situation.

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In less than 10 minutes, Shen Qiu hurried back from the outside, followed by Xie Jingwen. I heard that Wang Wei's "Wangchuan Picture" came to the antique shop. baby.

"Master Shen Qiu, hello! Hello!" The bearded man warmly hugged and shook hands with Shen Qiu, and first offered a rainbow fart: "Master Shen Qiu, I have heard of your name for a long time, and I saw you today. , A good-looking talent, you can see the difference between Master Shen Qiu from the eyebrows!"

Shen Qiu couldn't help but looked up at the bearded man. There would be nothing wrong with saying these words from a Chinese mouth, but when they came out of a foreigner's mouth, it always felt a bit awkward. Something is wrong.

Shen Qiu first had a general understanding of the situation, and then went to the counter to carefully examine this partial painting.

In the painting, the structure of pavilions, terraces and pavilions is clear, the brush and ink are clearly defined, and the starting and ending of the brush are full of strength, creating a sense of majestic, mighty and solemn domineering.

Shen Qiu has seen Wangchuan Tu a few times, but those are all copied paintings. Although the structural details of the building are exactly the same, he still can't see the spirit contained in it, and the partial painting in front of him can only be seen. At a glance, I was immediately overwhelmed by the powerful atmosphere contained in the painting.

He first felt the temperature from the surface of the painting. The scorching temperature had the same reaction as the calligraphy and paintings of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, which showed that Xiaoqing and Zheng Guangrong were right in their judgment. This is indeed a work of the Kaiyuan period, and its The point of doubt is its author.

Is it the authentic work of Wang Wei himself?Or is it an imitation copied by craftsmen at that time?

Continue to touch the treasure!

Touching the surface of the painting with both hands, Shen Qiu could clearly feel the traces left by the painting in the wheels of history, and the traces of being burned could be seen on the edge of the painting. It can be seen that this painting can be preserved until now, and it has gone through a lot. Unknown doom.

Immediately afterwards, various pictures about this painting flashed in Shen Qiu's mind, who created this painting, what happened at that time, and why it was burned all came to mind.

"That's right! This painting is authentic!"

After a long while, Shen Qiu finally made his own appraisal result, and at the same time his heart was beating wildly: "Mr. John, I can tell you responsibly now that the author of this painting is the Poet Buddha of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone, Wang Wei! It is undoubtedly authentic!"