Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1055 The Unique Skill
Everyone chatted while eating, and the topic soon turned to the Three Gorges. From now on, the country does have a heavy task. Everyone speculates that cultural protection personnel from all over the country will go to the Three Gorges to provide support.

"It seems that the water storage is also done slowly, right?" Zhou Zhi guessed: "Such a big project will not take many years to repair, and it will also take many years to store the water? So it is not a waste of time at all."

"How many cultural relics and historic sites are there in Jiachuan?" Lin Wanqiu asked.

It is very clear that this matter is thorough. He personally ran the census of immovable cultural relics in Jiachuan over the course of several years using holidays and weekends. Now he naturally has many treasures: "Han and Song Dynasty tombs, cliff tomb caves, and the ancient city of God's Arm cannot be moved." Forget it, those with salvage value can still be relocated, such as Fawang Temple, Baiyun Temple, Longshou Bridge, Xianwang Tomb, Chuanzhu Temple, Return to Me River and Mountain Stone Carvings, White Pagoda, Wu Family Old House, Yang Family Old House... Seventy or eighty places. Sister Wanqiu, why do you ask this?"

"I'm thinking that the geography of Jiachuan is similar to that along the Three Gorges. The situation in Jiachuan can be used as evidence for various places along the route." Lin Wanqiu frowned: "There are so many places in one county, and the situation is indeed serious."

"Our county is relatively small." Zhou Zhi said: "Yuzhou, Fengjie, Wushan... there are many more historical sites along the way than Jiachuan."

"That road started from the ancient Shu civilization and was an important channel for the Yangtze River civilization to communicate with the Yellow River civilization through the ancient Shu civilization and the Minjiang civilization corridor. The legend of the ancient Shu king Turtle Ling is a very clear proof."

"Then Zigui, FL, became the starting point of the important Litchi Ancient Road. The Yiling Road passed through the Jialing River channel and entered an important river port in the Hanzhong area."

"Even some seemingly inconspicuous ruins are very important, such as the Zhongbao Island ruins. The salt refining ruins there are the earliest evidence that our Chinese nation refined salt."

"We have to do this." Zhang Cheng nodded seriously.

"I think Wanqiu, you should take the lead." Fei Guan said: "Of all the people, you have the most influence, you have a good image, and you have overseas connections. Even if you are begging, you are much more powerful than us!"

"We can work on both sides." Zhou Zhi said: "Sister Wanqiu and the others can prepare a fund to help the country with cultural protection resettlement and relocation."

"Brother Cheng and I can join as private collectors and protect those things that the country despises by purchasing private collections."

"Then I'll go back and discuss it with Le Hai." Lin Wanqiu said with a smile, "It's best to bring in my father-in-law as well. In terms of influence, they are even more powerful."

After dinner, everyone started the biggest appraisal of the day - calligraphy and painting.

In today's calligraphy and painting collection world, a strange phenomenon has also appeared, that is, the age is reversed.

The prices of the works of modern painters were far higher than those of the Qing Dynasty painters, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty or even the Song Dynasty that the prices of their works were once again on par with those of modern painters.

The reasons for the formation of such a depression are a bit confusing to Zhou Zhi. In the end, we can only think that the craze for collecting Eastern art originated in the West. The works of modern painters have absorbed a large number of Western techniques, which may make them more familiar.

In the past, the success relied on age and inventory. The Qing Dynasty was too recent and the inventory was a bit too much, so it was not popular.

Of course, this depression is only relative. The prices of the works of first-class painters in the Qing Dynasty will soar very quickly in the future.

The works of modern painters, except for those on the head, soon entered a "stagnant period" in price.

On the contrary, the ancient paintings of the Song and Ming Dynasties have been rising at a steady rate, and there was no sign of stopping until Zhou Zhi passed through.

Ouyang Youhe became a character in the Republic of China and became the dean of a provincial drama academy in New China. Therefore, he had deep contacts with modern cultural figures, and his works include quite a few works by modern painters.

Modern painters are also divided into different levels. The ones everyone is familiar with are basically in the first echelon.

For example, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Liu Haisu, Pan Tianshou, Lin Fengmian, Chang Yu, Fu Baoshi, Li Keran, Li Kuchan, etc.There are some people in the second echelon that you may not be familiar with, such as Guan Shanyue, Dong Shouping, Lu Yanshao, Shi Lu, Huang Zhou, Jiang Zhaohe, Zhang Shanju, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, Wu Hufan, Hu Peiheng, Lin Sanzhi, etc. people.

Among Ouyang Youhe's two cylinders of calligraphy and painting scrolls, many are the works of these painters, mixed in with a bunch of unknown painters' works, it can be called a mixed bag.

However, the themes are common to these painters. The paintings are not very elaborate, but the inscriptions are there, and there are also book titles such as "Youhe Laodi Yazheng". In later generations, this is called "to sign", which has an appreciation in value. of value.

We found Qi Baishi's shrimps, Xu Beihong's horses, Huang Zhou's donkeys, Li Keran's Li River landscapes, and Liu Haisu's colorful green mountains.

These paintings are all the artist's casual paintings as part of his social activities.

This is also a very interesting phenomenon. Even though they are famous artists, sometimes they are tired of coping and want to be lazy. Therefore, they will have a batch of paintings, and later generations can find that the similarities are very high.

This is actually "copying oneself". Painters often simplify a painting that they feel proud of, and then copy it in batches, with the purpose of "mass production" to deal with supplicants with ordinary connections.

Of course, these paintings are not masterpieces by famous artists, but they are genuine, so they are quite popular and the prices are quite good.

These paintings are hot topics in auctions nowadays, and Lin Wanqiu is certainly interested.

In the end, five paintings and calligraphy works by famous artists were collected for a price of [-] yuan each.

As for the remaining works by non-famous artists, Fei Guan was given a two-thousand-dollar treatment.

There are works by Chen Shaomei, Wu Zuoren, Liu Kuiling, Qian Songyan, Yan Wenliang and others.

Then Zhou Zhi picked out a weird painting of a naked woman from among the things he had dealt with for Fei Guan.

This oil painting is very conspicuous among a bunch of Chinese painting scrolls. The artist is named Sanyu.

Zhou Zhi himself pays great attention to the collection of works by painters with Sichuan background, such as Zhang Daqian's works, and now only the masterpieces with splashes of green and green are left;
Another example is Jiang Zhaohe, who has collected two masterpieces, "Second Brother Leaving Sichuan" and "Returning Home".

Hearing that Chang Yu was from Shu, Zhou Zhi brought him over.

The remaining scroll in the other cylinder is quite old, and there were major maintenance problems, causing many problems such as screen cracking, peeling, water stains, dust accumulation, fading, oxidation and other problems.

Non-professionals will be very unfamiliar with the scrolls of the Qing Dynasty, and it is even more difficult to identify who they are from their signatures and seals.

But it is an area that Zhou Zhi is better at.

Even if he doesn't know the artist, he can infer the artist's skills, apprenticeship, and standard based on the paper and silk, as well as the painting techniques of pen and ink.

The combination of the two, as well as the mounting style and materials used, can almost determine the age of the painting.

He has a unique approach and can be called an expert in detecting counterfeiting. This is a unique skill he developed after integrating the professors from his fourth cousin and Qi Lao Wang Lao.

(End of this chapter)