Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1314: Breaking a promise and gaining weight

By the time the topic was discussed and the contract was signed, the day had passed. As the host, of course Yao Chong wanted to treat the guests and then talk about the arrangements for the next day.

Zhou Zhi proposed that he wanted to visit the museum.

Suzhou Jade Carving Factory is an important supplier to art and crafts shops all over the country, and art and crafts shops and museums are closely related, so this matter is simple for the jade carving factory. The next day happened to be Saturday, so Yao Chong decided to do it himself Accompany Zhou Zhi to the city museum.

Seeing Yao Chong's promise that there would be no problem, Zhou Zhi didn't quite believe it, but he was also full of expectations.

Early the next morning, Yao Chong drove Santana from the jade carving factory and took Zhou Zhi to the city museum.

The car made many twists and turns, and finally came to a small alley. Entering the alley, there was a large courtyard with a signboard of "Gusu City Museum" hanging on it.

The museum in Suzhou City was very impressive in the time and space of Zhou Zhi's previous life. It was designed by Master Pei and was built at a huge cost.

But that was about two thousand years ago, and the current museum is still old. Like the museums in Sichuan cities, it is not too obvious.

However, although Suzhou City is not a provincial capital city, it can still become a first-class museum, which shows that its heritage is also extraordinary.

"Old Chen!" Yao Chong seemed to be very familiar with this place. He waved to a middle-aged man wearing a simple Chinese tunic suit sitting on the steps of the gate: "We are here."

"Welcome, welcome." The man named Lao Chen said welcome, but there was no real enthusiasm in his expression and tone: "Hey, didn't you say you have important guests?"

"This is it," Yao Chong introduced to the two of them: "This is Mr. Zhou Zhizhou. Despite his young age, he is an important customer of our jade carving factory and has just placed a big order for us."

"Mr. Zhou, this is my good friend, the director of the Municipal Museum, Chen Shaochong."

"Hello, Mr. Chen, I have admired your collection for a long time. I just had the opportunity to come to Suzhou on a business trip. I heard that Brother Yao said that I have a good relationship with you, so I shamelessly asked him to come and take a look. It is really causing trouble for you. ”

"It's not much trouble." Seeing that Zhou Zhi was very lovable despite his young age, Chen Shaochong's face became much brighter. However, he already knew that Zhou Zhi was from Sichuan, so he didn't believe that he would really treat Gusu. How much do you know about the museum's collection: "We have quite a lot of collections in the museum. I don't know what Xiao Zhou is interested in, so we can make special arrangements."

The SZ Municipal Museum is nothing special for ordinary visitors. Compared with the Shaanxi History Museum, the National Museum, and the Forbidden City, it is not even a bit worse.

But for Zhou Zhi, this is a place that cannot be avoided, because Suzhou is a place that cannot be avoided for Zhou Zhi's two major strengths in the collection of cultural relics - ceramics and calligraphy and painting.

The Suzhou Museum has many bronze ritual vessels from the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wu swords, jades, Buddhist statues from the Song Dynasty, golden pagodas, pagoda statues and many other national first-class cultural relics, but these are not of great concern to Zhou Zhi.

So Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "If it's not too troublesome, Brother Chen, I would like to take a look at the Six Dynasties celadon, Five Dynasties secret color porcelain, Ming and Qing blue and white, sweet white, sprinkled blue, yellow ground green glaze and other porcelains collected in the museum;"

"There are also purple clay wares made by Qing Dynasty purple clay masters Chen Mingyuan, Peng Nian and others, which are rare even in the National Museum and the Forbidden City."

"There is also the pastel porcelain from Jurentang, which is the legendary Hongxian porcelain, the so-called 'official kiln of the Republic of China'. This is a rarer type of porcelain than Mao porcelain. I also want to see it." " In addition to porcelain and calligraphy and painting, there were two painting schools that played an important role in the history of Chinese painting in the Suzhou area - the Wumen School of Painting in the Ming Dynasty and the Yangzhou School of Painting in the Qing Dynasty. I know that you have many of their paintings in your collection, and I hope to See and see.”

"In addition, as a famous distribution center for Suzhou works, the ancient lacquer ware, jade ware, bamboo and wood horn ware, etc. in the museum are all famous for their exquisite production and no expense is spared... Forget it, if you don't have enough time, these are Save it for next time..."

"Xiao Zhou can do it!" Chen Shaochong heard that Zhou Zhi said it was so troublesome. Instead of being impatient, Chen Shaochong was a little happy: "To be honest, many of us locals don't know as well as you. It seems that you have done your homework in advance. of."

"Mr. Zhou is a great expert." Yao Chong actually didn't know the details of Zhou Zhi, but from his exchange with Mr. Xu yesterday, he also knew that this baby was definitely not simple. He took it out of the box and left it for the factory to observe the three counterfeit products. A piece of jade, Mr. Xu asked to put it in the safe, because it must be a good thing worth hundreds of thousands.

"Really?" Chen Shaochong said with a smile: "The porcelain is all in the exhibition hall. If you want to see it, just go to the exhibition hall to see it, but there is no way to get started."

"As for the ancient paintings, the museum is currently organizing review work before restoration. So, Xiao Zhou, try to name a few paintings. If you name one, I will show you one."

"Chen Xiaochong, please stop making trouble!" Yao Chong was not happy when he heard this. He brought Zhou Zhi here to please him, not to offend him. Chen Shaochong's play was obviously a bit too much, in case Zhou Zhi was just trying to watch. It's so lively that it would be embarrassing if I couldn't even describe it at all.

"Really? What if I can read everything I say?" Zhou Zhi was very happy, and then asked: "Brother Yao, what is Brother Chen's name? Just now, I remembered that you said your name was Chen Shaochong, right?"

"Hahaha..." Yao Chong said with a smile: "We were classmates at that time, and we both had the character "Chong" in our names. The class gave us nicknames, namely Green Onion and Xiao Onion. We were buddies who were used to making jokes. Son, don’t get angry with him, elbow."

"Why are you so angry?" Zhou Zhi ignored Yao Chong and said, "I want to see Wang Chong's "Spring Mountains", Liu Yu's "Smoke and Water", Lan Ying's "Imitation of Da Chi Mountain Axis", Mi Wanzhong "Red Apricot and Two Swallows", Chen Chun's "Peony, Lake and Stones", Tang Yin's "Shrubs and Xiaos", Xia Chang's "Ink Bamboo", Shen Zhenji's "Autumn Forest and Waterfall"..."

"Stop! Stop your elbows for a moment..."

"No, Brother Chen, you agreed. I haven't mentioned the Qing Dynasty yet..."

"Brother, I admit defeat, admit defeat!" Chen Shaochong repeatedly handed over his hand: "I take back what I just said, you are really familiar with our library..."

"In this case, you pick two of the ones I just mentioned," Chen Shaochong said: "Brother risked his own life to let you see it. In addition, by inviting me to treat you tonight, it is an apology for just talking nonsense and breaking your promise. But good?"

"We can't see everything..." Zhou Zhi was a little disappointed.

"Uh..." Chen Shaochong explained: "What you just mentioned are all Ming Dynasty treasures. Even if I want to take people to visit them, it is very troublesome. The two paintings by Lan Ying and Tang Yin have been repaired and are now in the exhibition hall. The one directly As you can see, you can choose two more of the remaining ones, and I will take you to take a closer look, which will be more interesting than looking through the window, how about it?"

"That's it..." Zhou Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's look at "The Picture of Smoke and Water" and "The Picture Scroll of Two Swallows with Red Apricots".

(End of this chapter)