Riding the wind of rebirth

There are various forms of courtyard paintings. Figures can be painted in two ways: meticulous brushwork and heavy color painting and line drawing. Flower and bird paintings can also be painted in two ways: meticulous brushwork and boneless. Landscapes can be drawn from the Four Kings School. In addition, the painting style of combining Chinese and Western styles is also very popular.

Perhaps because the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was a minority, he had little appreciation for freehand ink paintings. Therefore, among the genres of "academic painting", there was only one genre with higher aesthetic requirements.

Among the top ten Qing palace painters recognized by later generations, in addition to Lang Shining's "White Falcon", there are also "Flying Falcon" by Yu Zhiding, a master of line painting, and "Hundred Sons" by Jiao Bingzhen, a figure in the "Xifeng Painting School". There are "Nine Thoughts" by Leng Mei, "The End of the Winding Stream" by Tang Dai, who was called the "No.1 Painter" by Kangxi, "Amitabha" by Ding Guanpeng, who is known as the "Buddhist Painter", and "Spring Scenery in Gusu" by Xu Yang , "Pharmacist Picture" by figure painter Yao Wenhan.

In addition to the line-drawing figure painter Jin Tingbiao and the painter Yu Sheng, the painter of flowers, birds, fish and insects, there are paintings here by ten famous third-generation painters, and they are all large paintings over four and a half feet tall.

Each painting contains a piece of paper like the one in "White Falcon Picture", which records the date, mortgagor, reason for borrowing money, guarantor, mortgage funds and other general information.

Judging from the name information of the mortgagor and the guarantor, there are various reasons for the mortgagor and the guarantor, but there are only three guarantors. It seems that these three people should be local connoisseurs in Shudu, and Yaowai Zuzu trusts them more kind of.

This also shows that these paintings came from a variety of sources, rather than from one or two people. This also shows in disguise that from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the outflow of paintings collected by the imperial government became almost the norm.

In addition to "academy paintings", almost all the remaining calligraphy and paintings are also "special projects", which are the works of the first batch of calligraphers and painters of the Yangzhou School of Painting.

Wang Shishen, Huang Shen, Jin Nong, Gao Xiang, Li Wei, Zheng Xie, Li Fangying, Luo Pin, Bian Shoumin, Gao Fenghan, Yang Fa, Li Yi, Min Zhen, Hua Yan and Chen Zhuan, a total of fifteen people. More than twenty axes.

In addition, there are two axes of Chen Chun, two axes of Xu Wei, three axes of Zhu Da and three axes of Shi Tao.

However, these ten scroll paintings were all mixed up among the Yangzhou Painting School, and Zhou Zhi did not expect them to be authentic at all.

Because the people above are all the disciples and grandsons of these four, you can get eight or nine points of the essence by imitating them, which is extremely difficult to distinguish.

Zhou Zhi didn’t think this was Yaowai’s ancestor’s special hobby for freehand paintings. After all, the Yangzhou School of Painting was already well-known in the Republic of China. He was more inclined to think it was his three connoisseur friends, that is, The three people on the note sent paintings in exchange for money.

The reason why I think so is because the remaining large box contains works by famous painters from the Republic of China.

Among them, the main proportion belongs to Qi Baishi, Chen Shizeng, Xu Beihong, Pan Tianshou, Lai Chusheng and others.

Most of this group of people also absorbed nutrients from the Yangzhou School of Painting, except for the founder Bai Yang, who actually became a "great freehand collection series" along the way.

As the saying goes, "birds of a feather flock together, people flock together." Since there are the first two boxes of things here, these people can't help but appreciate them. Since they want to appreciate them, they can't help but leave something in exchange.

There is also evidence that these works have not been framed. They are all original mirror cores that have been carefully folded and pressed into several piles in the box.

In addition to these, there are also a large number of calligraphy works, probably more than a hundred, which are also in the state of rice paper.

Zhou Zhi didn't recognize most of them, but the ones he knew shocked Zhou Zhi inexplicably.

There are many types of calligraphers in the Republic of China. There are many masters in politics, military, business, and literature.

Zhou Zhi found many "acquaintances" from this pile of "scripts".

Yu Youren, Zhang Shizhao, Shen Yinmo, Luo Zhenyu in the education field...

Wang Ti, Huang Baowu, Ma Yifu in the cultural world... Zhang Jian, Huang Yanpei, Yu Jue, Wang Zhen in the business world...

Tan Yankai, Liu Wenjie, Yan Xishan in the military world...

There are the most people in the political circles, ranging from the former Qingyi Lao to the political bigwigs of the Republic of China, including Zheng Xiaoxu, Kang Youwei, Xu Shichang, Chen Baochen, Zhao Erxun, Lu Runxiang, Ye Gongchuo, Xie Wuliang...

Wu Hufan, Zhao Xi, Huang Binhong, Zeng Xi, Wu Changshuo, He Weipu, Puru... in the art world

There are many people here, Zhou Zhi is very interested.

For example, Luo Zhenyu is a modern Chinese archaeologist, paleographer, epigrapher, Dunhuang scholar, bibliographer, collationist, agriculturist, and educator.

His ancient philology is almost half of Zhou Zhi's "ancestor".

There is also Dong Zuobin, who was born in Nanyang and is a famous oracle bone expert and ancient historian.

In modern China, there were four masters who studied oracle bone inscriptions, including Luo Zhenyu named Xuetang, Wang Guowei named Guantang, Guo Moruo named Dingtang, and Dong Zuobin named Yantang, and they became the "four oracle bone inscriptions".

Their oracle bone inscription research works are all must-reads for Zhou Zhi.

There are many people here who work in many fields and hold many positions. Reading through their works carefully, I can't help but sigh, these big guys are really awesome!

There are many happy things, such as the works of the four major calligraphers of the Republic of China, including Tan Yankai's regular script, Hu Hanmin's official script, Wu Zhihui's seal script, and Yu Youren's cursive script.

Another example is Pu Xinshe, who together with Zhang Daqian is known as "Southern Zhang Beipu", and Wu Hufan is known as "Southern Wu Beipu". The calligraphy of these three people is also shared.

Among all these things, the painter with the most works is Zhang Daqian.

Zhou Zhi now has a lot of things in Zhang Daqian's hands. Xiao Qinglu has now collected the "Picture of Xian Yin Ce Zang", Da Qinglu has collected "Picture of Inscribed Pine", and there is also a picture of "Picture of Puxue in Dongguan" that Lin Wanqiu helped him get. , and there is a painting in "Jiujia Runge" that I got during this business trip.

What Zhou Zhi longs for most is Zhang Daqian’s splash-color green and green works in his later years, but they are still not available here. In addition to calligraphy works, there are three "Qingcheng Mountain Pictures" imitating the style of Song and Yuan painters, three "Ladies in the Deep Courtyard", and two "Dunhuang Copy Pictures".

Calculating the time, during the July 7th Incident in 1937, Zhang Daqian was trapped in Beijing. He was detained by the Japanese army for insulting the Japanese army. He escaped half a year later in May of the following year. He escaped alone, left Peiping and arrived in Shanghai. At the end of 1938, he and his family returned to Shuzhong and lived in the Qing Palace on Qingcheng Mountain.

During this period, Zhang Daqian mainly copied the famous works of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and at the same time digested and absorbed what he had learned from Dunhuang. The Shangqing Palace coincided with the note in the first picture opened by Zhou Zhi.

Yao Grandfather was the one who funded Feng Lanxuan's 400 silver dollars in the Shangqing Palace. If Zhang Daqian was able to settle there, it might be because of Yao Grandfather's arrangement.

Therefore, it is not surprising that so many works of Zhang Daqian from this period can be found here.

Looking at the three boxes full of things, Zhou Zhi murmured: "This is really exciting..."

More than 30 scrolls of "courtyard paintings" from the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, more than 20 scrolls of paintings from the Yangzhou School, plus ten scrolls of paintings by the four painters of Chen Xu and Zhu Shi whose authenticity is unknown but at least imitations of the Yang School in the Qing Dynasty, and one There are more than a hundred works by masters of the Republic of China, enough to open a small museum anywhere.