Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 253 Appreciation
"Huh?" Uncle Si Biao couldn't help but be taken aback: "Too perfect has become the criterion for judging it as an imitation?"

"But this artifact is perfect as a whole, but the bottom foot is obviously insufficient."

The fourth cousin smiled slightly, and handed the big bowl to the cousin: "You should break it."

The fourth aunt took the pastel bowl and only glanced at the glaze: "This is a Yongzheng official kiln pastel that really opened the door at first glance. How much did you spend to buy the elbow?"

"What? It's not an imitation?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help being stunned: "Uh...I exchanged it with a new porcelain bowl, because it was broken as an imitation of the Republic of China, and I was supposed to give eight bowls, but they deducted four."

"Huh?" Now it was the fourth aunt's turn to be stunned, and it took a while before she couldn't laugh or cry: "You..."

"This can't be called picking up leaks, it's called blind selling and blind buying, and blindness." The fourth cousin made a qualitative statement.

"Fourth aunt, tell me about it."

"The glaze of this large bowl is very clear. Yongzheng famille roses are soft and elegant, so lead powder and glass white are often added to the powder. When the color is applied, it has a certain thickness, so the patterns are raised, with distinct layers, and have a three-dimensional effect. "

"The reason why it is true at first glance is because of the particularity of Kangxi and Yongzheng pastel glazes."

"In addition to using ancient colors, the carmine and Qiangshui red on the peach mouth are made of red gold and crystal materials; the foreign green used on the peach leaves, the carmine and emerald on the stone are made of saltpeter. , borax, and colored stone powder.”

"These colors are very special. Modern glazes are bright and bright, but they lack the precision and accuracy of this kind of boneless coloring expert's method, so it is difficult to draw such a charm."

After speaking, he turned the big bowl: "It's beautiful, it's really beautiful."

"But what's going on with this bottom foot?"

"This is Tuqin!" The fourth cousin explained angrily: "This bowl looks very beautiful. It should be used as a fish tank or a flower pot for the previous family. It was placed on a brick flower stand to grow flowers and raise fish. .”

"So the bottom foot of this bowl has been in contact with the green bricks for a long time, and the moss and rainwater have produced acid erosion and weathering, which has caused serious corrosion of the ring foot."

"Ouch!" Zhou Zhi said in surprise, "Fortunately, that family didn't make holes in the bottom of the bowl to escape the water."

"Keep this away well." The fourth cousin placed the big bowl on the desk, which was the only utensil served on the table so far.

The last two things were wrapped most tightly by Zhouzhi. When the paper bag of the pen holder was opened, the fourth cousin sighed, "You can get all these things? You won't accept them as buffalo horns, will you?"

Zhou Zhi laughed and said, "It's more expensive than buffalo horns, eight bowls for it."

"Your luck is also..." Fourth Cousin shook his head: "Things are open, don't you need to say more?"

"Yes, I saw it at home. You have a hat made of this material."

The fourth cousin turned the pen holder upside down to reveal the bottom, and pointed to a white core in the middle: "Here, do you see this? It doesn't matter if they are all antiques now. If you want to put it in ancient times, just based on this idea, the pen holder will be worth more Quadruple it."

"Why? What's the point of this?"

"Only when a rhino grows to a certain age, the center of the horn will turn white, and a white tendon will appear from the bottom to the top."

"Such rhino horns are called 'Tongtian Rhinoceros', and they are the top grade among rhino horns."

After finishing speaking, he put the pen holder on the table: "The core must be cut out to make a Tongtian rhinoceros belt, and the cavity will be made into a pen holder."

"This can be regarded as a baby."

"What about the year?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"Late tomorrow."

"How can you tell?"

"Because of the style, the carvings of rhino horns in the Ming Dynasty are mainly flowers, and the composition of landscape figures is comfortable and picturesque."

"This rhinoceros horn pen holder is big enough. It is based on the preface to the Lanting Collection, so there should be 42 characters. So many characters and landscapes are concentrated on a rhinoceros horn pen holder. Compared with the rich decorations that the Qing Dynasty liked, it can also leave a lot The blank space cannot be done by a master craftsman. So I say, this can be regarded as a treasure.”

"In addition, the rhino horn carvings in the Ming Dynasty pursued the ancient meaning, and they liked to dye the rhino horns. This rhino horn pen holder has been dyed, and after years of precipitation, it looks like amber."

"Of course, this is the one that best proves its age." Uncle Si Biao turned over the pen container: "The base is a famous artist——You Tong, a famous horn carving master in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty."

"Surprised Uncle Si Biao." Zhou Zhi admired Uncle Si Biao very much, and gave a thumbs up: "When I saw that the theme was the preface to the Lanting Collection, I knew that there were 42 characters on the pen holder, absolutely!"

"What's the matter, I also know the names of these people above."

"How is it possible?! Absolutely impossible!"

"If I could know, how?"

Zhou Zhi rolled his eyes: "If you can know everyone, then this pen holder will be given to you!"

"Are you so generous?"

"But if you can't tell the whole story, then...hehehe, that leopard skin belongs to me."

The fourth cousin stopped talking, took out a piece of rice paper and spread it out, took out a pen and dipped it in ink, stunned you at Zhou Zhi, and began to write down a series of names in regular script:

"Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Xie Wan, Sun Chuo, Sun Tong, Wang Binzhi, Wang Ningzhi, Wang Suzhi, Wang Huizhi, Xu Fengzhi, Yuan Qiaozhi... and 11 people, each composed a four-character poem and a five-character poem;
Fifteen persons including Wang Fengzhi, Wang Yuanzhi, Wang Yunzhi, Wang Huanzhi, Xi Tan, Huamao, etc. wrote either four-character poems or five-character poems;
Sixteen people including Wang Xianzhi, Xie Gui, Bian Di, Zhuo Yan, Yang Mo, Kong Chi, Liu Mi, etc. failed to compose poems, and each was fined three bells. "

"Ah, this... this, this..." Zhou Zhi only joked with him as his fourth cousin. He really didn't expect that the participants of that party would really leave their names in history. "

What kind of evidence-based obsession do you have to study this? !
It's over, the rhino horn pen holder is not warm yet!

"It's not that easy." The fourth aunt looked at Zhou Zhi who was so shocked that his face turned pale, and said with a smile, "You ask him to name these 42 people, and they correspond to who is who on the pen holder. I don't believe he can tell the whole story."

"It's no fun to turn your elbows out!" The fourth cousin pretended to argue with the fourth aunt: "You know the elbows, and I can point them out. I can point at the rest, and you don't know."

"What you know is what you know, what you don't know is what you don't know, so you have the nerve to say that you won the elbow?"

"Submit, I have to!" Zhou Zhi raised his hands in surrender: "I admit defeat."

He picked up the pen holder and looked at it for a while, then put it down, comforting himself with distress: "Fortunately, only eight bowls were lost..."

"Hahahaha..." The fourth cousin and aunt were both amused, and the fourth cousin said: "You really took it seriously when you were teasing you, but you are big enough to comfort yourself like this."

"But fourth cousin, where did you know the names of these people?"

"So you still have to learn." Uncle Si Biao laughed, "As soon as Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion came out, it became a famous cultural event. There are countless calligraphers and painters in history who used the Orchid Pavilion as the theme to draw scrolls. "

"In addition to countless anonymous ones, famous calligraphers and painters include Feng Chengsu, Zhao Mengfu, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qian Gong, Shen Shi, Xu Guangzuo, Fan Yi, and Fu Baoshi."

"So the unpopular knowledge you think is just that you haven't studied extensively and haven't studied it deeply. In fact, in history, everyone may have studied it a long time ago."

This is a real education, Zhou Zhi hurriedly bowed respectfully to the fourth cousin: "Thank you fourth cousin, I have been taught."

(End of this chapter)