Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 377 Creation Background
"Hahaha..." Uncle Si Biao laughed: "Fast forward, fast forward, it is actually not bad to bring Jiang Zhaohe's two important scrolls back to Manzhou, I will give you a credit! It’s really a bit embarrassing.”

"Look down on people." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "When the box is opened in a while, I'll frighten you old man!"

"Hehehe..." The fourth cousin obviously didn't believe it: "Then I'll just wait."

When he came to the study, Zhou Zhi pushed Fourth Aunt's wheelchair in front of the big desk, closed the flower door of Kaixuan, turned on the headlights for Fourth Cousin's drawing and writing, and said solemnly, "Here you are!" ..."

The fourth aunt smiled softly: "I've never seen this kind of elbow, it seems that I got something really good?"

Zhou Zhi took out the old papers and put them aside, took out the package that had been opened before, and said to Fei Guan, "Uncle Fei, give me a hand."

Although the picture scroll was very broken, only two fragments were laid on it, and the fourth cousin and aunt looked at each other with disbelief.

"This is the paper of Chengxintang!"

Fei Guan immediately gave a thumbs up with his white gloved hand: "Expert!"

Zhou Zhi pointed to the pile of papers just brought out: "There's a pile over there."

"what?!"

The fourth cousin turned pale with fright, didn't pay attention to it just now, thought those were the waste papers that Zhou Zhi used to fill the boxes, so he turned around and looked through the papers, then put on his glasses, took out the magnifying glass and began to study.

After a while, the three pieces of paper were sent to the desk in front of the fourth aunt: "Ruizhi, look..."

The fourth aunt's siblings are inconvenient, but she has a good eye: "Well, from the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xiucheng, the Dharma book is probably more important."

The fourth cousin didn't say much anymore, he brought a pair of gloves and put them on, and then started to work with Zhou Zhi Feiguan.

The patchwork this time made Zhou Zhi feel a little terrified: "It feels a little more broken than the previous one. If this thing won't be repaired in the future, I'm afraid I won't dare to open it again."

This scroll is actually quite long. The desk of Fourth Cousin’s place is a bit shorter than the length of Gongmei’s calligraphy and painting studio, and there is a section at the end that was spliced ​​together on the ground.

But the content is enough to shake the hearts of the fourth cousin and the fourth aunt. Except for Shi Yannian's "Poetry of Raising a Pen", the remaining Ouyang Xiu, Su Mai, Yue Ke, Cai Jing, Song Huizong, and the descendants of Ouyang Xiu, the great Confucian Ouyang of the Yuan Dynasty Xuan's inscriptions and postscripts are also priceless treasures.

"This... this is all authentic!" The fourth aunt frowned heartbrokenly, and the finger pointing at the scroll was trembling: "How can it be ruined like this?!"

"Ruizhi, don't worry." Uncle Sibiao said, "You have to look carefully at the authenticity, even if it's written on Chengxintang's paper."

The fourth aunt pointed to the handwriting of Song Huizong, Cai Jing, and Ouyang Xiu: "It is impossible for anyone in the world to be able to imitate the calligraphy of these three people at the same time so well."

"Yes." Fei Guan quickly said, "Mr. Zhang and Xu Gong from Gongmei also said the same."

"In historical records, Shi Jie, Ouyang Xiu, and Mei Yaochen praised Shi Yannian's poetry and calligraphy a lot, but no one has seen the real one."

"Looking at it now, it is indeed called a master. The calligraphy is vivid, bold and ups and downs, and the atmosphere of sadness, loneliness and indignation is contained in the pen, but it is expressed with a long edge, which corresponds to Bai Letian's poem."

"The silver bottle is broken and the water squirts out, and the iron cavalry protrudes, and the swords and guns blare!"

"Exactly! It is quite similar to the "Teacher's List" written by Yue Fei, the writing power is quite similar, and the turning to the front is even more brilliant."

"So it's real?"

"Well, in fact, apart from the fact that Ouyang Xiu mentioned in the paper, ink, seal, calligraphy, and historical records that Shi Yannian used Chengxintang paper to make books for him, judging from the creation time, the author's calligraphy mood is also very in line with the situation at that time. "

"Oh? What are you talking about?" Zhou Zhi suddenly became excited again.

"Let's look at Ouyang Xiu's writing first." Uncle Sibiao said, "Ouyang Xiu's calligraphy features are very obvious, and his inscriptions and postscripts should be the closest to Shi Manqing's writing time."

"Look at this, the last sentence - the poem, which Manqing loves all her life, has been kept until now. It is called Sanjue, and it is also a treasure of Zhenyu's family. In June Jiazi, Ouyang Xiu, the prince's young teacher, revisited it in Liuyiju."

"Elbow, go get the "Zizhi Tongjian Changbian", the part of Xining's third year."

Zhou Zhi turned around and searched on the bookshelf, took out the "Changbian", and found the part of Xining's three-year historical record related to Ouyang Xiu: "Four cousins, in the third year of Xining, there was a decree to remove the inspector Taibao, Xuan Huinan Ouyang Xiu insisted on resigning from the post of court envoy, and changed his knowledge to Caizhou."

"It's also from this year that Ouyang changed his name to Layman Liuyi." Zhou Zhi's tone was full of admiration.

"That's my memory." The fourth cousin said, "Look at four years."

Zhou Zhi turned a few pages later, and couldn't help being amazed at the meticulousness of the fourth cousin's reading: "Ah, here, in the fourth year of Xining, June Jiazi, except for the prince and his teacher, he lived in Yingzhou. June Jiazi, the time is also right. .”

The fourth uncle pointed to the word "Review" left by Ouyang Xiu on the post: "Then the date of creation of Ouyang Xiu's postscript can be basically determined-this is when Ouyang Xiu completely left the political stage, and he read the post of his deceased friend , and the text left behind."

After speaking, he pointed to Shi Yannian's handwriting: "Together with this, it should be created at two key points in Ouyang Xiu's political life."

"How was this deduced?"

"From the lives of Ouyang Xiu and Shi Yannian, plus the calligraphy style of this painting."

"Ouyang Xiu returned to Beijing for the first time in the first year of Jingyou. He called for an examination at the Bachelor's College, was awarded the official Xuan Delang, and returned to Beijing to work as a collation of the Pavilion Pavilion, and participated in the compilation of "Chongwen Zongmu."

"Afterwards, in the third year of Jingyou's reign (1036), he was demoted to Yiling county magistrate for participating in Fan Zhongyan's political reform."

"In the first year of Kangding, that is, 1040, he was recalled to Beijing, and was reinstated as a collator of pavilions and pavilions. He edited "Chongwen Zongmu", and was later ordered to know Jianyuan."

"From the third year of Qingli, which is 1043, he served as You Zhengyan and Zhi Zhigao. He participated in the Qingli New Deal, and then failed again."

"Shi Manqing's calligraphy is considered to be a masterpiece, so it must be a work after middle age." Zhou Zhi added, and removed "Song History" from the shelf: "Song Renzong's second year of Kangding is 1041. Shi Yannian He died in Bianjing and only lived to be 47 years old."

"That's right." Uncle Si Biao said, "Therefore, the friendship between Ouyang Xiu and Shi Yannian should have been deepened after the first year of Jingyou. At that time, Ouyang Xiu had just entered the capital, so it was impossible for him to be rewarded by Renzong just because of his literary name."

"However, the second time I came to Beijing was different. The first time I participated in editing, the second time I was the chief editor, and I also learned about the important position of the Admonition Court. This is the position where the emperor of the Song Dynasty placed the future minister. This time I got the paper from Chengxintang. Reward, that is reasonable."

"So Shi Manqing helped Ouyang Xiu write poems, it can only happen in the two years of 1040 and 1041."

"And in the past two years, a big event happened."

"Yuanhao invades the bandits! Hao Shuichuan is defeated!" This is one of the backgrounds of Zhou Zhi's historical novels, and he certainly knows it very well.

(End of this chapter)