Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 607
Master Ma smiled and said, "If Director Li agrees tonight, we will go through all the formalities tomorrow. After we're done, let's go to the Summer Palace, the National Expo, and the Forbidden City, and visit the old man by the way."

"We still have to go to the auction..." Fei Guan was speechless and happy at Master Ma's big package. The old man that Ma Wei talked about must be his master, Mr. Wang Shixiang. The No.1 of No. [-], known as the "No. [-] player in the capital" long before the founding of the People's Republic of China, can follow the elbow to visit and leave a group photo, and it will be enough to brag for a lifetime when you go back!

But there is still business to do in Beijing this time, otherwise I will be embarrassed to report the account when I go back.

Zhou Zhi hurriedly took off the corner of Fei Guan's clothes. Being able to get to know Mr. Ma is already several levels of luck beyond the auction. With his contacts and ability, it's not a matter of raising your hand to cook a few dishes for you. Why bother to single it out?
Quickly interrupted: "There are also Panjiayuan and Liulichang. They should also go to open their eyes."

"Traveling to the ghost market?" Ma Ye was amused: "This is what it should be."

After finishing speaking, he took care of Fei Guan's emotions: "What did Mr. Fei bring for Haitong this time?"

"It's a pair of wild mushrooms from the Kangxi Dynasty. The pair was released at Christie's autumn auction of the Big Apple in America in [-]." Zhou Zhi knew how to chat with Master Ma so that he could understand in seconds.

"That pair..." Ma Ye said, "The final auction price of that pair was more than 3 US dollars, right?"

"Thirty-eight thousand and five thousand."

"Then the domestic market can only be [-] yuan, RMB." Ma Ye said: "It's not such a strong market."

"That's right, the price difference between domestic auctions and overseas auctions is too big now." Fei Guan said, "This time I'm here to support Tong Hai. Tong Hai's master Lin used to be our chief artisan."

"Lin Weibiao's master is Mr. Zheng, isn't he? Mr. Zheng is the chief engineer of your craftsman? Have you never heard of this?" Master Ma asked.

"Back then, Mr. Zheng escorted the cultural relics of the Forbidden City to Shu. During that time, he directed the work of the Shudu branch of the Zhonghua Book Company and made great contributions to our collection of cultural relics."

"Later, the bookstore, the Shudu Branch of the Commercial Press, and the Shudu Branch of Kaiming Bookstore merged into the Ancient Books Bookstore, and later changed into the Ancient Books Sales Department of Xinhua Bookstore. Later, our Cultural Relics Main Store also merged with Xinhua Bookstore for a period of time. , and later set up Gongmei Shopping Mall separately.”

"In our mall, there are still some Song edition books and rubbings that Mr. Zheng put down in the past, ah, yes, there is also Qiu Ying's "Wangchuan Tu", which is our town hall's treasure."

"It turns out that there is such a relationship..." Master Ma turned his head and said to Feng Cang: "Then let's go to cheer for Lao Lin when we have time. Don't you want to add something to your ancient shelf?"

"It is also very elegant to add some small pieces to the Bogu rack. The monochrome porcelain series, the Wenwan series, and even the snuff bottles, bird food jars, grasshopper pots, and purple clay pots are all good collections."

"Do you still have research on bird food jars?" Master Ma asked.

"The elbow is pretty good." Fei Guan laughed and said, "I sent a set of bird food jars to send to Xianqiao in Shudu. They said it was from Qianlong..."

"Painting gold and pastels, with the theme of broken branches and golden jade."

"Looking like a palace?"

"It is indeed an official kiln."

"Did you bring it this time?"

"I only brought one." Fei Guan said, "Ah, but I took pictures of the other two, and the film was not used up, and it was still in the camera. If Mr. Ma wants to see it, I'll develop it another day."

"It's not that I want to see it, it's my master, bird food jars are his hobby."

"Mr. Wang, how about this?" Zhou Zhi didn't know much about Wang Shixiang before. He only knew that he was a master of Ming and Qing furniture, and a master of cultural relics appraisal in the Palace Museum, but he didn't know that he also studied these small pieces.

After thinking about it, it is natural. There is no cultural relic appraiser who becomes a master only by one category. The appreciation of furniture itself involves many aspects of knowledge, such as wood, lacquer, metal, jade, mother-of-pearl, and fabrics. , Stone and other materials and craftsmanship, masters of Ming-style furniture, of course, must be masters of these categories.

This is somewhat similar to Zeng Shizu’s exegesis. A master of exegesis must be a master of ancient prose, classical poetry, pre-Qin literature, classical philosophy, Chinese history, calligraphy and seal cutting, and even painting.

For example, as art, ancient characters are left to future generations, such as calligraphy and literature. If you don't understand these, you can't understand the main idea of ​​the article, and dare to dig out word by word for annotation?

Some people really dare, but that's not called a scholar, that's called a joke.

"My master celebrated his [-]th birthday last year, and his mother drew a picture for him called the 'Big Tree Picture'," Ma Wei said with a smile: "The picture draws [-] kinds of fruits, which represent [-] kinds of hobbies of the master. Achievements include Ming-style furniture, lacquer research, bamboo carvings, gourds, fire-painted gourds, paintings, gilded bronze Buddha statues, cricket jars, pigeons, pigeon whistles, bird food jars, cattle herding, big eagles, badger dogs, and cooking. "

"Eh? Speaking of which, you are quite similar to his old man. You both have researched food!"

"How dare you compete with Mr. Wang." Zhou Zhi was so frightened that he waved his hands again and again: "To be honest, I have never tasted the Sichuan dishes I wrote. It will be like this."

This is absolutely true, Mr. Wang Shixiang was known as "the number one player in the capital" when he was young, and he was proficient in one game.

The funniest thing is to play with gourds. The old man later wrote in the information how the old BJ people played, saying that they would put molds on the gourds. After the gourds grow up, they will wear the auspicious patterns on the molds, and then process them. Inlaid with a jade mouth, it is a gourd, and it is best to listen to the sound when it is a cricket jar.

Then some foreigners refuted it, saying that gourds are plants, and plants must have sunlight. The method of making gourds mentioned by Mr. Wang is too absurd, because once the gourds are molded and the light cannot be seen, they will definitely not be able to continue to grow.

Mr. Wang couldn't help but laugh, saying that we played like this back then, how come no one believes it today?

So I planted gourds myself, put molds on them when the gourds were knotted, and waited until the gourds were harvested to make gourds, which was considered to be the end of this koan.

Of course, it also brought out a category of literary games.

Therefore, when Master Ma heard Zhou Zhi say this, he couldn't help laughing: "That's right, the things that Master said are all things he has enjoyed and tasted, and he definitely won't just move around among the materials."

"That's such a pity. I wouldn't have given Uncle Fei and the others the bird food jar if I knew it." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Give it to the old man as a small gift, that's not like a bright pearl casting a dark shadow!"

"By the way, Uncle Fei, what are you doing with that bird food jar?"

"Elbow's words are so obvious." Fei Guan also said, "You said that thing is a Qianlong pastel marker, and I also love to learn. I brought it to the capital, so I can compare it when I go to the ghost market. figured it out."

"It's yours." Zhou Zhi couldn't help laughing: "Follow the picture and find out, be careful to end up with a toad!"

"Speaking of which, I feel hungry." Wang Shuo said, "Anyway, someone should treat you today, right? Where are you going?"

"Go to Beihai! Fangshan Restaurant!" Yu Bin hurriedly said, "It's mine!"

(End of this chapter)