Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Chapter 64 Fake Paintings
It took nearly two hours for everyone to eat lunch. After cleaning up the mess, He Daqing arranged a room for everyone to rest.

Bai Zhirui came to his room and felt a sense of intimacy when he looked at the layout of the room. After all, the original owner had lived here for more than ten years, and he had done it several times when he came back to visit relatives after the soul transmigration. The room was very familiar, and the room was cleaned spotlessly clean and bright. It was obvious that He Daqing would come to clean it every day.

He sat on the bed and was about to take a rest. The painting hanging on the wall opposite his eyes was "Li Duanduan Picture" by Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, a famous painter of Ming Dynasty, copied by an unknown painter.

Although he has no research on calligraphy and painting, from the so-called "Li Duanduan Picture" by Tang Bohu, no matter the painter, the shaft of the scroll and the paper, it can be seen that it is just a fake copy that cannot be faked.

Just as Bai Zirui was about to look away, a gust of wind blew up the fake painting. Just as the sun was shining on the fake painting, he could see that there were faintly two layers of marks on the painting paper.

Out of curiosity, he came to this fake painting and observed it carefully. There were 5 people in the painting, and a scholar with a mustache and a scholar's scarf was sitting in the middle. His facial expression and sitting posture all showed elegance. and style.

Beside the desk on the left are his two maidservants, one in a red dress and the other in a white dress, the colors are bright and layered.

The visitor on the right is a lady holding a white peony. She has an elegant and charming posture. Behind her is her attendant maid. The four of them surround the scholar like stars and moons to set off the important status of the scholar.

The background of the painting is a large screen with mountains and rivers, and there is a poem on it: "Li Duanduan in Shanhefang believes that he can do white peony. Who believes in Yangzhou Jinman City, the price of rouge is so poor."

Strictly speaking, the characters in this "Li Duanduan Tu" painting look very rigid, the lines of the characters' clothes are not smooth enough, and the paper used is very clumsy, and the paper is actually cooked rice paper.

During the more than 500 years from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, most of the calligraphers and painters used raw Xuan paper, also known as raw paper, which was used directly after production, and had strong water absorption and ink moistening properties.It is often used in splash-ink painting and freehand brushwork, with clear strokes, dry, wet, thick, light, and varied.

Cooked rice paper is made from raw rice paper through processes such as adding alum, calendering, desizing, powder filling, darkening, sprinkling gold, adding wax, and sizing.

It is not easy to get ink stains when painting. It is suitable for writing regular script and official script, and cooked rice paper will leak and brittle after a long time. In addition, cooked rice paper will cover up the style of ink painting, so calligraphers and painters are ashamed to use cooked rice paper .

As far as the current Bai Zirui is concerned, he doesn't know what raw and cooked rice paper is, and he can't appreciate the shortcomings of the figures in the painting?What he was thinking about was what happened to the two layers of imprints produced by the sunlight on the painting just now?

He suddenly had an idea, and remembered a piece of news that he had read in later generations. A collector bought a clumsy fake painting in a black market auction because of the short appraisal time.

Unintentionally discovered the strangeness of this fake painting, a clumsy fake painting uses a very clever mounting technique, is this trying to cover up something?
After he asked a friend who is proficient in mounting to see it, the friend told the collector that this mounting method is a secret technique of his teacher, and now it is used on this fake painting, which should be the real painting hidden under the protection.

Because in special times, in order to protect precious cultural relics from being destroyed, some people make genuine products into fake products, which make people lose interest in fake products at a glance. Many precious national treasures have been preserved in this way. cultural relics.

The counterfeit paintings bought by collectors should use the same method to mount a counterfeit painting on top of the real painting to protect the real painting hidden underneath from being destroyed. This method is called picture-in-picture in calligraphy and painting.

Sure enough, the friend who mounted the frame helped the collector to uncover the fake painting on the upper layer of the fake painting, and then rediscovered the real painting hidden underneath, revealing the true face of Lushan Mountain, which became a good story in the collection circle.

Tang Yin, was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua, and died on December [-]nd in the second year of Jiajing. etc., Ming Dynasty painters, calligraphers, and poets.

Tang Bohu's works include "Riding a Donkey and Thinking of Returning", "Mountain Road Pine Sounds", "Things of Tea", "Wang Shu Palace Prostitutes", "Li Duanduan Falling Home" (also known as "Li Duanduan"), "Autumn Wind Wan Fan Picture", "Kurcha Heke Picture" and other paintings.

The characteristics of Tang Bohu's works are that Tang Bohu's paintings are a fusion of the northern and southern schools of painting, with delicate brush and ink, sparse layout, and elegant and handsome style.The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful body and accurate shape;Its flower-and-bird paintings are longer than freehand brushwork in ink and wash, free and easy and elegant.

If the portrait in front of you is a picture-in-picture like the one bought by the collector in later generations, and the real one hidden under the fake is Tang Yin and Tang Bohu's authentic "Li Duanduan Picture", it is a priceless treasure, and Tang Bohu's authentic work will be sold at auctions in later generations. It was a deal at a starting price of [-] million yuan, and Bai Zirui was ecstatic when he thought of this.

Bai Zirui stepped forward to touch the painting, and felt that it was indeed slightly thicker than a normal painting, and it seemed that it was really a two-layer painting.But he didn't know much about calligraphy and painting, so he had to ask Poor Hou when he returned to the capital to see if he knew the master of mounting and exposing paintings, so that this authentic Tang Bohu's "Li Duanduan Picture" could be seen again.

He rolled up the scroll, found He Daqing and asked, "Father, how did you get this painting in my room?" He opened the scroll for He Daqing to have a look.

He Daqing looked at the painting in front of him, thought for a moment and said: "This painting is about your mother's family being persecuted by the rebels. I accompanied her back to her natal and in-laws' homes to check the situation. .

She found some calligraphy, paintings and porcelain and shipped them to our house in the courtyard first, and then went to her husband's house to check the situation. Her husband's family and her mother's family are well-matched, and all relatives in the family were killed in that banquet. After she dismissed the servants in the family, I packed up some valuable belongings and shipped them all to our house for temporary storage.

After the family members of her two families decided to go back to their hometown in Baoding, you and I, Aunt Tan, accompanied her, transporting the things she temporarily stored in our house to the ancestral house of the Bai family. I returned to the capital that day, Your aunt Tan stayed here with her for a while before going back.

This painting is one of those calligraphy and paintings that your mother found in her husband’s house. Before she fell ill and died, she asked me to hang this painting in your room. The things she brought back from the capital are all placed in the ancestral house of the Bai family. .

Before she died, she left all these things to you, saying that it was enough for you to live a life without any worries. After her death, I will keep these things for you well. You said that these things can’t be eaten, how can you guarantee it? Worry about food and clothing? "

　Thank you Fuyun for your reward, and all the book lovers for your support and encouragement.

　　
　
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