The Book of Appreciation

ps: Thank you Lazy Yuda and Zhuzhuda for your rewards.Checking the information in these two chapters almost killed me!The unlucky mobile phone is broken, and the price for changing the screen is 360!How do they know the 360 ​​browser I use?

In the rare book market of ancient books, Song engraved editions are suspected to be the diamond in the crown.Since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Song block editions have been paid special attention by scholars and bibliophiles.As early as the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "an inch of paper is an inch of gold" in Song block editions.According to statistics, the total number of block-printed copies of the Song Dynasty that can be found in the whole of China today will not exceed 1200, most of which have been designated as national first-class cultural relics, and most of them are collected in national institutions such as museums and research institutes at all levels. Folk ones are rare.

This is a slightly incomplete "Taiping Yulan", only a small half of the cover is left, and it is hard to tell which volume it is, but from the only two characters of Pu Shu left, it can make people tell. This should be the engraved edition presented by Pu Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

According to the different places of publication, Song editions are divided into many types, among which Shu editions and Zhejiang editions are the best, Fujian editions are mixed, and Masha editions are the worst.

Wu Di once bought a copy of the Great Prajna Paramita Sutra in the Zifu Collection in Florence, but if this copy is real, even if it is broken, its historical and cultural value should be much higher than that one.

After carefully checking the format and font, Wu Di let out a sigh of relief.Now it is no longer a question of picking up leaks or not, but that this rare ancient book, which is likely to be an orphan, cannot be missed from his hands no matter what!

After calming down a bit, he carefully put the ancient book aside, and then flipped through it downwards.

To his disappointment, among the remaining dozens of books, although many were old and tattered, they were not even as good as the first "Collected Poems of Longevity of Beauty".But then he burst out laughing, the heart is not enough to swallow like a snake!

There are only a dozen scrolls left, even if there is nothing to gain.The things he saw earlier were not in vain for him to go through this journey. [

Seeing that Wu Di was finally going to look at the painting, the young man instructed the military division to open a long table standing on the side of the carriage, then smiled at him and motioned him to look at it for himself.

Wu Di cheered up, picked up a long scroll, and carefully opened it bit by bit on the long table.After seeing it, he was startled, and involuntarily turned his gaze to the young man who was looking at him earnestly and the big man who was listening to music to entertain himself. What are these two people doing?How could there be so many good things in such a small Mercedes?

This is a picture axis of "Pinghu Autumn Moon" on silk with a vertical axis.There is no signature, but there are two seals on the seal, one is "Lan Ying's seal", which is a square seal in white script, and the other is "Uncle Tian", which is a stamp in Zhu script.Title in the upper right corner of the picture: "Pinghu Qiuyue" four-character running script and one poem with seven unique features:

"Thousands of hectares of cold light spread overnight, and the ice wheel is covered with clouds. The west wind is cold on the Jiufeng Mountain, and the osmanthus seeds are lighting jade pots."

This is actually the "Pinghu Autumn Moon Picture" of the ten sceneries of the West Lake by Lan Ying, an outstanding painter of the Ming Dynasty!

Lan Ying, whose name is Uncle Tian.He was named Diesou, later named Shitotuo, and also named Dongguo Laonong.Born in Qiantang, Zhejiang Province, he was an important landscape painter in the late Ming Dynasty.It also works with orchid stones and flowers.Its landscape law sect, Song and Yuan, can form a family of its own.Learned from the painter Shen Zhou, the pen is beautiful and smooth, copying the Tang, Song and Yuan masters.Teacher Huang Gongwang was particularly dedicated.In his later years, his brushwork was vigorous and the weather was severe, which had a great influence on the paintings in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.Known as the "Wulin School".Some people place equal emphasis on it with Wen Zhengming and Shen Zhou.

The ten sceneries of the West Lake, such as Three Pools Reflecting the Moon, Two Peaks Chasing Clouds, Lei Feng Xizhao, Liu Lang Wenying, etc., were formed around the Southern Song Dynasty. Lan Ying, as a "Zhejiang Palace Army" born in Hangzhou, faced the lake and mountains quietly day and night, and the haze made it here. There are ten screens in one hall, brilliant and outstanding, which can be called a masterpiece!

This "Pinghu Autumn Moon" is a virtual depiction of the scene "Feilai Cave" among the ten sceneries of West Lake.Looking closely at this picture, it should be imitating Ni Zan's brushwork, using ink to paint the autumn scenery of the lake.In the painting, the lake is wide and calm, with a moon shadow floating on the water, a few miscellaneous trees on both sides of the slope, and distant mountain shadows overlapping in the twilight.Its composition, ink, brushwork, and artistic conception are not perfect, and it is definitely Lan Ying's authentic work.

Wu Di put away the painting while thinking about it, and took out the second painting without asking the price. Seeing that these scrolls are all about the same size, could it be that they are a complete set of Ten Scenes of West Lake?

As soon as he started painting, he knew he had guessed wrong, because it was a paper hanging scroll.

Gently opening the painting and looking at it for more than ten seconds, he already had a rough judgment on these two people or the people behind them.These people are either a group of cultural relics thieves, or they are the spokespersons of the scum in a certain museum. It is absolutely impossible to have so many high-quality goods in a tourist stall. There is definitely a big problem with the origin of these things!

Because the picture scroll of Zhang Ruitu's "Xu Ting Wen Zi" in his hand is actually an authentic work!

Zhang Ruitu was a famous calligrapher and painter in the Ming Dynasty.The word is Changgong, also calligraphy and painting.He is famous all over the world for being good at calligraphy. His calligraphy is unique, steep and vigorous, with vivid brushwork and strange postures. He has found a new way besides Zhong Yao and Wang Xizhi. Wan Zhong is equally famous, known as "South Zhang Bei Dong"; in addition, he is good at landscape painting, imitating Huang Gongwang of the Yuan Dynasty, with vigorous brushwork, and very few works handed down from generation to generation.

This scroll depicts a landscape of mountains and forests.The picture is empty and sparse, with several large trees in the foreground with extensive brush and ink, and a high peak in the background for the distant view.Self-titled in the upper right corner of the picture: "Tracks of the small path, Xuting #草莱. Lusheng Creek up, and someone came to ask for the word. The Ruitu of Baihao'an." one piece.

While looking at the painting, Wu Di thought hard. There seems to be no record of these cultural relics in the museum theft cases in the past ten years. Could it be that there is collusion between the inside and outside, and the exchange of fakes for real has not been discovered yet?No, treasures such as Song block-printed books and Lan Ying's paintings, even if there are moles in the museum, they will never dare to touch them.Could it be that what they stole was from a foreign museum? [

Probably!Because of the humiliating history more than 100 years ago, a large number of Chinese ancient cultural relics were lost to the West.But because of the huge difference in history and culture, these things are not regarded as mainstream works of art, so except for some very well-known works, many cultural relics have been randomly placed in the warehouse of the museum. It exists in the catalog of its collection, but it has never had the chance to see the light of day.If these things are stolen and the hands and feet are clean, it is very likely that people will find out for several years or even decades!

Thinking of this possibility, his heart warmed up. If he could bring this batch of cultural relics back, it would be worth paying even a little price!

Full of hope, he picked up the third picture scroll, and opened it carefully. After looking at it, he couldn't help being disappointed. This is a modern and old ink landscape!

The fourth, fifth, sixth... It wasn't until the penultimate one that he saw another masterpiece from a famous artist!

This one is a horizontal axis of a silk scroll, which is more than two meters long, but it is not a painting, but a running script.

Wu Di didn't pay attention to the content of the running script, and looked at the inscription first, "The poems and books of the Mid-Autumn Festival were written in Dongshe Wanxiangtang. Chen Jiru was seventy-seven at that time."

Looking at the seals again, the seal script in Baiwen is "Mi Gong" and the seal script in Zhu script is "Chen Jiru Seal".This is the volume of the Mid-Autumn Festival poems written by Chen Jiru in Ming Dynasty in running script!

Chen Jiru, courtesy name Zhongchun, nicknamed Meigong and Migong.Poetry, calligraphy and painting, calligraphers follow Su Shi and Mi Fu, and the style of calligraphy is elegant and elegant.He was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty of China. "History of Ming Dynasty" has its biography.

The "Four Great Masters" of the Ming Dynasty were originally said to be Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, and Chen Jiru. Some people also called these four people the "Four Great Masters of the Wu School".Among them, Chen Jiru's painting level is higher than Dong Qichang's, but his influence in the official circle is far less than Dong Qichang's. This is a very strange phenomenon in the history of art.

But no matter what kind of statement it is, it proves that Chen Jiru is a generation of calligraphy and painting masters, but his reputation is not good.

After finishing the last piece of work, Wu Di calculated silently for a while, then simply estimated the price in his heart, and piled up the few things he had just fancy on the long table.

"Okay, how much are these pieces in total?"

Seeing that Wu Di wanted to buy so much by himself, the young man couldn't close his mouth. He took out a calculator and whispered the price while pressing it.

"Golden holding pot with dragon and phoenix pattern counts 150 million for you, standing deer jade pendant counts for 300 million for you, "Beauty and Longevity Poetry Collection" is free, "Taiping Yulan" 1200 million, "Pinghu Autumn Moon Picture" 800 million, "Xuting Wenzi" 3000 million for the picture axis, 1100 million for the mid-autumn poem volume, and silver dollars as a gift. The total is 5750 million yuan, with the odds erased, and you will be charged 5700 million. Is this price sincere?"

Is this price sincere?If the origin of these things is aboveboard and the inheritance is clear, this price is indeed very sincere.But since you only dare to sell like this, the price is too high, ridiculously high.

Wu Di didn't speak, picked up the blue and white red color bowl with the rising sun in the east in the first box and asked,

"What about this one?"

"this?"

A sly gleam flashed in the young man's eyes,

"Hemorrhage, this one counts as 50 for you!"

Wu Di shook his head,

"I don't pursue the authenticity of these things, nor the origin of these things, but at your price, hehe, you should think about it carefully and report another one."

After some haggling, the two parties finally settled the deal at 400 million yuan, and Wu Di took advantage of it.

"Fifth brother, the origin of these things..."

"There is definitely a problem with the origin of these things. Not to mention anything else, it's just Zhang Ruitu's "Xuting Wenzi" picture scroll. If you meet an expert, it will be easy to pass 5000 million. All of these things should be worth more than 2000 million yuan. Twenty million! A little Mercedes, hum."

"That young man's skill is good, that big man hasn't moved the nest, so he's not sure, but he should be a practicing family."

"Then my guess is more reliable. These things are likely to be stolen from some museum, but they should not be domestic. If these things are lost in China, the nest will be bombed!"

The puzzled expression in the military adviser's eyes flashed away, he opened his mouth, but said nothing, he just turned his head and glanced in the direction of the parking lot. (to be continued...)