Antiques with golden eyes

Gently opening the album, Shen Yu was surprised and startled.

Because this is not a picture album, but a calligraphy.

It is true that calligraphy is framed into albums, but compared with calligraphy and painting, it is very rare.

The calligraphy has a name, it is called "Tao Fu Zan", it is a square and dignified regular script calligraphy book with clear handwriting.

[Taoists are popular, their clothes are elegant, gentlemen wear them, and they are free and easy...]

There are not many words in the whole article, and even including the preface, it is only over 100 words.

After watching it carefully several times, Shen Yu thought to himself: "It is actually a copy of Fan Wenzhenggong's "Praise for Taoism". The writing is really good."

"In Praise of Taoist Clothing" has a great origin. It is a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty and the only authentic work handed down from generation to generation by Fan Zhongyan, a famous prime minister throughout the ages.

The so-called "Tao uniform praise" literally means a praise article written by Fan Zhongyan for the Tao uniform made by his friend Xu Yan.

Xu Yan was a Jinshi in the Song Dynasty and had a bad temper with Fan Zhongyan.

The entire article generally praises Xu Yan's behavior of doing Taoist uniforms, which is an act of "purifying one's mind and body".

Fan Zhongyan, also known as Xiwen, advocated the idea that scholars should "worry about the world's worries first, and rejoice after the world's happiness" has been passed down for thousands of years. Because his posthumous title was Wenzheng, he was revered as Fan Wenzhenggong by later generations.

Wen Zheng was the highest posthumous title and the highest honor for ancient literati.

Taoism is naturally related to Taoism.

Throughout the Song Dynasty, whether it was the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, all emperors of the Song Dynasty respected Taoism.

The emperor respected Taoism, and the literati below naturally liked it too. Basically everyone among the dignitaries at that time had Taoism.

But except for Song Huizong, the overall situation was much more rational than the Tang Dynasty, and basically did not pursue immortality.

Even if Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was so obsessed that he even asked the Daoist Secretary to confer him the title of Daojun Emperor, and Cai Jing, Tongguan and other ministers also held Taoist official positions, he was not stupid.

If someone offered him the so-called elixir of longevity, he would either give it to others to eat, or he would throw it away directly.

Tell Cheng Tianle the identification results, and Shen Yu continues the identification.

Next, Shen Yu looked at ten calligraphy and paintings in succession, with various themes, including dragons, fish, horses, and cows, including landscapes, figures, flowers, birds, ink, and bamboos.

Unfortunately, none of them are authentic.

They are either copies or fakes, and there are even modern works.

"What's going on? None of these calligraphy and paintings are authentic?" Cheng Tianle, who was slowly sipping tea, couldn't sit still.

He stood up and pointed at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall of his office and raised his voice. I bought these paintings based on my feelings. I can buy an authentic one out of three. These paintings look older than any calligraphy and painting on the wall. Why? There may not be an authentic work.

Shen Yu wanted to throw the scroll in his hand at Cheng Tianle's face, "What's yours, you ask me?"

However, my father owed her money after all, and I also gambled on two large pieces of top-grade jadeite in her store. I had to be more subtle in my words and not be too aggressive or offensive.

After thinking about his words, Shen Yu smiled and said, "It's true that there are no authentic works. I wonder where you bought these calligraphy and paintings?"

Hearing this, Cheng Tianle's expression suddenly became a little playful, "Brother, these are all your father gave me to pay off the debt. Sixteen pieces of calligraphy and painting were used to pay off the debt of 2 million, and the remaining 2.6 million was reissued as an IOU, so these calligraphy and paintings are related to You have something to do with it, right?"

Shen Yu was stunned, "You said, these are the calligraphy and paintings my father gave you?"

Seeing that Shen Yu was skeptical, Cheng Tianle was unhappy, "As I said, my Cheng family values ​​credibility above all else, otherwise it would not have been passed down for hundreds of years. Even if I have assets of two to three billion, how could I still deceive you?"

Shen Yu smiled strangely, "No, no, no, you misunderstood. If you dare to ask my father to use calligraphy and painting to pay off your debt, I must give you a thumbs up and say "I am convinced" by the way, okay. , I will show you the remaining paintings together."

This time, Shen Yu picked up a silk hand scroll that was about to rot into pieces.

This painting was the one that Cheng Tianle recommended most before the appraisal.

Hand scrolls are what people call "banners."

Different from hanging scrolls, hand scrolls need to be unfolded horizontally, so the longer ones are called "long scrolls".

The decoration of the hand scroll is inspired by the Qin and Han bamboo slips.

What’s more interesting is that basically all famous paintings handed down from the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties are hand scrolls.

For example, Gu Kaizhi's "Luo Shen Fu", Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Outing", Zhang Xuan's "Guo Lady's Spring Outing", Gu Hongzhong's "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", Wang Ximeng's "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains", Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Festival" "Along the River", Han Huang's "Five Cows", Qiu Ying's "Spring Dawn in the Han Palace".

It can be said that if there are authentic works of Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, and the painting saint Wu Daozi, they must be hand scrolls, and they cannot be vertical scrolls.

Because vertical scroll painting only appeared in the late Tang Dynasty.

If anyone takes a vertical scroll painting and says it is an authentic work by a saint, it will not be an injustice to slap him in the face and call him a liar.

Unfolding the hand scroll, Shen Yu was immediately surprised.

It turned out to be a Taoist painting.

It is also a Taoist painting that has the meaning of the great painter Li Gonglin of the Song Dynasty and the great painter Qian Xuan of the Yuan Dynasty.

The so-called Buddhist and Taoist paintings refer to figure paintings of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian figures.

This painting is not anonymous, but has a name.

Title of painting: "Picture of Arhat Crouching Tiger".

I saw a burly Buddhist Arhat sitting by a large rippling blue river, and not far in front of him lay an eye-catching tiger under a leafy giant tree.

Unlike many pictures of Crouching Tiger and Arhat, this picture is very harmonious.

Arhat looked at the tiger with a kind smile on his face.

The tiger also looks calm and naive.

Obviously, the so-called subduing the tiger is not about strength, but influence.

The whole painting is full of momentum, the brush and ink can be freely unfolded, and the softness and strength are balanced. The characters and the tiger's face are delicately depicted, which is extremely vivid and expressive.

Because it is a color painting, at first glance, I thought it was a printed matter.

At the end of the volume, there is the author's own inscription: In the ninth month of Wanli Wuzi, Ding Yunpeng Xunmujin wrote.

There is also a seal with the word Yunpeng.

"I didn't expect it to be Ding Yunpeng's original work." Shen Yu secretly marveled.

Ding Yunpeng, a master of Buddhist and Taoist painting in the Ming Dynasty, was the son of the famous doctor Ding Zan. His figures, landscapes, and Buddhist statues were all exquisite. When he was young, he learned from Li Gonglin in line drawing and Qian Xuan in color painting. This is why this painting has two great painters at the same time. The reason for the wind.

In middle age, Ding Yunpeng's painting skills were close to those of Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying.

In his later years, his style was simple and vigorous, becoming a master of his own.

Praise from the painting circles: The eyebrows and eyelashes are so expressive in the silken hair, it cannot be done except by those with magical powers at the end of the brush.

Dong Qichang even praised him for not having such skill in three hundred years, and personally carved a seal for him.

It is worth mentioning that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a master of Buddhist and Taoist paintings named Ding Guanpeng, and many people will remember them incorrectly.

Qianlong wrote a poem for this purpose: "The four major illusions are so vivid, Yunpeng observes Peng, the past and the afterlife."

"Hey, daddy, this is a real eye-opener!"

There is no difference between his father's eye surgery and his own eye surgery. Seeing that such a good painting is cheap for others, Shen Yu really feels a little sad.

Without him, Ding Yunpeng's Taoist paintings are extremely popular at auctions. This painting "Arhat Crouching Tiger" can easily fetch an eight-figure price at auction.