Antiques with golden eyes

On the escalator on the first floor of the Antique City, Shen Yu greeted his familiar colleagues one by one.

However, his heart was not as calm as on the surface. When he opened the rolling shutter door of "Lanting Ju", he was completely relieved.

Apart from being a little stuffy in the room, everything is still exactly the same as when the big-backed Zhang San left.

To put it bluntly, Shen Yu's entire wealth is now in this small shop, so he is really careless.

First, he opened the window for ventilation, and then Shen Yuzi cleaned the store carefully.

After pulling down the rolling shutter door and taking a shower, Shen Yu pulled out a movable glass counter.

After looking at it carefully, he placed the glass counter under the custom-made indoor light in the center of the store.

Gently turn on the custom-made light, and the room is suddenly as bright as day.

After laying out a non-slip cloth, Shen Yu slowly unfolded the "Picture of an Ancient Temple in the Mountains" given to him by Fan Shigui.

Shen Yu knew that this painting was not simple. Not only were there treasures of light in three places, but there was also a dark blue treasure of light emerging from it. This showed that at least part of the painting was from the early Ming Dynasty.

So Shen Yu is very curious about this.

There were many painters in the early Ming Dynasty, but not many of them had a large number of works handed down to the world, at least much less than those of the four Ming painters.

Shen Yu now wants to find out whose work this painting is.

After looking at it carefully again, Shen Yu fixed his gaze on the poem hall in the painting.

Shitang, also called "Jade Pond", is a section of blank paper added above or below the painting core when mounting calligraphy and painting.

Why is it called Poetry Hall?

This is because it allows others to have a place to write when writing poems and compliments on this painting, and it does not occupy the blank space of the painting itself. Even if the writing is wrong, it can be reframed.

In today's terms, it can be "fault-tolerant."

Think about it, how embarrassing would it be if you wrote typos on drawing paper?

After talking about poetry hall, let’s talk about “painting core”.

When painters painted in ancient times, they did not write and draw directly on scrolls as people think today, but drew on a blank piece of silk or paper like ordinary people.

And this piece of paper is called a painting core.

The painting core is transformed into the scroll painting in people's eyes after mounting the master's fortune-telling paper, supporting paper (backing paper), inlay, adding the double poles of heaven and earth, axle heads, wrapping heads, etc.

So the problem arises.

It is generally impossible for the author of a painting to write his own title in the poetry hall.

Why?

Because the paintings were not framed at that time, how could the author write his own title?

Shen Yu did not explain this to Fan Shigui, because telling him was like playing the lute to an ox.

Of course, there are no absolutes in anything.

Unless the author feels that after the painting is completed, he must write a poem to feel perfect but there is no place to write, he will wait until the painting is framed and go to the Poetry Hall to write the poem himself.

But it is impossible to say that Tang Yin will stamp his seal on Xie Yuan ten years later.

This cannot be explained in any way.

Therefore, in the Shitang, the author wrote the title himself and stamped it with the "Jinling Jieyuan" seal that did not match the time. Shen Yu felt that the forger obviously wanted to express that there were loopholes in the painting.

Maybe even an obvious sign.

"After traveling deep in the mountains, the drizzle brings long grass and trees; imitating the ancient temple in early summer, I have hidden articles in my belly."

After reading this poem several times, Shen Yu frowned, "Hiding the article, or is it in the heart? Is it the painting within the painting?"

Without hesitation, Shen Yu took out a handheld microscope and observed it, and found that the center of the painting was indeed much thicker than other places.

"Would you like to open it and take a look?"

Shen Yu suddenly had the idea of ​​uncovering the painting to see if it was the legendary hidden painting within the painting.

Whoa!

At this moment, something surprising happened to Shen Yu.

A ball of dark blue precious light emerged from the painting and penetrated into his eyebrows like light and electricity.

As his eyes went cold, Shen Yu felt that the scene in front of him had changed.

Shen Yu found that he could faintly see through the drawing paper that there was a piece of paper with ink patterns painted on the two drawing papers above and below.

Shen Yu quickly closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, opened them again and realized that he could still see.

The paper hidden in the painting is much smaller than the picture of the ancient temple, about 70 cm in length and 35 cm in width.

"It's really a hidden painting within a painting! Am I... able to see through?"

Shen Yu turned around and ran to the bathroom without turning on the light. The moment he closed his eyes and opened them again, there was a ray of golden light flowing slowly in the pupils in the mirror. The time was very short, maybe only a tenth of a second.

Turning on the light, Shen Yu repeatedly closed and opened his eyes, but no golden light appeared in his pupils.

Turn off the lights and the golden light appears again.

At this scene that just happened, Shen Yu was not overjoyed but frowned, "Golden pupils? My pupils turned golden?"

After a full quarter of an hour, Shen Yu just let out a heavy breath: "It seems that I must pay more attention in the future.

"At least try to blink as little as possible in a dark place with outsiders. It is best to wear sunglasses or dark-colored glasses..."

"Demolished."

Walking back to the glass counter, Shen Yu opened the so-called "Picture of an Ancient Temple in the Mountains".

Shen Yu is also familiar with framing. After removing the axis head and then the heaven and earth rods, a scroll becomes an ordinary piece of drawing paper.

Shen Yu rarely does anything, so since she knew it was a painting within a painting, she just cut off the excess drawing paper with a ruler and a paper knife to finish the work.

Carefully opening a corner, Shen Yu realized that there were not three pieces of paper inside at all, but five pieces of paper.

In addition to the upper and lower drawing papers, the hidden paintings inside are also protected by two pieces of white paper as thin as cicada wings.

Shen Yu didn't know what material these two pieces of cicada paper were made of, but they must be very valuable and must be carefully protected.

It would be much easier to do with protection, which directly saves a lot of processes. At least there is no need to wash the painting core, uncover the death paper, and peel off the mounting paper.

Twisting the top two layers of drawing paper, Shen Yu tried to lift it up a little.

At this time, a red gourd seal with vermilion inscriptions appeared on the middle drawing paper, with the word "Zijing" inscribed on it.

Shen Yu swallowed when he saw this, and confirmed again that it was the bright red gourd seal of Zijing.

"Dark blue treasure light plus the real Xiang Yuan Bianzi Beijing gourd seal, Shen Yu, Shen Yu, you really picked up a super big leak this time."

Different from the fake Xiang Zijing seal on the surface of this painting, the Zijing gourd seal on the painting hidden in the painting is 100% authentic.

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Because Shen Yu had seen it with his own eyes in the collection of his grandfather's old friend, and they were exactly the same.

And why is this so-called Zijing Gourd Seal worthy of Shen Yu’s joy?

It’s because its owner is so awesome that he has the title of Unparalleled Collection.

Xiang Yuanbian, also known as Zijing, is a descendant of the famous minister Xiang Zhong and is one of the most famous collectors and connoisseurs in the Ming Dynasty.

That’s right, it’s one of the best.

All antique lovers who are learning calligraphy and painting collection cannot get around this old gentleman.

The number of famous works collected by him is ranked first in the history of private collections in China.

There is no dispute about this.

The collections he once owned include Gu Kaizhi's "Pictures of Admonitions of Women's History" and "Pictures of Luo Shen Fu".

He has collected all of Wang Xizhi’s authentic works handed down from generation to generation.

"Peace Tie", "He Ru Tie", "Every Thought Tie", "Fengju Tie", "Zhanjin Tie Volume", "Thousand-Character Text in Regular Script".

"Zhanjin Longbao Tie Volume", "Linwei Zhongyao Ancient Qianwen Volume", "July Duxia Er Tie Volume".

"Lanting Preface" Shenlong version, Zhu Suiliang version, these famous calligraphy masterpieces are all in his collection.

He has five authentic calligraphy works by Caosheng Huaisu.

For Zhao Mengfu, the first person in the Yuan Dynasty, Xiang Yuanbian is a big fan, and there are 48 authentic works of him.

In addition, there are also Han Gan's "White Picture of Shining Night", Han Huang's "Five Cows Picture", and Li Bai's "Tie on the Balcony".

Most of the original calligraphy, painting and calligraphy works of Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Su Shi and Cai Xiang of the Four Song Dynasty families, as well as the Four Yuan and Ming Dynasty families have been collected by him.

Some people have estimated that Xiang Yuanbian's collection of authentic paintings from past dynasties reaches an astonishing number of more than 2,000.

He arranged these calligraphy and paintings with unique numbers.

It’s the entire Thousand-Character Essay: the sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing and waning, and the stars and constellations are listed.

Han Huang's "Five Oxen Pictures" only ranks 146 for the word "this".

Qiu Ying's "Spring Dawn in the Han Palace" ranked him at 742 characters, which shows how extensive his collection is.

Shen Yu even felt that the various levels of exercises, elixirs, and magic weapons in today's fantasy fairy novels were copied from his old man.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, someone was sorting out the warehouses of the Palace Museum and found that nearly half of the calligraphy and paintings had the mark of a person, who was an old-timer in the collection world.

Most of the treasures of Chinese calligraphy and painting in many museums around the world are from his collection.

It can be said that the calligraphy and painting with Xiang Yuanbian's seal are equal to rare treasures.