Chapter 224: Year-End Friendship
Two days later, Fang Minghua was at work when he suddenly received a call from Wu Tianmin.
“Minghua, did Zhang Yimou come to your place two days ago?”
“Yes, he and I discussed making this movie for a while, what happened? "
"He came to me yesterday and said that this movie was going to use all non-professional actors, including the heroine. Do you agree with his idea? You also told him a method for selecting non-professional actors? ?”
"Brother Wu, do you think what he is doing is wrong, or do you think the methods I mentioned are not good?" Fang Minghua asked.
“I heard the opinions that Yimou said are very reasonable. What I’m worried about is that Yimou can’t choose the roles well. It’s very difficult for non-professional actors to film. After all, this is his first time directing a film. Don’t you know how much pressure I put on him to let him film this movie? I’m really worried that he won’t be able to do it well.”
Fang Minghua was silent for a moment before saying, “Brother Wu, it’s yours. I understand how you feel. But you think, the heroine is a 13-year-old girl, where can you ask her to find such a young professional actor? ? It’s too inconsistent, so I support his opinion.”
“As for the problem of non-professional actors who have never learned acting, I think Zhang Yimou can handle this problem.”
On the other side of the microphone, Wu Tianmin's voice came after a while: "You are more confident in him than I am. Okay, just follow what he said. Since you let him do it, let him go." Hands and feet!”
"Haha, Brother Wu, maybe he can really surprise you." Fang Minghua said leisurely.
Zhang Yimou took his crew away and took the train straight to Zhenbeibao, Ningxia. Along with him was his partner He Qun who was seconded from the Guangxi Film Factory.
Fang Minghua’s days passed slowly.
In addition to going to work, I write "My Journey is the Sea of Stars" in my spare time. In my free time, I have another hobby: appreciating famous people's calligraphy and paintings.
I slowly looked through the four large boxes of calligraphy and paintings, and also bought a copy of "Chinese Calligraphy" by the well-known calligrapher and calligraphy educator Mr. Lu Weizhao and "Hua Quan", a theory of painting in the Qing Dynasty. I would just read it if I had nothing to do. , cultivate and cultivate sentiment.
When I have time, I also visit Yan Bingchu and ask for advice on how to appreciate celebrity calligraphy and painting and how to preserve them.
Ever since Fang Minghua bought Zheng Banqiao's "Ink Bamboo Picture" from Yan Bingchu for 3,000 yuan, the two of them knew each other.
Later, Fang Minghua bought some famous calligraphy and paintings one after another and asked Yan Bingchu to help identify them. Yan Bingchu had nothing to do all day long and was willing to be consulted by others. The two of them became friends every year.
There wasn’t much to do at work this afternoon, so Fang Minghua took the three paintings he bought at the History Museum and the paintings of Qi Baishi and others and rode to Yan Bingchu’s house in Baoji Lane, Nanyuan Gate, so that he could admire them and give him a He talks about the paintings.
“This piece of Zhang Daqian’s "Picture of a Beautiful Couple" is a splash-color and ink painting with lotus as the theme. The lotus is very delicate, the pair of mandarin ducks are colorful, and the scene in the thick shade is magnificent and unconventional. Qi, one of the better paintings by Zhang Daqian.”
In Yan Bingchu's study, the old man was admiring and explaining to Fang Minghua.
"Qi Baishi is good at painting shrimps, and Zhang Daqian likes to paint lotuses. Appreciating and painting lotuses are his biggest hobbies. In his early years, Zhang Daqian mostly painted lotuses in freehand style. Later, he went to Dunhuang and was influenced by the heavy-color Dunhuang murals, and began to turn to In his later years, he combined splash-ink landscapes with lotus flowers. Therefore, Zhang Daqian's lotus painting combined with heavy colors and splash-ink has a unique style and is also called the Daqian School of Painting."
"Your painting " "Jia Couple" is Zhang Daqian's work in his later years. At that time, he was going through a period of transformation from copying masters of various schools in the early stage to his own splash-color and ink style in the later period. You can see it from his brushwork. "
Listening to the old man’s introduction, Fang Minghua looked at it carefully.
"Actually, one of Zhang Daqian's most famous paintings is not a painting of lotus, but a painting of the Yangtze River. It is called "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" and is collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei." "There are several paintings called "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" was painted by Xia Gui of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Meng of the Yuan Dynasty, Dai Jin of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hui of the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Guanzhong of the modern era."
Fang Minghua listened with interest and couldn't help but ask:
"Mr. Yan, among these "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River", which painter do you think is the most famous?"
< br>After hearing this, Yan Bingchu stroked his gray beard and said with a smile: "In my opinion, the most artistic value is the one painted by Wang Hui, the "Four Kings" in the early Qing Dynasty - 16 meters long, it is said It took more than seven months to carefully complete the giant painting. I have seen this authentic work before, and it is now in the hands of Chinese-American Weng Wange. He has many calligraphy and painting cultural relics in his hands."
"Weng Wange. Do you know who it is?" Yan Bingchu asked again.
Fang Minghua seemed to have heard this name on the Internet and had done something quite controversial, but he couldn't remember it at the moment.
"He is not famous, but his ancestor is very powerful. His name is Weng Tonghe. He was the teacher of the two emperors Tongzhi and Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. Weng Tonghe is known as the "first mentor of China's reform". The cultural relics of the Weng family are basically "My father Yan Ganyuan and his father Weng Zhilian were good friends. In the early years of the Republic of China, they took me to visit them. One day, Mr. Weng got so excited that he handed over this ancestral treasure. Take it out and appreciate it, I have seen it once."
Yan Bingchu said at last.
Emperor Master?
Fang Minghua suddenly remembered.
It’s not Weng Tonghe but his descendant Weng Wange!
It seems that he donated more than 100 Chinese cultural relics collected by his family to a museum in the United States for free, including the famous "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River". But when the book collection was donated to China, it asked for US$4.5 million.
This incident has a great impact on the Internet, and many people think that he is a foreigner. Although the outside world has criticized Weng Wange, he himself has not given an explanation to the public.
After all, this is someone’s own thing, and no one else can take care of it, and it will be left alone in the end.
What a pity.
The old man and the young man were sitting in the study, one asked questions humbly and the other explained generously. They were chatting happily when they suddenly heard a knock on the door from outside.
When a family member went to open the door, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked in. Through the open door of the study, Fang Minghua discovered that it was Jia Pingwa who came in.
"Brother Jia, why are you here too? Are you looking for Mr. Yan?" Fang Minghua came out to greet him.
Jia Pingwa first greeted Yan Bingchu, and then said to Fang Minghua: "No, I'm looking for you! I just went to your magazine and said you were out on business, so I went straight here, Sure enough you are here.
"Did I buy some paintings at the museum? Let Mr. Yan explain it." Fang Minghua explained with a smile.
Of course he wouldn't say that he spent more than 300,000 yuan to buy it and wipe out all those words. He just said that he bought dozens of them.
"Brother Jia, what do you want from me?" Fang Minghua asked again.
"The Writers Association has informed you that the opening ceremony of the Literature Improvement Class of Xijing Literary College will be held at the Xincheng Theater the day after tomorrow. You are invited to attend."
(End of this chapter)