Chapter 778 Three Kinds of Chengxintang Paper
Li Qiyan handed the gloves to Zhou Zhi and Wang Lemei. He and his son also put on the gloves respectively, and said with a smile: "I don't know if you saw this thing, you might have drank the morning tea." No, let’s look at things first.”
Zhou Zhi was no longer polite, and solemnly took the gloves and put them on, but the hand reaching for the calligraphy was trembling slightly.
The Song Dynasty engravings of "Chunhua Pavilion Tie" are very rare. The only known initial rubbings, the so-called "ancestral engravings", are the four in front of you.
The ten volumes now hidden in the Forbidden City were collected into the imperial palace during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, because each volume is labeled with the "Maoqin Palace Appraisal Seal" and "Qianlong Imperial Treasure". , so it is called the Maoqin Palace Edition. After research, it can be determined that the era belongs to the Southern Song Dynasty. After entering the inner palace of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng ordered people to carefully restore it.
The version stored in the Shanghai Museum is actually a version reproduced in the Southern Song Dynasty using the double hook method.
The two copies in Gansu and Shaanxi are more "new". They were reprinted on stone by King Su in the Ming Dynasty based on the Southern Song version, and the later reprints of the "Suwang version" were book.
At first glance, Zhou Zhi knew that these four volumes of Bishi Anzu's engraved edition were not simple.
Almost in the mood of a pilgrimage, Zhou Zhi carefully read the four ancestral inscriptions and put them away respectfully before he dared to stand up and take a breath: "The original ancestral inscriptions are absolutely authentic. No doubt."
"Oh?" Although from Li Lehai Hearing about some of Zhou Zhi's miracles, of course, Li Lehai heard it from Lin Wanqiu, but Li Qiyan didn't really take it seriously, because although "hype" has not become popular in the mainland, it is still popular in Hong Kong Island. , is no longer a strange thing.
Now I see Zhou Zhi acting like an expert in reviewing, and later asserting that the four ancestral engravings are genuine, and I want to know the basis for his inference.
So he asked: "Excuse me, tell me, why can you come to this conclusion so quickly?"
Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Because I recognize some things."
< br>"What things?" Li Lehai couldn't help asking.
“Ba Da Brocade, Ting Gui Ink, Cheng Xintang Paper.”
"Wait a minute!" Li Qiyan couldn't hide the shock in his eyes: "I have invited experts from Taiwan and island countries to conduct appraisals on the latter two. It is indeed as you said. They used Tinggui ink and Chengxintang paper. They are completely Historical records consistent with ancestral engravings "But this silk seal, how do you know it is Ba Da Jin?" This is Li Lehai's knowledge blind spot.
But Director Wang understood: "The elbow is from Shuzhong. Have you seen the real thing in Jinguan City?!"
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Yes, because I want to Find the ribbon for the string of South Red Chao beads in your hand, and find it through the players in Shudu I have seen this thing from this descendant of Shu brocade."
After that, he said to Li Lehai: "Brother Hai, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the brocade in Shu was the most precious in the world, and the best among them. Pattern, also known as 'Ba Da Hao'"
"The pattern of the silk seals used on the surface of these four posters is exactly the same as the Eight Brocades of the Song Dynasty that I have seen."
"We have not seen much of it." Li Qiyan said: "After all, the capital of Shu Being inland and within the basin, it is relatively difficult to preserve things like brocade, so there is very little leakage. Today, I have a chance. Uh, tell us about it.”
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Then I will just do my best. Speaking of ancient brocade weaving technology, it is actually similar to modern jacquard technology."
"But its craftsmanship and patterns are far better than today's jacquard. The machine is much more complicated, and the arrangement rules of various colored silk threads for each jacquard pattern will be recorded in a manual by the weaver. Such a manual is called a 'flower book'." "Once the flower book is lost and the entire brocade is not preserved, then this pattern will be considered lost, at least part of it."
"Now that we know the general idea, let's talk about the Bada Brocade."
"The Bada Brocade is also called the Bada Brocade. It is made of ocher yellow as the background color, and various colored silk threads are used to draw out various shapes such as circles, squares, polygons, etc. A beautiful pattern composed of geometric patterns. ”
< br>"Every small shape has been transformed, beautified, embellished, and carefully designed in layout, and then combined into a complex and beautiful large shape from various small shapes. The blank spaces are also supplemented with shapes such as lotus, leaves, lanterns, etc. This cycle finally forms a "Zhang Huge Brocade"
"In the Song Dynasty, the regulations on clothing colors were very strict. For example, ocher yellow was only used by the royal family; while the Bada Brocade was one of the highest-standard patterns and could be used by princes and above. Officials of the two governments were able to get the emperor by chance Reward."
"There are two legends about why it is called 'Eight Answers'. One is that around each small geometric shape, there are eight other small geometric shapes connected to it, so it is called "Eight Roads". Make 'eight answers'."
"There is also a saying that each small geometric shape is filled with eight small flowers, one for spring, summer, autumn and winter. There are eight types in total, so it is called Bada."
" No matter which way you say it, it shows that the difficulty of weaving the Eight Brocades is quite high, so the standards are quite high. The so-called "two houses" in the Song Dynasty were officials who had to join the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council, equivalent to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense. Reward.”
"This is very close to the record about the "Chunhua Ge Tie", because after the "Chunhua Ge Tie" came out, there were regulations similar to the Bada Jin, that is, only those officials who have entered the two houses are eligible to receive rewards. ”
“However, among the four ancestral editions, only the second and eighth editions are original Song seals. The first and fifth editions should have been added later by the Qianlong Dynasty.”
“This How can you tell?" Li Qiyan asked.
"When I was looking for ribbons, I checked the records of the Qing palace affairs." Zhou Zhi said: "In order to repair the Song Dynasty books collected in the inner palace, Emperor Yongzheng specially ordered people to remove some of the ribbon seals and gave them to Suzhou Weaver to restore the patterns. ”
"In fact, starting from the Ming Dynasty, it has been a normal practice to use Bada halo as the cover and mounting of precious paintings and calligraphy, as well as the brocade boxes used to hold them. However, with the changes of the times, the pattern of Bada halo has also changed. There has been a huge change, and the use of color is also much different from that of Song Jin. It is completely different and has become a simplified version. "
"In the third year of Kangxi, Suzhou reported that it had successfully restored the Song Dynasty's Eight Brocades, so the imperial government repaired the Song Dynasty and Song paintings mostly used this Eight Brocades."
“But it’s still a little small between the two The difference is the background color. The Song Dynasty used a low-key and soft ocher yellow, while the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming Dynasty's habit and used a bright yellow. "
"Although it has aged over time, the background color is still easy to distinguish. .”
Li Qiyan took the two ancestral engravings and compared them. He found that there were indeed some differences in the background colors of the brocade seals, and nodded in agreement with Zhou Zhi's statement.
Zhou Zhi opened the album: "Chengxintang paper has been imitated in all dynasties. In this album, there are actually three types of Chengxintang paper used."
As soon as these words came out, Li Qiyan His eyes suddenly turned to admiration, and Li Lehai's eyes even had some admiration.
(End of this chapter)