Chapter 1054: Balance of Trade-offs
Sure enough, while looking through the pages, I found the "Bamboo Fence" signed as "Danhu Fishing Writes Xinluo Mountain People's Carelessness in Zhushan Jueyuzhi Nanxuan" with the seal of "Bamboo" When "Broken Spring Picture", I found a layer of thin boards added later on the wooden board on the back of the hanging screen.
"Danhu Fishing" is Liu Yucen's self-proclaimed name. In his later years, his works were easily stamped with the word "bamboo". Someone once asked him why. He said: "I like bamboo, and the seal written with the word bamboo looks good, that's all."
Many people don't know this and mistakenly mistake the word "bamboo" for the word "rain". When Zhou Zhi watched the treasure appraisal program, he heard this story told by an expert, so he remembered it.
Zhou Zhi was very curious and asked Yang Ting to find tools to open it, and found that there was a poem and article written with a calligraphy brush on the back panel of the bottom screen.
The poem was probably written by Tian Han when he first received Liu Yucen's gift.
"The southern branches are like snow covering Xiongguan, and I can see it in the painting of Mr. Zhushan. It is not only Zhushan who has left a strong hand, but has already spread the spring to the world."
The Eight Friends of Zhushan and the Ten Families are Zhou Zhi. I can't remember them all, but their names are all recorded in the postscript below the poem.
It turns out that these ten porcelain plate paintings were made by Ouyang Youhe when he went to Beijing for a meeting. He chatted with the famous drama master Tian Han and mentioned that he had purchased a new house in his hometown, so Tian Han gave them to him as a gift.
Tian Han once rewrote the drama "The Story of the Golden Bowl" based on the story of "The Legend of White Snake", and Ouyang Youhe adapted "The Legend of White Snake" into "Jinshan Temple". The two have quite a common language.
Liu Yucen later served as vice chairman of the JX Provincial Artists Association and chairman of the Jingdezhen Artists Association. Five or six years later, he worked at the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry. When studying Mao porcelain, he extensively solicited opinions from people in the literary and art circles. His achievements in ceramic art were highly praised by Tian Han, and his porcelain plate paintings were also praised.
So Liu Yucen sent a batch of porcelain plate paintings by famous artists at that time to Tian Han.
But Tian Han’s family couldn’t accommodate it. Ouyang Youhe just bought a new house. The family was quite generous and elegant, so Tian Han donated it to Ouyang Youhe to prevent these masterpieces from being lost in the future. There is ashes lying on top of my bookcase.
Tian Han wrote this process on the back panel of "Bamboo Fence Broken Spring Picture", and also deliberately recorded the names of all the authors and the names of the paintings on the porcelain panels at that time.
The paintings of the ancients basically left words, numbers, vegetarian names, etc. The seals also mostly expressed their interests, and they rarely left their names directly.
Similarly, paintings are not given names, and poems are usually left behind.
Therefore, identifying ancient paintings is sometimes like solving a crime. It is necessary to infer the author based on the content of the painting. Also, the name of the painting is mostly chosen by later generations based on the content of the poem.
This article left by Tian Han saved everyone a lot of effort.
Fei Guan couldn't help but make fun of Zhou Zhi: "You are called a cheap hand. If you had left this thin plate at home and opened it again, you would have saved a fortune."
Modern porcelain plates Paintings are now as cheap as modern new things. The so-called "Eight Friends of Zhushan" are now almost unknown except for teachers who study the history of Jingde ceramics.
In fact, porcelain plate paintings were very expensive in the Republic of China. Wang Dafan, one of the Eight Friends of Zhushan, ordered the painter to pay 60 silver dollars for a 2-foot-6 sitting screen, and 240 silver dollars for a set.
If the subject is a lady, the price will be doubled, and for horizontal paintings, 50% will be added.
At that time, Qi Baishi's Runge cost only 72 yuan for an eight-foot folio banner, and 140 yuan for the central hall. If you add an additional ten yuan to the payment, it would only be 150 yuan. .
In other words, Qi Baishi's eight-foot grand nave was only enough for Wang Dafan's price of two yuan, two feet and six feet, for a screen.
However, due to the impact of a large number of modern handicrafts and the fact that the hype has not yet begun, the situation has now been reversed. Such a large high-quality porcelain panel painting strip screen only costs 700 to 800 yuan at most.
However, as Tian Han wrote the lyrics for the national anthem and was a big celebrity, the price of anything he endorsed would increase, so in the end everyone agreed that one thousand and two dollars for a picture was considered fair. On the contrary, the red sandalwood frames are also quite valuable, each can be sold for three hundred. Zhou Zhi bought a set of ten porcelain slatted screens for fifteen thousand.
If there is no celebrity endorsement, ten thousand is actually enough.
But if you think about it more deeply, the porcelain plate paintings were not valuable in the end, and the person who confiscated them was careless and did not notice this article. Otherwise, Ouyang Youhe would have been implicated, and this set of things would have definitely been taken away at that time. Destroy it and it will never be passed down.
At this point Zhou Zhi was satisfied, and he appraised things more carefully and diligently, but it was left to Lin Wanqiu, Fei Guan, and Zhang Cheng.
Lin Wanqiu mainly collects porcelain, while Fei Guan and Zhang Cheng mainly collect miscellaneous items.
It is noon, and everyone has picked out things worth more than 400,000 yuan, of which more than 300,000 yuan have been decided to be collected. For Lao Yang, a retired working-class man, and Xiao Yang, a people's teacher For me, this is already a "huge amount of money" that I can't earn in a lifetime.
So they were even more satisfied than Zhou Zhi. Seeing that it was approaching noon, Yang Shangqiu invited everyone to have a meal at a restaurant in the city.
Everyone said that it was not necessary. This time I gained a lot from house hunting, but there were still calligraphy and paintings that I had not started to appraise.
Yang Ting was even more afraid that the things here would be taken away when everyone went to eat. In the past, he didn’t know how valuable the things left by his grandfather were, so he didn’t take them seriously and threw them away in the old house for more than ten years. I didn't care, but now I don't dare to leave. With hundreds of thousands piled here, who dares to move?
Fortunately, he was quick-thinking: "Dad, please accompany a few teachers first, and I'll go to the restaurant to order some dishes."
"That's good," Fei Guan said with a smile, "Remember to come if you have pork liver. One serving, everyone needs to refill their eyes today.”
“Everyone, let’s get up and take a walk. We’ve been sitting here for a long time.” Zhang Cheng stood up and walked limping in the corridor outside the patio. :"actually This house is quite nice. The patio should be cleared and the partition wall should be removed to restore the old look. It is a good place and it is more comfortable to live in than in the city of Shu. "
"It's still not very convenient," Yang Shangqiu said. : "I have to take care of my grandson for several years, and no one will live in it after it is repaired."
"It will be more cost-effective to sell it after it is renovated than to sell it now." Zhou Zhi also came up with an idea.
"It would be best if the local government takes over and transforms it into a community street activity center or something." Lin Wanqiu said.
“It’s up to you representatives to propose the proposal.” Zhou Zhi said: “There has to be a balance between demolition, reconstruction and protection.”
I didn’t even believe it after saying this. The trade-off and balance will have to wait until at least 10 years before we start. Before, it was all about "big things", one push and one smooth, and everything was done.
As I said this, I suddenly remembered something: "By the way, the Three Gorges is undergoing major demolition now. If many valuable ancient buildings are not rescued in time, I am afraid that they will be underwater once the water is stored in the future. "Well, should we set up a rescue and protection team and go to the Three Gorges?"
"Will the country just ignore it?" Fei Guan said.
"The state will definitely not be able to manage it all. It would be great to be able to complete the relocation of immovable cultural relics above level three." Zhou Zhi said: "Some of the ancient buildings, old houses, and old temples in the old streets have exquisite brick carvings, stone carvings, and wood carvings. , murals and brackets, carved beams and painted buildings, may not be on the rescue list.”
“As far as I know, our middle school was rebuilt from a temple, including the 19th floor of the old Bell and Drum Tower. There is only one wooden bracket in the country, but it does not meet the protection level. It is still used as a physical education classroom for us.”
“There are also bulky old furniture and flowerbed beds in the demolished households. The large cabinets, large vats, and some clay sculptures, stone carvings, and wooden statues in the temple cannot be taken away at all.”
(End of this chapter)