Chapter 1370 Appraisal
Haichao Temple has been completely changed. It uses bricks, pillars, and tile roofs that were bought from old houses in the capital. Under the auspices of the master craftsman of the Summer Palace of the Forbidden City, it was carefully made. It's time to repair it as before.
The entire Haichaoan also includes the British Public Garden. However, it used to be a small house with a big garden, but now it has become a big house with a small garden.
With a total building area of nearly 500 square meters, more than 300 are now courtyards and more than 100 are gardens. The layout of the space is more in line with the practical rules of modern people.
In order to increase the practical area, the curved courtyard screen wall design at the entrance of the old courtyard has also been cancelled, and the large-opening pattern of nunneries, temples, and palace yamen has been retained.
However, this large door with red lacquer and copper nails is not open on weekdays. What is always open is the side door concierge next to it that can also be used as a garage.
Zhou Zhi came here again. A door and an alley separated the tranquility and leisurely life from the fireworks of the world into two different worlds. Thinking that this place would soon belong to others, his heart ached.
The only thing that can comfort me is that this is not the best place. There are many other places to go in Zhouzhi, such as Houhai, Qianmen and Zhouzhi.
The main hall, which is over 100 square meters, has not been decorated with any partitions or furnishings. Now it looks unusually empty. There was a wooden table built when doing carpentry. After the project was completed, no one was allowed to demolish it without knowing whose idea it was. Instead, The surface was planed and polished to create an oversized table that looked rough.
Everyone sat down at the table, Zhou Zhicai said: "I know Teacher Cui wants to make a big painting, because I saw that you are using the horizontal table as a vertical table, and there is a big pile of The manuscripts must be put together.”
"My little brother is really smart." Cui Ruzhuo said with a wry smile: "If I didn't need a big place to paint, I wouldn't be willing to sell this album of Shi Tao's."
"Old Cui, you are not at a loss. ." Mr. Ma smiled and said, "Who wouldn't like this house? ? Although it only cost 600,000 yuan at that time, it still cost at least that much. Now, I can’t get even 2 million yuan back. "But it’s not a loss," Qi Lao said with a smile. : "Let's take a look at the stuff first. After you look at the stuff, you'll know it's worth the price."
"Yes, let's look at things first." Cui Ruzhuo put the box on the table: "I told Mr. Ma my intention before. If the little brother is willing, I am willing to use Shi Tao's "Arhat" "Hundred-Open Album", I chose this house to create."
Zhou Zhi opened the box. Inside was a red sandalwood bookcase, with standard inner-fu craftsmanship. There was a fine red sandalwood lock in the middle, and there were bas-reliefs of Jiulao pictures carved around it. It was thickly coated, Zhou Zhi After a rough cut, it should be from the mid-Qing Dynasty.
This set of things was also in the standard style of the high-end treasury of the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Zhi was familiar with it, so he reached out and opened the mechanism hidden among the pine deer, revealing the album pages inside.
"Hey, little brother is an expert." Cui Ruzhuo couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw Zhou Zhi opening the box lightly.
Mr. Wang smiled: "He has something in his hand, which is much more delicate than yours. He has to compose a poem to open it."
Zhou Zhi put on his gloves, He took the pages out of the album and carefully placed them on the table on the page, then pointed at the album page and then at the box: "These two things are not the same."
"Did you see it?" Qi Lao said with a smile: "When we first said this , Xiao Cui is still not convinced.”
"But we didn't tell Xiao Cui in detail at that time." Mr. Wang smiled and said: "How about taking this opportunity to tell him about it?"
"Although the pages of the album and the book box fit perfectly, the box It's in the style of the Imperial Palace, and the decoration is in the Su Yang style, not the same place." Zhou Zhi laughed. He opened the cover of the album and explained to Cui Ruzhuo: "These silk fabrics are all fabrics from Suzhou and Hangzhou in the mid-Qing Dynasty. Although they are fine, they are still different from those in the inner palace."
"In order to present Out of the dignity of imperial power, the decoration of books and albums in the imperial palace belongs to an insurmountable ritual system. , regardless of book jackets, bookmarks, book bindings, book boxes, book covers, etc., the color, materials, shape, size, etc., all have strict specifications.” “Take book covers as an example, they use a variety of colors and patterns. Brocade, Hangzhou fine and cloth are used as the surface, and nan board, Bin board and 60-layered backing paper are used as the inner board to make various forms. "Insert sets, four-in-one sets, six-in-one sets, swastika sets, wishful sets, cloud-head sets, etc."
"The books used on the sets are mostly camel bones, and some are ivory. There are various forms such as jade, wood, copper-plated and enamel. ”
"Book boxes and book boxes are mostly vermilion carved lacquer book boxes, red sandalwood book boxes, and nanmu book boxes. The outside of the book boxes are mostly decorated with inlays, gold plating, carved lacquer, gold tracing, filigree and other techniques."
"Bookmarks Yellow damask, blue damask, mud-gold paper, sprinkled gold paper are often used. It may be printed on paper or scripture paper, or it may be signed by a famous person and stamped with a red seal.”
After speaking, he pointed at the album cover and said, “This kind of blue damask patterned cardboard book cover is not for the imperial government. Yes, and the sticker of this bookmark is made of calendered plum blossom watermarked cocoon paper. This is The calligraphy of this bookmark is also unrestrained and unrestrained. It is imitated by a master of calligraphy in Shi Tao's regular script. This kind of calligraphy is used in the inner palace books. A serious violation of regulations is a violation of imperial power Blatant challenges and sabotage will be severely punished.”
“There is also this biezi. The bone biezi is mostly made of camel bones in the north and ox bones in the south. But this one is also special. It uses elephants. Bone.”
"Can you still see this?" Cui Ruzhuo was dumbfounded.
"Well, the ancient bone carvings used the leg and wrist bones of camels and cows, whichever is thickest and densest." Zhou Zhi said: "But it can't be compared with the leg and wrist bones of elephants. The difference is obvious. "
"You can see so much information at a glance?" Cui Ruzhuo was even more surprised: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Qi, could this be simple common sense in the industry?"
Master Ma can listen on the side Rolling his eyes, he was not very clever with this method of identifying collections and dating: "This common sense is not simple, it is a unique skill passed down to him by his fourth uncle."
"It's all heresy." Zhou Zhi smiled. Fake modesty: “ancient times The calligraphy and painting has been framed so many times that it has been handed down to this day. We can only judge the age of the last framed by looking at these, which is actually of little use, not to mention that even if it is framed, old materials can be used..."
"Well, it's just like the batch of ancient calligraphy and paintings from Shu University this time, right?" Mr. Ma teased angrily: "It was repaired as before using the techniques of a certain master, except that the paste was newly boiled. How extravagant are the cultural relics used to fill them up?”
“That’s what I donated, it’s not something from the public, you care about me?” "
"You can make it as hard as you can, I'll see how long it lasts..."
"Hehehe, Cao Sugong and Wangjie'an's are not bad at this..."
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Seeing that the two were about to start their daily bickering mode, Qi Lao nodded at the table: "Looking at things, looking at things, why are they getting further and further apart..."
"Wait a minute..." Cui Ruzhuo looked at Zhou Zhi as if he were looking at a ghost: "What do you mean? Those calligraphy and paintings in the new building of Shu University were actually restored by a little brother?!"
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