The business model of the Shi Mai family is indeed in line with the high-end old line of "talking and laughing with great scholars, and no idle people". It is closely related to social celebrities at that time, Sichuan literati, painting masters and many other cultural celebrities in Sichuan, such as Zeng Huanru, Fang Hezhai, Zhao Xi, Yin Zhongxi , Lin Shanfu, Liu Yubo and others have close relations. People often gather at the Shi Maid's house to learn about the past and present, sing poems and paintings, and are known as the "Five Elders and Seven Sages".
In 36 years, Zheng Ciqing's son Zheng Boying took over the management of Shi Maid's family, and added woodcut watermarks, color name notes and other business items.
During the Anti-Japanese War, famous masters such as Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Huang Junbi, Feng Zikai, Xie Wuliang, etc. came to Shu one after another. The exquisite decoration and exquisite pen and ink of the Poetry Maiden Family were favored, and the masters all relied on poetry. The maid's house became a frequent visitor to Shi's maid's house. Most of the woodcut and watermarked poems and paper notebooks produced by Shi Maijia were written by famous artists at that time. Xie Wuliang said that they were "exquisitely carved and deeply rooted in ancient meanings, and should be taken by an elegant gentleman."
Wartime Traffic Blockade, shortage of rice paper, Zhang Daqian and Zheng Boying went to Jiajiang to study papermaking techniques. The two combined rice paper and bamboo paper crafts, added hemp, mulberry, cotton and other ingredients to the bamboo paper raw materials, and developed "Daqian calligraphy and painting paper", which has excellent paper quality and is well-known all over the world. inside and outside.
This was the most glorious moment for the Shijia family, and it also left many famous treasures to the Shijia family, which became the foundation for the establishment of the Shijia Art Museum.
However, Zhou Zhi felt that there was something wrong with the main business of the Shijia family. The large framing shop that was once as famous as Rongbaozhai is no longer famous for framing. Most of the woodcut watermarked poems and paper pink books are in stock. Instead, the four treasures of the study and The art auction was a success.
Although the profitability is much stronger than that of Gongmei, Zhou Zhi still feels that the legacy of the past is missing, which is a pity.
“As far as the decoration is concerned, Shu workers should have been as famous as Yang workers and Beijing workers.” Zhou Zhi still said it: “It’s a pity.”
“Jiangshan generation Talented people come out." Mr. Qi smiled and said, "You are the one with the elbow. New Sichuan workers? That’s good to understand.”
“But I haven’t seen anyone from Shiyi’s family come to me...” Zhou Zhi couldn’t help but shook his head: “I still have experience in repairing Zhang Daqian’s paintings. Jiang Zhuzhi’s understanding is not weak either.”
"With your worth, besides voluntary labor, who else can afford you now?" Mr. Wang rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi.
“Am I worthy?” Zhou Zhi was a little confused.
"I'm a little proud of my elbow." Chen Shizhong said: "If you don't have any worth, who will? Count the things you have cultivated, and others will be daunted by it when they hear it."
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"Ah this..." Zhou Zhi didn't expect that what he had done would be seen by someone who was interested, and he couldn't help but feel stupid.
"Hehehehe..." Chen Shizhong was startled when he saw Zhou Zhi, and then said: "I am also engaged in the appreciation and collection of ancient paintings. There is a young dark horse in the industry. Of course I should pay attention to it."
"The treasures just mentioned are generally dry-framed and can last a lifetime. It's a great adventure if you get one. Hey, it's as easy as cooking a plate of Dong Lai Shun!"
"Wait a minute, Mr. Chen, what does this have to do with wealth? ”
“The worth we are talking about is the merit of the mounting work. "Powerful." Qi Lao felt that Zhou Zhi was a very clever person, but he was acting like a fool today: "The Shiji family mainly collects works by modern painters, so there is no need for a master like you, so you suddenly feel that you are very valuable." ? Hahahaha..."
"Don't forget the works of the four great masters that Jiuzi brought this time." Zhou Zhanlin reminded: "Not to mention whether it is the original work of the four great masters of the Six Dynasties, at least the Song Dynasty's copy or authorized copy has not escaped. Not to mention anything else, the Mi Fu painting Can ordinary people cultivate the postscript? ”
"Uh..." Zhou Zhi quickly waved his hand: "Everything I brought this time, all the text was edited by my fourth cousin. I was the one who edited the pictures."
"That's it... ..." Zhou Zhanlin nodded secretly as he spoke. Zhou Zhi felt that the old man had not yet said the word "no wonder".
It seems that I still haven’t met the old man’s requirements, and I have to go further.
The next day, several old men continued to study the paintings taken out of the safe. Zhou Zhi was taken by the old men to the appraisal laboratory of the National Museum of China to examine the materials and part of the surface that had been removed from the back mounting of the calligraphy and painting. Mounted silk brocade for scientific identification.
There are many methods of identification, and the carbon isotope method is one of the most important scientific methods for identifying organic remains.
It is conceivable that the samples handed down from ancient times must be very seriously contaminated. These scrolls may have been framed in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, so the lower limit of age is not important, the key is the upper limit.
In fact, Zhou Zhi judged from his own experience that the backing of several silk volumes should be the classic "jade paper" of the Song Dynasty.
Jade-printed paper was available everywhere in the Song Dynasty. Yuan Fei wrote "Shu Jianpu": "Today, wood skin is used as paper, but in Sichuan, Cai Lun's method is used everywhere. Jade-printed paper has jade plates and tribute paper. The remainder has sutra scraps and surface gloss. "Shaoxing Fuzhi" also states that "the jade plate paper is as smooth as jade"
Chapter 60 of "A Brief History of Civilization": "It turned out to be a hand scroll of Tang Liuru's 'Hell in Disguise'... with the lining paper of the old Xuanzhou Jade Edition affixed to it.". Not only does it show that jade-block paper was produced in Xuanzhou, but it also shows that it was used as a lining paper for ancient calligraphy and painting.
This kind of paper is commonly called half-cooked Xuan, which is between raw Xuan and cooked Xuan. Its water absorption capacity is worse than raw Xuan, but not as good as cooked Xuan. As a backing for calligraphy and painting, it is very suitable for both paper and silk.
In the Song Dynasty, jade-block paper was generally sent as tribute from Xuanzhou and Sichuan. Some important rulers and imperial edicts were mounted on silk and jade-block paper into scrolls and submitted to the Hanlin Academy for writing.
The Bada Tuanhua Brocade is one of the main varieties of Song Brocade. Also known as "Ba Da Hao" and "Ba Da Hao".
The pattern is the basic skeleton of the pattern made of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines in the format of the word "meter", and a square, circular and polygonal frame is placed at the intersection of the vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines. ;The frame is filled with various geometric patterns.
It got its name because the lines communicate with each other and radiate in eight directions, which means "eight roads are connected".
Badahao originated in the Five Dynasties and began to change in the Song Dynasty. The rules are rigorous, complex but not chaotic, and the colors are red, green, yellow, and colorful, showing a solemn and vigorous style, achieving a very high artistic effect of brocade cloth.
The Bada brocade of the Song Dynasty uses three warp plane twills as the ground, and the colorful weft lines show the flowers. The patterns are dark red, blue, light blue, green, golden, dark green, ocher, light red, black, white, etc. color composition.
The water-proof brocade noodles brought by Zhou Zhi are composed of large and small eight-petal patterns and vertical intersecting straight bars, with the center decorated with a series of Ruyi patterns and lotus seeds. The brocade surface that drags water is composed of an eight-petal pattern and the gaps between the straight bars are covered with "rectangular patterns" commonly seen on bronze vessels.
No matter what kind of pattern, the patterns are clear in layers, the colors are solemn, and they have a very high artistic level.
Zhou Zhi himself was very sure that both the paper on the back and the silk brocade on the surface were from the Song Dynasty. Bringing him here for experiments was actually not to convince himself, but to convince others. (End of this chapter)