"You want to ask, since you lost and the jade dove head is gone, how can you still get this jade medal?" Cai Pengxi explained, "I'm conceited, and he's even more so." After winning, he took this jade plaque and said that he would give me another chance to ask me a question. If I say something wrong, I just need to admit that I am not as good as him, and if I am right, the jade plate will belong to me!"

"Oh. Yu Yao said, "This jade plaque is a bit unusual, although it also belongs to the Qianlong Dynasty Wushuang Spectrum Character Jade Plaque, but the front pattern is not a simple portrait of Yan Ziling, but Yan Ziling is integrated into the landscape and lonely boat; ”

In "Wushuang Spectrum", the text of Yan Ziling's character painting is: Although there is that, the smoke and rain of spring are rich, and the people return to seclusion.

This sentence is relatively straightforward, while Fan Ye's evaluation in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty is more profound and meaningful.

This also shows that the jade craftsman who carved this unparalleled jade plaque is by no means an ordinary craftsman, who likes "Unparalleled Spectrum", but is free and easy and not vulgar.

"You're quite right. The question he asked was also related to this. Cai Pengxi said, "He said, the jade craftsman who can have such an idea, although he has not left money, but he can also speculate. As long as I say who it is, and it makes sense, that's right!"

Yu Yao smiled, "Mr. Cai has extraordinary knowledge, this is really too conceited." ”

"Do you think this jade plaque is the handwriting of a master and master craftsman of the Qianlong Dynasty?" Cai Pengxi suddenly asked.

In the Qianlong Dynasty, there were still many masters and craftsmen in jade carving, and they were relatively close to this generation, and many of them had historical materials to check; moreover, the historical materials of the palace office were still very detailed.

Unlike Dong Jin, who was said by Cai Pengxi before, he was a master of jade carving in the Song Dynasty, but there are very few historical materials left; even Lu Zigang, who was famous in the Ming Dynasty, has more legends than historical materials that have been handed down to this day.

"Zhu Yongtai is good at large pieces and his style is simple and vigorous; Yao Zongren is good at appreciating antiquities, and his style is rigorous and refined. Their styles should not reveal this kind of ethereal spontaneity. Yu Yao groaned.

Zhu Yongtai and Yao Zongren can be regarded as the two most famous jade carving masters in the Qianlong period, and they are also famous court craftsmen.

Zhu Yongtai's most famous jade carving work, it is estimated that many people have heard of it, that is, Dayu Yushan Zi.

The full name of this work is "Milletta Mountain Jade Dayu Water Control Map". It is the Milletta mountain jade from the Hotan area, which belongs to the category of Hetian jade mountain material - this mountain is too big and cannot be a seed material.

It is two meters four tall and weighs more than 10,000 pounds. The raw materials will definitely be bigger and heavier. It took 10 years from the extraction of raw materials to the completion of the project! Of these, it took three years just to mine it from the mountain and transport it to the bottom of the mountain!

Of course, such a large piece of Yushanzi, design, proofing, painting, carving, polishing, etc., cannot be completed by Zhu Yongtai alone, but the carving is mainly done by him.

Dayu's water control jade mountain is now in the Forbidden City, and it is also the largest jade carving in the Qing Palace. Zhu Yongtai participated in the completion of the Qing Palace jade carving, not only this one, the famous Yunlong jade urn, and the Lanting Jade Mountain that has been lost overseas.

Like Zhu Yongtai, Yao Zongren is also a native of Suzhou. However, Yao Zongren entered the office earlier than Zhu Yongtai, during the Yongzheng Dynasty. Later, Emperor Qianlong paid more attention to him.

It is difficult to make the emperor heavy by jade carving alone, Yao Zongren is good at identifying ancient jade, and Qianlong prefers this mouth, and often looks for him to identify the authenticity.

Yao Zongren has made a lot of jade pieces such as jade ornaments, good at ancient ornamentation, exquisite craftsmanship, such as the two white jade axe-shaped pendants once exhibited in the Forbidden City, signed respectively "Qianlong year, Hongzi No. 7" and "Qianlong year, barren character No. 8", which can be found in the Qing court archives is his work.

However, this unparalleled character jade plaque does not look like his work.

Hearing Yu Yao say Zhu Yongtai and Yao Zongren, Cai Pengxi was not very surprised, these two people are very famous, if they didn't even know, he wouldn't ask Yu Yao this kind of question.

"Although Zhiting is good at poetry and writing, looking at the lettering on the back, it shouldn't be. Yu Yao continued to think and muttered to himself.

"Zhiting" is a style name, and Yu Yao doesn't know the real name of this palace jade carving master, but in the Qing Palace's hand-me-down works, there has been a "Zhiting" model. At the same time, he is particularly good at poetry and jade plaques, with ingenious and subtle ideas and clean carving.

However, the lettering style of Zhiting is elegant and elegant, and the grass lettering on the back of this unparalleled character jade plaque is not only elegant and reckless on the surface, but also implies a little madness.

Hearing Yu Yao say that Zhiting was self-denying again, Cai Pengxi couldn't help but look at Yu Yao, his eyes changed, but he still didn't speak.

At this moment, Yu Yao looked back at Cai Pengxi, "Mr. Cai, this should be the work of Master Zhu Shiyun! And it should be designed and carved by him after he escaped from the Qing Palace!"

Cai Pengxi smiled on his back, then lowered his head and patted his palm, "The future is terrible, the future is terrible, the future is terrible!"

Zhu Shiyun, a master of jade carving in Suzhou during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, is best at carving words on jade. After his fame in Suzhou, he was selected by Suzhou Weaving and sent to the Qing Palace.

However, Zhu Shiyun is the same as his name, Shi Yun is uncertain, he is an indifferent and reckless person, he has been in the office for more than a year, and he actually found an excuse to get sick, secretly ran out of the palace, and never returned.

After a long time, he couldn't find anyone in the office, so he went directly to Suzhou with an official document and asked the Suzhou government to investigate and deal with it! Yu Yao hadn't read any more historical materials, and he didn't know what happened to Zhu Shiyun. However, he had seen some jade artifacts suspected to be made by Zhu Shiyun, and some of them were also engraved.

Although it is only pictures and video materials, although it cannot be completely identified without a signature, with Yu Yao's eyesight at this time, it can basically be clarified that this unparalleled character jade plate is Zhu Shiyun's style;

Another point is that the master Zhu Shiyun's sneaking out of the palace reflects his character; this jade plaque, whether it is the design features, or the composition and font that reveal the spontaneity in the elegant, are all in line with his character.

Seeing Cai Pengxi's appearance, Yu Yao of course knew that he was right, "If you don't look closely, you don't know, this unparalleled character jade plate has such a background." At the very least, in terms of market value, it will never lose to this jade dove head!"

"Market value and preference are two different things. Fortunately, I now have a chance to get my jade dove's head back. ”

Yu Yao nodded, but the two questions in his heart became more and more intense, he thought about it, and asked this one first: "Old man, you Doubao at that time, what was it that made you go?"