No matter what, as long as there is a possibility, it is impossible for this jade dragon to give up, so he called Zhong Jinxian aside to discuss. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Meng Zitao said apologetically: "Brother Xian, this jade dragon pendant is useful to me, can you agree to her request?"

"What's the use?" Zhong Jinxian was a little curious.

"It's hard to say yet, I'll tell you later. ”

Meng Zitao did not intend to deceive Zhong Jinxian, and then said: "As for Tian Huangshi, leave it to me, within a month, I will find a satisfactory one for you, do you want ornaments, handles or chapter materials?"

With Meng Zitao's words, Zhong Jinxian was no longer entangled, and said with a smile: "I will definitely rest assured that I have your packing ticket, and you can find me a handle piece when the time comes." ”

"Okay. ”

The two walked back, and Zhong Jinxian said directly: "Okay, I'll give you this piece of Tianhuang, but this piece of jade has to be given to my brother." ”

Meng Zitao said: "I will not take advantage of you, and the price will be given to you at the market price." ”

Seeing that Zhong Jinxian agreed, the woman almost cheered happily, and hurriedly said, "Since I promised to give it to you, I don't need the money for the jade pendant." ”

Meng Zitao said: "This will definitely not work, I have my principles. ”

Zhong Jinxian took over and said: "Yes, I don't lack your money, I can do whatever I want, otherwise this matter will be forgotten." ”

When the woman heard this, she had to agree, so the four of them went to a nearby bank to transfer money.

"Thank you so much, if you can call me in the future, I will definitely try my best to help. ”

Coming out of the bank, Chu Xiaoyun took out a private business card and handed it to Meng Zitao and Zhong Jinxian, and expressed his gratitude.

Zhong Jinxian was too lazy to be verbose, so he took the business card out of politeness, and then gave Meng Zitao a look and left immediately.

After walking for a while, Zhong Jinxian couldn't help but complain: "What kind of blood mold did I pour here, I can actually meet such a girl, Made, if it was a man, I would definitely do it just now." ”

"There will be gains, and maybe it will bring you good luck." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "And today is also considered to be the fulfillment of me, I have your Tianhuang, or do I give you this Capricorn pot? ”

"Capricorn pot?"

Zhong Jinxian looked at the inconspicuous-looking pot in Meng Zitao's hand and asked, "Isn't Capricorn like an antelope with a head and a fish with a body and tail?" ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "You are talking about the mount of the god of water in Hindu mythology, and this pot is actually a Capricorn fish." It is a kind of sacred fish in Buddhism, the body of the dragon's head fish, and its status is similar to the river god in our country. ”

Zhong Jinxian pointed to the spout and said, "That's not right, you're obviously not the head of the dragon, right?"

Meng Zitao said: "This is also for a reason, the Capricorn fish, like the dragon, phoenix and unicorn in our country, are all ornaments that integrate several animals by imagination. This ornamentation appeared around the middle of the third century A.D. and was introduced to China in the fourth century A.D. ”

"From the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, there were sometimes Capricorn fish as decorations, among which the Tang Liao gold and silver ware and the Song Yaozhou kiln porcelain were the most. During this period, the appearance of the Capricorn fish will also change somewhat, not that it must be the body of the dragon head fish to say that it is a Capricorn fish. ”

Zhong Jinxian asked, "Then what period are you?"

Meng Zitao said: "This Capricorn pot, the tire is soft, light red, is a kind of low-temperature glazed pottery produced in the Liao Dynasty. Because the porcelain clay and the glazed clay in the Liao Dynasty were fired, the bonding was not very good, so there were several green glazes at the bottom of the pot, but it did not reduce its rough beauty at all. ”

"And how much is this Mojie pot worth?"

"It's about the same as the Jade Dragon Pei, 300,000. ”

Zhong Jinxian was a little speechless when he heard the price: "Although I didn't notice how much money you spent just now, it must be a few thousand yuan at most, and the value of kung fu has actually appreciated to about 300,000 yuan in the blink of an eye, and this money is really easy to earn." ”

Meng Zitao laughed and said, "You can't say that, what if you hit the eyes? Maybe millions of them will be wiped out." ”

Zhong Jinxian glanced at him: "Come on, I haven't heard of you yet." ”

"Talking about such a shameful thing, can I still make it known to the world?"

Meng Zitao waved his hand: "Don't talk about it, do you want this thing?"

Zhong Jinxian was a little surprised: "You really plan to give it to me?"

Meng Zitao said, "Sure, why are you looking at me so strangely?"

Zhong Jinxian stretched out his hand and touched his chin, and said, "I'm thinking, you are actually willing to let me earn more than 300,000 yuan for nothing, and that jade pendant is worth it to me." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "I'll tell you the truth, this jade dragon pendant is estimated to be worth about 300,000 yuan at most for others, but the meaning for me is not simple, but it's still the same sentence, I'll tell you at a convenient time." ”

"God babble. Zhong Jinxian was a little bored, and then asked, "Where are we going next?"

Meng Zitao said: "I am going to buy some four treasures of the study. ”

Zhong Jinxian asked, "Do you use it to practice calligraphy?"

"It's not. Meng Zitao explained: "My master told me before that after the competition, he would take me to visit a friend of his, and I had to prepare some gifts for the first visit, and my master's friend loved calligraphy, so I was going to buy some." Do you know a better stationery store nearby?"

Zhong Jinxian spread his hands: "I don't care about this, why don't you ask Brother Cheng?"

Meng Zitao looked at the time: "It's still early, let's go shopping for a while, and if you can't find it, ask Brother Cheng." ”

After walking a few steps, the two found a stationery store, and when they walked in, they smelled a faint scent of sandalwood.

"Two little brothers, do you need anything?" The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man with some demeanor, and he was still holding a thread-bound ancient book in his hand, which he was reading just now.

"Shopkeeper, I want to buy the four treasures of the study, I don't know if there is any good introduction?"

While Meng Zitao spoke, he looked at this shop, the area here is not large, but the layout is well organized, pen, ink, paper, inkstone is definitely indispensable, in addition to the pen pen, arm rest, poetry holder, pen holder, pen holder, pen wash and other stationery supplies, it can be said that the sparrow is small and gallbladder.

"I have a set here, and the quality is pretty good. ”

The shopkeeper pointed to the four treasures on the shelves next to him and said: "In addition, if you want a better one, then you can only choose it separately, but if it is better, the price is a bit expensive." ”

Meng Zitao said: "I'll match it alone, as long as the price is worth the money, please give me a few better lake pens first." ”

"It's a coincidence, I've just entered a couple of double sheep brand lake pens. ”

The store took two boxes from the shelves: "This is a set of two boxes of 8 wooden sheep wool brushes produced in 1980 such as 'Yuan, Jian, Qi, Jian, Chunhui, Xia Lian, Qiu Ju, and Dongmei', you can see if you are satisfied." ”

Meng Zitao and Zhong Jinxian walked over to take a look, and found that they were indeed very good brushes, which met Meng Zitao's requirements.

Meng Zitao asked the price and nodded: "Yes, I want these two boxes of lake pens." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Okay, then what kind of rice paper do you want, raw or cooked?"

Zhong Jinxian didn't think about it, and blurted out: "Needless to say, of course it's a birth announcement." ”

Meng Zitao shook his head: "Who said that I want to be born Xuan, I want to be better Shuxuan." ”

"Ahh

Nowadays, in the domestic book world, except for a very small number of people who choose Shuxuan when writing Xiaokai, the vast majority of them use Shengxuan as the carrier of writing, so Zhong Jinxianjue's choice of Mencius is very strange.

Meng Zitao said: "My master's friend likes to write words in Shu Xuan for more than ten years, so of course I bought Shu Xuan." ”

Zhong Jinxian muttered, "It's weird. ”

Meng Zitao said: "What's strange, it's just that he is still ancient." ”

Zhong Jinxian was surprised and said: "According to your meaning, the ancients all used Shuxuan to write?"

"Before the Qing Dynasty, some names were basically written in Shuxuan. ”

Meng Zitao talked eloquently: "For example, Wang Xizhi's representative works in the Jin Dynasty 'Lanting Preface', 'Sunny Post when the Snow is Fast', Wang Xun's 'Boyuan Post', Wang Xianzhi's 'Duck Head Pill Post', Ouyang Xun's representative work in the Tang Dynasty 'Dream Dian Post', Yan Zhenqing's representative work 'Sacrifice Nephew Manuscript', Liu Gongquan's 'Mengzhao Post', to Su Shi's 'Cold Food Post' in the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian's 'Zhuzao Post', to Zhao Mengfu's 'Book of Breaking Hands' in the Yuan Dynasty, and to Dong Qichang's 'Le Yi Theory' in the Ming Dynasty and so on. ”

"The paper used in all these masterpieces is "ripe" paper without exception, regardless of the coarse and fine paper (among which individual silk books are also "ripe"), and the structure of the strokes is all delicate, clear and clear, without impregnation but showing the spirit, which is not the same as the feeling of 'ink and wash translucent and dripping' written by today's people with Shengxuan. ”

After listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, Zhong Jinxian had a question in his heart: "In this case, why do you use Shengxuan to write now?"

Meng Zitao explained: "You may not know much about this point if you don't practice calligraphy, in fact, you will not be used to writing with Shengxuan at first, and then you can use its strong absorbent characteristics to make the characters become a lot of 'moist', not only have a rhyme, but also easier to cover up a variety of 'bald, sharp, dewy, forked, astringent' and other problems caused by the lack of penmanship." ”

"Many people who learn characters are easy to behave 'arbitrarily' rather than 'rigorous' after mastering a certain method of concluding characters, which is probably also related to the characteristic of shengxuan. ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "This little brother is right, in fact, in addition to this reason, I think it is also related to the fact that the characters in the calligraphy world today are generally written relatively large, much larger than the ancients." ”

Zhong Jinxian asked, "Why is that?"

Meng Zitao replied: "Because of the strong water absorption of Shengxuan, it is more hearty and unrestrained when writing large characters, and it is difficult to express the strokes calmly due to ink leakage when the characters are small. ”

Coupled with the major changes in the tools and methods of modern daily writing, people have almost irreversibly abandoned the writing of small characters with brushes, coupled with the requirements for the enlargement of the furnishings in the living room, the visual consideration of various exhibitions and competitions, etc., so that the stage of Shengxuan has become more and more enlarged, and Shuxuan has almost been squeezed out of the stage of mainstream calligraphy. ”

Zhong Jinxian said clearly: "In this way, the change between raw and mature Xuan should be created by the changes of the times. By the way, do you prefer to write in cooked Xuan or raw Xuan?"

Meng Zitao said: "I don't care, as long as the paper is good, raw and cooked Xuan can be fine." ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I still have four knives in the eighties of the Red Star Pure Skin Ripe Xuan, but the price is relatively expensive." ”

Meng Zitao's eyes lit up, the Red Star Jingpi in the eighties was not easy to find, and he hurriedly said: "I'm sorry for you to take them out, as long as the things are okay, I want them." ”

"Please wait. ”

The shopkeeper walked to the back, opened a safe, took out a well-packaged four-knife rice paper, and walked back with it in his hand.

As soon as Meng Zitao got started, he knew that these rice papers were genuine, and hurriedly asked the price, the price given by the store was very reasonable, and Meng Zitao also asked for all of them, he was ready to give three knives to the master's friend, and the remaining one knife was used by himself.

Zhong Jinxian put away his mobile phone and said with a smile: "Zitao, can you help me write a famous quote?"

"No problem, I'll write it for you when I get back. Such a simple request, Meng Zitao agreed to it.

Zhong Jinxian smiled: "Don't go back, just write it for me here." ”

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Meng Zitao was a little strange.

Zhong Jinxian explained: "This is what Meng Meng asked for one of her uncles from a treasure island, and her uncle is about to fly back, so he is in a hurry." ”

Meng Zitao said: "In that case, why didn't she say it earlier?"

Zhong Jinxian shrugged his shoulders: "This girl said that she just thought of it." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and shook his head: "Did she say that she wanted to write any famous words?"

Zhong Jinxian said: "Just write the four words 'quiet and far-reaching', and try to make it as big as possible. ”

Meng Zitao said: "The characters should be bigger, and it is better to use shengxuan." ”

Zhong Jinxian asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, do you have a better life?"

The store introduced: "My best cooked Xuan is Red Star Tepi, which must be bought together with four dollars, at least 20,000 yuan." ”

According to the different proportions of ginseng skin, Shengxuan is also called cotton, net skin, and special skin (special net skin).

Among them, cotton refers to the paper with a sandalwood content of about 40% of the raw material, which is thinner and lighter, and is generally used for calligraphy; net leather refers to a sandalwood content of more than 60%, which is suitable for flowers and birds; special leather refers to the content of raw material sandalwood reaches more than 80%, which is mainly used for freehand.

Generally speaking, the heavier the leather composition, the better the paper can withstand tensile forces and the better the quality. The corresponding use effect is that the higher the proportion of sandalwood paper, the more it can reflect the rich ink level and better ink effect, the more strong the sense of ink, the more it can withstand the repeated rubbing of the pen force and the paper will not break.

This may be one of the reasons why the majority of calligraphy uses cotton rice paper and the majority of leather paper for painting, of course, it is not that it cannot be written with net leather and special leather paper, but cotton rice paper has basically been able to meet the needs of calligraphy.

Meng Zitao said: "Actually, it is enough to use clean skin, and special clean skin is a bit wasteful. ”

Zhong Jinxian waved his hand: "It's okay, of course you have to take the best when you give it away, shopkeeper, you go and take out the paper, the money is on my head." ”

The shopkeeper smiled slightly, and after a while, he took out the rice paper.

The rice paper also has a size, and the store took out a six-foot special pure shengxuan, which is also a few years, and Meng Zitao felt that it was worth its money.

"Shopkeeper, please help me get a better lake pen. ”

"Is it okay for a 90-year-old lake pen?"

"No problem, besides, do you have ink ingots here?"

"Yes. The shopkeeper said, "However, I will tell you the truth, the price of ink ingots varies greatly depending on the age and quality. ”

Zhong Jinxian said bluntly: "Don't bother, just take a set of paper at the same price." ”

The shopkeeper hesitated: "This ...... Little brother, with all due respect, this kind of ink is a little less. ”

Meng Zitao immediately understood the meaning of the shopkeeper's words, nothing more than suspecting that he was not good enough to use such good ink. To be honest, the storekeeper's statement seems a bit nosy, but Meng Zitao appreciates his attitude that his love for things is more important than making money.

Moreover, Meng Zitao also felt that it was almost enough to use a better quality ink, and it was not necessary to use such a good ink, but Zhong Jinxian disagreed, and he must let the store take out the ink.

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the shopkeeper had a plan not to take out the ink ingot, but he could see that Zhong Jinxian should not be a person to be messed with, so he still took out the ink in order not to make trouble.

In addition, Meng Zitao also asked for a few ink ingots from the fifties and sixties as gifts.

Meng Zitao opened the ink cartridge and saw that there were four pieces of Yutang ink made by Zhan Dayou, a famous ink maker in the Qing Dynasty, with a market value of about 18,000.

After that, Zhong Jinxian made the decision to choose an inkstone for Meng Zitao, but was stopped by Meng Zitao, and he himself chose two inkstones worth four or five thousand, one for the master's friend, and the other for his own daily use.

asked the store for some water, Zhong Jinxian was a little impatient to do it: "Zitao, I'll help you study ink." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and asked, "Do you know how to grind ink?"

Zhong Jinxian said: "Isn't it okay to pour water into it?"

"You are a second goods, and you will be ruined if you grind ink ingots. Meng Zitao laughed and scolded and pushed Zhong Jinxian to the side.

"What, is there anything else to pay attention to in Yanmo?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense?"

Meng Zitao poured a little water into the inkstone, and then said while grinding ink: "As the old saying goes, light ink grinding, heavy licking pen." Light ink grinding refers to not being impatient and not gravitationally pressing the ink ingot. The grinding surface of the ink ingot should be placed flat on the inkstone, and the force should be even, the speed should be uniform, and the grinding should be carried out in one direction. The ink developed in this way is delicate and easy to use. ”

"In addition, when putting water, don't put too much water at a time, put a small amount of water first, and then add water as needed after the ink has a certain concentration. until you have enough ink to grind in one go. Because if the water is enough at one time, it is easy to splash or shake out when grinding, and then add water one by one when there is a certain concentration, so this problem is avoided. ”

Looking at Meng Zitao's skillful ink grinding, the shopkeeper next to him breathed a sigh of relief, at least judging from Meng Zitao's technique, he should have a little level, and he should not destroy the ink ingot.

Before grinding the ink, Meng Zitao had already made preparations for opening the pen, soaking the brush in clean water, and when he finished studying the ink, the pen was also sharp, so he laid out the paper, brewed his emotions, and began to write.

Mencius used the chapter cursive writing, which is the calligraphy he is best at now, the first "Ning" word fell the last stroke, and the shopkeeper standing next to him was already dumbfounded, looking at the words on the paper, as if falling into a dream, I couldn't believe that this word would actually be written by Mencius in his early twenties.

Meng Zitao left his knowledge without distraction, and then took out a seal from his bag, dipped it in some vermilion ink, and printed it on the paper.

"Okay, what do you think?" Meng Zitao was still quite satisfied with the handwriting in front of him, during this period of practice, he had absorbed at least ninety percent of Zhang Zhi's experience, and the next thing was the kung fu of the water mill, and it was impossible to improve as quickly as before.

Zhong Jinxian pointed to the words on the paper and said: "You ask me how the words are, it's completely about Niu Tanqin, but, although I don't understand the calligraphy, at least you are the best among the calligraphy I have seen in the past, sometimes I really want to study you to see if it is a monster." ”

The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, Meng Zitao hurriedly reminded himself that he must pay more attention in the future, and he must be low-key.

After buying pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and writing the words, Meng Zitao was about to settle the bill, but saw the shopkeeper looking at him with a smile on his face.

Meng Zitao asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have something to do?"

"This ...... Small...... Mr. Meng (I saw the payment), I have a presumptuous request, I don't know if I can ask you for a word? ”

In the end, the shopkeeper's face was a little red, and he felt that he was too embarrassed, but he was an expert, and he could see that Meng Zitao's calligraphy could fully reach the level of a master.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Teacher Meng, if you agree, I will give you these pen, ink, paper and inkstones, and in addition, I will give you a white jade pen, please wait a while." ”

After speaking, the shopkeeper didn't care whether Meng Zitao agreed or not, and walked back to the safe, took out a box from it, and came back and put it on the table.

Inside the box is a white jade pen, the body of the brush is made of a whole piece of white jade, the quality is fine and the color is smooth, and the whole body is the same. The upper part of the jade rod is continuous with the Yin ring rhombus line, and the rest of the parts are not decorated, and the polishing is exquisite.

The current market value of a white jade pen of such quality is about 100,000 yuan, plus the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, it can be said that in order to ask for a word from Mencius, the store spent a lot of money. (To be continued.) )