Zhou Wentao was also anxious, and asked Yang Fan to accompany him to see antiques before he was full.

"Isn't that Baizi gourd just now bad?" Zhou Wentao asked.

Just now, a stall owner introduced him to a copper gourd called Baizi gourd. The body of the gourd is embossed with countless small figures, representing a hundred sons. Below is carved vertically with four golden characters of "Hundred Sons Wishing Birthday". At the bottom of the gourd there is the word "Qianlong Imperial System". It seems, very quaint.

Listening to the stall owner's explanation, it seems that the meaning is also very good, and it is also very good to celebrate birthdays.

"It's not very good, mainly because the gourd is not good enough. Yang Fan responded.

"Not right, what do you mean?" Zhou Wentao couldn't understand a little.

"If I'm not mistaken, the gourd is a feng shui gourd, also known as a magic weapon. It's just that for some reason, the aura of the gourd was destroyed. I don't know if you have noticed, the belly of the gourd just now is not very round, it is not straight enough to stand up, and it is a little deformed. ”

Yang Fan said it again with a simple theory, in general, the gourd is a remnant, and it is not very good to use it as a gift.

In addition, there is the issue of Feng Shui. Since it was a destroyed ritual weapon, it was likely to be stained with something bad, and people who believed in Feng Shui would definitely not want it.

This time, Zhou Wentao understood. Recalling the copper gourd just now, it seems that this is really the case, no wonder he always feels a little wrong, it turns out that this is the case.

The next stall owner learned that it was a birthday gift, and immediately pulled out a scroll of ink paintings.

"This picture of the immortals wishing their birthday is the most suitable. The stall owner's eyes revealed a shrewd look.

The thing stained with the immortal word immediately attracted Zhou Wentao's attention. The scenery above is indeed fairy-like, with some fairy figures flying around on the clouds.

"How's this one?"

Yang Fan shook his head: "It's not good, this painting is not complete, don't you see only half of the fairies on this side?"

Of course, he couldn't say that people were fakes to his face, so he had to dispel Zhou Wentao's interest from other aspects. As soon as you look at the paper, you know that it is new paper, you fool people to at least make it old, right?

He had also heard of this picture, which is said to be a masterpiece of Ren Bonian's figure paintings, with twelve panoramic screens depicting a total of sixteen figures. They are distributed on each painting, ranging from one to six.

Each figure is configured differently according to the different scenery, but they can be painted independently, without the feeling of fragmentation, and when put together, they are integrated and seamless.

The theme of the painting is the third day of the third lunar month, which coincides with the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West. The painter depicts the scene of the feast of the queen mother by depicting the scene of the gods going to the banquet in the air, at sea and on land.

Although the Birthday Celebration of the Immortals depicts the story of the legendary immortals, every move reflects the person's character and emotions. The picture scene is deep and the scenery is beautiful. It is not so much a fairy world of free and free pleasure, but a happy life and ideal state that people aspire to pursue.

Gongbi heavy color is an important tradition in Chinese folk New Year paintings, lacquer paintings, murals, Ren Bonian has made full play and application of this tradition in the "Birthday Celebration of the Immortals", and appropriately dealt with the distance and near perspective and the relationship between light and shade in the picture, so that the "Birthday Celebration of the Immortals" is also very different from the general Chinese painting works.

Ren Bonian is an outstanding painter in modern times, and is known as "the first hand after Zeng Bochen". His paintings of flowers, birds, and landscapes are also unique and unconventional. The famous painter Xu Beihong called him the first Chinese painter after Qiu Ying.

Zhou Wentao looked at it and was immediately surprised: "Really, boss, what about the others?"

In fact, he could also see that this was a modern print, and he deliberately asked this question to embarrass the stall owner.

The stall owner was a little embarrassed, he only had this one here. Moreover, he only now knows that it turns out that this is only a part.

"Ahem, if there was a whole picture, I wouldn't have to set up a stall here. Don't worry, I have other treasures here, how about you look at this, old birthday star, isn't it right to celebrate your birthday?"

Subsequently, the boss picked up a sculpture of an old birthday star. The sculpture is fist-large, ten centimeters high, carved with wax, and has a lifelike feeling.

"This thing is too ordinary. Zhou Wentao couldn't look at it.

He was also speechless to this stall owner, and always took some modern handicrafts to send him away. This kind of wax carving has been made by others on the spot in the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River before.

It is said that before making it, it takes a lot of time to collect some pictures and written materials for research, so that the posture, clothing, facial expressions and character of the wax figure are vividly depicted.

If Yang Fan knew what this guy was thinking, he would definitely roll his eyes.

Wax sculpture and wax statue are two different things, and the two concepts are completely different.

Wax sculpture is an emerging wax sculpture art, which uses solid wax and fiberglass materials as internal supports to express shapes and objects in an artistic way. Wax carving is different from wax figures, and wax carvings are not as realistic as wax figures, but they are easy to make.

Wax figures are much more complicated, and before making wax figures, they use clay to create a delicate statue and then turn it into a plaster cast, or use plaster clay to print a mold directly on the model's face and hands. Then, the prepared wax is poured into the groove and pressed out of the shape, then processed and modified, installed with a prosthetic eye, checked the hair and eyebrows, and dressed in skin color, etc.

Yang Fan had seen a wax figure in a history museum, it was a historical figure, it was very realistic, and the skin was the same as a real person, which startled him at the beginning.

The stall owner smiled embarrassedly, and realized that it was too ordinary, after all, the frequency of the old birthday star was too much, and it became not unusual.

"Wait, I'll help you find it. ”

Yang Fan is not too disgusted, China's birthday star is also the image of the Antarctic immortal, with a bulging head and a little bald, but it gives people the feeling of longevity with the sky.

In the eyes of Westerners, the birthday star is a planet, that is, the star A of the constellation Ca. As everyone knows, in ancient China, the people defined the birthday star as the formation of a star.

When the Qin Dynasty unified the world, it began to build the Shouxing Temple in the capital Xianyang to worship the Antarctic Old Man Star.

But the reason for worshipping him is very different from today. It is to the effect that when you see the birthday star, the world is peaceful, and if you don't see it, it indicates that there will be war. In the early astrological works, it was also said that if the color of the old man's star was dimmer or even completely absent, it would indicate that there would be war.

Taking a closer look at the birthday sculpture, Yang Fan was shocked, it's not simple!

He hurriedly spoke: "I look at this sculpture very well, how can there be an ordinary and not ordinary statement?"

As soon as these words came out, both the stall owner and Zhou Wentao were very surprised.

Yang Fan secretly gave Zhou Wen a look and asked him to buy this wax carving. Although Zhou Wentao didn't know what the situation was, he didn't expect Yang Fan to cheat him, so he took it without even telling the price.

The stall owner finally cast a grateful glance at Yang Fan, and the wax carving, which no one cared about, actually sold for 500 yuan.

In the new book period, it is very important to rush to the list, everyone is very helpful!