Chapter Ninety-Six: The Moon Shadow Lantern
Everyone felt that this painting made Tang Yin almost touch the edge of the grandmaster, and even if it was the work of the grandmaster, it could not be called the pinnacle of painting. The pinnacle of painting, maybe just a few people can paint it!
"It's already very precious. Qi Lao said.
There aren't many such paintings in the Palace Museum, right? They can almost be compared to the top ten famous paintings, and once they are placed at auction, they will definitely attract countless collectors of ancient paintings.
Everyone enjoyed it for a while, and "Begonia Spring Sleep Picture" was sent back by He Tan in person.
Xu Ping also returned to Dengfeng City to help remove the ancient lamp. Yang Fan had no intention of showing off this ancient lamp, these people didn't find it, and he didn't bother to say it, anyway, he was going to keep it for himself.
In terms of preciousness, this ancient lamp is slightly mythical, and it is more precious than the "Begonia Spring Sleep Picture".
Therefore, when He Tan asked him if he wanted to take it to auction, he flatly refused.
Also, the "Begonia Spring Sleeping Picture", he asked He Tan to send it to his teacher Jia Lao first, so that Jia Lao could appreciate it. At this time, Jia Lao was still at home, and he would officially go south tomorrow to "cast the net".
He Tan saw that the auction was not in a hurry, so he nodded very happily. He also wanted to visit Jia Lao for a long time, but there was no reason to come to the door.
"Brother Yang, what's so special about this ancient lamp?" Xu Ping knew Yang Fan very well. Knowing things in general, he couldn't possibly take them back and occupy a place to collect.
"In ancient times, it was called the magic lamp. However, this does not see anything. It's a lot of trouble to go back and test it, and it takes a special environment to show its magic. Yang Fan said.
He searched for the "memory" of the ancient lamp, memorized the special environment, and went back to create such an environment by himself, so as to exude the brilliance of the ancient lamp anew.
In addition, the lamppost of the ancient lamp was also somewhat damaged, and he had to find a way to repair it.
Those patterns and the like are fine, but there is a sentence on the lamppost, which was deliberately erased, probably to hide this magical ancient lamp!
Xu Ping listened to the speech, magic lamp? This is too exaggerated, right?
Back at home, Yang Fan first went to the underground treasure room to take a look, frowning slightly, the air and temperature environment here are still a little close, not enough to make the ancient lamp exude a magical brilliance.
He needed to create an environment where the air and temperature were unstable and uneven. It is not difficult to disturb the air, just take a fan or something, and the air will flow, which is naturally unstable and uniform.
It doesn't seem difficult to change the temperature, but if it's ancient times, it's really not easy to find a place with such conditions. In modern society, an air conditioner can solve the problem.
Turn on the air conditioner, the closer to the air conditioner, the lower the temperature, that is, the temperature in the room will not be constant, that is, it will not be uniform.
Moreover, the air conditioner blows cold air, so that the air is also unstable, which is enough to meet those two conditions.
"Help me find a candle. Yang Fan commanded.
He carefully uncovered the outer layer of lamppaper on the lampshade and restored its original appearance.
Fortunately, the guy didn't stick it directly with glue before, and he didn't tear off the original lamp paper and replace it with a new one, otherwise he would be in trouble.
It took him more than ten minutes to peel back the new layer of paper intact, revealing its original appearance.
This lamp paper is not an ordinary lamp paper, it should be specially made by some kind of technology, and Yang Fan can't find out. The memories he can trace now are pinched after the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, some information about manufacturing has always been vague.
There were no candles in the villa, Xu Ping had to go outside to buy them, and he didn't come back for a while.
Yang Fan touched the smoothed line of words on the lamppost, if it was not damaged, it should be: lonely and cold, the leaves on the tree, there is a sound of falling!
If it is repaired, it is to be recast, there should be no shortage of such professionals, right? However, Yang Fan doesn't know any of them. He pondered for a moment, pondering who to turn to. If you want to trouble the teacher? He must know an expert in this area.
As soon as he thought about it, his mobile phone rang, and it turned out to be Jia Lao's call.
"Begonia Spring Sleep Picture"? Yes, I found it today. I have asked He Tan to send it to you first. By the way, do you know anyone who repaired some of the relief characters on the bronze vessels?" Yang Fan brought up the matter by the way.
After Jia Lao confirmed, the whole person was extremely happy, and he felt that this disciple was really giving him a face. It is said that Hu Wei's kid also saw the painting, but he didn't find anything.
Just now, Tang Sancai's tone was very wrong, I'm afraid that Hu Wei's kid will have a hard time. At least the "amount of work" has increased.
When he heard that his disciple was looking for an expert to repair the bronze artifact, he wondered, "What bronze artifact do you have to repair?"
Generally speaking, metal antiques such as bronze ware will be worn or rusted after being refined by history. Naturally, there are many talents for restoration, and many museums have such professionals.
"I also found an ancient lamp, it has a line of words, it should be: lonely heart cold, leaves on the tree, falling sound! Yang Fan explained.
"Lonely heart is cold, the leaves on the tree, there is a sound falling......" Jia Lao silently read three times, his eyes widening suddenly.
"Yes...... But the Moon Shadow Magic Lamp?" Jia Lao's voice was a little wrong.
"I'm not 100% sure yet, but I'll find out in a moment. I'll experiment with it, and I'll send you the video later. Yang Fan said.
At this time, Jia Lao was already very serious.
"Okay, I'll wait for your news. ”
The Moon Shadow Lamp is a particularly deep and fantastic antique, there is a special lamp paper on the lampshade, in a specific environment, turn on this lamp, there will be a moon shadow wonder. It is a miraculous but long lost piece of ancient Chinese art.
However, there is very little information about it, and only a few words about it have been found in some texts, all of which indicate that it is a kind of fantastical artifact.
Later, based on its records, the world speculated that it was a kind of marquee.
The marquee lantern is one of the traditional festival toys and belongs to a type of lantern. It is commonly found in festivals such as Yuan Xi, Lantern Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. A candle is lit inside the lamp, and the heat generated by the candle causes air currents that spin the axle. There are paper-cuts on the axles, and the candlelight casts the shadows of the paper-cuts on the screen, and the images keep moving.
However, in the record, the Luna Magic Lantern is much more magical, and it is not as simple as simply rotating and allowing people to view the image on the lampshade.
Legend has it that the Moon Shadow Lantern could cast projections onto walls, tents, etc., as magical as today's movies.
The marquee lamp needs to be cut paper, but the moon shadow lamp does not, it seems that the special layer of lamppaper on the lampshade can be as wonderful as ever-changing.