70. Millennial masterpieces
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When Xuan Le was listening to Gu Lao explain the origin of the painting case, Zhang Lao suddenly shouted again: "Everyone look for it, this painting case has a mechanism, and the famous works of the painting saint and the murals are all in this table!"
The light in the living room of the old house was bright and soft, and Zhang Lao inadvertently looked at the table from the side and found that the lacquer layer of the painting concealed another explanation, to the effect that Wu Daozi's descendants and his disciples had preserved Wu Daozi's lifelong paintings, some manuscripts, and later preserved Wu Daozi's self-portraits, paintings, and works in the form of lacquerware. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Later, in the Anshi Rebellion, Wu Daozi's descendants invited another clever craftsman to add another layer of lacquerware to the outside of the painting, and many years later, Wu Daozi's descendants could not afford to hide this painting and draft, because Wu Daozi had painted murals for many temples, so he sent the painting to a famous temple.
In order to fit the temple place, the temple invited a craftsman to modify the exterior of the painting, and at the same time added a lacquer layer to the outside of the painting, and since then the painting has been retained in the abbot's room of the temple.
After Elder Chang explained what he had seen, everyone immediately gathered around the table and began to look for it, and it seemed that except for the four thick table legs, there was nothing hidden anywhere.
Li Yi, who already knew this, pretended to touch his chin and whispered to Gu Lao:
"Teacher, let's turn the table over and take a look!"
Gu Lao got up and looked at Li Yi, didn't say anything, waved his hand to the guard at the door, and soon Shao Wu and the others walked in.
"Xiao Wu, you guys help turn the painting case over!"
Since there was no suitable place to put the tabletop in the living room, in order to avoid damage to the paint layer of the tabletop, Shao Wu, Hu Jun, Chen Xin, and Lu Bin had to carry the table back.
After the table was turned over, Zhang Lao, who was proficient in the imitation of ancient furniture, soon found that the four legs and waist guards of the painting case could all be taken down, and with everyone's help, soon the four legs and four waist guards of the painting case were all taken off.
The table legs are hollow, it is a painting tube used to hide paintings, the flat waist guard is a flat large wooden box, after opening, Zhang Lao and other five old people with white gloves carefully table legs, the wooden box is opened, there are many painting scrolls of different sizes and lengths, and there are some unframed calligraphy and painting manuscripts.
"Send the son of the Heavenly King!"
With the opening of the first painting, it was the famous picture of the Heavenly King of Sending His Son, and suddenly everyone present to see this painting was petrified again, Zhang Lao was better, Gu Lao, Ma Lao, and Li Lao were all nervous, Kuang Lao, who had just fainted once, was short of breath, Yu Meiting was worried about her grandfather's body, and helped Kuang Lao to sit on the sofa to the side to rest.
"Elder Zhang, can Elder Ma tell if it's genuine?"
Gu Lao himself can also identify calligraphy and painting, but in the face of Zhang Lao, who is also a teacher and friend, he must show due respect, as for Ma Lao, although he is not good at painting, he still has a hand in appraising calligraphy and painting.
Zhang Lao used a magnifying glass to carefully look at the picture of the Heavenly King, shook his head, and nodded: "After all, there is no authentic painting of Wu Daozi handed down to the world, looking at this painting compared with those works copied by various generations, it should be genuine, but further confirmation is needed!"
After Shao Wu found that the air in the house had become tense and heavy, he knew that there had been a major discovery, and hurriedly notified the outside to increase the sentry post, and no outsiders were allowed to enter.
"Ah, this is a picture of hell in disguise!"
The second painting is the only one alone in a table leg, opened by Ma Lao with great interest, Zhang Lao and others were dumbfounded again after seeing it, compared to sending the son of the king picture, this painting may be more famous, there is a very interesting allusion to this painting, in order to educate the world, Wu Daozi and Chang'an left a mural of hell in disguise on the wall of the temple, as a result, after the butcher saw it, he immediately gave up the business of making a killing industry, and suddenly Chang'an became a good land.
Because the picture scroll of hell in disguise is too long, the four elders only saw a part, after all, these paintings have been preserved for many years, and if they are not careful, they are likely to be destroyed, if it were not for the thick lacquer layer on the outside of the painting that plays the role of isolating the air and maintaining temperature, plus most of them have been retained in the temple for thousands of years, these paintings are likely to have been adhered to or broken.
As the sixteen painting scrolls were opened one by one, the living room, dining room, and studio of Gu's old family were all covered with white cloth, and on the white cloth were Wu Daozi's peerless handwritings.
Although there are many scrolls found in the painting case, there are not many authentic paintings of Wu Daozi, because many of them take several scrolls to form a complete painting, among which there are as many as eight scrolls in hell in disguise.
After Zhang Lao and Gu Lao Si Lao confirmed the authenticity of Wu Daozi's paintings, Li Yi accompanied Kuang Lao, who had recovered his spirit, to begin to screen again, Kuang Lao from the framing process, the characteristics of the painting rice paper, painting techniques, artistic achievements, etc., confirmed that the picture of sending the son of Tianwang and the disguised picture of hell is genuine, and many other works should also belong to the Tang Dynasty works, according to the records on the painting case, it should be able to confirm that it is Wu Daozi's disciples to commemorate the teacher's addendum.
When Zhang Lao and other old people carefully opened the three wooden boxes in turn, they found a large number of Wu Daozi's works on people, landscapes, Buddhism, gods and ghosts, birds and beasts, and pavilions that had not been recorded in historical books, and a large number of these works existed in the form of picture albums, and their artistic achievements were peerless.
"Sister Ke'er, being able to appreciate such exquisite and artistic achievements in this life has greatly inspired and inspired me to pursue the art of painting in this life!"
Ke'er, Yu Meiting, and Kuang Yuanfei were about to take pictures of the true handiwork of Wu Daozi they saw in front of them, when suddenly Gu Lao said very unhappily:
"Can't take pictures, these are national art treasures, you can see today is already a great luck, today's things are not allowed to be passed on, when these national treasures return to the Palace Museum, I will give you a collector's edition of the copy album!"
When Ke'er and the others heard Gu Lao's words, they all felt a pang in their hearts, in this great discovery, Li Yi's harvest was the greatest, and the picture of sending the son of the Heavenly King and the Hell in disguise brought him a lot of historical and cultural essence, and these two works contained more historical and cultural essence than several other paintings combined.
This strange phenomenon, after he used perspective to check, it became clear that the one with less historical and cultural essence must be Wu Daozi's disciples, or Wu Daozi's own studies, which are naturally much less than Wu Daozi's own favorite works.
Li Yi saw that Zhang Lao and the others began to study the last wooden box, and was about to walk over with Kuang Lao to join in the fun, when he had not yet stood up, opened the perspective from a low place and looked at the wooden box in Zhang Lao's hand carefully, he accidentally found that someone peeked through the back window of Gu Lao's living room with a peep mirror.
He wanted to tell Shao Wu, but suddenly his heart moved, he had behaved too abnormally today, so he dismissed telling Shao Wu that someone was peeping outside. From the corridor between the living room and the dining room, the small door leading to the bathroom can be reached, and the voyeur happened to be in that position, so Li Yi deliberately said to Kerr:
"Ke'er, I'm not full yet, let's go see if there's anything else in the dining room!"
Ke'er glanced at Li Yi and joked playfully:
"You foodie, when are you still thinking about eating, go eat it, little piggy!"
"Alright then, Sister Pig, I'm going to eat!"
After Li Yi finished speaking, he walked to the dining room unhurriedly, Ke'er pretended to be angry, and put on a posture of teeth and claws, the people in the room heard the two young people joking, and they all smiled, Yu Meiting was even more envious of Li Yi and Ke'er, and Xuan Leke, who was standing opposite her, looked at her with a complicated expression.