Chapter 1057 Ma Yuan

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"By the way, Xiaodong, do you have time next month?" Wu Lao suddenly asked, as if he remembered something.

"Next month?...... Old Wu, I'm going to the UK next month, I'm afraid I really don't have time!" Liu Dong shook his head.

"To England?" Wu Banghan frowned.

"Well, I promised a friend last year that I had to go there, and I might have to stay there for a while. In addition, I may have to go to the United States and Canada before going to the UK, and it may take a month to go back and forth, so I really can't spare time in July!" Liu Dong said quickly.

"Okay, don't embarrass Xiaodong, if you don't have time, you don't have time! It's just a treasure fight, and it's not a big deal. In the past, when Xiaodong was not there, didn't we also win and lose compared with the gang in Hebei?" Dong Lao said beside him.

After listening, Wu Banghan nodded in agreement, looked at the inquiring look on Liu Dong's face, and explained: "In July, people from the Hebei Provincial Collection Association will come over to hold a collection exchange meeting with our Dongshan Provincial Collection Association!

"Old Wu, I really don't have time!" Liu Dong explained again.

"I know you really don't have time! I've known you for so long, and I can still trust your kid's character!" After finishing speaking, Wu Banghan stood up.

"Lao Dong, now that the chess game is over, isn't it time for us to meet your Taobao treasure? It just so happens that Xiaodong is also here today!"

"Hehe, come with me!"

As he spoke, Dong Lao got up and walked towards the hall.

Walking behind, he patted Liu Dong on the shoulder. Wu Lao said: "Let's go! This time when Lao Dong was visiting the antique street. But I've found a good thing! Let's go see it together!"

"Good stuff?"

The two old men have been in the antique shop all their lives. The antiques and treasures they have seen are worth a lot, and the antiques that they can call good things must be extraordinary.

Therefore, Liu Dong's curiosity was aroused at once, and he hurriedly followed the two old men and walked out of the hall!

Like most people who love traditional Chinese culture, the decoration of Dong's home is also a traditional Chinese home layout from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

When you look up after entering the door, the first thing you see is a pair of amazing handwriting!

The painting in the middle of the nave is not a common landscape, but a vivid form. A scalper whose hair is visible at the root of the hair. And on the side of this scalper is a pair of vigorous pen, vigorous and powerful Lishu couplet, on the book 'self-cultivation and preciousness, for people to endure and exalt themselves'!

In the black-framed plaque above the couplet and the painting, there are also four large characters in Lishu: 'Tranquility and Far-reaching'!

In the middle hall of this old Dong handwriting, Liu Dong comes every time he comes and sees it every time. But every time I see it, I can catch his eye at the first time. Dong Lao's calligraphy and painting level is one level higher than Liu Dong himself!

After entering the door and passing through the living room, the three of them entered the study on the left-hand side, and the decoration in the entire study room was also extremely retro, whether it was a desk, a bookshelf, or a painting jar full of calligraphy and paintings. It is a common layout of the study rooms of literati and scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties!

Needless to say, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk!

"I bought this painting from the antique market the other day, so you can enjoy it. Help me take a look by the way!"

As he spoke, Dong Lao took out an old and yellowed picture scroll from the cabinet under the bookshelf, although it had not been opened yet, whether it was the exposed heaven and earth pole or the exposed back, it was already a little faded or even moldy!

The three of them came to the long case placed near the window, watched Dong Lao untie the straps on the scroll, and then slowly unfolded it, a landscape painting with ink and color on silk appeared in front of Liu Dong and Wu Lao!

The whole painting is about 183 centimeters long and nearly 45 centimeters wide, the center of the picture is a meandering river, both sides of the river are full of beautiful mountains and pastoral homes, there are fishermen singing on the turbid waves of the river, and there are also literati and sorcerers hanging on the river!

Looking at this painting, Liu Dong seems to have traveled through time and space to see the quiet and beautiful Chinese-style pastoral scenery curling in front of the author's eyes!

After carefully appreciating the content of the painting, Liu Dong went to see the promotion on the side, not to mention the promotion, but the seal made Liu Dong look surprised, "This is the handwriting of Ma Yijiao?"

Ma Yijiao is the famous Southern Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting master Ma Yuan!

Ma Yuan was born in a family of painters, and the painting academies of Guangzong and Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty were edicted. The edict of the painting academy is actually the royal painter!

Ma Yuan is good at painting landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and the landscape is taken from Li Tang, the pen is sharp and spacious, the method is tough, the leaves are often sandwiched leaves, the trunk is thick, and the state of many horizontal and oblique. The pavilion boundary is painted with fine workmanship, and the lining is dyed. He likes to make a small scene in the corner, and is known as "a corner of the horse". Together with Li Tang, Liu Songnian, and Xia Gui, they are known as the "Four Southern Song Dynasty".

"Look again?" said Dong Lao smiled.

Liu Dong, who was moved in his heart, carefully looked at the whole painting again, his brows gradually wrinkled, and he had three authentic paintings of Ma Yuan in his hands, so he also knew the painting techniques of this Southern Song Dynasty master very carefully.

I didn't pay much attention to it just now, but when I looked at Liu Dong this time, I found that there was still a gap between this painting and Ma Yuan's painting in terms of level, and there were also some subtle differences in style.

This painting is more elegant and soft in the brush, the method is delicate, the strokes are thoughtful, and it looks like there is some ingenuity!

The more I look at Liu Dong, the more I feel that this painting is full of loopholes, it is not Ma Yuan's painting at all, but who is it if it is not Ma Yuan?

Liu Dong, who didn't use the relics of Yuanguang, frowned and thought hard about the origin of this painting, and the information of thousands of famous calligraphers and painters in Chinese history flashed in his mind one by one.

After half a ring, Liu Dong, who had nothing to gain, inadvertently swept the promotion and seal on the painting from the corner of his eye, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he blurted out at the moment: "I thought of it?"

After Dong Lao and Wu Lao glanced at each other, the former smiled and said, "Xiaodong, what did you think of?"

"I remember that Zhu Mouyun of the Ming Dynasty once recorded in his "Painting History Meeting": 'Lin does not catch his father. I love his son far away, more than I have painted the inscription, and I want to cover it. 'Then think about it the other way, this painting must also be made by Ma Lin, but it left the seal of his father Ma Yuan!"

"Hehe, Xiaodong, it seems that your ability to appreciate calligraphy and painting can be regarded as entering the room!" Dong Lao touched the snow-white beard on his chin and smiled appreciatively.

"Dong Lao praised, I thought about it for so long to come up with it, that can be regarded as entering the house!" Liu Dong smiled bitterly.

Excluding the factor of relics and Yuanguang, Liu Dong's current level of calligraphy and painting appreciation is far from the top, and for the time being, it can only be said that there is more than the bottom, and the comparison is not enough!

"Okay, at your age, it's not easy to get to where you are now. Everything step by step is a hundred times stronger than being ambitious and blindly arrogant! Moreover, in terms of calligraphy and painting appraisal alone, you are much better than this old guy, but he didn't guess it just now!" Dong Lao finally teased his old friend.

"You old guy, every time you take this kind of thing, compare it with me, a porcelain appraiser!" Wu Lao shook his head angrily.

As old friends who have known each other for many years, after decades of acquaintance, their relationship has changed from friendship to a habit, and there are no scruples between each other, and teasing each other has become a basic way of communication.

For this kind of friendship with similar hobbies, like-mindedness, and tempered over the years, just like Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, for Liu Dong, it is very envious and desired!

But like his current position, it is really difficult to obtain this kind of friendship that has been honed over the years and is like each other, because the higher you climb in this society, the fewer people you will be around, and the 'high places are too cold'!

To enjoy the benefits of a high social position is to be doomed to endure the loneliness that comes with that status!

There is giving and taking, the truth that has remained unchanged in the world for thousands of years!

"Dong Lao, how did you come to this painting?" After briefly cleaning up his mood, Liu Dong said curiously.

"Coincidentally, I happened to come out of the antique street that day, and I saw a farmer setting up a stall there on the side of the road, there were not many things, but there were more than a dozen pieces. He said that it was handed down by their ancestors, because they wanted to raise the money for their children to get married and buy a house, so they were ready to sell it. I don't know if what he said is true or not, but I looked at this painting well, and it didn't come down for 20,000!"

"20,000?" Liu Dong said in surprise.

Unless you are deceived, who spends 20,000 yuan to buy things when you are generally shopping for Taobao on the stall?

"I didn't think the man was rich, so I gave him some more money. And compared to the value of the painting itself, I still earned it!, so there's nothing to mind if you spend a little more money!" Dong Lao said with a smile.

For Dong Lao's approach, Liu Dong still agrees with it in his heart, "If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world", while ensuring your quality of life, you can help those who are not very good at home, but know hard work and gratitude, or people who can adhere to their ideals in difficult circumstances, are the virtues that every successful person in life should have.

"By the way, Xiaodong, last time you wanted us to be teachers, I discussed it with Lao Wu and they agreed!"

"Really?"

The unexpected news instantly made the surprise overflow in Liu Dong's heart.

Because his Dongchao Group belongs to the category of jewelry and cultural companies, the company's business also involves calligraphy and painting, sculpture, auction, gallery, antique collection and sales and other industries, so it needs a lot of porcelain, calligraphy and painting, miscellaneous, jade, bronze and other categories of professional appraisers, but also needs professional seal carving masters, calligraphy and painting masters, carving masters to enrich the gallery!

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)

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