Chapter 272: Xue Ji of the Early Tang Dynasty

"Little ...... Xiaodong, this is the Chixiao Sword, Liu Bang's sword of the Emperor Road of the White Snake - Chixiao Sword!" After Li Lao drew the sword in his hand and saw the ornamentation of the sword body clearly, as well as the two small seals of 'Chixiao' at the jaw of the sword, the old man's excited eyebrows and beard trembled together.

The old man's family history, half of his life mixed in the antique world, his eyesight is naturally superb, although just a glance, there are sixty or seventy percent of the conclusion in his heart that this is an ancient sword, and finally a little verification, the heart is more certain.

"Hehe, old man, I got this sword from an iron rod, although I didn't cut copper coins, but the thick elm wood with the mouth of the bowl was broken with a sword, and it was very sharp! But I haven't done a carbon-14 identification, and I haven't asked anyone to see it, so I'm not sure if it's a 'Chixiao Sword'. Liu Dong said with a smile.

"Definitely, definitely! I have seen the bronze sword unearthed from the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang and the sword of Wu Wangfucha, and the sword patterns on it are the same as on this one. This must be the Chixiao Sword!National treasure, this is a national treasure!" Li Lao said excitedly.

Hearing this, Liu Dong smiled, he naturally knew that this was the real Chixiao Sword.

Li Lao held the Chixia Sword and repeatedly checked it for nearly half an hour before he was persuaded by Liu Dong to put it down, and then Shen Zhou imitated Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" long scroll, which made the old man excited, such a famous imitation is no worse than the value of the original, especially when Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" has been damaged.

Next, the Qing Dynasty Sanwen pocket watch, Tan Yanmin's handwritten "Zeng Guo Fan's Family Book", the Ming Dynasty Huanghuali circle chair, Guangxu "Daya Zhai" blue and white porcelain. Entwined lotus pattern. Jade pot spring bottle. Li Lao tasted it and put it down, although these antiques were good, but any one of Li Lao's own treasure troves was no worse than any one in the midterm.

Others, the seated statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Huang Binhong's imitation of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", although precious, but Li Lao has seen it before.

Next, what really made the old man feel eye-opening. The octagonal relics pagoda carved by Wang Shuyuan in the Ming Dynasty, the Analects of Confucius, one of the four books with Liu Yong's annotations, and the third of the four books written by Liu Yong and stamped with the bell seal, "The University", "Mencius" and "The Mean" by Tang Yin, and Tang Yin's "Companion Picture of the Spring Mountain".

"Hey, this painting is good, where did you get it?" Finally, the old man took the 'crane painting' that Liu Dong had received from the Black Tiger Gang's treasure house in his hand and looked at it carefully.

"Oh, I bought it from an antique street stall!" Liu Dong quickly replied after frowning at the 'Crane Painting', but he didn't dare to let Li Lao know that he was connected to an underworld gang like the Black Tiger Gang.

"Oh, this painting is good, but it seems to be a part of a painting, and this right side is obviously missing!" the old man said to himself, looking at the painting in his hand.

Liu Dong glanced at Li Lao with admiration. The previous owner of this painting doesn't know what he thinks, maybe it's also to hide people's eyes. A good painting is stacked and pasted, and the name of the painting, as well as the promotion of celebrities, are concealed, so that a treasure that would have been enough to become a first-class cultural relic, becomes unknown.

But at this moment, Liu Dong is not concerned about these, he clearly remembers that when he first got this painting, although the picture is not damaged, but there are large and small mold spots, which makes the painting look very worn. But now, although the whole silk cloth is glowing with an old yellow, there is no mildew at all, and the strokes that were originally covered by these mildew spots are clearly displayed on the canvas.

"What's going on, does my mustard seed space still have the effect of restoring ancient paintings?" Liu Dong thought to himself. But there was no time for him to confirm his suspicions.

"'The painting has been exhausted for a long time, and the sky is still out of the dust' is too white to leave a pen!"

"'Ancient and modern crane painters, Xue Gong is the leader!' Huayuan Fan Zhongli!"

"Li Bai and Fan Kuan's promotion!" the old man became excited again.

Originally, these two lines of promotion, as well as some appreciation chapters and idle chapters, had been covered up, but now they are all revealed, and they are quite clear, which makes the old man see them all in his eyes at once.

"With so many famous painters, who is the author of this painting, and who is very famous in the history of painting cranes?"

Liu Dong hurriedly said beside him: "Xue Ji, one of the four families of the early Tang Dynasty, is famous for painting cranes!"

"Yes, yes, Xue Ji!" At this time, the old man also remembered.

"According to the history of painting, Xue Ji's painting of cranes and gods has reached the point where it is about to come out. He has been praised by Li Bai, Du Fu, and Mi Pei in the Song Dynasty! Yes, yes, this must be Xue Ji's true work!" Speaking of this, the old man became excited again.

Liu Dong understood the excitement of the old man, when he first got this painting, Liu Dong was the same, because Xue Ji's achievements in painting were too high.

Especially in painting cranes, Xue Ji's achievements in painting cranes are very high, and his influence is also far-reaching. "Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties" contains: "The screen has six crane-like fans, since (Xue) Ji. Xue Ji's ability to create a "sample" and be accepted by the society shows his important position in the history of painting. Later, "Six Crane Picture" became a kind of freeze frame, Huang Quan had painted six cranes on the wall of the side hall in the fifth dynasty, this hall was renamed "Six Crane Palace", until more than 1,000 years later, the Qing Dynasty court still painted six crane screens. There have always been many people who have learned Xue Ji's painting cranes, such as the famous Kuai Lian in the Tang Dynasty, who can "get the depths of it". Ten generations of flower and bird painter Huang Quan, "Crane Master Xue Ji", and later came to the top, has the reputation of being blue.

In addition to painting cranes, Xue Ji's figure paintings and miscellaneous paintings have also reached a high level of attainment. His predecessors praised him for painting like Yan Liben.

He once painted a Western Buddhist mural for Xi'an Temple in Xin'an County (now Shexian County, Anhui). It is listed as a divine product by the "Catalogue of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty", and is considered to be comparable to Cao Buxing and Zhang Sengqiu.

And Cao Buxing, Zhang Sengqiu, Lu Tanwei and Gu Kaizhi became the 'Six Dynasties and Four Families', which shows Xue Ji's achievements in painting!

In addition, Xue Ji also painted a mural of the Western Pure Land Change, and Du Fu wrote a poem to praise: "Wave the West again, and send the ground to support the rafters." The bleak wall is flying, and it has not been filled in to this day. It can be seen that this painting has not been filled with color, and it belongs to the so-called "white painting", but it is still full of spirit and has touching artistic power. Moreover, this kind of white painting is the forerunner of the "white drawing figures" founded by Li Gonglin in later generations, which can also show Xue Ji's extraordinary modeling and line drawing ability.

In addition, Chengdu Jingde Jingshe has two murals of Xue Ji's characters and black beasts, "the state is vivid, and it is especially for a while." The Ministry of Industry Shangshu Hall has its tree and stone murals, and the Chengdu Mansion Yayuan has its green cow murals, etc., all of which are also "juxtaposed with gods".

Of course, the most important thing is that Xue Ji has not yet had any authentic paintings and calligraphy works handed down, if Liu Dong's painting is recognized by the world as Xue Ji's authentic work, then his painting is likely to be the only surviving authentic painting of Xue Ji. You can imagine how rare this painting is.

There is a saying that 'scarce things are precious'!

It is precisely because of these old men that he is so excited, if this painting is really Xue Ji's authentic work, the value is no less than his collection of Wu Daozi's authentic work "Three Hundred Miles of Jialing River Landscape".

"This should be Xue Ji's authentic handiwork, but my main focus is on porcelain identification, and the identification of ancient paintings is only second-rate, so if you want to identify the authenticity of this painting, you have to let others take action!" As he spoke, Li Lao's face showed a hint of thought.

After a minute or two, Elder Li looked certain, obviously having an idea in his heart.

"Xiaodong, do you have anything important these days?"

"Something important?" After a little thought, Liu Dong shook his head.

The company's affairs include Feng Jianhui, Yang Ke and Wang Qiang, so he doesn't have to worry about it. Li Yunfeng and Zhou Bin both returned to the capital. There is still half a month to trade with Vichai Sawan Susi jadeite rough. The gambling stone company that partnered with Xie Zhonglin didn't need him. Zhang Lao promised to help him find a jade carving master to be his master, but now there has been no movement after a month, and Liu Dong doesn't know what the result is. Thinking about it, there really isn't anything tricky around him now.

Seeing Liu Dong shaking his head, Li Lao said again: "In that case, you will go to the capital with me in three days!"

"Go to the capital?" Liu Dong said in surprise.

"Well, go find someone who can give you an appraisal of this painting, and then ask someone to reframe this painting and your imitation of Huang Binhong!

"You're going with you?"

"Yes, I haven't been back for many years, and now it's time to go back!" said Li Lao's eyes, revealing a hint of complicated relief.

"Elder Li, I want to tell you something!" Liu Dong said after a slight hesitation.

"What's the matter, do you say?"

"Old Li, you have also seen it, now the place where I live is too small, and every place where I put things, these precious antiques are just placed here, it is really unsafe, so I want to put them there for you, do you think so?" Of course, this is just Liu Dong's excuse, the key is that the nearly 4,000 genuine antiques in Li Lao's secret room have spoiled him, and he just looked at it in a hurry this afternoon, and he didn't even see one-twentieth of Li Lao's collection. Therefore, Liu Dong wanted to continue to watch.

In addition, frequent contact with these genuine antiques is also conducive to the improvement of his identification level. If you see a lot of real things, you will naturally be able to distinguish a fake.

"Haha!"

Looking at Liu Dong's eyes looking at him, Li Lao nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I agreed! It just so happens that there are still several shelves in my treasure vault that don't put anything, so I'll leave it to you!"

"Great, thank you Mr. Li!"

"Hmm!" After nodding, the old man continued: "Xiaodong, do you know why I was looking for you this afternoon, and took you to my treasure house?" (to be continued......)