"Okay, don't praise me, I know best what I am, but Mr. Zhang, do you really want to find Master Yuanbo to write the word 'Shenluo' for you, I think your calligraphy is quite good." "Zhang Rusheng doesn't seem to be interested in other people's praise, he is a very pragmatic person.

"Of course, if Master Yuanbo is willing, I am very happy, don't mention my calligraphy, I don't have my own style at all, but I just copy the calligraphy of the ancients and today, in the end, it is also someone else's calligraphy, and it can't be on the table. "Zhang Tianyuan is still self-aware, no matter how similar you are, even if others look good, you feel unhappy in your heart, it is not your own thing after all, so in this case, it is better to let others help with the inscription.

Master Yuanbo is a very famous calligraphy and appraisal master in modern times, and it is really suitable for him to write the inscription.

This master's fate has been bumpy, but his life is also quite exciting, his life is simply a legend, if it is written as a novel, it is definitely a very wonderful novel.

As the ninth-generation grandson of Emperor Yongzheng, Master Yuanbo is also from a noble background.

In addition, there are many famous contemporary calligraphers, painters, educators, classical philologists, connoisseurs, red scientists, poets, masters of Chinese culture and so on.

He used to be an associate professor and professor of Imperial Capital Normal University, chairman of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, director of the National Research Museum of Culture and History, doctoral supervisor, consultant of Jiusan Society, honorary chairman of the National Calligraphers Association, founding chairman of the World Federation of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters, and consultant of the Chinese Buddhist Association, the Palace Museum and the National Museum. President of Xiling Seal Society.

Such a person can be said to have lived a wonderful life. At this age, it can be regarded as no desire. He just wants to live the rest of his life quietly, so he doesn't want to worry about many things, and he doesn't have the leisure to worry about it, after all, he is old and can't stand so many tosses.

Now Zhang Qian's Imperial Capital Normal University, which is also the place where Master Yuanbo wrote books and taught, once said that he was most grateful to two people in his life. "Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today."

One of them is Chen Yuan, the old president of Imperial Capital Normal University. In 1952, the former Fu Jen University merged with Imperial Normal University, and has remained in Imperial Normal University ever since.

Another benefactor is his wife Zhang Baochen.

Because of the ill-fated journey, Master Yuanbo hopes to learn to forget those painful things, he has spent all his life on learning, on educating people, to have a student like Zhang Rusheng, in fact, it is quite good. His calligraphy and painting works are also the most famous among contemporary masters, and he is definitely the first talent.

The reason why he is said to have a prominent background and a noble background. That's because he is the ninth grandson of Emperor Yongzheng, his surname is Aixin Jueluo, and his distant ancestor Hongday is the younger brother of Emperor Qianlong. Great-grandfather Pu Liang was a Jishi, and his grandfather Yulong was a Jinshi during the Guangxu period.

Hongday, although Zhang Tianyuan studied archaeology. But I'm not very familiar with it, but I vaguely remember that there is a time travel novel in which a person travels into Hongday. then seized Qianlong's emperor seat.

In that novel, Hongtian was originally a prodigal who liked to eat, drink and have fun, which was far from Qianlong Hongli, but Zhang Tianyuan was not very clear whether this statement was correct or not.

Perhaps because that period of history that was not very bright had a relatively large impact on Master Yuanbo's psychology, Master Yuanbo never mentioned that he was a descendant of Aixin Jueluo, and even in various documents, he never officially mentioned it.

In contrast, those who are abducted everywhere under the guise of the so-called descendants of Aixin Jueluo are really okay.

Because of this, when Master Yuanbo went out to give a lecture, he heard the moderator of the conference often say, "Now please ask Master Yuanbo to give instructions", and his next words were: "I am a Manchu ethnic group, my ancestors are active in the northeast, and I belong to an ethnic minority, and I am commonly known as 'Hu people' in history." Therefore, what is said below is all out-and-out 'nonsense'......"

This is funny, but it also reveals some sadness and helplessness.

Cynicism can be used to summarize the character of Master Yuanbo in his later years, Master Zhang Zhongxing was a close friend of Yuanbo, he said that Yuanbo "looks at the surface, like a game in the world, and looks into the bottom, but sees through everything."

It is this kind of temperament of indifference to fame and fortune and disdain for social authority that makes Master Yuanbo's life full of the self-deprecation of Chinese intellectuals, and in his later years, he is more modest and humorous like an old naughty boy.

But in Zhang Tianyuan's ears, he was really a little helpless, maybe there were many things, Master Yuanbo felt that it was useless to say it, so it was better not to say it.

If you want to say that Master Yuanbo's personality is somewhat similar to Zhang Tianyuan, both of them are not too afraid of authority, but there are slight differences, Zhang Tianyuan is because he has a plug-in, so he is not afraid of offending anyone, but if there is no this, he must also consider the impact, but his character still belongs to eating soft and not hard.

The same is true of Master Yuanbo, a typical eater of soft rather than hard, and he is not used to seeing others oppress him with power and money.

It is said that a senior general of the Air Force once sent a secretary to ask for a letter, and the secretary went straight to the point and laid out the background, explained the background, and made a request, and there was a great tendency for a whirlwind helicopter to come in the air. Master Yuanbo asked the secretary: "If I don't write, will you send a plane to bomb me?" The secretary was stunned for a moment, confused, and hurriedly said: "Where, where." The master then said, "Well, then I won't write it." "For a while, it was rejected for a thousand miles.

At that time, the secretary was dumbfounded, this was to use his power to suppress Master Yuanbo, but he was rejected.

There is also a real estate developer, ready with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and has to ask Master Yuanbo to inscribe his own site. Master Yuanbo's face sank and said, "If you prepare pen, ink, paper, inkstone, I have to write, if you prepare a coffin, do I have to jump in?"

Before looking for Master Yuanbo, this real estate developer said that he would give a high pen fee, probably for this reason, which made Master Yuanbo lively. So much so that he would refuse so much.

And not only these people, but even once there was a column on national television for Sons of the East. Specializing in introducing celebrities, I naturally want to interview Yuanbo. Initially. Shi Yun contacted the master: "Our column is of high grade, and the interviews are all well-known experts, scholars and social elites, so it is called "Son of the East". The old master replied: "I am not of your grade, I am at most a grandson of the East." "Refused.

Many colleagues and friends lobbied Guò Yuanbo, and at the end of 1994, the master finally agreed to come to the apartment for an interview with the national television station Oriental Time and Space. As soon as the interview team came up, they listed many titles, and the master gently brushed aside the many laurels with one sentence: "This is called no sand here, and red clay is precious." ”

Such a spicy sarcasm and such a character are also another reason why Zhang Tianyuan respects Master Yuanbo very much.

When he first came to the imperial capital. I've always wanted to find the master inscription, but at that time there was no way at all, and I didn't know what the master's character was like, hearsay is hearsay after all, in case it annoys the master, then it's not good to meet in the future.

Geniuses and masters, often this temper is more eccentric, and the attention is always correct.

If it weren't for the shopkeeper's mention today, he wouldn't have mentioned it. Now that I know that Zhang Rusheng is a disciple of Master Yuanbo, with this good way, you can always get in touch with this master.

You know, the master is now more than a hundred years old. To say something not very respectful, you could die at any time, and this time I won't see you. Maybe there will never be a chance in the future, so Zhang Tianyuan has this opportunity. It is also very cherished.

"Brother Zhang, forget it. You're definitely not going to see Grandpa Yuanbo, so don't think about it......"

After listening to the conversation between Zhang Tianyuan and Zhang Rusheng, Zhang Qian probably understood what Zhang Tianyuan meant by looking for Master Yuanbo, so she shook her head and said.

Zhang Tianyuan knew that Master Yuanbo had a strange personality, eating soft and not hard, but he didn't know very well, why did Zhang Qian refuse so simply, could this girl still complain about him?

"Girl, are you still angry that I just said that?"

"How come, I'm also a student taught by Grandpa Yuanbo, I'm not so careful, the reason why I say this is for other reasons. Zhang Qian shook her head and said.

"Other reasons?" Zhang Tianyuan is getting more and more confused, now he can take out, one is his own identity, and the other is a lot of money, or jewelry and gold, but he is worried that these things will not only not have a positive effect, but will make Master Yuanbo look down on him, so he didn't dare to bring it up just now, but now that Zhang Qian talked about other reasons, he couldn't help but ask: "I heard that Master Yuanbo likes to appreciate treasures, if you need to, you can take one or two antiques as a pen, what do you think?"

The so-called pen polishing is a general term for manuscript fees in ancient times.

The ancient scholars, who paid attention to "pure and high", were ashamed to talk about money, and when they had to say it, they called it "Aduwu", which means "that thing".

Manuscript fee is a new word that has only existed in the past 100 years, and it used to be called moisturizing pen. There is a story in "The Book of Sui: The Biography of Zheng Yi": Zheng Yi was the emperor's edict, and some people jokingly called him "the pen is dry", Zheng replied: "I can't have a pen, how can I polish the pen?"

Since then, manuscript fees and calligraphy and painting honorarium have been called "polishing brushes".

At that time, Sima Xiangru, for the disgraced Empress Chen made "Changmen Fu", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was moved to read it, Empress Chen regained favor, Sima Xiangru got 100 catties of gold, at that time there seemed to be no rule of polishing the pen, Empress Chen sent gold in the way of buying wine from Zhuo Wenjun, so people had to say that it was "writing bribes", the weight of the word "bribe" may not be as heavy as it is now, if not, Sima Xiangru is too disgraceful.

The wind of moistening the pen to Tang Dasheng, the most famous is Han Yu, who wrote the inscription for the famous prince Juqing, "the price of a word, the gold is like a mountain"; Du Mu wrote "Wei Dan Jiangxi Monument of Love", and had to pick 300 pieces of silk. Where the benefits are, people are vying for it, and in the "Cai Bo Ji Collection", there are inscriptions for those who are only fifteen or seven years old.

To this day, the style of pen polishing still exists. Those who collect calligraphy and painting should try their best to get some of everyone's works; those who have Yaxing should also ask someone to find a famous artist to write a few words and hang them on the hall to enjoy; if they can get a pair of high-ranking officials' handwriting to hang in the business place, it will be even more full of brilliance and worthy of showing off.

But this pen fee is not a simple manuscript fee, but a disguised bribe, which is not uncommon in our country.

"Moistening the pen is naturally wanted, Grandpa Yuanbo didn't grow up drinking the northwest wind, although he eats very simple and simple, but his family also has to live, in order to treat him, this money is spent a lot, but the problem is not in the moistening pen, but for other reasons!" Zhang Qian sighed, her eyebrows twisted. (To be continued......)