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"Among the immortals?"

"It's not for fame and fortune, but really for poetry, writing and painting as a hobby."

Wang Guan explained, and also had a bit of admiration: "Unlike Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming, who have failed many times, Shen Zhousheng is not a good person, and he is very filial. An official once wanted to hire him as a staff member, but he refused without hesitation because he wanted to support his mother. ”

That's right, Shen Zhousheng believes in the principle that his parents are here and he doesn't travel far. He served his mother at home all his life until his mother died at the age of ninety-nine, and he was already eighty. Pi Qiushi also sighed very much: "According to the rules of the ancients, it takes three years to mourn when your parents die, and Shen Zhou did it. But three years later, he died with him. ”

Hearing this, others were somewhat touched. By today's standards, many of the rules of the ancients were inhumane and unnecessary. However, Wang Guan can also be sure that most of the ancients' understanding of filial piety must be far greater than that of many modern people.

After sighing, everyone's attention returned to the calligraphy and painting. Just now, Pi Qiushi said that Shen Zhou's calligraphy and paintings are a lot of fakes, and even some of them even know that they are fakes, and he himself has to help with the inscription, which makes people have to guard against it.

As soon as the two of them said it, Yu Feibai was also a little suspicious: "Wang Zhi's luck is not so bad." ”

"It's hard to say, he's a big pirate, and he collects these calligraphy and paintings, mostly for the sake of vassal elegance, and it's normal to be deceived if he doesn't know how to identify." Wang Guan said with a smile: "Don't think that the times are close, and the things you collect must be genuine." But it doesn't matter if it's a fake, anyway, it was handed down in that era, and now it can't be called a fake, but an imitation. ”

"Imitation?"

Yu Feibai frowned, looked at the picture carefully, and couldn't judge whether it was an imitation for a while.

"Alright, let's clean up first. Go back and study it slowly. At the same time, Wang Guan smiled and said, "Take away what you want to leave behind, and the rest of the things ...... What are you going to do about it? ”

"Sell it, sell it directly to the bank." Yu Feibai said casually: "Otherwise, it will be too troublesome to shoot in batches." ”

"Yes."

Wang Guan nodded slightly, and no longer asked about the specific details, anyway, just sit and wait for the money when the time comes. As for now, two or three large boxes are carried out and loaded into the car, and then they return to the mansion at a gallop.

"Old Qian, help identify a painting."

As soon as you enter the door. Yu Feibai hurriedly shouted: "They said it was an imitation, but I think it is genuine." ”

"Eh, when did we say it was an imitation, don't mess with the hat. We're just skeptical, because things are precious and need to be carefully appraised. Wang Guan retorted, lest he would later identify the picture as genuine, and Yu Feibai would take the opportunity to detain an eye-catching halo of humiliation.

"What kind of picture makes you take it so seriously?" Qian Lao was a little curious. He said with interest: "Which masterpiece is it?" ”

"Shen Zhou's landscape scroll." Wang Guan smiled: "Judging from the rough brushwork, it should be a work of his later years." ”

"Really?" Qian Lao had a bit of a surprise.

"It's just that I'm not sure if it's genuine, so I'm asking you for advice."

While speaking, Wang Guan and the others cleaned up the table with their hands and feet. Then carefully spread out the nearly two-meter-long scroll of mountains and rivers, and then asked Qian Lao to appreciate it carefully.

Qian Lao's eyes swept over, and he suddenly smiled: "It seems that it is really a work of his later years." ”

This is mainly due to Shen Zhou's small works in his early years. It was only after middle age that he began to create large-scale works. The middle-aged painting method is rigorous and delicate, and he uses the pen to practice calmly and vigorously, and wins with bone strength. In his later years, his pen and ink were rough and bold, and his momentum was strong. Therefore, from the size and brushwork of the drawing, you can probably judge what period the work is.

Of course, if the inscription on the scroll does not match the style of the work, then it can be suspected that it is a fake.

However, looking at the period of the pen, it was the work of the tenth year of Hongji. In terms of time, it is indeed Shen Zhou's work in his later years, and there is no problem with this. And the beginning of the long scroll has a Zhu Wenyin of "Youzhuzhuang", and the end of the volume has Shen Zhou's own inscription, and two white seals of "Shitian" and "Shuiyunju" are attached.

Carefully studying the pen and seal, Qian Lao suddenly frowned, as if he had a little consideration. Seeing this situation, Wang Guan said vigilantly: "Old Qian, is there anything wrong with this painting?" ”

"Don't worry, I'll take a look." Qian Lao shook his head slightly, carefully studying the landscapes of mountains, rocks, trees, rivers and so on the picture scroll. But the more he looked at it, the more his brow furrowed.

"Not really."

Yu Feibai looked at his face and couldn't help but wonder: "Is my luck really so weak?" ”

"It's not that you're unlucky, it's that Wang Zhi is unlucky." Wang Guan smiled and said: "It's very unfortunate that I accidentally bought or grabbed a fake painting." ”

"Can you be sure it's a fake?" Yu Feibai glanced at it and said, "Tell me, where is the fake?" ”

"I don't know much about Shen Zhou's works." Wang Guanzi carefully said: "And the brushwork style of this work is very realistic and similar, I really can't find anything wrong with it......"

"Then what nonsense are you talking about." Yu Feibai pouted and said, "I thought you really saw something flawed." ”

"I didn't find a big flaw, but there was a small flaw." Wang Guan said with a smile: "Thanks to the guidance of Qian Lao's expression, I found something wrong very smoothly." ”

"What's wrong?" Yu Feibai hurriedly asked, and even Qian Lao stopped researching, and looked back at Wang Guan with a smile to see if he had really made a discovery.

Wang Guan smiled and said bluntly: "I don't dare to say anything else now, but there seems to be something wrong with this seal." ”

"Seal?"

Yu Feibai hesitated: "There are Zhuzhuang, Shitian, and Shuiyunju, what's wrong?" There are Zhuzhuang and Shuiyunju, that is where Shen Zhou lives, and Ishida is his number, which is normal. ”

"That's not right."

Hearing this, Pi Qiushi was the first to react, and he had a feeling of seeing the sun through the clouds, and then said with a smile: "Shen Zhou, the word Qinan, the number Ishida, this is right." Because he has not been in the mountains and rivers all his life, he does not live in the city, but lives in seclusion in the countryside. The house is named Youzhuzhuang and Shuiyunju, and there is no problem. ”

"After all, the literati in ancient times always liked to give their houses some nicknames, such as Su Dongpo's Snow Hall, Tang Bohu's Peach Blossom Nunnery, and Pu Songling's Liaozhai, etc., which is also a very normal situation."

While speaking, Pi Qiu directly revealed the mystery before Yu Feibai urged: "However, Shen Zhou's later years are called Baishi Weng, or Yutian Weng." To be exact, it should be in the twentieth year of Chenghua, when he was fifty-eight years old, he called himself Baishi Weng, and then he left the seal of Baishi Weng in his works. However, this is a work from the Koji period, but it is still Ishida Seal, which is obviously something wrong. ”

In ancient times, when he dared to call himself an old man in his thirties, the fifty-eight-year-old was considered late. In addition, the literati of the Ming Dynasty were very particular about using seals, and they used what seals in what period, and there would never be any such thing as taking the wrong seal and stamping the text indiscriminately. Therefore, this flaw is definitely not small, on the contrary, it is still a very obvious big problem.

"It's a fake."

For a moment, Yu Feibai's face was full of disappointment.

"It can't be said to be a fake, it should be called a copy."

Wang Guan corrected: "Didn't we say before that Shen Zhou is a professional painter in the true sense, and his source of livelihood mainly depends on his income from selling paintings. However, due to his fame and popularity, many people at that time made a living by making fake paintings of him. It's just that he is generous, looks at it calmly, and never cares, so he is particularly respected. ”

"It is recorded in historical materials that Shen Zhou painted a painting in the morning, and soon after it was sold, imitations appeared in the afternoon, and then within ten days, it was all over the major cities in the south of the Yangtze River."

Speaking of this, Wang Guan said with a smile: "The level of these imitations is not low, and even Shen Zhou's disciple Wen Zhengming has been eye-catching. It seems that one day, he bought a work of Shen Zhou for 800 yuan, and his friend came to visit and saw it, liked it very much, and wanted to ask him to cut his love. Wen Zhengming disagreed, and his friend immediately left when he saw this, and then bought an identical work in an antique shop and returned, leaving Wen Zhengming dumbfounded, only to realize that he had lost his eyes and actually bought a fake. ”

"Not only Wen Zhengming, but even Emperor Qianlong was also eye-catching."

At the same time, Pi Qiushi said with a smile: "Hundreds of years have passed, most of Shen Zhou's fakes have disappeared into the long river of history, but some of them have been handed down. One of the typical representatives is the Shen Zhou landscape scroll collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, which is the collection of the Qing Palace during the Qianlong period, not only listed in the Shiqu treasure, but also the collection seal of the Qing Dynasty emperors of the seven directions. Unfortunately, however, the work is an out-and-out imitation of the old. ”

"Cut, if you want to blame, you can only blame Emperor Qianlong, obviously because of his lack of eyesight to identify the wrong thing, and he wants to lose face and not admit it. He all believed that things were genuine, and where a group of ministers dared to refute them, they had to make mistakes wrong. Yu Feibai was disdainful.

"That's it, it's ......"

The others nodded their heads in agreement.

"It's far away."

At this time, Wang Guan said with a smile: "After all, it is only a small flaw, at most it shows that the work is doubtful, and to really determine the authenticity, you still need to start from the most basic place." ”

The most basic place is, of course, the style of the work. After all, imitation is imitation, and no matter how true the imitation is, there will always be flaws. Printing is only one of them, and there must be a second and third.

"Old Qian, what do you think?" Yu Feibai immediately asked, "Are there any other flaws in this painting?" ”

As Wang Guan said, the inscription is just a small flaw, which is more suspicious, but it also makes people feel lucky, and I think maybe maybe it is really Shen Zhou's wrong seal?

"Wang Guan is right, there is a great possibility that this is an imitation."

However, at this time, Qian Lao's words completely made Yu Feibai die.

"Why?"

After giving up, Yu Feibai asked seriously: "In addition to the Indian text, what is wrong?" (To be continued......)