As soon as he unfolded this fan, Tang Yi immediately looked at it carefully.

The fan is painted with ink orchid. It's only a handful of strokes, but it's refreshing. With ink, it looks like a withered grass at first glance, but it seems to have endless wind bones when it looks at it again. There are a few orchids, most of which are absent from the leaves, but there is one more, floating under a long leaf, which is particularly attractive and full of energy.

Because the bluegrass only occupies a small area on the left side of the fan. So there is still a lot of space on the right side, and a poem is inscribed, which is relatively difficult to recognize in cursive:

Mo Xiao Chunguang does not belong to Nong, and a fragrance is enough to suppress a thousand reds. The general order is to take off Han Niang's sleeves, not to be a human brain.

There is no inscription on the painting. But in the lower left corner, there is a vermilion seal: Qingteng.

And below the cursive inscription poem, there is a small character in regular script: Occasionally get Tianchi, I have no intention of continuing the mink, so I worship and obey my heart. There is no name, and there is only one side of the seal: Ape.

"The fan surface is the paper of the Ming Dynasty, and the ink and vermilion of the bluegrass are also from the Ming Dynasty. The inscription poem and the seal are from the Qing Dynasty, so I don't think there is any problem. You've picked up the treasure! After reading it, Tang Yi said with a smile, "However, the original fan bone is not left, it's a pity." ”

"So, is it really He Shaoji who got Xu Wei's blue sketch and then inscribed a poem?" Hou Ruhai said in surprise.

The inscription of this blue grass, Qingteng, is the number of Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty. He has a lot of numbers, and the "Tianchi" in the poem also talks about him. What Qingteng Dao people, Tianchi mountain people, Shanyin cloth clothes, Tian Shuiyue, and so on are all Xu Wei's numbers.

Xu Wei is a very legendary person, not to mention anything else, there are a lot of legends about the little prodigy Xu Wenchang (Xu Wei Ziwenchang). He is not only a literati, he is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, but also familiar with reading and concurrently, and he also served as Hu Zongxian's staff, fought against the Japanese and made great contributions. However, his later years were more miserable, and he died with only a dog.

There are so many stories in this. Since it is Xu Wei's bluegrass, his painting has to be said.

Xu Wei's splashing of ink can be regarded as the beginning of the school in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Although the freehand painting of the Ming Dynasty has begun to become popular, Xu Wei is not the first to paint freehand, but Xu Wei is undoubtedly the most important representative of it, and he is also the most accomplished and distinctive master of the painting world.

What is the awesome aspect of his freehand paintings? said that after the Ming Dynasty, he was a fan of two people: Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty and Qi Baishi in modern times.

Zheng Banqiao once spent 500 gold for the pomegranate painted by Xu Wei, and also engraved a seal: the lackey under the Qingteng Gate.

Qi Baishi said something like this: Hate is not born three hundred years ago, grinding ink and paper for Qingteng.

Nowadays, as long as Xu Wei's paintings are recognized as genuine in the market, powerful collectors will never hesitate, and the scramble at auction is becoming more and more fierce. Five years ago, Xu Wei's "Ink Grape Picture" soared to a price of nearly 40 million.

In this blue sketch, Xu Wei did not have an inscription, but only added a vermilion seal, which may be an ulterior motive, or it may be a part of the overall painting, and the inscription part is incomplete. Therefore, this fan may not have been a fan before.

And this poem next to the orchid grass is also a poem written by Xu Wei.

Looking at the first sentence, Mo Xuan Chunguang does not belong to Nong. From this "nong", it can be seen that this is in dialect. Xu Wei is a native of Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and Nong is the local dialect. It is said that Xu Wei's official dialect is very bad, and basically speaking official dialect is a little better than speaking dialects. We all know that the dialect of Zhejiang Province is very difficult to understand, not to mention people from other provinces, and they may not be able to understand each other if they are not in the same region. When he was a staff member for Hu Zongxian, it was very difficult for Hu Zongxian to communicate with him, but he couldn't do without him, which was really a headache.

Dialects belong to dialects, and this poem is still very tastefully written. Orchid, without red flowers, wins with a faint fragrance, and seems to be a little lonely in the spring. However, it is this wisp of fragrance that is enough to "press a thousand reds". And this "incense" is to be picked up by the beauty and hidden in the sleeve, not as a spice and medicinal material, anyone can use it and smell it.

Praise the bluegrass, but also praise the difference.

From this point of view, whether this work is full or not, it is possible to deliberately not add an inscription, and if the inscription is written, perhaps Xu Wei is afraid of destroying the artistic conception of this clump of bluegrass. And his "green ivy" seal seems to echo the bluegrass.

This poem, although it is a poem by Xu Wei, but the words are not written by Xu Wei, but by this "ape".

Of course, even if there is no ape to explain "even if you get Tianchi, you have no intention of continuing the mink, so you worship and obey your heart", and there is no ape Suo's seal, from the font, Hou Ruhai can also see that this is not Xu Wei's words.

This "ape" is also a person's number. But it's not from the Ming Dynasty, but He Shaoji from the Qing Dynasty. This number is more interesting, also known as Crub, synonymous. It is said that he is good at the center with the pen, and the posture of holding the pen is "cantilevered back to the wrist", a bit like an ape.

He Shaoji is a very famous figure in the late Qing Dynasty. There are many titles, poets, calligraphers, painters, bibliophiles, and gold and stone seal carvers.

However, he is best known for his calligraphy. When calligraphy arrived in the Qing Dynasty, there was nothing to come out of, because the predecessors had basically played to the extreme, regardless of whether they were really grass and seals. He Shaoji's calligraphy achievements, some people commented: smelting the ancients, the first in the Qing Dynasty.

This evaluation must be scolded, there is no first, there is no second, this kind of artistic things, each has its own strengths, each has its own good, you say that a person is the first, then there must be someone who opposes it. However, on the other hand, if you can be evaluated as the first, and the level of the evaluator is not bad, then at least you have to be among the best.

He Shaoji is best at cursive and official script. The inscription on this is also written in cursive.

Therefore, this work is a combination of Xu Wei's painting, He Shaoji's words, and two celebrities. From an artistic point of view, it may not be a perfect combination, but from the perspective of market value, it undoubtedly has a big gimmick of hype.

It seems that He Shaoji got Xu Wei's painting and inscribed it. It is possible that this painting was a fan before, or it may have been changed to a fan by He Shaoji because it was incomplete. But anyway, the authentic works of Xu Wei and He Shaoji, that's no problem. Tang Yi finally came to a conclusion.

Seeing that Tang Yi gave such a positive answer, Hou Ruhai's face was already beaming, "This fan, after the gallery opens, can be hung inside and written 'not for sale', which is very useful for gathering popularity!" ”

"Of course that's fine." Tang Yi nodded, and asked again: "However, such a thing is not an ordinary thing, how did you get here?" How much money has been invested? ”