"Wang Meng, a painter, has painted a lot of seclusion pictures in his life, and this one I will call it a picture of Spring Mountain and Lake. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Wang Meng has always struggled between seclusion and seclusion in his life, and this painting can also reflect this psychology. The lake and the mountains are beautiful, and it is naturally very good to live in seclusion, but this good spring, it seems to be a pity to pass by alone and leisurely! ”

"According to the historical information I have, he has been torn between seclusion and renunciation. You can actually see it from the breath of the painting. His paintings, compared with the other three of the Yuan Four Families, do not seem detached and calm enough, and some uneasy emotions can also be seen in this painting! ”

"Signing and not falling in, in fact, also secretly correspond to the meaning of seclusion and seclusion. But he finally used this way to settle the payment, which shows that he is suppressing the psychology of the officer, but it is actually very painful. This painting must have been painted during his period of seclusion, when the ideological struggle was at its most intense. It is no accident that Wang Meng appeared such a well-signed work. ”

"However, it is precisely because he cannot be completely detached, so he works harder in the techniques of the landscape, and the sophistication and diversity of the techniques are also incomparable to the other three."

Anyway, the two of them were also hanging out, so Tang Yi simply analyzed it in depth. Art things are somewhat similar, Lin Huanting is not so interested in antiques, but she still has a feeling for painting, so it is not very boring to listen to.

Wang Meng, a painter, was born well, has a good background, has a grandfather like Zhao Mengfu and a grandmother like Guan Sheng, and his life must be good. Wang Meng's father, Wang Guoqi, was also a collector and calligrapher.

He was born well, but he died badly. He was born in the family of Shi Yan, but he also died in Shitu, in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Wang Meng is a figure at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Everyone knows the situation of Zhao Mengfu, as a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty surnamed Zhao, he was an official in the Yuan Dynasty, and he was scolded by many Han people, after all, he was a slave to a foreign race. However, scolding and scolding will not affect Zhao Mengfu's good life.

This kind of background makes Wang Meng have a career complex in his bones. He did serve as an official. However, later under the influence of Ni Zan and Ni Yunlin, who were also one of the four Yuan families, he abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion.

He lived in seclusion in Huanghe Mountain in Zhejiang Province, and lived in seclusion with his wife and children. There is no shortage of money to live in seclusion like this, otherwise the family will not do anything, and just eating will be a problem. This seclusion is more than 20 years.

This period of seclusion should be said to have laid a solid artistic foundation for him, and his painting level grew very quickly at this stage. Ni Zan once wrote on one of his paintings from this period: The princely pen can carry the crown, and there has been no such king in 500 years.

This sentence was originally very exaggerated, and it came from Ni Zhan's mouth. Ni Zan is a very strange person, he doesn't praise people easily, and he doesn't praise you because of his friends, he praises you when he likes it. It can be seen that the level is high.

Wang Meng was originally influenced by Ni Zan to abandon his official position. Ni Zan is indeed a person who regards fame and fortune as dung. It is said that Zhang Shixin, the younger brother of Zhang Shicheng, the "King of Wu" of the peasant rebel army at that time, sent someone to send him money to paint it, but Ni Zan was actually angry and asked someone to take the money and get out.

Later, Zhang Shixin met Ni Zan on the lake, and Ni Zan scolded again. Zhang Shixin's subordinates stopped Ni Zhan, Zhang Shixin was going to kill him, but fortunately someone pleaded for mercy. The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable, Zhang Shixin let Ni Zan be whipped dozens of times in front of him. Ni Zan gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Later, someone asked him: How can you bear it? Ni Zan said: I'd rather die of pain than open my mouth, as soon as I open my mouth to talk to Zhang Shixin, I will become vulgar!

It is such a person who can influence Wang Meng and make his career in his bones temporarily lose to the decision to live in seclusion.

Speaking of Zhang Shicheng just now, this person actually wanted to win over the literati in Jiangnan, but he couldn't win over Ni Zhan, so he set his sights on Wang Meng again.

Wang Meng didn't have Ni Zhan's style, and he had been in seclusion for more than 20 years, but he was finally shaken. went to be an official under Zhang Shicheng for a period of time.

Later, because of the war, he had to live in seclusion again. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, and when he was in his sixties, he finally came out of the mountain again, and he was the prefect of Tai'an. At this time, the world was decided, and Wang Meng's talent was recognized, so it was smooth sailing.

But the good times didn't last long, in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Wang Meng was arrested and imprisoned, and died in prison, with a tragic ending.

Why was he arrested, because he once went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to see the paintings! At first glance, it sounds a bit nonsense, but this is Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu Dynasty, and this prime minister is Hu Weiyong. Zhu Yuanzhang searched for Hu Weiyong's henchmen back then, but the movement was too big, and there were too many people involved! There are more nonsense reasons than Wang Meng.

Look at Wang Meng's life, he has always oscillated between being a monk and living in seclusion, back and forth. In fact, in his bones, he has never given up the idea of being an official, but in some periods, the idea of seclusion temporarily suppressed the idea of being an official.

On this painting, the secret inscription "Wang Meng" at the entrance of the cave may have been his whim, but I have to say that this inscription, just like his idea of becoming an official, is sometimes hidden, but it has never disappeared.

After Wang Meng came out, Ni Zan also wrote a poem to persuade him: Where is the picnic soup, don't treat yourself as an official slave. Tao Zhu Fan Li fled his name and surname, which was like a fisherman.

Ni Zan saw it very clearly, Wang Meng was not disobedient, but he couldn't suppress the obsession with his career.

"Such a secret payment, how can you say so much!" After Lin Huanting listened, she couldn't help but sigh.

"The evidence of antiques is multifaceted." Tang Yi smiled, "However, no matter whether Wang Meng's official addiction is big or not, his paintings and artistic achievements are very high, and they have always been very sought after in the market!" This leak is indeed not small! ”

Five years ago, Wang Meng's "Migration to Zhichuan" appeared at a spring auction in Yanjing, and what was the starting price of the opening hammer? 110 million!

This is just the starting price. In the end, the bidding was rounded, and the result was added to the commission, and the final transaction price reached 400 million.

As of that year, all the artworks were auctioned, and there were only two ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings of more than 400 million yuan, one was this Wang Meng's "Zhichuan Migration Map", and the other was higher than this one, more than 430 million, which was the famous Huang Tingjian's "Pillar Inscription".

Lin Huanting actually summed it up: "I found out, this leak, it's not enough to miss a link." If it weren't for Wang Meng's secret payment back then, if someone hadn't reframed it at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it might not have appeared in this small shop! You happened to arrive on Hong Kong Island, and you happened to visit the antique street, if you are not careful and don't see this small shop, then you won't see it! When you see this painting, you still have to have the ability to recognize it, and the boss can't recognize it! ”