"Are you going to Jiaxing, Zhejiang to find Tang An's descendants?"

Hu Jianmin sat down and asked curiously: "The first person in Tan Jing's fake team was Tang An, does he have any treasures?" ”

Wu Tianyuan smiled mysteriously and said: "I have learned that the reason why Tan Jing was able to quickly become a collector at sea back then was mainly due to Zhang Congyu to help him palm, and he also used the relationship between Fa Xiao to snatch a lot of Zhang family collections. ”

In 1928, Zhang Congyu's grandfather Zhang Shiming passed away, and three years later, Zhang Congyu, as the only son of the fourth room, suddenly got 2 million, and he was only 18 years old that year. At that time, 2 million had the same purchasing power as 20 billion now. Zhang Congyu's daughter Zhang Yiwen heard her grandmother say that at that time, the family included many maids, and the daily food was only two yuan, but the food was chicken, duck and fish. Therefore, 2 million is a sky-high inheritance, so Zhang Congyu has become a famous young man in Shanghai and lives a life of spending time and drinking. ”

"Reading Zhang Congyu's diary, you can know that he enjoyed the luxury of the world in his youth, **** in the ten miles of foreign fields, the lights are bright, the singing and dancing are leveling, and the money is like earth. C. Wang said that unfortunately he has a bad hobby, gambling! The most famous one was to lose the world that Shanghai is famous for in one night. ”

"Some of his real estate was gambled, some of it was bought and sold by the bank, and he had to lose money. The famous collection of paintings and calligraphy can only be mortgaged to Tan Jing. Before 1947, the 2 million inheritance was almost exhausted, so the 2 million yuan he inherited from the inheritance was probably tossed by Zhang Congyu for less than 15 years. ”

Wu Tianyuan took a sip of tea and said: "Tan Jing used the calligraphy and paintings in the Zhang family's collection to find Tang An to make a fake, but who is Tang An?" Where will you really obey the command of the layman Tan Jing! ”

Hu Jianmin's eyes lit up, and he asked: "That is, Tang An took the opportunity to exchange imitations for genuine works?" ”

"Not bad! If nothing else, I have investigated at least a dozen cases! "Wu Tianyuan has already communicated with Tan Jing's imitations, can you still know this?

"Tang An, a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, is more than 20 years old. He was originally an apprentice in a pharmacy, good at gold and stone calligraphy and painting, and was notorious for counterfeiting seal carving, calligraphy and painting of famous artists of the past dynasties. The first fake painting Tang An made for Tan Jing was Zhao Mengfu's "Shuangsong Ping Yuantu" collected by Tan Jing, on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival in 1947. ”

"The counterfeiting workshop is located at No. 2, Lane 175, Yueyang Road, which is an old-style garden house in Tan Jing, and it usually opens at the back door of Yongjia Road. Tan Jing kept this extremely secretive, and even Zhang Congyu was not allowed to see it. Xu An, one of the gangs, and her sister Xu Maoqian are Zhang Congyu's aunt and the wife of Zhang Shutao, the coin collector. Xu An collects ancient money, calligraphy and paintings, and is also good friends with Zhang Congyu. Xu An's family has a collection of various ancient seal scores, and often provides some old ink clay, high-quality brushes and old paper silks for Tang An. Reproductions of old paper, cotton silk and other materials, as well as old items bought from the Forbidden City in Beijing. ”

Wu Tianyuan suddenly had a wonderful idea, isn't he doing the same thing now? A few old men are also imitating, but the target of the deception is the Japanese.

According to Chen Ju, Tang An suffered from a strange disease in his later years, and even in June, he still had to cover himself with a thick quilt and use "Tang Pozi" to keep warm. In 1963, he died of illness in Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, and after his body was sent to the morgue, he actually recovered in the middle of the night, shouting that I was not dead. In 1965, Tang An finally died, and lived for more than 80 years. ”

"That's his retribution! It's a pity that the treasure that he hid, you hurry up and look for it! ”

The next day, Wu Tianyuan set off to Tang An's hometown of Jiaxing again, the clue is there, according to the information, Tang An has a daughter, and I don't know if she is there after decades? ”

"Sister Tang? I'm already dead! ”

Wu Tianyuan arrived at the old mansion of the Tang family, which was very dilapidated, and after inquiring, he learned that the descendants died decades ago, and now no one lives in it, and it is taken care of by an uncle from a distant family.

After winning the five million, Wu Tianyuan listened for a long time, and finally found clues in the study and dug up the buried treasure chest.

"Yan Zhenqing's Zhushan Hall couplet!"

"Song Huizong Cuizhu Double Sparrow Picture!"

"Zeng Gong's post!"

Wu Tianyuan was extremely excited, there was Yan Zhenqing's real handiwork, invincible!

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy is exquisite, good at line, Kai, creating "Yan Ti" regular script, and Zhao Mengfu, Liu Gongquan, Ouyang Xun and called "regular script four masters". It is also called "Yan Liu" and Liu Gongquan, and is called "Yan Muscle Willow Bone".

"There is also Zeng Gong's handscroll, at least a thousand words, last time Wang Zhongjun bought a 124-word note for more than 200 million? Would he regret it if he saw it? ”

Wu Tianyuan laughed, if Wang Zhongjun saw his intestines, he would regret it! However, this is Zeng Gong's only surviving handscroll, and it must have entered the museum and would not be sold.

"Since we came out, let's go directly to Ji County, Hebei, which is Sun Yingzhou's hometown, see if there is any gain?"

Wu Tianyuan summed up the experience of these few times, collectors have experienced turbulent times during the Republic of China, and many collections have been confiscated, which is a rare opportunity. Maybe someone is hiding it, and he can pick it up.

Sun Yingzhou, a well-known expert in the identification of ancient ceramics, has donated a large number of precious cultural relics to the Palace Museum, and has been rewarded by the Central People's Government and hired as a consultant of the Palace Museum. During his tenure at the Forbidden City, he re-identified the ceramics in the Forbidden City's collection and assisted the Forbidden City in purchasing a large number of cultural relics and treasures for the state's rescue.

After the liberation and before the joint venture in 1956, Sun Yingzhou ran an antique business in Yuhuazhai for 36 years, so there was a lot of inventory, in addition to porcelain, bronzes, there are also a lot of rhino horn cups and other cultural relics.

In the end, he generously donated more than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics accumulated over the years to the Forbidden City, enriching the collection of cultural relics in the courtyard. Among them, there are as many as 2,000 pieces of ceramics alone, and 25 pieces of porcelain such as Ming Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup are designated as first-class cultural relics.

After Mr. Sun came to work at the Palace Museum, he did his best to display his talents in the face of tens of thousands of ceramic collections. He led the staff to re-identify the ceramics in the Forbidden City.

He is also concerned about the improvement of the professional knowledge level of young people, and teaches young people the experience of identifying ancient ceramics. The disciples who got the true biography of Sun Lao have been distributed all over the country, and now most of them have become experts and scholars in the field of ancient ceramics identification, including Geng Baochang, a famous ancient ceramics identification expert in the country and a researcher at the Palace Museum.

In May 1966, when the Great Revolution unfolded across the country, Sun Canzhou was condemned as a "capitalist roader", but failed to survive this hurdle and died in September. His son, Sun Hongqi, who worked in a Beijing antiquities store, was implicated in his father's problems and was sent to Shanxi in 1967 and did not return to Beijing until 1980, when the policy was implemented.

Wu Tianyuan came to Ji County, Hebei Province, found Sun Yingzhou's hometown, and now there are descendants here, turned around the house, bought it at a high price, and dug out a small treasure chest under the firewood house.

"Another chicken bowl cup!"

"This is the Ming Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup! Same as the Forbidden City! ”

"Chenghua Doucai Tianzi can? I remember only 12 and a half years in existence! ”

Needless to say, there are three chicken bowl cups, plus this Wu Tianyuan has three in his hand!

Wu Tianyuan played with the Sanqiu Cup, a light and delicate Doucai porcelain cup, and painted two butterflies on the white and delicate, thin carcass like cicada wings, fluttering in the mountains and rocks, flowers and plants.

The purple glaze applied on the wings of one of the butterflies is thick and dull, but this is precisely the inherent characteristic of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai, which is also the imitation of later generations can not imitate, this purple color is the so-called "purple" or "poor purple".

"There is one in the Forbidden City, I have one here, see if there is a chance to make a pair?"

He picked up the Tianzi jar again, and the Tianzi jar was too famous, and there were only 12 and a half pieces left in the world. It can be seen in the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Forbidden City in Taipei, and the major museums in Tokyo and London.

Write a word "day" at the bottom of the can, as the bottom paragraph, and write it as "Chengyao Tianzi can" in the clearance file. It is generally said that the bottle is the most valuable in porcelain, and the jar is secondary.

In the past, antique shops used to say: "lying on your stomach" is the bowl. As for the can, it is neither high nor low, it is considered "squatting", so it is inferior to the bottle in terms of status. But the fame of the Tianzi jar is very big, the status is very high, and it must be the porcelain used by the emperor.

The cultural relics of the Forbidden City, numbered as "Tianzi No. 1", are a small bench. It is said that when the number was lined up, the staff saw this small bench as soon as they entered the door, so they lined it up as the first in the sky.

The Tianzi jar is not precious today, but it is particularly precious in history. There is a record in the Qianlong period that on June 19, the ninth year of Qianlong, the Yangxin Palace Manufacturing Office sent a jar with a glazed kiln and a decree: "A jar with a jar with a glazed lid will be handed over to Tang Ying to make up the glaze." If it is supplemented, it will be sent after it is repaired. If you can't make it up, you don't have to make it up, and you still send it. Chin this. ”

Tang Ying was very nervous when he saw the imperial decree, and he took this jar back to Jingdezhen, wondering how to make up the glaze. After a few months, he remade three pairs and brought them back to the emperor together with the original jars.

He wrote down the recital: "The slave Fu Cha sent to the Tianzi lid jar, which belongs to the kiln, so far for a long time, the fire has subsided, if the lack of glaze is supplemented, it must be put into the furnace and refired." Fear of furnace fire attack, in the old kiln texture is not suitable, is not to dare to take the liberty to make up the glaze, respectfully to the kiln factory, imitate the original jar style size, resulting in three pairs, Gong fold to Beijing, and send the original jar together with the in, pray to the emperor to ask the emperor to learn. Sincerely. After reading Tang Ying's recital, Qianlong waved his pen and wrote a: Read.

The Tianzi jar is the first of Chenghua, decorated with seahorse patterns and flower patterns, but there is no character pattern. The character "Tian" written on the bottom of the jar is characterized by no column and no frame. Under the porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is written "Ming Wanli Year System" and "Qing Dynasty Qianlong Year System", either adding a double blue circle or adding a box.

From Wanli, to the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian, the imitation of the Tianzi jar is often seen. For 500 years, the Tianzi jar has been shrouded in a veil of mystery. Its purpose is still unknown.

Wu Tianyuan rushed back with all the treasures, this treasure hunt was only less than a week, but the harvest was huge. The calligraphy and paintings are all treasures of the Song Dynasty, and there are eight pieces of Huizong of the Song Dynasty alone, as well as the authentic works of Yan Zhenqing, priceless treasures!

Porcelain is also a rare treasure, there are only two Sanqiu cups in the world, one each for himself and the Forbidden City, if you let the old man Geng see it, he will definitely go crazy! (To be continued.) )