This second painting is a work by Zhao Mengfu, one of the four families of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is a calligraphy painting. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Speaking of Zhao Mengfu, many people know that he is a famous calligrapher, and he is one of the four masters of regular script along with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan.

But in fact, Zhao Mengfu is a very versatile person, he can be good at poetry and literature, understand economics, calligraphy, fine painting, good at gold and stone, Tonglu Lu, understanding and appreciation, his achievements in painting are not even inferior to his achievements in calligraphy!

"The literati painting started from the eastern slope to the pine snow and opened the door." Songxue is Zhao Mengfu's number.

This sentence basically objectively expresses Zhao Mengfu's position in the history of Chinese painting. In fact, whether it is the study of the history of Chinese painting or the history of Chinese literati painting, Zhao Mengfu is an unavoidable key figure.

If it is said that the interest of Tang and Song Dynasty paintings lies in the creation of the environment with literature, and the interest in painting after the Yuan Dynasty is more reflected in the freehand of calligraphy, then Zhao Mengfu played a bridge role in it. It can be said that it is because of him that he created a new style of painting of the Yuan people, so he is also called the "Yuan People Crown".

Zhao Mengfu's paintings also have a preciousness that is different from others, because he is both good at calligraphy and gold and stone, so getting a painting of Zhao Mengfu often means getting his calligraphy and gold and stone works at the same time, so it is particularly rare.

However, compared with his hand-me-down calligraphy works, his hand-me-down paintings are pitiful, and all the works that are difficult to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood are only a few dozen, of which no more than 10 can be confirmed as authentic, and none of them have gone to the people.

But this painting is a genuine painting, and it is also a horse painting that he is quite good at.

Among the works collected by Zhao Mengfu in the Forbidden City, there are two horse-themed paintings, one is the huge size and horizontal axis length of nearly four meters, and the other is the more famous "Autumn Suburbs Drinking Horses". This one is a longitudinal axis of a man and a horse.

The painting is inscribed with the rather clumsy character Meng Fu, followed by a red seal with only one character "Zhao". In addition, at the two ends of the heaven and earth of the painting scroll, there is a square super large seal, and the content of one is "欽賜忠良长白山长索額圖字九如號愚庵書畫珍永貽子子孫", which is the special seal for the collection of Suo Etu, the auxiliary minister of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

The content of the other party's big seal is "Geng Zhao Zhongxin Gong's character in Liangbei No. Changbai Mountain Chang Collection Calligraphy and Painting Seal", which is the collection seal of Geng Jingzhong, who used to be a Kangxi guard.

Let's not talk about the authenticity of this work, let's just say that these two parties collect seals, each of them is big, I really don't know if they are appreciating or destroying the painting.

In addition, in addition to these two appreciation medals, there is another relatively normal collection seal, which is the collection seal of the famous collector Dai Peizhi in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty.

In general, if there are these three collection seals, it can be regarded as an orderly inheritance, but this painting is not good. This is a work from the early Yuan Dynasty, and there is a time lag of nearly 400 years from Geng Jingzhong, who first collected it. Or is it that collectors can't bear to spoil the layout of the picture and leave their own imprints?

This obviously doesn't make sense.

Another point is to take into account the social environment of the time. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the world had just been established, and Emperor Kangxi began to vigorously promote Sinology in order to stabilize the foundation of his rule, which led to the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who began to chant poems against each other and vassal elegance.

Poetry requires a little real knowledge, so it is more difficult, correspondingly, vassal elegance is much simpler, one of the most convenient ways is to collect calligraphy and paintings, as long as you have money.

Based on such a situation, what will be the market's reaction? Naturally, fakes are flying all over the sky, fakes are everywhere, anyway, the old men of the Qing Dynasty are all rough men, they can't recognize all the Chinese characters, and they still know how to appreciate paintings?

Therefore, it is not wrong that this painting was identified as an imitation by the so-called experts invited by François, and Xiao Zhao wants to blame Suo Etu and Geng Jingzhong, two guys who don't know how to pretend to understand, but like to leave a collection seal larger than the basin!

The third painting, sure enough, is also a famous work, signed by Wu Zhen, who is one of the four Yuan families with Zhao Mengfu, but it is a rather shoddy fake, although the spirit card shows that this is also an imitation of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, but Li Yi has no idea of collecting.

The fourth is the work of Huang Gongwang, who has been guided by Zhao Mengfu and created the Qianjiang landscape painting method, imitation!

The fifth is the work of Dong Yuan, the great monk who inherited the style of Dong Yuan, the originator of the southern school of landscape painting, and is as famous as Dong Yuan, and is called Dong Ju, but it is also an imitation.

6th & 7th ...... Until he saw the last one, Li Yicai's brows tightened and he became nervous.

This is a handscroll of ink on paper, with a vertical axis height of about 35 centimeters and a horizontal axis length of about 140 centimeters. Chibi Nostalgia", quite surprising.

Because Mi Fu and Su Dongpo are one of the four great calligraphers of the Song Dynasty, although there are exchanges between the two, but absolutely not to the extent that they can write each other's original poems at will, you know, according to the views of the literati at the time, if the serious eight hundred write each other's original poems, it represents the worship of each other.

Literati are light, of course, it doesn't matter what the predecessors did, as a calligraphy achievement is still on the top of Su Dongpo's Mi Fu, how can it be possible to write the works of Su Shi of the same era?

Moreover, according to records, Mi Fu's works are mostly small characters, and there are only three large character works. These three works, a collection in the Shanghai Museum, a collection in the Forbidden City, and a in Japan, in addition, there is no recognized Mi Fu large-character works handed down.

"This is probably the main reason why this painting is considered a fake."

Li Yi secretly made a judgment in his heart, but this conclusion cheapened him, which was obviously another big leak.

It's just that remembering that the old François just went to China, and there are 4 top works among the 20 works collected, and the price is even lower and surprisingly low, Li Yi's heart is a burst of yearning, if he can be born in that era, and have a spirit card, oh my God! Isn't that death?

However, fortunately, he was not born in that era, otherwise most of them could only watch these works fall into the hands of others, you know, the average salary in that era was only a few tens of yuan, not only many seemingly profitable ways are illegal, and if you have no power or power, going abroad is almost a dream, how can he be like now, just by gambling stones, he has accumulated a large amount of money that cannot be spent in several lifetimes? How can it be like now, picking up leaks abroad at will?

Collecting "Horse Husbandry", "Nian Nujiao", "Xingcao Five-Character Poem", and the work imitating Tang Bohu, Li Yi asked:

"How much do these 4 works cost?"

François groaned for a moment and said:

"Give me a total of 1 million euros! In fact, these are imitations of a very high level, and the stamps are relatively complete, usually if someone wants to buy, the unit price of each of my paintings will not be less than 500,000 euros, but who made Rogov my best friend? A good friend's good friend is something that must be taken care of. ”

Li Yi laughed twice, three of these four paintings are genuine, of course, the level is very high. Therefore, for François, who was so generous to treat the original work as an imitation and directly treated it with cabbage price, he solemnly expressed his gratitude, thank you!

Instructed the fat elephant to put away the work, Li Yi stood up, François's collection of Chinese antiques has two large rooms, and he has just finished looking at a wall, at most one more box, and the rest is still a long way to go.

"Oh, Mr. Li, please be sure, I still have a few things here, I want you to help me take a look, of course, if you are interested, we can also talk about it carefully."

Li Yi smiled slightly, glanced at Rogov, this guy guessed right, Francois really still has good things hidden!

"Mr. François, you are so gracious, and it is an absolute pleasure for me to be able to admire your treasures. Of course, I'm interested in all things good......"

Li Yi was polite, and slowly sat down again, what good things will this guy come up with?

François smiled and nodded, motioned for the two to wait, picked up the remaining scrolls and put them back in their places, and then moved his steps slightly to open the safe next to him.

"It's ...... Tiger 卣 (you, three sounds)? ”

Li Yi held his breath for a moment, and after a while, he carefully exhaled a long breath, for fear of disturbing the villain in front of him who was held in his arms by a vicious tiger.

What François carried over was a bronze vessel about 36 centimeters high called the Tiger Chamber, which was a sacrificial object similar to a mythological symbol or totem cast in ancient China to hold wine.

At present, there are only two tigers in the world, the size and shape are similar, all of them were cast in the late Shang Dynasty of China, but unfortunately, they are not in China.

One of these two tigers is in the collection of the Chinuchi Museum in France, and the other is in the collection of the Izumiya Museum in Kyoto, Japan.

The shape of the tiger is very peculiar to take the posture of the tiger and the person hugging. The tiger's hind feet and tail support the body, and at the same time constitute the three legs of the swish, the tiger's front paws hold a person, the person squats towards the tiger's chest, a pair of bare feet step on the tiger's claws, both hands reach out to the tiger's shoulders, and the tiger opens its mouth to eat the human head.

It is this shape that has also caused controversy over the naming of the tiger.

Chinese scholars believe that this is a tiger eating man, so they named the tiger "tiger eating man" at first. However, Japanese scholars believe that this shape represents the harmony between man and tiger, the coexistence of characters, and the unity of heaven and man, so it is named "Milk Tiger". Later, in order to avoid disputes, it was unified into the Tiger Clan.

Judging from the expressions and movements of the bronze figures, it does seem that humans and tigers live in harmony, but on other cultural relics unearthed in China, there are many patterns of tigers eating people, so it is really difficult to say what the craftsmen who adopted this shape meant back then.

But it's not critical at all, the key thing is that if this tiger is real, then it is likely to be the third tiger found in this world, and if Li Yi is willing, it will belong to Huaxia!

Huaxia will also have its own tiger stun! (To be continued.) )