The second photograph is a photograph of calligraphy, on the yellowed page, there are about twenty or thirty scribbled wild grasses, no inscription, only a vague square seal, vaguely able to see that it is a four-character seal script, but each character is incomplete, the relatively most complete one is less than one-twelfth of the original font, and it is impossible to be identifiable at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

For calligraphy works, it is not a particularly difficult thing, because as long as the damage is not very complete, there are many technologies that can be restored, and even if the final seal cannot be restored, it can also be identified and compared from the handwriting and content, so as to determine which work of everyone.

Because the works of calligraphy in the past dynasties not only have their own distinctive characteristics and unique style, but also even if the handwriting is not recognizable for a while, most of the corresponding history books will also leave descriptions of the content and background of the work.

In fact, this is also a standard step in the identification of ancient paintings and calligraphy.

It's just that this calligraphy is too wild and dripping, with only twenty or thirty handwritings, at first glance it looks like a child's graffiti, so crazy and scribbled to the point that he can't get a word, so Li Yi has a feeling of nowhere to start at first.

It was only later that I adjusted my mood and took a closer look, only to find that these fonts, frustration and turn, rigidity and softness have their own laws, ever-changing, but there is an elegant spirit in the dragon flying phoenix dance, it is definitely a work of everyone.

"Sudden stomach pain......

After watching for a long time, Li Yi finally recognized the three words at the beginning, because only these three words are still neat, and the next few lines, basically each line is a stroke to the end, up and down, lingering and connected, the faster you write, the more crazy you write, the more strange you write, the more you write it

But it doesn't matter if the others are not recognized, it is enough to have the first three words, because there is a famous calligraphy that has been passed down through the ages, which starts with these three words.

"Sudden stomach pain is unbearable/I don't know if it's caused by heat and cold/I want to take rhubarb soup......"

While carefully identifying the remaining handwriting, while corroborating each other with the handwriting of the content of the calligraphy in his memory, Li Yi became more and more surprised the more he looked at it, and after reading it, staring at the damaged seal, the suspicion in his heart reached its peak, this is a bit unlikely, right? This one, could it be the true work of "Grass Sage" Zhang Xu's "Bellyache Sticker"?

Who is Zhang Xu, naturally there is no need to waste pen and ink to describe here, but Li Yi remembers very clearly, Zhang Xu's works are very few, a total of no more than 5, of which the real authenticity seems to be only one of the "Four Posts of Ancient Poems", and the other "Heart Sutra", "Stomach Pain Sticker" or the regular script work "Langguan Stone Pillar Record" that is considered to be the most reliable Zhang Xu's authentic work are all tablets, so this one is the copy of the calligraphy master?

Compared with regular script and official script, Li Yi's research on cursive script is the least, but this does not affect his ability to appreciate, not to mention the comparison of the handwriting of the original tablet of Zhang Xu's "Belly Pain Sticker" in his heart, he feels that the handwriting of this work is at least eight or ninety percent similar to Zhang Xu, if it is really a copying work, the author's cursive skills, even if it is compared in the long river of history, I am afraid it will be ranked among the top 5!

However, there are too many doubts here, and the most obvious one is the problem of seals.

As we all know, an excellent work of calligraphy and painting, unless it is born as a funeral object and has never appeared, otherwise, if it is a hand-me-down work, there will never be a lack of corresponding collection seals on it.

Moreover, if it has been collected by some famous person, these people may also inscribe poems or inscriptions on it. Just like the famous "brush screen" mad demon Qianlong Emperor, the calligraphy and paintings collected by his hands, basically have at least three or five party collection seals, more, even as many as dozens of squares, the most excessive is his collection of the fake "Fuchun Mountain Residence Tuzi Ming Volume", and also added as many as 56 inscriptions and research texts on the picture!

Of course, in addition to Qianlong's crazy behavior, which will be suspected of destroying the painting, these seals and inscriptions are also an indispensable part of the appraisal of a hand-me-down painting and calligraphy work, and naturally form part of the value of the work.

If this calligraphy is Zhang Xu's authentic handwriting, then it is absolutely impossible to have only one seal, even if it is Zhang Xu's subsequent copy, with the level of this work, it is impossible that no one collects it!

Then there are only two possibilities left, one is that this work is indeed Zhang Xu's authentic work, but it was buried underground as a companion soon after it came out. Another possibility is that the work was copied by a contemporary or modern calligraphy master, and it has been around for too short a time for the seal maniacs to leave their traces.

However, there are big problems with these two speculations, the first one, if it is a burial object, then there are so few seals, it can only indicate one problem, that is, the time of the burial is very early.

Zhang Xu was a Tang dynasty man, and according to this inference, it is likely that this work was excavated from a Tang tomb. However, as such a well-known work, if it had been excavated normally, it would have caused a sensation in the world, and Li Yi had never heard of this news, so it seems that more than 90% of this work may be from tomb robbers.

It's just that there is an unavoidable problem with this inference, that is, as a work of calligraphy and painting on paper, it has extremely high requirements for the preservation environment, and countless well-kept heirloom works have been damaged, so how can the ancient tombs with harsh environment be preserved so completely?

In other words, even if it is preserved in the confined space of the ancient tomb, but this kind of paper that has not been exposed to air for hundreds of thousands of years is afraid that it will turn into ashes the moment it is taken out of the ancient tomb.

Li Yi knows that even if there is such a possibility, the possibility is very small, and even negligible.

Then there is only one other possibility left, but, not to mention the contemporary and modern times, even if everyone counts the ancient calligraphy, Li Yi can't think of a few people who can copy Zhang Xu's calligraphy to such a realm, not to mention, if it is the ancients, how can it be possible to bypass the problem of the seal?

After racking his brains and pondering for a while, Li Yi suddenly wanted to give himself a mouthful, even if this work was stolen and excavated from the ancient tomb, it would definitely not be a Tang tomb, because he had seen this calligraphy stele in the Chang'an Stele Forest before, which was carved in the Song Dynasty!

In this way, there is only one possibility left, and that is to imitate the contemporaries!

It's a pity, such a stunning work, inferred to be a new imitation in the end, relative to this conclusion, Li Yi would rather bear this eternal mystery on its body, than see it just an imitation! (To be continued.) )