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Danqing Pavilion, as its name suggests, only deals in Chinese calligraphy and painting works and utensils related to the study, and the tradition has never been broken for decades. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After Li Mobai came to Danqing Pavilion, he was also full of praise for the style of Danqing Pavilion, and even more admired the spirit of the boss's persistence. It's not a problem to stick to one day, it's not a problem to stick to it for a year, but it's quite difficult for decades, but the boss of Danqing Pavilion has done it.

In the era of lack of masters, people's beliefs are also disappearing, and today's art circles blindly respect Western painting, as if those who study art are inferior if they do not take Western painting as a profession.

Back then, masters such as Zhang Daqian and Xu Beihong were not eclectic and eclectic, but this impetuous era has long forgotten why masters became masters.

Li Mobai sighed in his heart, and at the same time watched it in the Danqing Pavilion, Jiang Xuhan was also interested in Chinese calligraphy and painting under the influence of Li Mobai, and the two baby girls had already looked at it by themselves.

After looking around, Li Mobai found that although Danqing Pavilion was professional, there were no good things outside, and even the real ones were ordinary goods.

Speaking of which, the domestic collection circle is very immature, of course, this immaturity is also because many ordinary people who don't know how to collect at all have also entered this market, including vassal nouveau riche and speculators whose interests are above all else.

When Yuan Qinghua was on fire, everyone valued blue and white, even if it was the most ordinary goods, it was also hyped as' When the guqin is hot, everyone goes to collect the guqin, even if they can't tell the difference between the guqin and the guzheng at all, and even haven't heard the guqin music at all; when the pastel is hot, the whole world is pastel; after the contemporary calligraphy and painting monument is hyped up by Westerners, even if it is an art hooligan's work, it can be auctioned at a sky-high price, and what is even more speechless is that after the painter's masterpiece is sold at a high price, his works that are not in the stream are sold at a high price.

Of course, these fakes are also works before the Republic of China, and in fact they still have a certain collection value, such as the British Museum's copy of the Tang Dynasty "Female History Atlas" is a treasure, and many Song Dynasty painters copy the same Tang Dynasty masterpieces as precious.

Of course, it is not that fakes can be priceless for hundreds of years, but fakes also need to have a fairly high artistic standard, for example, Mr. Zhang Daqian's copy of the masterpiece, which is more collectible than the original, not that Mr. Zhang Daqian's artistic level surpasses the original author, because this is an interesting thing in itself, and the collection becomes interesting.

Zhan Hongtu, the boss of Danqing Pavilion, saw Li Mobai and his party coming in, and knew that this was the young man Xu Yuanzhi had told him, but Zhan Hongtu did not chase Li Mobai on the pole, but sat there leisurely drinking tea.

This is the cultural heritage, not that Zhan Hongtu does not care about or despises Li Mobai, this is the style that the antique circle should have, if the position is reversed, Li Mobai will be the same, if Zhan Hongtu comes to talk to himself, Li Mobai will say two perfunctory sentences at most, and he will excuse himself to leave.

Although Zhan Hongtu sat on the side and drank tea leisurely, the corner of his eye was inadvertently observing Li Mobai, and when he saw Li Mobai admiring calligraphy and painting, his expression was quite focused, and he secretly said in his heart that he was indeed a child of the family.

When Zhan Hongtu received Xu Yuanzhi's call, he contacted friends in the mainland, and soon knew the general origin of Li Mobai, and he also admired Li Mobai in his heart, he could have such achievements and courage at such a young age.

Li Mobai carefully looked around, chose a Qing Dynasty Wu Rang a group of small seal four screens, when Li Mobai saw Wu Rangzhi's book sticker, the heart is also a joy, there is a Qing generation, Wu Rangzhi's small seal and the level of the official book is quite high, and its seal carving seal is the Qing generation unsurpassed, out of the blue and better than the blue beyond the teacher of his teacher - Anhui school seal master Deng Wanbai, but his life is not ambitious, after all, he died depressed as a talent, and in his later years he lived in Guanyin Nunnery.

From the point of view of the art of governing seals, Wu Rangzhi is a well-deserved generation of masters, but Wu Rangzhi has ruled thousands of squares in his life, but very few have been handed down, because Wu Rangzhizhi has rarely left side money, so many of them have been lost in the dust of history.

Li Mobai still agrees with Wu Rangzhi's calligraphy, although Wu Rangzhi's calligraphy has not yet broken away from the shackles of his teacher Bao Shichen, but it is quite innovative in the combination of seals and subordinates, "Boss, take a hand." ”

"Come on!" When Zhan Hongtu heard this, he put down the purple clay pot, and walked over to Li Mobai, "Whose work does Mr. fancy sir?" ”

"Jean Weng's four screens are rare and fine." Li Mobai smiled slightly, let Weng be Wu Rangzhi's self-name in his later years.

"Okay, an integer." Zhan Hongtu stretched out a finger and said, meaning 100,000.

When Li Mobai heard this, he felt that the price was quite reasonable, although Wu Rangzhi's reputation was not obvious, but his seal script was a fine product, "Okay, Danqing Pavilion is worthy of Danqing Pavilion." ”

"Awards, awards." Zhan Hongtu laughed, "Mr. is surnamed Li?" ”

"I'm Li Mobai." Li Mobai smiled, "I haven't asked the boss what to call him." ”

"Zhan Hongtu, and invite Mr. Li to have tea inside."

After coming to the inner room and taking a seat, a guy served Li Mobai the freshly brewed tea, and the fragrance of the tea was overflowing, obviously the best Tieguanyin.

After the greetings, Li Mobai took the initiative to say, "Mr. Zhan can have a masterpiece, let the little brother pass by and have a long insight." ”

"Haha, don't dare!" Zhan Hongtu said politely, "Recently, I got my hands on a book, so I will give it to Mr. Li." ”

As he spoke, he took out a beautiful box from the cabinet and put it on the table, stretched out his hand to lift the lid of the box, Li Mobai found that there was a volume of books placed in it, with the four characters of the red seal script 'Shuowen Jiezi', Li Mobai knew at a glance that this was the book body of Wu Rangzhi that he had just started.

Take a look, it's quite heavy, and then look at the content is really Wang Rangzhi's book, Li Mobai read it carefully, and confirmed that this is Wu Rangzhi's authentic handiwork, that is, when Wu Rangzhi lived in Liu Hanchen's house, he gave Liu because of 'sending food for three years, and there is no way to repay it'.

In the Qing Dynasty, the study of "Shuowen Jie Zi" was a prominent science, and many famous scholars had studied it in depth and made a lot of annotations. "Shuowen Jiezi" is written by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the most precious work in the history of Chinese writing, a comprehensive and systematic analysis of Chinese character glyphs and research on the origin of characters, and is also the only work in 1800 to study the origin of Chinese characters, without "Shuowen Jiezi", the current Chinese do not know the seal book since the Qin and Han dynasties, let alone the oracle bone script and Zhong Dingwen of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The original book of "Shuowen Jie Zi" is 14 articles, a narrative, the main text is mainly a small seal, 9353 words, and 1163 words of the same text such as ancient Chinese and Zhou Wen, and more than 130,000 words of explanation, but after thousands of years of circulation, there are quite discrepancies, but it does not affect the value of this book at all.

Li Mobai is very familiar with "Shuowen Interpreting Words", after all, Li Mobai is learning ancient characters, and he can see the seal style "Shuowen Jie Zi" written by Wu Rangzhi, Li Mobai is very excited, "Mr. Zhan, can this book be given to the younger brother?" ”

"Haha, as long as Mr. Li likes it, how can I be reluctant to part with my love, after all, this book can truly reflect its value in Mr. Li's hands." Zhan Hongtu laughed and said heartily.

Although Li Mobai was happy to hear this, he knew that Zhan Hongtu was waiting for the price to sell at this time, and completely took the initiative, "Mr. Zhan is really refreshing, what do you think of this price?" Li Mobai stretched out a finger and took the initiative to raise the price.

Zhan Hongtu looked at Li Mobai and stretched out a finger, knowing that Li Mobai offered 10 million Hong Kong dollars, he was also quite shocked in his heart, good guy, what a big deal, no wonder Xu Yuanzhi praised it yesterday.

"Haha, as long as Mr. Li likes it, I have no problem." Zhan Hongtu said with a smile, this price can be said to be very satisfied, although the book is tens of thousands of words, but the industry has basically reached 100 yuan per word, which is definitely not low.

Seeing that Zhan Hongtu responded happily, Li Mobai was also very happy in his heart, although the price reached 10 million yuan, but Li Mobai did not feel pain at all, this book is not only well preserved, there is no moth-eaten, and there is no sweat watermark and the like, and the most important thing is that it is transcribed by Wu Rangzhi, a master of seal calligraphy, and its value is self-evident.

Both parties are satisfied, this is the so-called selling the right person, in fact, it is also a grand plan or underestimating the influence of "Shuowen Jie Zi" and Wu Rangzhi, if this book is auctioned, the operation is reasonable, and its value is far more than 10 million.

After completing this happy transaction, Li Mobai did not easily give up Zhan Hongtu's other paintings, but Zhan Hongtu did not have good works in his hands.

Leaving Danqing Pavilion, Li Mobai began to wander around aimlessly again, looking from house to house.

In the three days before the start of the special exhibition of Zhang Daqian's paintings in Meiyuntang, Li Mobai was soaked in the Hollywood antique market, and spent a lot of money, receiving more than 100 pieces of pottery, bronze, and jade, most of which were smuggled from China.

Jiang Suhan and her two baby sisters followed Li Mobai for a day, then they cried out for leg pain, and no longer went around with Li Mobai, but they didn't go to Hollywood, but they walked around Central and other places for two days in a row, but they didn't feel tired at all, as long as women are shopping, no matter how old or young, they are all happy to do it, they are simply the natural enemies of men, but Li Mobai is happy and quiet.

After three days in the Hollywood antique market, Li Mobai also got acquainted with a lot of contacts, because Li Mobai liked the things, the price given was quite fair and reasonable, and the store was willing to deal with Li Mobai, for a time Li Mobai became the most popular person in Hollywood, and there were banquets every night, so that in the end, the reporter noticed it, and wrote an article titled "Young Collectors in the Mainland, Hollywood Crazy Repurchase of Lost Antiques" as the title of the news.

Just when Li Mobai finished Taobao in Hollywood, the special auction of 'Meiyuntang Zhang Daqian's Paintings' also kicked off, and it was another big battle to answer Li Mobai.

(To be continued)