"Painting and overpainting" is a special painting technique in ancient China, and the original intention of the painter was to retouch or create a new painting on the same painting to overlay the surface of the old painting.

This kind of painting technique has also occurred many times in the history of Western oil painting.

For example, the famous Picasso could not afford to buy canvas (sketches) in the early days, so he reused the old canvases he had already painted to create new paintings.

Picasso's "Old Guitarist", through modern high-tech means, one can find that behind the guitarist's curved neck, there seems to be another face.

The X-ray shows more detail: a woman nursing her child, with a cow and a sheep by her side, in an idyllic background.

Picasso's other work, The Blue Room, also hides another work on the ground floor.

If you look through the infrared image, you can clearly show another portrait under the "room" - a bearded man with several rings, dressed formally, leaning with a melancholy expression.

The bearded man hidden in "The Blue Room", like the woman at the bottom of "The Old Guitarist", was a victim of Picasso's inability to afford canvas.

In addition, there is the "Vespers" by Jean-François Millet, the most beloved painter in the history of modern French painting, which is also a painting with a special cover-up!

X-rays showed that the cart on the right hand side of the woman in Vespers was not actually filled with potatoes. It's the corpse of a baby.

In addition to the three famous paintings mentioned above, there are actually some traces of old paintings that can be found on the paintings of some famous painters in the history of Western oil painting. It was only after being tested by modern scientific instruments that it was restored.

In the history of Western oil painting, there are different reasons why painters take the initiative to cover up the original paintings, and sometimes they are forced by scandals to cover up the content of the original controversial paintings; Sometimes, simply because the painter changed his mind; Sometimes, because of financial constraints, the painter overwrites the old painting in order to save money on a new canvas.

Unlike the Western history of oil painting, the reason for the creation of "painting and overpainting" is that the ancient Chinese literati seem to regard "painting and overpainting" as a way to hide secrets or to cultivate fun.

Therefore. "Painting and painting" was studied by ancient Chinese literati. It gradually developed into two schools - the "Laminated Superposition School" and the "One Paper Two Painting School".

The sketch of an unknown painter in the Republic of China in Peipei's hand should be a "laminated superimposed painting"!

The so-called "overlay painting" is to cover the surface of the old painting with a film of rice milk (which may also add some special ingredients), and the rice milk will cover the original painting after it cools. The painter can then recreate a new painting on the cooled surface of the rice milk to cover up the old painting.

This technique is often used to hide secrets.

With the evolution of the years. Due to the private collection of the art techniques of each family in the genre of "painting and painting". Gradually, it began to be unknown to the world.

Especially during the Republic of China, under the influence of the mainstream rhetoric advocated by the society at that time to abandon the old customs of feudal etiquette and religion, most of the elites of that era abandoned traditional Chinese studies and went abroad to learn advanced foreign technology.

Western paintings, foreign texts, and foreign objects are all the rage.

As a result, the traditional skill of "painting and painting" has become more difficult to find an inheritor of the craft.

To add insult to injury. Decades later, after being devastated by artillery fire, the people finally rebuilt the country, but it was not long before it was stable, and then it ushered in a decade of turmoil.

The great destruction of traditional Chinese culture caused by this turmoil has led to the complete annihilation of the thousand-year-old skill of "painting and overpainting", which has been inherited for thousands of years!

Therefore, such an ink peony picture painted by an unknown painter of the Republic of China will be placed in the calligraphy and painting area of the Republic of China on the ground floor by the owner of the antique shop who does not know the gold and jade.

As for the reason why Pei Pei recognized the hidden cattiness in this painting, it was because when she was still a wisp of soul, when the space jade was passed down to the Song Dynasty, it was rewarded by the emperor at that time to the hands of a court painter. And this court painter, in private, was very fond of studying and trying various schools of "painting and painting".

It is precisely because of this that Pei Pei is so familiar with the special technique of "painting and overpainting", and when she opened the painting in her hand, she felt that the stiffness and thickness of the paper of the painting were wrong, and then she suddenly had an inspiration and used a small searchlight to make a transparent light on the back of the painting, so as to discover that the secret of another painting should be hidden under the painting on the surface.

In order to confirm that her judgment was not wrong, Pei Pei quietly released a wisp of divine consciousness, using this divine consciousness to penetrate the surface of the painting and sense the true appearance of the original painting hidden by the surface of the painting.

- There's another painting down there!

The corners of Pei Pei's mouth unconsciously hooked slightly.

Generally speaking, later generations will think of using the technique of "painting and overpainting" to conceal and conceal the original painting, and the original painting is either a famous painting by a world-famous artist, or there is an unspeakable secret existence on the original painting.

Moreover, according to common sense, after finishing a painting, ancient Chinese literati would habitually leave a blank space in a certain corner of the four corners of the painting, either inscribe a poem or leave a font number, and then add a seal.

Therefore, as soon as Pei Pei confirmed that this was a "painting overpainting", she immediately used her divine sense to explore the four corners of the original painting under the surface, looking for the artist's inscription or seal

- Found it!

Through the feedback of her divine sense, Pei Pei soon sensed four rows of words in the upper left corner of the painting.

When the nesting swallow is not scheduled, the village Weng Sanshe is drunk and helping.

Pink flowers become scoundrels, and they are silently resentful.

The double-faced rouge opened the north, and the five more wind and rain buried Xi Shi.

Kuang bed self-sleeping painting, a wisp of tea smoke raising sideburns.

- This is "Tang Bohu"'s "Falling Flowers"!

When Pei Pei used her divine sense to copy the structure of the four rows of left characters, and then secretly recited the text information fed back by her divine consciousness while copying, the ecstasy in her heart was about to overflow.

- Is this the original "Falling Flowers" painted by Tang Yin, who only left poems and sung and original paintings in history, but have long since disappeared?

Thinking of this, Pei Pei unconsciously took a deep breath, and then, she immediately tried her best to suppress the ecstasy in her heart.

- Yes or no? You only need to verify the seal again!

After Pei Pei controlled her facial expression, she immediately used her divine sense to explore the area around the writing area, looking for the seal mark.

Soon, under the last row of poems "Kuang Bed Sleeps and Paints, a Wisp of Tea Smoke Raising Sideburns", she found the handwritten name of the word "Tang Yin" and a seal on the left side of the name.

Then I used my divine sense to sense the traces of strokes on the seal - after that, Pei Pei was extremely sure that this was definitely the most famous poet and painter of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu, the owner of the Peach Blossom Nunnery, painted the real "Falling Flowers" by himself!

The reason why this "Falling Flowers" is so famous is that there are two celebrities in history who are called "Tang Bohu"!

One is a literati of the Northern Song Dynasty, born and died in the year, the original name was Zhan, the word Wangzhi, and later changed his name to Bohu, the word Changru.

And the other is the great writer of the Ming Dynasty who is well known to our descendants - Tang Yin, a master of calligraphy and painting, the word Bohu, the word Ziwei, the number six such as layman, the master of the peach blossom hermitage, the Tang Sheng of Lu State, and the escape of Zen immortals.

As soon as the name "Tang Bohu" was mentioned, the first reaction of people in later generations was Tang Bohu, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty. However, the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was also called "Tang Bohu", was also very well-known in history.

After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, when Yuan Huizong asked the historians of the court to revise the "History of the Song Dynasty", the Northern Song literati "Tang Bohu" with the same name as Tang Bohu, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, and his brother Tang Geng, were separately biography by the historians of the Yuan Dynasty - "History of the Song Dynasty? The Biography of Tang Geng and Tang Bohu.

The "Tang Bohu" of the Northern Song Dynasty and his brother Tang Geng are both well-known writers and poets in the "History of the Song Dynasty", leaving countless masterpieces of good sentences to future generations.

Later generations have a belief that the "Falling Flowers" by Tang Yin, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, was created based on the poem "Falling Flowers"!

But who created this poem of "Falling Flowers"?

Many historians in later generations believe that the poem was also created by Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there is another saying in the wild history - "Falling Flowers" was created by the Northern Song Dynasty literati "Tang Bohu", and the artistic conception expressed in the poem was admired by Tang Yin, a literati of the Ming Dynasty as a descendant, so he painted a "Falling Flowers", and left the "Falling Flowers" in the blank space of the "Falling Flowers" with the same name as the Northern Song Dynasty predecessor "Tang Bohu"!

So far, "Falling Flowers" and "Falling Flowers" have been sung together to this day.

With the evolution of the years, and the fact that these two literati who created poems and sketches respectively have the same name and surname, gradually, later generations will identify it as "Falling Flowers" is also created by Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the above statement belongs to the circulation of wild history, and the long river of history has been rolling to this day, and countless precious original epic manuscripts have long disappeared in the long river of history, including the original work of "Falling Flowers" painted by Tang Yin himself.

Therefore, there is no actual evidence to prove whether what it says is true or false! (To be continued......)