The great painter Zhang Daqian spent countless paintings in his life, but most of them were sold for money, and only those he gave to his friends were absolute masterpieces.

The difference here is generally very simple, it is not the size of the painting. Instead, look at Zhang Daqian's inscription.

Names such as "Great Migration", "Great Migration", "Zhang Zhan", etc., are generally paintings that sell for money.

If it is a painting that reads "Brother Zhang Zhan", it is on behalf of him to give it to a friend.

And writing such a painting of He Mei and Brother Love means that it must be given to his sister, and such words and a seal like Qiuchi reminded Lei Weidong of a story that was widely circulated in later generations

The great painter Zhang Daqian has a wife and three concubines in his life, and has countless confidants, from the age of 20 to the death of others, Zhang Daqian's peach-colored scandals are richer than his paintings.

It was not until March 2004 that Mr. Zhang Daqian's huge landscape painting "Reckless and Lush Green", which was valued at more than 10 million yuan by connoisseurs, was mysteriously revealed, and Mr. Zhang Daqian's unexposed "Autumn Late" seal was mysteriously revealed, and the shocking platonic love affair of the merry genius was finally deciphered. And Zhang Daqian's three kneeling red faces are also known.

One of the kneeling "beauties" is just to confide in Zhang Daqian's 20 years old, because of the death of his childhood sweetheart's fiancée, he went to Tiantong Temple to become a monk, and three months later he returned to the magic capital. When Zhang Daqian struggled in the magic capital painting world, he imitated Shi Tao's paintings to the extent that even connoisseurs could not distinguish the authenticity.

At that time, Li Maochang, a wealthy businessman, was also one of the rich people who had been "deceived" by him. When Li Maochang showed his beloved daughter Li Qiujun the "authentic handiwork" he bought for 50 yuan, she smiled and said that the painting was fake, but the person who painted was extremely talented, and his future achievements would be epoch-making.

After listening to his daughter's words, Li Maochang really began to look for this master in the magic capital painting world, but after all the hard work, what he saw was a suave young man. After listening to the other party's narrative, Zhang Daqian laughed, in order to thank Li Maochang for his hard work in finding himself in the past two years, he insisted on returning the ocean to the other party. Li Maochang did not accept it, but handed over an open-minded little brother.

Li Maochang invited Zhang Daqian to live in his house several times, in fact, he intended to let him meet his daughter.

Li Maochang's daughter Li Qiujun graduated from the Magic Capital Wuben Girls' High School, and has been proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. One day, Zhang Daqian came to his hometown to relax at the invitation of Li Maochang. When he was waiting for his master in the living room, he was attracted by a huge "Lotus Picture", a residual lotus, a bald stem, and a pool of silt, elegant and refined, Zhang Daqian breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Daqian sighed: "The painting world is really out of the sky. Looking at this painting, the momentum of the technique is a man, but the font is magnificent, the artistic conception is refined and feminine, which really makes me understand. ”

Li Maochang smiled: "It seems that brother, you are very fond of this painting, can you imagine meeting the owner of the painting?" Zhang Daqian hurriedly said: "I think it's too late to apprentice, but I don't know if this Ouxiang Hall Master is still in the world." Li Maochang smiled and told him that the painter was not only alive, but also could be seen at night.

Zhang Daqian spent the day in anxiety. Until the beginning of the dinner, the door of the living room was slammed open, and a beautiful young woman stood in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The woman seemed to have come running, her hair in a loose bun that had not yet been tidied up, and her face was flushed with running. Li Maochang pointed to his daughter who had not yet caught her breath and smiled: "Qiu'er, this is Zhang Daqian, who you have always admired. After speaking, he smiled at Zhang Daqian and said, "Brother Daqian, have you seen your master......?"

After a few seconds, Zhang Daqian finally reacted, pushed away the chair, ran in front of Li Qiujun in a few steps, knelt down with a "plop", and really shouted in his mouth: "The junior Shu man Zhang Zhan has seen the master." ”

This is the beginning of a strange love......

After the meeting when the two knelt and knew each other and hated each other, they were under Li Maochang's "matchmaking"; Zhang Daqian simply set up his own studio in the "Ouxiang Hall" in the back building where Li Qiujun lived, and the two of them were almost inseparable except for sleeping in separate rooms.

At that time, Zhang Daqian was in his youth, suave, and had done a lot of things that men and women loved, which even Li Maochang knew. But only for this third sister, Daqian never dared to cross the thunder pool by half a step.

In fact, in the past six months of getting along, Zhang Daqian has been thinking about a question all the time: "Why do you hate to see each other late?" It turned out that after the death of his cousin, Zhang Daqian was disheartened and married by his mother in his hometown, and took a concubine the next year. And how can this third lady of the Li family deign to be her concubine?

Zhang Daqian is free and easy by nature, not a sentimental person, but he carried his third sister behind his back and secretly carved the seal of "Autumn Late".

After meeting Zhang Daqian, Li Qiujun also fell into endless distress: did he break the routine and let himself, a rich lady, deign to marry a poor scholar as a concubine? Or will you never cross the boundary between men and women, and maintain the relationship between brother and sister confidants for the rest of your life?

Once, Li Qiujun saw Zhang Daqian writing a letter to his wife and concubine in Sichuan, and tentatively said to Zhang Daqian that if he could accept another eldest lady as a concubine, it would be a boundless blessing. After listening to Li Qiujun's words, Zhang Daqian was stunned for a few seconds, sighed long, and didn't say a word.

The next day, Zhang Daqian came to his studio, and for the first time he closed the studio and did not let anyone in. It wasn't until late afternoon that Zhang Daqian opened the door to his studio.

When Li Qiujun came in with tea, Zhang Daqian was still in the same posture as in the morning: it turned out that he had been sitting quietly in the studio for a day. Before Li Qiujun could speak, Zhang Daqian actually knelt down for her with a "plop", which scared Li Qiujun back half a step.

Zhang Daqian said: "Third sister, although I am young and frivolous, I deeply know that I will live for painting and die for painting in this life. Putting aside the relationship between men and women, the closest confidante in my life is no one except you. But if I take you as a concubine, I will bring reproach to a generation of talented women, and I will be damned by heaven......"

Since then, Li Qiujun buried the love of his life deep in his heart, and did not mention talking about marriage in front of Zhang Daqian, but regarded himself as his sister.

In the early 30s of the last century, Li Qiujun followed Zhang Daqian to Shanghai and taught at the National Academy of Fine Arts. Li Qiujun took care of Zhang Daqian's daily life as always, and even sewed Zhang Daqian's clothes by himself. When Zhang Daqian traveled all over the world, Li Qiujun simply chose his disciples on his behalf, and the apprentices also respected Li Qiujun as a "master", and Li Qiujun did not refuse, just like that, Li Qiujun never married.

It can be said that Zhang Daqian is also a scumbag, since he can't give Li Qiujun happiness, he still has to pester Li Qiujun, and what is even more odious is that when the apprentices also respect Li Qiujun as a "teacher", and Li Qiujun does not refuse, he does not give Li Qiujun a promise, so that Li Qiujun will be lonely for life.

On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Daqian gave his own biological flesh and blood Xinrui and Xinpei two daughters to Li Qiujun as adopted daughters, Li Qiujun regarded Xinrui and Xinpei as his own flesh and blood, and loved education with all his heart.

Later, with the encouragement of Li Qiujun, Zhang Daqian decided to go to the northwest to sketch, and this trip to the northwest had a decisive impact on Zhang Daqian's life.

Although the Northwest hardship made Zhang Daqian suffer the injustice of the "destroyer of ancient culture", of course, it cannot be regarded as wronged, after all, Zhang Daqian damaged a lot of Dunhuang murals, but through the edification of Dunhuang murals, but also established Zhang Daqian's irreplaceable position in the history of Chinese painting. Even Master Xu lamented that "there have been a thousand in the past five hundred years", and Picasso once exclaimed that "the real art is in the East" when he looked at Zhang Daqian's works in his later years.

No matter where Zhang Daqian was, he never interrupted his contact with Li Qiujun: in Huangshan, in the province of abundance, or in the far northwest, everywhere he went, he would write down his artistic feelings into words, transmit them to the third sister in the distance, and discuss artistic topics with her. They continued this correspondence for nearly 30 years, until Zhang Daqian went to Southeast Asia in 1949 and lost contact with each other.