Boss Liu's attention was almost entirely on what Master Meng was, he recognized this Master Meng, who was indeed an expert in appreciating calligraphy and painting, and even lived near the antique street. It is said that his ancestors used to be framers, and they began to come into contact with calligraphy and painting since he was a child. As the saying goes, three points of painting, seven points of mounting, a good framer, but also a connoisseur with a very high standard.

Boss Liu pinned all his hopes of making money on this painting, and if the transaction was made, his annual turnover would be there. The antique business is like this, it doesn't open for three years, and it opens for three years. So when the guy asked him with the painting, Boss Liu just glanced at it, and then waved his hand: "Isn't it just a painting in the middle hall, you just have an idea...... I don't know when it was mixed up, a Zhongtang painting in the middle of the Republic of China is not made by a famous artist, and the paper and coloring are also bad, so it's good to sell for a thousand......"

Tang and Song placed the political affairs hall in Zhongshu Province, where the prime minister handled government affairs, and the Zhongtang was named after the prime minister's office in Zhongshu Province, and later called the prime minister also Zhongtang. Zhongtang is also an art form of calligraphy and painting. Nowadays, the nave is more defined as the reception room of the home, and the central hall, that is, the living room. Generally, people are in the middle hall "center" conspicuous position, hanging four feet of the whole "Fu, Shou, Dragon, Tiger" and other auspicious meaning of the big characters, and then on the left and right with "couplets", there are also hanging ancestral teachings, aphorisms, famous sentences calligraphy inscriptions, or ancestral portraits, landscapes, tiger calligraphy and paintings, etc.

In the layout of traditional Chinese home, the layout of the hall is the most exquisite, the most strict, the hall furniture as a must in the traditional Chinese home, it takes the central axis of the hall as the benchmark, the long case in front of the board wall, the front of the case is a square table of four immortals or eight immortals, the left and right sides are equipped with armchairs or Taishi chairs, and the furniture is placed in a symmetrical way as a whole, reflecting the solemn and noble style. The furniture in the middle hall naturally focuses on the function according to the purpose of the hall. According to traditional customs, the seat order of the armchair or Taishi chair is in the order of the right master, the left guest or the left is up, and the right is down. It is worth mentioning here that even the head of the family is not in the middle of the family, and when the ceremony is not performed, he usually only sits on the right side, one is to show humility, and the other is to wait for the empty seat, so the seats in the central hall are not often used at the same time. When the hall doubles as a Buddhist hall, there is a Buddhist shrine in the middle of the warping head case, or set up three stars of Fu Lu Shou, or enshrine the tablet of deceased relatives, and the case is equipped with five offerings such as incense burner, wax skewer, and flower tube, which are used to pray for blessings and thanks. This central hall painting is dominated by the statue of the god of wealth, and it is thought that the original owner should have been a gentry family, or a business family. According to Boss Liu's inference, it should be a painting from the middle of the Republic of China, not by a famous artist, and the appearance is not very good, so the price will naturally not be high.

In fact, this guy also knew the origin of this painting, but he thought that Boss Liu wanted to trick Tang Chen, so he brought it to ask. As everyone knows, Boss Liu is a mother if he has milk, and if he has money to make, not to mention Tang Chen, who scared him and caused him to lose more than a million yuan, even if he is an enemy who does not share the sky, he has to finish his business and then talk about other things.

So all his energy now is on that Master Meng. I saw this Master Meng take out a magnifying glass from his coat pocket and carefully explore the scroll. Seeing him so serious and careful, Boss Liu couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and his heart was pounding.

"The paper is in line with that dynasty, but the framing is the technique of the late Qing Dynasty, boss, how do you explain it?"

Master Meng slowly straightened his waist, looked righteous and awe-inspiring, and asked Boss Liu. Boss Liu heard him ask this sentence, but his heart relaxed. Sometimes those who do antique business are not afraid of customers knowing the goods, but they are afraid that customers will not know the goods. Hearing Master Meng ask, Boss Liu said unhurriedly: "This ...... I don't know, why don't you teach me?"

"The end of the Qing Dynasty was turbulent, and it is estimated that the war was affected, so that the mounting was damaged!" Master Meng is a framer, and he is very confident in framing, "Framing old calligraphy and paintings needs to go through many processes such as washing and decontamination, removing the old and patching, repairing and grinding the residual mouth, earning the full color, piercing and mounting the silk, inlaying the silk silk, turning the side to support the back, and calendering the rod. The ink color of this painting is a little light, but it is not very conspicuous, and it is estimated that it was made by a framer with poor craftsmanship. It's really a terrible thing, a good painting, because of the wrong framing, it was completely ruined. Look here, the subtleties between the woods have been connected, but if you don't pay attention to it when you rinse, the ink is blurred. But if you look closely, you can still see the previous brushwork. This painting is made of rice paper as the base, which is easy to be damaged by insects after a long time, and is more afraid of moisture and avoid drying, compared with other cultural relics, it is more delicate. In order to maximize its lifespan, it is very important to protect the paintings and calligraphy. But the previous master did not pay attention, so that the good painting was flawed, alas......"

Gao Haikang didn't want to listen to so much nonsense, and asked bluntly: "Master Meng, you just need to tell me, is this true?"

Master Meng turned a deaf ear and continued to say to himself: "Mounting can be divided into original mounting and remounting, and original mounting is to frame the newly painted painting according to the framing procedure. Remounting is to frame those hand-me-down paintings and unearthed paintings and calligraphy that are not well framed or due to poor management and collection preservation, and have fallen off with empty shells, damp mold, decay and fracture, and insect and rat bites. The framed calligraphy and painting are firm and beautiful, and are easy to collect and arrange. And the re-framed ancient calligraphy and paintings will also prolong its vitality. The ancients said: 'Historic sites are remounted, such as illness and medical treatment...... If you are good at medicine, you will be killed. You can see the importance of framing.

If I re-mount it, I will first frame it on the back of the painting with a paper support, then use twisted, silk, paper, etc. to trim it, and then install the shaft rod into the layout. The mounting of the painting heart is an important process in the whole decoration process, and it is quite difficult to reframe the old calligraphy and painting. First of all, it is necessary to remove the old painting heart, clean the dirt and mold, repair the holes, full color, etc., and then reframe it according to the framing process of the new painting. In this way, it can be regarded as saving a painting......"

"So, this painting should be real?" Gao Haikang asked anxiously.

Master Meng took a closer look at it several times before he said lightly, "I'm not sure. ”

"What?!" Gao Haikang shouted, and Boss Liu also raised his heart to his throat, and his hands unconsciously began to rub together, and his palms were full of sweat.

(End of chapter)