"My father, he likes calligraphy and painting, and I know that he often goes to see exhibitions of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and he is also writing ......."

Zhou Xuanying's words were really unexpected by Tang Chen, but there was nothing strange about it. According to the age of Tang Chen's parents, Zhou Xuanying's parents should also be between the two of them, that is, more than forty, at most fifty. At this age, most of them are idle if they have children to take over. Just like Zeng Lao, when people are idle, they have to find something to do.

With the financial resources of the Zhou family, it is estimated that Zhou Xuanying's father will not touch some things that are not on the table, but choose some elegant playthings like literati to express his feelings. Since ancient times, there have been only a few kinds of literati tastes, such as playing the flute and stroking the piano, reciting poems and paintings, climbing high and traveling, playing calligraphy and chess, singing about wine, fiddling with flowers and plants, drinking tea and tasting incense......

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Xuanying's father is obsessed with calligraphy and painting, and it seems that it should be taken for granted. After all, if you drink tea, it is estimated that people have regarded it as an indispensable thing in their lives, and it is not a hobby.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have had a strong "writing complex" and "writing complex", which is fully reflected in a large number of tortoise shells and animal bones in the Yin Shang period, as well as in the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and also in the silk drapes, bamboo and wood slips, runes, stone carvings, weapons, currency, and paper since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, all kinds of carriers, all of which have left exquisite handwriting of our ancestors. It is based on this complex that the sages gradually sublimated the writing of Chinese characters into a calligraphy art that is unique in the world. If, as a general rule, the art of calligraphy began to enter a state of consciousness in the late Han Dynasty, then the art of calligraphy has a history of 2,000 years. In the history of these two thousand years, there have been many famous artists and various genres. Although a large number of classics are no longer available today, those that survive to this day are still dizzying and breathtaking, which is enough to make people admire the ancients.

And Chinese traditional painting, a brush, a piece of rice paper, vertical and horizontal, freehand smooth. Chinese have long discovered beauty in their own living environment and painted it with a brush according to their own aesthetic habits, and the ancients developed from representing gods and depicting religious stories to painting landscapes, flowers and birds. In the eyes of Chinese landscape painters, the beauty of the landscape is not in the landscape itself, but in the fact that it embodies the "Tao", Zong Bing wrote at the beginning of the "Painting Landscape Preface": "The sage contains the Tao and reflects the object, the sage has the taste of the image, as for the landscape, the quality is interesting and spiritual" This is the discussion of the basic relationship between "nature" and "Tao" and the landscape. The core concept lies in the "unity of nature and man".

Although Tang Chen doesn't understand Chinese painting or appreciation, he understands what "the unity of heaven and man" is!

In addition to Taoist priests, is there any profession in China that understands the "unity of heaven and man" better than feng shui masters? I'm afraid not! Tang Chen doesn't need to say anything, he just needs to pat his ass well and say a few specious words on key points, and he will definitely be favored by Zhou Xuanying's father. What's more, Tang Chen didn't think there was anything wrong with patting the future father-in-law's sycophants, after all, if he wanted to please other people's daughters, what would happen if he said a few nice words?

When the time comes, Tang Chen will make up for his knowledge of "tea", and he will not be afraid that he will not be able to pass the test. According to Tang Chen's understanding, Chinese drink tea and pay attention to the word "taste". "Tea tasting" is not only to identify the advantages and disadvantages of tea, but also to carry the meaning of reverie and appreciation of tea drinking. Brewing a pot of strong tea in the midst of your busy schedule, choosing an elegant and quiet place, and pouring yourself a drink, you can eliminate fatigue, cleanse your troubles, and invigorate your spirits, or you can sip slowly to achieve the enjoyment of beauty, and sublimate the spiritual world to a noble artistic realm. The environment for tea tasting is generally composed of buildings, gardens, furnishings, tea sets and other factors. Drinking tea requires quiet, fresh, comfortable and clean. Chinese gardens are world-famous, and the landscapes are innumerable. Use gardens or natural landscapes to make pavilions and stools out of wood, and set up tea rooms, giving people a poetic feeling. Tea is a spiritual thing, produced in the sublime mountains, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and must also be accompanied by a clean flowing spring. The so-called benevolent people love the mountains, and the wise people love the water. On the top of the landscape, who can compare to Tang Chen? Feng Shui master relies on mountains and rivers to eat, who can speak more clearly than Tang Chen?

Zhou Xuanying must be doing "internal response", under the combination of internal and external response, it is difficult for Tang Chen to think about it!

"God help me!"

Tang Chen was secretly happy in his heart, and a "haha" voice appeared on his mouth.

"Tang Chen, what are you smiling at?"

Zhou Xuanying couldn't help but laugh when she saw Tang Chen's stupid look.

"It's nothing, I just thought that I seem to know where the antique street in Quanzhou is, why don't we go and shop for a few calligraphy and paintings now......" Tang Chen was a little carried away.

Zhou Xuanying squirted: "You want to please my father, and you have broken your brain, right? Of course, you should go back to Quanzhou to have dinner with grandpa first! Grandpa nodded, no matter how much my dad objected, it was useless!"

Tang Chen was stunned: "What?"

"Do you really think that my grandfather has retired and will be fine?" Zhou Xuanying said as a matter of course, "As long as grandpa speaks out, he is still the one who says nothing in the family!"

Tang Chen understood, the relationship was no different from the Zeng family!, "Isn't this similar to the second master of the Zeng family?"

"That's different, there is only one rule of our Zhou family: be a man but be worthy of your heart. No matter what you do, don't hurt others, and don't break the law is the bottom line. Zhou Xuanying explained, "And grandpa rarely forces us to do anything, at most he says that if we can't study, then go into business." My brothers all gave some money and let them break in. I read a lot, so I take care of the family's property. In fact, my grandfather didn't care about things for a long time, although I held the title of president, but what I really did was a professional manager......"

"Uh......" Tang Chen didn't know if this kind of management was good, but since Zhou Deqing did it, there must be a reason for him.

"Anyway, grandpa is the most important thing!" Zhou Xuanying said in one word, and it was not embarrassing to be "inward".

Tang Chen was not a fool, of course he understood what Zhou Xuanying meant.

"Okay, then we'll go with Zhou ...... now Well, grandpa had lunch and coaxed his old man to ...... happily" Tang Chen was as good as a stream, and remembered that he used his half-baked numerology knowledge to quietly calculate Zhou Xuanying in college, and found that she was very suitable for his wife and star, and she was his favorite god.

(End of chapter)