At 8:58 a.m., the last guest of honour finally appeared, a man in his forties, dressed in a suit and leather shoes.

Pinching important activities is actually a kind of neglect.

Cai Gaoyang hid his unhappy expression and ushered the last guest of honor to the podium and sat down.

He wiped the sweat on his forehead and made an opening speech to the guests: "Distinguished guests and friends, our Chinese guqin art has a long history, and there are words to test and images to prove for more than 3,000 years. "Book of Songs" cloud: 'My fair lady, Qin Se friend. It's the guqin. Today, I held a guqin appreciation and exchange meeting in the Humble House, and it was my honor to meet friends with the qin.

"First of all, let me introduce the main guests."

"Mr. Huang Xingwen, a guqin connoisseur."

The old man, who had white hair and was wearing a navy blue casual shirt, stood up to greet everyone. Polite applause rang out below.

"Ms Wu Wan, Professor of the Department of Chinese, HKU."

Wen Wen quietly, a middle-aged woman wearing a cheongsam stood up to salute.

Polite applause.

"Mr. Ding Yongning, President of the Central Guqin Society."

A man in a suit and leather shoes stood up to salute.

Polite applause.

Just when everyone thought that the introduction had been finished, Cai Gaoyang said: "Finally, please let me have the honor to introduce a miracle doctor from the mainland, my life-saving benefactor, Mr. Yan Zixiu Yan." After speaking, he took the lead in applauding.

Yan Zixiu was slightly surprised, but he still got up calmly in the applause, first turned around to greet the audience, then greeted the guests of honor, and then sat down naturally.

The crowd applauded and whispered, "Who is this young man?" ”

"Why did Xiao Cai introduce him so ceremoniously?"

"I seem to have heard that Cai Gaoyang's cervical spondylosis was cured by him."

"Is there such a god?"

"There could be two brushes. You see that Tian Hua also respects him very much. ”

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"Our event today is divided into three main areas. The first is to identify the guqin, the second is to appreciate the famous qin, and the third is to exchange the art of the qin. Cai Gaoyang announced, "The following is the first item, identifying the guqin." Mr. Huang Xingwen, a guqin connoisseur, was invited to preside. ”

After Cai Gaoyang finished speaking, he stepped down and walked to Yan Zixiu and sat down.

Mr. Huang, who had white hair, got up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, as a kind of utensil, the guqin, as a utensil, not only meets the needs of guqin players, but also has rich cultural connotations. There are more than 50 different styles of guqin shapes in the world, which vividly reflect the aesthetic taste, ideological concepts and ways of thinking of people in different eras. Due to the continuous heating up of guqin collection, some imitations of low artistic value also frequently appear in major cultural relics trading places. Therefore, how to appreciate and collect guqin has become a must-have knowledge for art collectors. ”

"That's right." The audience below nodded frequently. The so-called art industry has a specialization. Mr. Huang's words are experts when he hears them.

Mr. Huang clapped his hands, and the two servants carried a piano case.

The servant opened the case and carefully took out a guqin and placed it on the desk. The desk is high enough for everyone to see.

"What do you think of this instrument?" Mr. Huang asked with a smile.

The audience talked a lot, this piano is antique, the lines and arcs are more natural, and the materials and carvings of the crown and horn are also very exquisite. But in the end, the interlacing is like a mountain, and no one dares to draw conclusions easily.

Cai Gaoyang said to Yan Zixiu: "Some people think that this is a yuan qin, worth 800,000 Hong Kong dollars. ”

Yan Zixiu looked at it with the Hope Qi Technique and the Time Rewind Technique, shook his head, and did not speak.

He shook his head and was seen by Mr. Huang: "This Yan Xiaoyou, but you have something to say?" ”

Yan Zixiu had no choice but to get up and said: "This piano is made of a combination of old and new, and its value is not high. ”

Except for Mr. Huang, everyone else was stunned: This Dr. Yan actually knows how to identify guqin?

Old Mr. Huang stroked his beard and smiled: "Yan Xiaoyou, would you like to explain further?" ”

"There is no old atmosphere in this piano, except for the forehead and the second string, between the six and seven emblems, and the tail of the bottom is really broken, and the broken lines of the rest of the parts are very stiff, which is evidence."

"Haha, I think so too. This piano is a combination of old and new, and the value is not high. Okay, good, it's really a hero out of a teenager. The purpose of the old man's display of this qin is to remind everyone not to make random moves when collecting the guqin. Yan Xiaoyou, please take a seat. ”

The audience below all felt that the water in it was so deep, and without the escort of real experts, it really couldn't be impulsive.

A female audience member stood up in the audience, in her thirties, with a dignified appearance: "Mr. Huang, my name is Gu Yingzhi." I recently bought a piano, I don't know if I can trouble you to identify it? ”

After getting Mr. Huang's answer, she beckoned, and the servants carried a piano case.

When he took the piano out, Yan Zixiu looked at it from a distance, and saw that the piano body was well-proportioned and peaceful, tranquil, and the lacquer color was warm and pleasant, so he couldn't help but nod his head in appreciation.

Tian Hua asked, "Brother Yan, is this piano good?" ”

"The water contains pearls and is colorful, and the mountain is full of jade, it is indeed a good piano."

Because Yan Zixiu was sitting in the front row, this was heard by Mr. Huang again: "Yan Xiaoyou is willing to come to the stage to appreciate it together?" After speaking, he took the lead in applauding and welcomed.

Boss Lin, Cai Gaoyang and Tian Hua below applauded, driving the audience to applaud together. The other two guests of honour on the stage applauded politely with suspicion.

Yan Zixiu was not polite and went to the podium. The female audience Gu Yingzhi also stood next to the guqin.

Huang Lao asked: "Yan Xiaoyou may see the advantages and disadvantages of this piano?" ”

This is a Zhongni-style guqin, the whole body is broken by flowing water, and the broken lines are sparkling.

Yan Zixiu plucked the remaining three strings, and suddenly there was a ghostly sound from the belly of the piano, which made people suddenly feel irritable: "This is a treasure qin." ”

Mr. Huang asked again: "What dynasty and what dynasty are you from?" ”

Yan Zixiu had already seen it with the Hope Qi Technique and the Time Regression Technique: "Song Dynasty." ”

Female audience Gu Yingzhi smiled lightly: "Doctor Yan said that this piano is a treasure qin, which is really good." The dynasty was wrong. ”

Yan Zixiu asked: "I would like to hear about it." He was not in a hurry to refute, but listened to the other party's arguments first.

Gu Yingzhi: "I bought it at the price of Mingqin, of course I hope it is Song Qin." However, there is a style in the belly of this piano, and it is written by Huang Wenhao in the Ming Wanli Ding Chou year. Many experts have judged it to be Mingqin. So Dr. Yan was wrong. ”

Hearing that Yan Zixiu had misjudged, Boss Lin and the others naturally regretted it, and of course there were also jokes.

For example, Ding Yongning, president of the Central Guqin Society, smiled disdainfully. He thinks that a little young is a little young, and it happens to be okay to say a sentence or two. In actual combat, it is still insufficient in skill.

Mr. Huang took a closer look at the piano, shone it with a flashlight, looked at the information in the belly of the piano, and was a little uncertain: "Yan Xiaoyou said that it was Song Qin, and I also felt this way at first glance." However, the knowledge of the Ming people in the belly of the piano made me hesitate a little. ”

Part of the content of this chapter refers to and adapts Mr. Ma Weiheng's "100 Questions on the Piano", and I would like to express my gratitude.