Thinking of this, He Qi said decisively to Li Yan: "Have you eaten yet?"
Li Yan smiled and said: "Look what you said, I have worked hard now, I have already eaten."
While joking with Li Yan, He Qi noticed the book that was folded on the counter. It was "Inscriptions on Gold and Stone", written by Zhao Mingcheng and his wife Li Qingzhao. It was one of China's most recent works on gold and stone.
This couldn't help but arouse great curiosity in He Qi, because He Qi knew that Li Yan was illiterate, so how could he read?
Li Yan scratched his head and said with a naive smile: "Sir, I'm not illiterate, but I know some words. The master said that I am half a literate person."
He Qidao: "What about your master? Is he a well-educated person?"
When Li Yan heard this, he smiled even more stupidly, and whispered softly: "Sir, let me tell you, don't say it was me who said it, my master actually even wrote his own name crookedly.
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"What if I sign?"
"My master carries a seal with him. When he comes across a signature, he just stamps it with the seal and everything is done."
He Qi suppressed a smile and said: "Then your master has to remove the word "culture" and call him "Quanhu people"." He then chatted casually: "Your master wants you, a half-cultured person, to take over the land, so will you want to do it in the future?
Why don’t you find a well-educated person to be your apprentice?”
Li Yan was shocked, blinked his eyes, and asked: "How did you know? This is what my master told me, asking me to pass on the skills I learned from him to a fully educated person in the future.
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He Qi said: "This is called the waves behind the Yangtze River pushing the waves in front. Each generation becomes stronger than the last."
Speaking of this, He Qi became curious again and asked: "Your master is illiterate, how do you identify calligraphy, painting, and art? If the painting is better, you can see what the painting is, but if it is a copybook, such as "Lanting Collection"
"Preface", at a glance, there are all words, what should I do?"
"You don't know this, right?" When it came to professionalism, Li Yan deliberately gave it a try.
He Qi's appetite was whetted and she hurriedly asked: "What's going on?"
In fact, it's not that Li Yan is trying to hide his secrets, but that in their line of work, masters teach apprentices by word of mouth, and they pass on the work of eating, so naturally they can't let outsiders know the secrets.
Li Yan thought for a while, ignored the important points, and said vaguely: "Appreciating calligraphy is one thing to see what is written on the calligraphy, and another is to look at the historical inheritance, but the most important thing is to look at the layout, brushwork, and handwriting of the calligraphy.
, you can see the characteristics of a person's writing with every stroke, every stroke, and an experienced master craftsman can see it at a glance. Then he will analyze and analyze where it comes from and whose collection it has passed through. After going back and forth, it has basically not escaped."
"Then what should I do if I encounter a copycat?"
"Painting skin is difficult to paint bones. He can imitate a word perfectly, but there is no guarantee that he will imitate every word perfectly. On a post, there are at least a few crosses and as many as hundreds of words. As long as he identifies them word by word, he will basically be able to imitate them.
I can find the fault."
"So, the same principle applies to appreciating paintings, right?"
"Appreciating paintings is a bit more difficult."
"How to say?"
"Well~ let's put it this way, some master craftsmen can tell the first stroke of a painting, which is where they paint first and then where they paint?"
"So mysterious?" He Qi was really shocked.
"That's not even counting! Our industry is very deep. Some old masters spend their whole lives studying a painter, and the paintings that come out of his hands are distressed and then put on the market. It's really hard to tell.
Fortunately, my master suffered a big loss."
Just as he was talking, Li Yan walked out of the counter and took He Qi to an ancient landscape painting hanging in the shop, called "Falling Wild Geese", and said: "Well, it was this painting that made my master suffer. It was imitated by Shi Tao.
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He Qi looked up and down, but couldn't find a good guy, so he asked: "Then how did your master know about it later?"
But Li Yan just smiled and bent down, saying: "The person who imitated this painting pointed it out to my face."
"Ah?" He Qi said in surprise, but became more and more interested.
Li Yan said vividly: "Last year, around this time, one day, a man came to the shop. He was about seventeen or eight years old. He was playing a Sichuan film. He looked very thin. He asked if he had any
Shi Tao's paintings. Isn't this a coincidence? A while ago, my master just picked up a big deal and received a pair of "Falling Wild Geese" by Shi Tao.
It was this painting, so I held it out. I saw the man looking at the painting, and after a few glances, he said that the painting was fake. My master was naturally dissatisfied, so he argued with the man. Unexpectedly, the man said that this painting was a fake.
Can he not know whether the paintings he painted are true or false? How can my master believe that someone who can paint paintings that deceive his eyes must at least be an old master. He must not
Being so young, my master suspected that this man had no money and wanted to use this to lower the price. So he said, since you can paint this painting, you can naturally paint another painting. The man immediately agreed.
However, when he insisted on asking for a fortune, my master casually said five yuan. I thought that would be the end of the matter, but unexpectedly, a few days later, the man actually brought a painting of "The Falling Wild Goose".
"Picture" came back, and compared with this one, it was basically the same. My master had to break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and gave him five yuan to solve the problem. This matter was later leaked by my master when he was drunk.
, everyone in Liuli Chang knows that, when my master saw the "Falling Wild Goose" in his hand, he couldn't sell it at all this time, so he just hung it here."
"Hahaha" He Qi was very happy when he heard this. He felt like he was listening to a story, so he quickly asked: "Did that person imitate a painting?"
"It's much more than that! After my master's story spread, other shops said that they also encountered lottery seekers. It only took a month before and after, and the process was exactly the same. It's just that everyone didn't say anything at the time. It turned out to be that person.
The tone imitated more than a dozen paintings, including Shi Tao and Bada Mountain.
There was a man named Wang Meng who couldn't tell the authenticity of every painting, so he would come to ask about the painting one by one. When he met someone, he would tell him that it was an imitation of his painting. If he didn't believe it, he would ask for a reward to prove that it was his painting. Let's do the math.
, in just a month or so, this person has made at least dozens of dollars."
He didn't even think of using this method to make money. What a strange person!
The key is that these shopkeepers still can't explain why, so they can only admit defeat. He Qixiao's stomach twitched and asked: "Do you know what this person's name is?"
Li Yan said word by word: "Zhang! Zheng! Quan!"
He Qi was excited when he heard it, he thought it was this big boss! Maybe the name Zhang Zhengquan is unfamiliar to everyone, so Zhang Daqian should know about it.
At the same time, He Qi looked at the "Falling Wild Goose" with hot eyes, not to mention getting excited, thinking about whether he could buy it for collection. If it were left to future generations, it would be sold for a sky-high price.
By the way, there are more than a dozen paintings by Zhang Daqian in Liulichang. He Qi is more and more eager for small money.