Chapter 85: Meizhou Paper and Jiajiang Paper
It turns out that this old director is proficient in calligraphy and painting, so he is quite knowledgeable about the use of paper in calligraphy and painting.
The old director said that the paper used in this painting was a kind of velvet paper that appeared in the north only during the Yonggan period of the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Da was a man from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, especially Zhu Da spent his whole life in the south and rarely came to the north. The most important thing is that when Zhu Da died, Kangxi was not dead yet. How could he use this kind of velvet paper that appeared in the Yonggan period to paint?
In the end, the old director determined that this painting was a very good high-quality imitation. If there were no problems on the drawing paper, it would be difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the painting.
Grandpa didn't give up at first, so he took the painting to his hometown and asked someone to ask an expert from the Palace Museum to give him a look. At first, the expert did not see the authenticity of the painting. When Grandpa said that there might be something wrong with the painting paper, the expert asked a friend of his specialty to study paper and took a look. The answer that person said was the same as the old director's words.
However, the expert also said that it is probably the work of a master to imitate Zhu Da's paintings so fake and real. If there was not a similar authentic painting in the world, the price of this painting would definitely be much lower.
At this point, my grandfather gave up. However, my grandfather never let outsiders move in that painting, so I still haven't figured out who imitated it.
A family-born jade plaque was replaced with such a fake, and the medicine was taken, so my grandfather had nothing to say.
My grandfather had not taken medicine before, but this time the medicine was taken too much. Not to mention the value of the family-born jade token, the key is that the old man planned to keep it for his son Li Long. As a result, the jade token that had been passed down for three generations was gone because of a shooting...
My grandfather was very depressed for a while because of this incident and even stopped going to the ghost market.
But my grandmother was very good and kept caring about her grandfather silently. In the end, it took more than a year for my grandfather to get out of the shadow.
My grandfather learned from his mistakes and decided to stand up again from where he fell, and began to think about the paper.
He spent money to buy a camera, and every time he visited the ghost market, he would take the camera. When he saw ancient books and paintings, he would take pictures on the paper, and then study the paper used for ancient books and paintings. Later, Tianqu had his own antique market, and more people gathered in the antique market, so grandfather had more opportunities to take pictures. Sometimes his grandfather would buy some broken pages of ancient books as samples.
In this way, from the 1987th century to the 2010th century before his grandfather was sick in 2010, his grandfather accumulated five large paper photos and samples of ancient paintings such as ancient books, including thousands of paper photos and samples produced in different eras and places. Yang Jing was ordered by his grandfather to read these five books frequently since he was a child, and he has read them many times.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the five books from my grandfather were seen by people in the industry, they would definitely buy them at a high price.
The most professional books on ancient books and paintings that can be seen on the market are not as detailed and comprehensive as the five books made by my grandfather himself.
Yang Jing heard his grandfather talk about the incident of taking medicine countless times when he was a child.
Yang Jing clearly remembered that my grandfather summed up a sentence for himself: "How to play with antiques? First of all, you have to understand the ancients. If you don't understand the ancients, you will play with antiques, and you will eventually fall apart. But our country's antique industry is profound and you will never be able to master it all, so you have to keep learning. Only by constantly learning and enriching yourself can you try to avoid taking medicine as much as possible."
When my grandfather said this, Yang Jing was only six or seven years old, but Yang Jing remembered this sentence very clearly. It was this sentence that kept urging Yang Jing to continue to learn.
In addition to these five books, my grandfather also made many other types of books, such as porcelain and miscellaneous antiques. Although they are not professional books, they are more detailed than professional books. These books are basically extracurricular books when Yang Jing was a child, and Yang Jing reads them not once or twice, but many times...
Although Yang Jing has never received professional training in antiques and cultural relics since he was a child, he has a grandfather who can be regarded as a master of folk antiques, Yang Jing is also very proficient in antiques and cultural relics.
Grandpa also found out that grandson looked up at the fake painting. The old man smiled and said, "Xiao Jing, I have told you many times. Since you want to enter this industry, you cannot be afraid of taking medicine or playing with antiques. If you have not taken medicine before taking medicine, you are not considered a real expert. Those so-called experts and professors have used medicine after taking medicine again and again to slowly improve their level."
After a pause, the old man took the book from his uncle with some difficulty, and continued while flipping, "The two pages in the book you bought are very different, and they are so well done, I wonder if these two pages are Song-engraved books, otherwise the person would not have used this method to cover up the two pages of the book."
The old man paused for a moment, muttering to himself, "Well, it's here..." The old man used a magnifying glass to compare the sixth page of "Huajian Ji" with a photo in the book. After studying it for a while, his grandfather shook his head in disappointment.
In the following time, my grandfather kept repeating this movement and worked hard for almost an hour. In the middle, my aunt asked my grandfather to come for dinner, but she was scolded by her grandfather.
When my grandfather was studying an antique arts, he hated others disturbing him the most. Yang Jing and his uncle knew the old man's temper, so they never dared to mention eating.
Suddenly, the old man excitedly patted the armrest of the chair and laughed loudly.
"That's right! If I read it right, the paper used for these two pages of the book should be a kind of bamboo paper produced in Meizhou under CD Fu Road in the early Southern Song Dynasty! Xiao Jing, what did you remember?"
Yang Jing said: "Grandpa, are you talking about Meishan Seven Histories?"
Grandpa smiled and nodded and said, "That's right! If I read it correctly, the paper used in these two pages should be the paper used when Jingdu and Jing Xianmeng presided over the engraving of Mei. The Seven Histories of Mountains! Everyone in the world knows that Song and Shu carving are precious, and the pinnacle of Song and Shu carving is Mei. The Seven Histories of Mountains. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the Shu version was the best in the entire Southern Song Dynasty, and the Shu version was the best in the Meizhou version. However, later, the Zhejiang version and the Jian version came up, and the status of the Shu version gradually declined, mainly because it was too difficult to get in and out of Sichuan and Shu. By the Ming Dynasty, the status of the Shu version was even lower. However, during the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the bamboo paper used in Shu version were locally produced in Meizhou, and by the Ming Dynasty, the paper used in Shu version was mostly sandwiched in the river paper. Well, this is Meizhou paper and sandwiched in the river paper."
Grandpa said, pointing to the two samples in the book, "Look at the difference! Although the technology of Jiajiang Paper was invented in the Tang Dynasty, it was in the Ming Dynasty and Song Dynasty. Jiajiang Paper was not famous. At least as far as I know, the Mei-Secret Eyebrow engraved by Jingdu and Jing Xianmeng at that time was not used by Jiajiang Paper. So, if my inference is true, then these two pages of Huajian Collection are likely to be Song Shu Carved."
After a pause, the old man took off his reading glasses and laughed, "Xiao Jing, you are very likely to have picked up a big leak! If these two pages of Huajian Ji are really Song Shu carvings, their value is incalculable, especially Song Shu carvings with thin gold styles, which are really rare."
Yang Jing also laughed, "Grandpa, actually when I bought this book in the morning, I thought that something was wrong with these pages, so I spent 10,000 yuan to buy this book. Moreover, not only are these two pages in this book wrong, but there are a total of five pages in this book..."
Chapter completed!