Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 552 Disputes
"You know Jing Hao very well?" Director Yuan was surprised: "Isn't he just a "Kuang Lu Tu" handed down? It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei."

"Ah? Oh yes," Zhou Zhi dared to say that he held Jing Hao's "Shu Mountain Map" restored by his fourth cousin in his hand, and he dug it out for a closer look. He was very familiar with Jing Hao: "I have the National Palace Museum in Taipei at home." The high-definition pictorial of Jumbo Calligraphy and Painting Scroll was given to me by the fee manager of Gongmei Shopping Center."

"What Elbow said is the key to appreciating this painting. In fact, there have been many controversies about this painting before." Director Jiang said.

"Can this painting be controversial?" Zhou Zhi pointed to the long inscriptions on the front and back of the scroll, as well as Shen Zhou's inscription in surprise: "Such a long inheritance record, plus such exquisite calligraphy..."

Then he kept shaking his head: "No, it will never be a fake."

"Didn't you say that you are not familiar with Shen Zhou, why do you still have research on his calligraphy?" Director Yuan asked.

"I'm not familiar with him, but I'm more familiar with Huang Tingjian." Zhou Zhi said, "The calligraphy on the painting is obviously out of the Huangshan Valley. It's impossible for ordinary people to imitate such a skill."

In Zhou Zhi's hand, Huang Tingjian inscribed Dongpo's poems on the Shanshuitianhuang seal, on which Su Dongpo's poems were Huang Tingjian's calligraphy. Zhou Zhi couldn't put it down and played with it all the time.

Moreover, Huang Tingjian was an official in Manzhou, visited Anle Mountain in Jiachuan, and left behind poems, so Zhou Zhi also collected Huang Tingjian's calligraphy in Aiwu and Wudi, and he was very familiar with Huang Tingjian's calligraphy.

Director Jiang is also a calligrapher, and nodded with a smile: "The elbow is really good. When Shen Zhou was young, he was greatly influenced by the style of calligraphy in Taige. After middle age, he followed the four masters of Chongyuan in painting, and the three masters of Su and Huangmi in the Northern Song Dynasty in calligraphy. , it was not until the age of 54 that he specialized in Huang's family, and completed a breakthrough in the style of calligraphy a few years later. "History of Ming Dynasty" records that "words imitate Huang Tingjian", and his contemporary calligrapher Wang Jia also said: " Calligraphy Fu Weng, strong and stubborn.'”

"There are some differences. Huang Tingjian's 'swinging brushwork' has become less unrestrained and more subtle in Shen Zhou's hands." Zhou Zhi commented: "However, the aura of hair growth is not lacking at all. On the contrary, it is overwhelmed. It seems that the grass pressed down by stones has more elasticity and vitality that is about to erupt."

"There is no need for people who can imitate this kind of calligraphy."

"What do you mean?" Director Yuan didn't understand.

"Hahaha..." Director Jiang said with a smile: "The elbow means that anyone who can write calligraphy to such a level must be a famous artist, and there is no need to fake and imitate others, just sign his real name, and everyone will be sought after. "

"So it's like this..." Director Yuan understood.

Director Jiang said with a smile: "Shen Zhou's evaluation of Huang Tingjian is: 'Mr. Huang Wenjie has an unyielding and indelible spirit in his true deeds. Nowadays, ordinary people like to comment on Su and Huang. They use the scale of rope and ink. How can they know the book? ! Yu said that Wenjie Gongshu, gloomy and gloomy between pen and ink, so others will never be able to match.'”

"Coincidentally, Huang Shangu's evaluation of Xu Dongpo was also 'Ask the spirit of the article, written in pen and ink, and others will never be able to match it.'"

"Today, my uncle commented on Shen Zhou's 'resilience' and 'the vitality that is about to erupt'. If Shen Zhou were here, he would make my uncle a confidant."

"So my analysis is correct?"

"Otherwise, there is still a problem with what you said." Director Jiang said with a smile: "It is not necessarily true for Shen Zhou to judge that a painting is authentic based on authentic calligraphy."

"Why is this?"

"Because Shen Zhou is an easy-going person, he has maintained his innocence all his life, and he is also very interesting."

"When someone asks for a painting, he generally agrees that no matter whether it is a dealer or a high-ranking official, he does not ask whether the other party has money or not. So much so that his friends wrote poems to laugh at him: If you want to return to the south, you have to turn tens of billions of gold immortals into your body. "

"A prefect asked for a painting, and Shen Zhou drew a picture of "Five Horses Walking in Spring" for him. The prefect didn't know that 'five horses' was the name of the prefect, so he was a little unhappy: "I only have five horses, and no one is accompanying me?" Shen Zhou After learning about it, I drew another six followers and gave it to him, and joked: "I have no choice but to draw the first three pairs of ceremonial guards because the silk is short."

"Later when the prefect went to Beijing, Li Dongyang and other bigwigs along the way asked him to rule Shen Shitian, and his words were quite polite. Only then did the prefect know how high-end Shen Zhou's circle of friends is."

"The prefect of foreign currency came back to his hometown on official business, and personally came to apologize. Shen Zhou didn't say anything, and invited him to dinner cheerfully."

"But what does this have to do with Shen Zhou's authentic calligraphy being unable to identify the authenticity of the painting?" Zhou Zhi became more puzzled the more he listened.

"Of course it is related. Shen Zhou was already very famous at that time. Once a painting came out, it would attract countless people to imitate it. Many of the fakes were imitated beautifully."

"And the most amazing thing is that many people took the fakes as the real ones, and cautiously begged Shen Zhou's door, asking him to leave an inscription on the painting."

"Huh?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help being amused: "This is almost the same as getting an autograph from an NBA star with pirated sneakers?"

"But Shen Zhou himself doesn't take it seriously." Director Jiang said: "When encountering such a situation, Shen Zhou will generally not refuse, and will happily write his own inscriptions, calligraphy, poems, and stamps on the fakes as usual. own private seal."

Zhou Zhi put his hand on his forehead: "Isn't this a little too easy-going? Doesn't this make it more difficult for future generations to distinguish the authenticity?"

Shaking his head: "But this painting must be genuine."

"continue."

Zhou Zhi thought about it: "The mounting of the collection has its own fixed format, from the beginning to the end of the movement, which are respectively the outer label, the first, the front water barrier, the center, the rear water barrier, and the tail."

There are many inscriptions, inscriptions, and seals on the parts of this painting other than the heart, which will provide us with specific information on collectors and appreciators.There will certainly be a lot of collectors we know in there. "

"That's not necessarily true." Director Jiang seemed determined to raise the bar today: "Fakers often cut inscriptions, inscriptions, and seals from some worthless or broken ancient scrolls, and then pretend to be fakes for collection and appreciation. Printing is not enough."

"Things like that can only fool laymen." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Since this painting is "Landscape Scroll of Imitation of Ni Yunlin", then subsequent connoisseurs will naturally focus on Jinghao Guantong, Dong Yuan Juran, Ni Zan, and Shen Zhou's series inheritance."

"If the fakes were pieced together, it would be impossible for the theme to be so complete." Zhou Zhi said, pointing to Shen Zhouxiujin's calligraphy on the painting: "Here, the author has actually delineated the theme of the discussion."

It is a poem and a note written by Shen Zhou on the painting.

"It's Jing Guanshou who knows the pedantry, and I write Suqiu from the pedantic. Mo Daoxishan is not refreshed, and I bow my head in Dongyehe. Changzhou Shen Zhou draws and inscriptions."

"This poem is not very easy to interpret." Director Yuan said, frowning.

(End of this chapter)