Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 777
Li Qiyan handed the glove to Zhou Zhi and Wang Lemei, and he and his son put on the glove respectively, and said with a smile: "I know if you see this thing, I'm afraid you won't be able to drink your morning tea, so let's look at it first."

Zhou Zhi was no longer polite, and solemnly took over the gloves and put them on, but the hands that reached out to the signature were trembling slightly.

The engraved copies of "Chunhua Ge Tie" in the Song Dynasty were very rare, and the first known rubbings, which are the so-called "ancestral engravings", are only the four copies in front of us.

The ten volumes that are now hidden in the Forbidden City were collected in the inner palace during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. Because each copy has the "Maoqin Hall Appraisal Seal" and "Qianlong Yulan Treasure", it is called Mao The Qindian version, after textual research, can be determined to belong to the Southern Song Dynasty, and after it entered the inner palace of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng ordered people to restore it carefully.

The version hidden in the Shanghai Museum is actually a re-engraved version in the Southern Song Dynasty using the double hook method.

However, the two copies in Gansu and Shaanxi are more "new". They were reprinted and engraved on stones based on the Southern Song version by King Su of the Ming Dynasty, and they were later reprinted from the "Suwang version".

The four volumes of Bishi Anzu's engraved edition, Zhou Zhi knew it was not easy at a glance.

Almost in the mood of a pilgrimage, Zhou Zhizai carefully read through the four ancestral engravings and put them away respectfully before he straightened up and breathed out: "The ancestral engravings are genuine, there is no doubt about them."

"Oh?" Although Li Lehai had heard about Zhou Zhi's magic from Li Lehai, and of course Li Lehai had heard it from Lin Wanqiu, but Li Qiyan didn't really take it seriously, because "hype" is still a thing in the Mainland. It has not become popular, but in Hong Kong Island, it is no longer a strange thing.

Seeing Zhou Zhi's demeanor of being examined by an expert, and then asserting that the four ancestral prints are genuine, I also want to know the basis for his inference.

So he asked, "Tell me, Elbow, why did you come to this conclusion so quickly?"

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Because I can recognize some things."

"What things?" Li Lehai couldn't help asking.

"Eight Brocade, Tinggui Ink, Chengxintang Paper."

"Wait!" Li Qiyan couldn't hide the shock in his eyes: "The latter two, I have invited experts from Taiwan Island and the island country to conduct identification, and it is indeed as you said, using Tinggui ink and Chengxintang paper, completely It is in line with the historical records of the ancestral engraved edition, but how do you know that this silk seal is the Eight Brocade?"

"What is Bajin?" The Chinese civilization is extensive and profound, and no one dares to say that they know everything. It is obvious that Songjin is Li Lehai's knowledge blind spot.

But Director Wang understood: "The elbow is from the middle of Shu, have you seen the real thing in Jinguan City?!"

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Yes, because I want to find tassels for a string of southern red court beads in my hand. I have found the heir of the Shu brocade through players in the capital of Shu, and I have seen this thing from this heir."

After finishing speaking, he said to Li Lehai: "Brother Hai, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the brocade in the middle of Shu was the most precious in the world, and the top-notch patterns were also called 'Bada halo'"

"The silk seals on the surface of these four postings are exactly the same as the eight brocades of the Song Dynasty that I have seen."

"We haven't seen much before." Li Qiyan said: "After all, Shu is inland, still in the basin, and relatively closed. It is also difficult to preserve such things as brocade, and it rarely flows out. I have a chance today, uh, elbow Tell us about it."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Then I'll be playing tricks. Speaking of the ancient brocade weaving technique, it's actually similar to the modern jacquard technique."

"However, its craftsmanship and patterns are far more complicated than the current jacquard machines. The arrangement of various colored silk threads for each jacquard pattern will be recorded in a manual by the weaving officer. Such a manual is called the "flower book." '".

"Once the flower book is lost and the brocade is not preserved in its entirety, then the pattern will be considered lost, at least part of it will be lost."

"I know the general idea, let's talk about Bajin."

"Ba da brocade is also called Ba da halo. It is a beautiful pattern composed of various geometric patterns such as circles, squares, and polygons, with ocher yellow as the background color, and silk threads of various colors on it."

"Each small shape has been transformed, beautified, embellished, and carefully designed in layout, and then combined into a complex and beautiful large shape from various small shapes. Lotus, leaves, lanterns and other shapes are added to the blank spaces, and so on. , forming a huge tapestry at last."

"In the Song Dynasty, the regulations on clothing colors were quite strict. For example, ocher yellow was exclusively used by the royal family; Bajin is one of the highest-standard patterns, which can only be used by princes and above. Officials from the two governments can occasionally be rewarded by the emperor."

"The reason why it is called 'Bada', there are two legends, one is that around each small geometric shape, there are eight other small geometric shapes connected with it, and the eight roads are connected, so it is called 'Bada'."

"There is another saying that each small geometric shape is filled with eight small flower colors, two kinds of flowers in spring, summer, autumn and winter. There are eight kinds in total, so it is called eight answers."

"No matter what kind of statement it is, it shows the difficulty of weaving eight brocades, so the specifications are quite high. The so-called two governments in the Song Dynasty were officials who had to be admitted to the Zhongshu Ministry and the Privy Council, which were equivalent to the prime minister and the minister of defense. Get rewarded."

"This is very close to the records of "Chunhua Pavilion Posts", because after "Chunhua Pavilion Posts" came out, there were also regulations similar to those of the Eight Brocade Brocade, that is, officials must enter the two prefectures to be eligible for rewards one part."

"However, among the four ancestral engraved editions, only the second and eighth are original Song seals, and the first and fifth editions should have been supplemented by the Qianlong Dynasty."

"How can you tell?" Li Qiyan asked.

"When I was looking for ribbons, I checked the records of the Qing palace's work files." Zhou Zhi said: "In order to repair the books of the Song Dynasty collected in the inner mansion, Emperor Yongzheng specially ordered people to remove some silk seals, and gave them to Suzhou Weaving to restore the patterns. "

"In fact, since the Ming Dynasty, it has been a normal practice to use bata halos as the cover and mounting of precious calligraphy and paintings, as well as the brocade boxes used to hold them. However, with the changes of the times, the patterns of bata halos have also undergone tremendous changes. The changes, the colors used are quite different from those of Song Brocade, and it has become a simplified version.”

"In the third year of Kangxi, Suzhou reported that it had succeeded in restoring the eight brocades of the Song Dynasty, so the inner court repaired the Song books and paintings, and used these eight brocades more often."

"But there is still a small difference between the two, that is, the base color. The Song Dynasty used low-key and soft ocher yellow, while the Qing Dynasty inherited the habit of the Ming Dynasty and used bright bright yellow."

"Although it has been aged for a long time, the background color is still easy to distinguish."

Li Qiyan took two ancestral prints and compared them, and found that there were indeed some differences in the background color of the brocade seal, so he nodded in agreement with Zhou Zhi's statement.

Zhou Zhi opened the album: "Chengxintang paper has been imitated throughout the dynasties. In this album, there are actually three types of Chengxintang paper."

As soon as these words came out, Li Qiyan's eyes suddenly turned to admiration, and Li Lehai's eyes even had some admiration.

(End of this chapter)