Jianbao life

Chapter 526 Thank You

Seeing that it was such a snuff bottle worth nearly 300 million, Chu Chen was surprised, and could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Sun Dayou regarded such a precious thing as the most valuable, but worth tens of thousands. It is too ignorant to understand the market situation!
It seems that I have to remind him well that if there is anything else in the house, I should take it to him to have a look, otherwise I will lose several million, even if he thinks about it, he will feel distressed.

Seeing Uncle Wu staring at the snuff bottle in his hand, Chu Chen put the thing back into the box and said with a smile, "Uncle Wu, take a look!"
Uncle Wu hastily stretched out his hands, took out the enamel snuff bottle from the box, held it up, looked at it carefully against the light, and kept tsk-tsk admiring it in his mouth.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Sun Dayou didn't understand that the thing he brought must be something extraordinary, which made him a little confused, and asked: "Isn't this just a snuff bottle? My neighbor has been there for a few months. Qian bought one, but it’s only a few hundred yuan, although the little figure on my snuff bottle looks pretty good, but I think it’s not much more expensive, right?”

Chu Chen shook his head and said, "Old Sun, there are good and bad snuff bottles. This is a snuff bottle made by Emperor Qianlong, and it is very precious."

"How precious is that?" Sun Dayou asked curiously.

"I guess it's about 300 million!" Chu Chen nodded to Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu who came back, and then replied.

"What!" Sun Dayou opened his mouth wide when he heard what Chu Chen said about the value. He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say for a small thing that was only five or six centimeters.

After a while, Sun Dayou came back to his senses, and said with a tongue gaping: "Boss Chu, you are not lying to me, are you? How can such a small thing have such a high value?"

Lao Wu said: "Old Sun, how could our boss lie to you? You don't know much about the antique market, so you think it is expensive, but the market value is what our boss said. After all, our boss can't Let’s have trouble with money, you say no!”

Hearing what Lao Wu said, Sun Dayou already believed this fact in his heart, which made him a little embarrassed. After all, he was going to give this thing to Chu Chen, and in the end it seemed like a door-to-door sale, which really made him feel embarrassed. It's a little embarrassing.

Chu Chen saw Sun Dayou's thoughts at a glance, and he smiled and said, "Mr. Sun, I still want to thank you. Snuff bottles like this are very rare. I usually can't buy them even if I want to." , but I didn't expect you to come to my door. No wonder when I went out today, I saw a magpie calling in front of the door!"

Although he knew that what Chu Chen said was exaggerated, Sun Dayou was not as embarrassed as he was just now, he said with a smile: "Boss Chu, as long as you like it, but the price is definitely not as expensive as you said , After all, what you are talking about is the market price, but the friendship price between us!"

"Then I would like to thank you for being old!"

After Chu Chen coaxed him to thank him, he said, "However, let's talk about the price after I finish reading the next item!"

Sun Da nodded and said: "Okay, just look at it, but there is a painting in this box, it may be a problem with the storage in the early years, there are a few holes on it, I didn't want to take it over at first, but my son said this painting It looks like it is very old, let me bring it here, maybe you will like it! If it is a piece of junk, don't mind it!"

"No, no, don't worry too much!"

Chu Chen waved his hand with a smile, and then opened the lid of the box. Inside was a piece of folded drawing paper. There were some mold spots and moth holes on it, but fortunately the situation didn't seem too serious, which made Chu Chen's brows loosen a lot.

Carefully unfolding the paper, the content on the scroll immediately caught everyone's eyes, but when everyone saw the content, they were all taken aback, and Zhou Wenping even exclaimed: ""The Picture of Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone"! "

The reason why everyone is so surprised is that the content on the scroll is very similar to Su Shi's "Picture of Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone".

In addition to the two inscriptions and postscripts next to it, the whole picture is only a dead tree, a few thin grasses under the tree, a stubborn stone like a fist, and one or two sparse bamboos behind the stone.

That dead tree didn't have a single leaf, and the main pole was bent and skewed. At one-third of the main pole, a thick branch was broken, and two-thirds of the main pole was twisted and twisted in an unreasonable general direction. , very much like the shape of deer antler, that strange appearance seems to be full of depression in the chest.

Su Shi, the famous Su Dongpo, is a household name in our country.However, generally speaking, everyone pays attention to Su Dongpo's literary attainments, and he is regarded as one of the most outstanding literary and artistic attainments recognized in the thousands of years of Chinese history.

But what is little known is that his achievements in painting creation and painting theory are not inferior to his literary achievements.In the history of painting in our country, Su Shi's status even far exceeds that of many famous painters and theorists in the Song Dynasty.

Su Shi's main contribution in this field lies in the "scholar painting", that is, literati painting, which he jointly advocated with his cousin Wen Tong and his close friend Mi Fu.Their purpose and pursuit are quite clear, mainly opposing the courtyard's neat and elegant style, and advocating sloppy writing and not striving for work.

"Scholar's painting" is advocating "morale" and "elegance", advocating quality, seeking the integration of poetry, calligraphy and painting, making painting literary, and pioneering the traditional theory of Chinese classical painting in Chinese painting.

But it is a pity that among Su Shi's poems, calligraphy and paintings, very few paintings have been handed down to the world. It is said that "The Picture of Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone" exclaimed by Zhou Wenping has now flowed to the island country. It is rare to see it, which makes Chu Chen and others very moved Unfortunately, this is the fundamental reason why everyone is so surprised.

But immediately Uncle Wu frowned and said: "No, although this is very similar to "Painting of Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone", some of the painting methods and techniques are different, and the artistic conception expressed is also different."

In 1079, Su Shi's political opponents quoted Su Shi's poems out of context to fabricate political charges, which led to the famous literary inquisition, the Wutai Poetry Case.This time, if it weren't for Song Shenzong's ancestor's legacy of "not killing scribes" and his appreciation of Su Shi's talent in his bones, Su Shi would not have escaped this disaster.In the end, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou.

And "Picture of Dead Wood, Bamboo and Stone" was born for this reason. The picture scroll is full of pessimistic and depressed emotions, which makes people feel very uncomfortable after looking at it for a long time.

But the painting in front of me, in addition to being pessimistic and depressed, also contains an extremely sad and desolate meaning, just like an old man with a dying and sick body, who is about to pass away, Chu Chen and the others looked at it in their hearts They all kept feeling depressed and desolate, which was very uncomfortable.

However, soon everyone discovered and understood why this painting had such an artistic conception, because judging from the poems promoted next to it, Su Dongpo was already dying when he painted this painting, and the poem , It is the desperate poem he wrote.

Why did Su Dongpo draw this work and write a poem before his death?This made everyone feel very strange.

When Chu Chen saw the other person's promotion, he suddenly said: "It turns out that this painting was given to Huang Tingjian by Su Dongpo before he died!"

"How did Su Dongpo think that before he died, he would send such a painting to Huang Tingjian?" Lao Wu asked strangely.

"It's normal for Su Dongpo to give Huang Tingjian such a painting!" Chu Chen said after thinking for a while.

At the beginning, when Su Shi first saw Huang Tingjian's poems on the seat of Huang Tingjian's uncle Sun Jue, he was amazed at their transcendence. Sun Jue asked Su Shi to make him famous. Su Shi laughed: "This man is like fine gold and beautiful jade. If you don’t approach others, others will approach him on their own initiative, and you can’t get it if you escape from your name, so why make a name for yourself?”

When Huang Tingjian was 34 years old, he wrote two poems and sent them to Su Shi. Su Shi wrote back "Answer to Huang Luzhi": "I have been sincerely afraid that I would not be able to make friends with you, but today you do not hesitate to humiliate your talents. You treat me so politely. I feel ashamed. Almost unbearable."

At that time, Su Shi was already famous all over the world, and Huang Tingjian was only showing his talents temporarily. It can be seen how much Su Shi appreciated Huang Tingjian, and the two have cherished each other since then.It is also because of Su Shi's appreciation that Huang Tingjian's life was bumpy.

A year later, Su Shi was imprisoned for the "Wutai Poetry Case" and was almost beheaded. Although Huang Tingjian had never met Su Shi, he was fined [-] catties of copper for singing and singing.

Seven years later, because of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, Su Shi seemed to have a turn of events. Together with Huang Tingjian, he was recalled to the capital. The two had long been friends, but they met for the first time.But the good times didn't last long. In the next few years, the two fell into political turmoil again, and finally both were demoted.

Finally, Su Dongpo asked Huang Tingjian to meet at Poyang Lake for three days before leaving, and this meeting became a farewell.

After hearing what Chu Chen said, the fifth child called Qu Qu on behalf of Huang Tingjian: "This Su Dongpo is simply a loser. Huang Tingjian is a good person. It is a pity that he ended up like this because of his friendship!"

"You're wrong!" Uncle Wu said with a smile: "I think the reason why the two of them are like this is because their personalities are too straightforward, and they are not suitable for staying in an officialdom where intrigues and deceptions are at all. official career!"

"Hey! It's still not rewarding for good people!" Sun Dayou sighed beside him.

Everyone shook their heads. This political thing is often not to give up until the goal is achieved. Someone will care whether the other party is a good person or not!

"Then what does this painting mean?" Lao Wu continued the question just now.

Chu Chen said: "I think it may be Su Dongpo's complaints before he died. His life was too rough and he was depressed all the time. The depression in his heart can be imagined, and what happened to Huang Tingjian and him can be said to be sympathetic. In addition, the two of them cherish each other, so they are a good target to talk about, and it is probably because of this that he painted this work and gave it to each other!"

(End of this chapter)