It took nearly two hours for everyone to finish lunch. After cleaning up the mess, He Daqing arranged a room for everyone to rest.

Bai Zhirui came to his room and felt a sense of intimacy when he looked at the layout of the room. After all, the original owner had lived here for more than ten years, and he had done it several times when he came back to visit relatives after traveling through his soul. He felt very familiar with this room.

The room was very familiar and was cleaned spotlessly. It was obvious that He Daqing came to clean it every day.

He sat on the bed and was about to take a rest when he looked at a painting hanging on the wall opposite, which was a copy of "Li Duanduan Picture" by the famous Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, copied by an unknown artist.

Although he has no research on calligraphy and painting, from the so-called "Li Duanduan Picture" by Tang Bohu, no matter the painter, the shaft of the scroll and the paper, it can be seen that it is just a fake copy work that cannot be faked anymore.

Just when Bai Zirui was about to look away, a gust of wind blew up and the fake painting floated up. Just as the sun shone on the fake painting, he saw two layers of faint marks on the painting paper.

Out of curiosity, he came to the fake painting and observed it carefully. There were five people in the painting, and in the middle sat a scholar wearing a scholar's scarf and a mustache. His facial expression and sitting posture all showed an elegant demeanor.

and style.

Beside the desk on the left are his two maids, one wearing a red skirt and the other wearing a white skirt. The colors are bright and layered.

The visitor on the right is a young lady holding a white peony. Her posture is elegant and charming. Behind her are her maids. The four of them surrounding the scholar are like stars over the moon, highlighting the important status of the scholar.

The background of the painting is a large landscape screen, with a poem inscribed above it: "Li Duanduan in Shanhe Square believes that he can make white peonies. Whoever believes in Jinman City in Yangzhou, the price of rouge is so high that he is poor."

Strictly speaking, the expressions and manners of the characters in this "Picture of Li Duanduan" are very dull, the lines of the characters' clothing are not smooth enough, and the paper used is clumsy. The paper is actually cooked rice paper.

For more than 500 years from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, calligraphers and painters mostly used raw rice paper, also called raw paper. It was used directly after production. It has strong water absorption and ink moisturizing properties. It is often used in splash-ink paintings, freehand paintings, and brush strokes.

The layers are clear, dry, wet, thick, light, and changeable.

Cooked rice paper is made from raw rice paper through processes such as adding alum, calendering, desizing, filling with powder, darkening, sprinkling gold, adding wax, and sizing.

It is not easy for ink to smear when painting, and it is suitable for writing regular script and official script. Moreover, cooked rice paper will leak alum and become brittle after a long time. In addition, cooked rice paper will cover up the style of ink paintings, so calligraphers and painters are ashamed to use cooked rice paper.

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As far as Bai Zirui is concerned now, he doesn't understand what raw and cooked rice paper is, and he can't appreciate the shortcomings of the figures in the painting. What he is thinking about is the two effects caused by the sunlight shining on the painting just now.

What happened to the layer imprint?

Suddenly an idea struck him, and he recalled a piece of news he had seen later in life, in which a collector bought a poor fake painting at a black market auction due to a short appraisal time.

I accidentally discovered something strange about this fake painting. It is a poor fake painting but it uses extremely clever mounting techniques. Is this trying to cover up something?

After he asked a friend who was proficient in framing to see it, the friend told the collector that this framing technique was his master's secret skill, and that it should be used on this fake painting to protect the authentic painting hidden underneath.

Because during special periods, in order to protect precious cultural relics from being destroyed, some people make fakes out of genuine products. The fake ones make people lose interest at first sight. Many precious national treasures have been preserved through this method.

cultural relics.

Nowadays, the fake paintings purchased by collectors should be mounted on top of the real painting through the same method to protect the real painting hidden underneath from being damaged. This method is called a picture-within-a-picture in calligraphy and painting.

Sure enough, the framer friend helped the collector to uncover the fake painting on top of the fake painting, and then revealed the real painting underneath to reveal the true face of Mount Lu. This became a legend in the collecting community.

Tang Yin was born on the fourth day of the second lunar month in the sixth year of Chenghua and died on the second day of the second lunar month in the second year of Jiajing. His given name was Bohu, later changed to his given name Ziwei, and his name was Liuru Jushi.

etc., painters, calligraphers and poets of the Ming Dynasty.

Tang Bohu's works include "Riding a Donkey Thinking of Return", "Sound of Pines on the Mountain Road", "Meeting in the Palace", "Prostitutes in Wang Shu Palace", "Li Duanduan's Settlement" (also known as "Li Duanduan"), "Autumn Wind"

Painting works such as "Wan Fan Picture" and "Dry Cha and Bird Picture".

Characteristics of Tang Bohu's works: Tang Bohu's paintings are a fusion of northern and southern painting schools, with fine brushwork, sparse layout, and graceful and elegant style. The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful postures, and accurate shapes; he also used freehand brushwork to describe figures, with concise and comprehensive brushwork.

Interesting. His flower and bird paintings are better than freehand ink paintings, free and elegant.

If the painting in front of you is a painting within a painting like the one bought by a collector in later generations, and the real thing hidden under the fake is Tang Yin and Tang Bohu's original "Li Duanduan Picture", then it is a priceless treasure. Tang Bohu's original painting will be sold at auctions in later generations.

It was a deal with a starting price of 100 million yuan. Bai Zirui was overjoyed when he thought of this.

Bai Zirui stepped forward and touched the painting, and it felt that it was indeed slightly thicker than a normal painting. It seemed that it was really a two-layer painting with pasting. But he didn't know much about calligraphy and painting, so he had to wait until he returned to the capital to ask the shabby marquis about it.

Does he know the master of mounting and unveiling paintings who can bring the authentic "Li Duanduan Picture" by Tang Bohu to light again?

He rolled up the scroll and went to He Daqing and asked, "Dad, where did this painting in my room come from?" He then opened the scroll to He Daqing and took a look.

He Daqing looked at the painting in front of him, thought for a moment and said: "This painting is from your mother. After her family was persecuted by the rebels, I accompanied her back to her natal home and her husband's house to check the situation. At that time, her natal family's valuable things had been robbed by the rebels.

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She found some calligraphy, paintings and porcelain and transported them to our house in the courtyard first, and then went to her husband's house to check the situation. Her husband's family and her mother's family were close relatives, and all her family members were killed at the banquet. After she dismissed the servants,

I packed up some valuable belongings and transported them all to our house for temporary storage.

After the family members of her family passed the Qiqi Festival, they decided to return to their hometown in Baoding. Your Aunt Tan and I accompanied her and carried her things that were temporarily stored at our house back to the Bai family's ancestral home. I returned to the capital on the same day,

Your Aunt Tan stayed with her for a while before going back.

This painting is one of the calligraphy and paintings that your mother found in her husband's house. Before she fell ill and died, she asked me to hang this painting in your room. The things she brought back from the capital are all placed in the Bai family's ancestral house.

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Before she died, she left these things to you, saying that they were enough for you to live a life of food and clothing without any worries. After her death, I kept these things for you. You said that these things cannot be used as food, how can you guarantee that?

Have no worries about food and clothing?"

Thank you to Fuyun for the reward and all the book lovers for your support and encouragement.
Chapter completed!