My uncle searched on the bookshelf for a while, then pulled out a very thick book and walked over holding it.
Yang Jin recognized this book. It was a set of books that his grandfather had spent a long time making. That's right, this book was not bought, but made bit by bit by his grandfather.
This set of books has five volumes in total, all of which are about paper. Yang Jing read them a lot when he was young, but at that time there were only three volumes in this set of books. The last two volumes were made in the two years before his grandfather fell ill.
Fortunately, Yang Jing often read these books when he was a child, otherwise he would not be able to recognize the five pages of Song Shu engravings interspersed in "Huajian Ji" today.
These five books are all introductions and analyses of the paper that appeared in ancient China. In addition to photos and some paper samples, the contents of the books are the characteristics and subtle differences of these papers summarized by my grandfather himself.
According to my grandfather himself, the reason why it took more than 20 years to produce these five books was because one day in the 1980s, when he went to the Diling Ghost Market where Tianqu first appeared, he bought a fake painting.
Yang Jing had also seen that painting, and it had always been hanging in this room.
Yang Jing couldn't help but look up at the painting that had been hanging next to the bookshelf.
The painting was an ink painting. There were two little birds standing on two crossed branches. One bird was looking up at something, while the other was looking down and preening its feathers with its beak.
Although the picture is simple, Yang Jing knows that this painting is not simple. If this painting is authentic, then its value is huge.
This painting was originally created by Bada Shanren Zhu Da. The average auction price of Zhu Da's paintings at auctions now exceeds 4 million yuan per square foot!
Unfortunately, although this painting looks very lifelike, it is a fake.
This painting, named "Birds Coming from a Dead Tree", was once collected by the famous calligrapher, painter, seal engraver and collector Feng Kanghou, and later collected by the famous calligrapher, painter and collector Wang Jiqian. It has never been circulated among the people.
On the original painting of "A Dead Tree and Birds", there is an old inscription by Mr. Feng Kanghou: "A Quail and a Paulownia Tree by Bada Shanren". He mistook the two birds for starlings and the dead tree for a paulownia tree. Bada's own name is not seen in the inscription, so what people knew about it before was also limited.
What this means is that after he collected the painting, he mistook the two birds in the painting for starlings, and the two dead branches for paulownia trees, and as a result, he gave the painting this name.
Later, after this painting was collected by Mr. Wang Jiqian, Mr. Wang wrote a title and a postscript for the painting, and also stamped his collection seal on the painting.
My grandfather bought this fake painting in 1986. He said that he met an old man with a southern accent at the first ghost market in Tianqu, which was the Diling ghost market. The old man must have been over 60 years old, dressed very decently, and spoke Hong Kong Mandarin. It was obvious that he was from Hong Kong Island.
At that time, my grandfather was very curious and asked the old man why he came to such a ghost market. The old man said that he was from Hong Kong Island and was going to Beijing for business, but because he was greedy and admired the roast chicken in Tianqu, he stayed in Tianqu for two days. He also heard that there was a ghost market here, so he came to the ghost market early in the morning to take a look.
In 1986, my grandfather was also 50 years old. The two of us were not much different in age, and they started chatting. During the conversation, the old man inadvertently mentioned that he had a painting of "A Dead Tree and Birds" by Zhu Da, which was left by an elderly person in the family after his death. In addition to doing business, he went to Beijing this time to sell this painting.
When my grandfather heard the news, he immediately became interested. After further chatting, he learned that the old man was actually the eldest son of Feng Kanghou, a famous Hong Kong calligrapher, painter and seal engraver who died in 1983. The painting "Birds Coming from a Dead Tree" was a painting that Mr. Feng Kanghou left to his son after his death.
The old man liked calligraphy and painting very much, so he begged the old man to see the painting.
In the 1980s, China had just experienced turmoil, and many precious ancient books and paintings were burned in that turbulent era. Now that the old man had the opportunity to see Zhu Da's paintings, how could he resist?
The old man didn't agree at first, but my grandfather begged him, and he reluctantly agreed. In the end, my grandfather didn't even go to work that day, and followed the old man to the Tianqu Municipal Party Committee Guesthouse.
In fact, my grandfather was a little suspicious of the old man's identity at first. After all, when he was a child, he often followed the elders in the family to visit the ghost market in Sijiu City, and he was very familiar with some tricks. But when he saw that he lived here, his suspicion immediately disappeared.
In those days, the people who could live in the Municipal Party Committee Guesthouse were not ordinary people. Ordinary people could not even enter the main gate, let alone live there. There were armed police soldiers standing guard at the door. The old man could live here, at least his identity was not a problem.
In the hotel room, my grandfather saw the painting "Birds Coming from a Dead Tree".
Because he no longer had any doubts about the old man's identity, and the painting was indeed impeccable, my grandfather looked at it several times and couldn't find any faults, so he liked the painting and offered to buy it.
But the price of this painting was quite expensive even in the 1980s. The old man said that my grandfather could not afford this painting, and my grandfather indeed did not have that much money at that time. After all, even in that era, this painting would cost at least one million Hong Kong dollars, and my grandfather was just an ordinary worker. How could he afford this painting?
As a result, my grandfather was so angry at the old man that he immediately took off the Hetian jade pendant left to him by his grandfather.
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