It turns out that this old curator is proficient in calligraphy and painting, so he is also quite knowledgeable about the paper used for calligraphy and painting.
The old curator said that the paper used for this painting was a kind of parchment paper that only appeared in the north during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Da lived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In particular, Zhu Da spent his entire life in the south and rarely came to the north. The most important thing is that when Zhu Da died, Kangxi was still alive. How could he use this kind of parchment paper that only appeared during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods to paint?
In the end, the old curator concluded that the painting was an extremely well-made imitation, and if there had not been a problem with the drawing paper, it would have been difficult to tell the authenticity of the painting.
At first, my grandfather was not willing to give up. He took the painting back to his hometown and asked someone to invite an expert from the Palace Museum to examine it. However, the expert could not tell the authenticity of the painting at first. When my grandfather said that there might be a problem with the drawing paper, the expert asked a friend who specialized in paper to take a look. The friend’s answer was the same as the old curator’s.
However, the expert also said that the ability to imitate Zhu Da's painting so realistically must have been the work of a master. If there was not an identical original painting in the world, the price of this painting would definitely not be low.
At this point, my grandfather finally gave up. However, he never let anyone else touch the painting, so until now, we still don’t know who copied it.
A family heirloom jade pendant was exchanged for such a fake. My grandfather was speechless after taking this medicine.
It's not like my grandfather had never had his eye pierced and taken medicine before, but this time the medicine was too strong. Let's not talk about the value of the family heirloom jade pendant, the key point is that this jade pendant was intended for his son Li Long. As a result, because of a hole, this jade pendant that had been passed down for three generations was gone...
My grandfather was very depressed for a while because of this incident, and he even stopped going to the ghost market.
But my grandmother was a very good person and always cared for my grandfather silently. It took my grandfather more than a year to get over the shadow of that incident.
My grandfather learned from his mistakes and decided to stand up again from where he fell, and started to think about paper.
He spent money to buy a camera, and then every time he went to the ghost market, he would bring the camera with him, and take pictures of the ancient books and paintings he saw, and then study the paper used in those ancient books and paintings. Later, Tianqu had its own antique market, and more people gathered in the antique market, so my grandfather had more opportunities to take pictures. Sometimes my grandfather would buy some fragments of ancient books as samples.
In this way, from 1987 until 2010 when my grandfather fell ill, he accumulated a total of five large volumes of such ancient books, ancient paintings, paper photos and samples, which contained thousands of photos and samples of paper produced in different eras and places. Yang Jing was ordered by his grandfather to read these five books diligently since he was a child, and he has no idea how many times he has read them.
It is no exaggeration to say that if people in the industry saw these five books of my grandfather, they would definitely offer a high price to buy them.
Even the most professional books on paper for ancient books and paintings available on the market are not as detailed and comprehensive as the five books made by my grandfather himself.
Yang Jing had heard his grandfather tell the story of his grandfather having an eye injury and taking medicine countless times when he was a child.
Yang Jing clearly remembered a sentence his grandfather had summarized for him: "How to play with antiques? First of all, you have to understand antiques. If you play with antiques without understanding them, you will end up falling flat on your face. But the antique world in our country is broad and profound, and you can never master it all, so you have to keep learning. Only by constantly learning and enriching yourself can you try to avoid mistakes and setbacks."
When grandpa said this, Yang Jing was only six or seven years old, but Yang Jing remembered it very clearly. It was this sentence that urged Yang Jing to keep learning.
In addition to these five books, my grandfather also made a lot of other types of books, such as books on porcelain and miscellaneous antiques. Although they are not professional books, they are more detailed than professional books. These books are basically Yang Jing's extracurricular books when he was a child, and Yang Jing read them not once or twice, but many times...
Thanks to his grandfather, although Yang Jing has never received professional training in antiques and cultural relics since childhood, because he has a grandfather who can be regarded as a master of folk antiques, Yang Jing is also very proficient in the knowledge of antiques and cultural relics.
Grandpa also noticed that his grandson looked up at the fake painting. The old man smiled and said, "Xiao Jing, I have told you so many times that if you want to enter this industry, you can't be afraid of drilling holes and taking medicine. If you are dealing with antiques, if you have never drilled holes and taken medicine, you are not a real insider. Those so-called experts and professors have slowly improved their level by drilling holes and taking medicine again and again."
After a pause, the old man took the book from his uncle with some difficulty, and continued while flipping through it, "The two pages in the book you found are quite different, and they were made so well that I even suspect that they are from the Song Dynasty edition. Otherwise, that person would not have used such a method to conceal the two pages."
The old man's hand paused for a moment, and he muttered to himself: "Well, this is it..." As he spoke, he used a magnifying glass to compare the sixth page of "Hua Jian Ji" with a photo in the book. After studying it for a while, my grandfather shook his head in disappointment.
In the following time, grandpa kept repeating the same action and was busy for almost an hour. During this time, my aunt called grandpa to come for dinner, but was scolded and sent away by grandpa.
Whenever grandpa was studying an antique, he hated being disturbed the most. Yang Jing and his uncle knew his temper, so they never dared to mention eating.
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