Chapter 272: The Exhibition Opens
Su Yi told Su Xuezhen to get lost, and he actually left without looking back.
Their master-disciple relationship broke down and the two became strangers.
Su Xuezhen's work also passed the re-evaluation smoothly. As mentioned above, as long as you are a disciple of a famous artist, you can pass the re-examination. The number of works registered at that time was far less than it is now, not even more than 10,000, so the face-to-face evaluation was the last stage, and there was no free link.
Suxuezhen stopped at the face-to-face evaluation and ranked 32nd in the country.
For a young man who is only 22 years old, this ranking is already very good, because all the exhibitors ahead of him are older than him.
Su Xuezhen does have real talent and knowledge.
Through his outstanding performance in that calligraphy exhibition, Su Xuezhen began to gain fame. He was a very ambitious and patient man, and he did not get carried away by his small achievements.
Without Su Yi's guidance, he taught himself and copied calligraphy by himself day after day. Such efforts finally paid off. Su Xuezhen was specially recruited into the ancient city government and became a civil servant. From then on, his life was like a cheat, getting better and better. Now, he has long stopped being a civil servant and makes a lot of money as a calligrapher and dean of a college.
Because of this incident, Fang Huaiyuan gradually became lazy in learning calligraphy. He preferred to treat calligraphy as a sport and concentrate on his job. Perhaps excellent people are excellent in everything they do. In thirty years, he rose rapidly and eventually became the president of Capital University.
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After Su Yi finished speaking, he took a blood pressure pill to calm down.
"I told you these past events because I want you to pay attention to Su Xuezhen during the interview tomorrow. Be careful that he might trip you up."
Liu Lan nodded, feeling mixed emotions.
She felt sorry for Principal Fang. During the summer vacation, she often went to Professor Su's house to practice calligraphy. She would always meet Principal Fang and gradually became familiar with him. She had long discovered that Principal Fang rarely wrote. She was also surprised. Wasn't Principal Fang also a disciple of Professor Su? He didn't seem to have much interest in calligraphy. And she had never heard of any of Principal Fang's works being circulated. As a principal, he should at least write inscriptions for places such as school teaching buildings and stadiums, but Principal Fang never did so.
Obviously, the fact that his beloved junior fellow student repaid his kindness with ingratitude had completely devastated Principal Fang.
If Su Xuezhen had not replaced his works back then, Principal Fang would probably be a calligrapher now.
His selfish act changed the lives of two people.
After returning to her room, Liu Lan searched for Su Xuezhen on Baidu, carefully read the brief introduction of his deeds, and also looked at his works. To be fair, his regular script writing is very good. There is a big gap between Liu Lan and him, and she admits that she cannot compare with him.
However, his introduction described his relationship with Su Yi with these words: "Mr. Su once briefly studied under calligrapher Mr. Su Yi," perfectly avoiding his scandal, not mentioning the fact that he had been expelled from his master's school, and even using Su Yi's fame to gild his own image.
On the second day, the National Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition was officially opened at the Ancient Capital Exhibition Center and the Capital Art Center. 300 excellent works that passed the re-evaluation were exhibited and the exhibition was open to the public free of charge.
The 200 exhibitors of paper calligraphy works are divided into 20 groups according to their different fonts, with the same font in one group. The judges will select 40 outstanding authors in two days. These 40 people will compete with 20 outstanding seal carving authors in the capital exhibition area for the top ten places.
Liu Lan already knew in advance that she was assigned to Group 8 and that her evaluation time would be in the afternoon.
But she made an appointment with Professor Su and went out to the exhibition center to see the exhibition in the morning, because this was exactly why Professor Su asked her to participate in the exhibition - to absorb the advantages of other authors' works, and observing and learning from others is also a very important part of calligraphy learning.
Liu Lan changed into the Hanfu "Xia Ma" in the room. Xia Ma is a skirt made entirely of ramie. The texture of the ramie is distinct and the color is the original color of ramie, a yellowish white. In Liu Lan's previous life, this kind of fabric was called "Xia Bu", which was cool and light to wear.
Compared with the five sets of Hanfu that Liu Lan wore before, "Xia Ma" is much more low-key. When she wears it, it is loose and natural, giving a "classical forest style" feeling.
She combed her hair and put a wooden hairpin through it. She didn't wear any makeup. Just as Zhong Jiangnan had expected, her whole body was plain and simple, without a single gaudy touch.
After Liu Lan finished packing, she went to the lobby on the first floor to wait for Su Yi.
The service staff and guests in the hall all looked at her with attention.
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