aren't we rivals

After Song Min, who was squatting at the door, hung up the phone, he didn't go into the exhibition hall again, but moved to the pile of porcelain in front of the door, and looked around.

"What are you doing? Are you done calling?" Meng Chi came out and asked.

"Yeah." Song Min didn't turn his head, pointing to the middle of the pile of porcelain, "Look at that, it's a peach, it's very pretty, I want to take it out and have a look."

Looking in the direction he pointed, Meng Chi saw a shallow peach-shaped plate in the place covered by weeds.

"I'll get it for you." Meng Chi pulled Song Min behind him who was wobbly and out of reach, stepped into the pile of porcelain with his long legs, carefully avoided other porcelain, and took the peach-shaped porcelain come out.

This is a peach wash, so named because it looks like a peach. "Washing" is a kind of utensil, mostly stationery utensils, used to wash pens, also known as "pen washing".

The whole body of this peach wash is turquoise, and the tip of the peach is embellished with a little pink ink. It has a small and cute shape, and you can see the colorful halo on it when you change the angle.

"Is this a defective product? Why can't I see what's wrong with it?" Song Min said after observing for a while.

Meng Chi turned the peach-style washing machine in his hand in a circle, and looked at it carefully. Except for a little dirt on the bottom of the washing machine, he didn't see any obvious flaws.

At this moment, a hand like a jade shoot stretched out from Meng Chi's side, pointing at the streamline of peach leaves on the edge: "There is a trace here."

Meng Chi smelled the very shallow ocean breath again, he glanced at Yu Tingzhi behind him, and then looked at the peach leaf, as he said, there was an inconspicuous trace near the veins.

This guy has such a good eye.

"Oh, I saw it." Song Min took it from Meng Chi's hand, looked at it and said, "But it doesn't affect it at all, isn't it still beautiful? I want to buy it back."

Yu Tingzhi was noncommittal: "It's up to you."

"It's ok, this trace should be repaired, I'll ask Boss Qian later." Meng Chi patted off the mud in his hands, while taking two steps back, putting some distance away from Yu Tingzhi.

Song Min likes peaches very much. He likes to eat peaches and smell the fragrance of peaches. He even has a bottle of perfume that smells like peaches.He didn't think it was dirty either, holding the peach-style wash in both hands, admiring it fondly: "I'll put it on my desk when I get home, it can be used for calligraphy practice."

As he spoke, he suddenly held the porcelain up to the sunlight, and looked back at Meng Chi: "It looks like there's a film of light on the surface, why is that?"

Meng Chi looked at the light flashing on the peach tip under the sun, and was about to say that he didn't know, but Yu Tingzhi answered for him: "This is called clam light."

How does this guy know everything.

Meng Chi glanced at Yu Tingzhi and thought to himself.

"Clam light?" Song Min asked again.

Yu Tingzhi didn't seem to notice Meng Chi's sharp eyes, and explained: "The lead in pastel porcelain is affected by external physical or chemical factors for a long time. light, so it is called clam light.”

Song Min: "That's right."

Meng Chi was also stunned to hear this, and secretly wrote down this knowledge point in his heart.

"I didn't expect this gentleman to be a knowledgeable person." Boss Qian came right after he said that, just in time to hear Yu Tingzhi's popular science, "The people brought by Mr. Meng are extraordinary."

Meng Chi: "..."

thank you.

The blemishes on the peach wash are not a big problem. Boss Qian said it can be repaired, but it will take a while.

Originally he meant to send them a courier to Zewu after it was repaired, but Song Min was afraid that it would be damaged on the road again, so he asked how long it would take.Boss Qian said it would take one to two hours, which was not too long, so the three of them stayed here and waited.Boss Qian took advantage of the opportunity to keep them for lunch.

"You can go and have a look again, pick up the leaks, and see if you can find some good ones for me." Boss Qian said, looking in Yu Tingzhi's direction.

Meng Chi smiled and nodded at him: "You have a good plan, you don't have time to choose by yourself, let us do it."

In fact, the pile of porcelain is not all defective products, there are also some of them that have no major problems, and can still sell good things at a good price after repairing and repairing, but they have been left there for a long time and no one cares about them, and Boss Qian has no time to carefully select them. , now that there are idlers, and the incumbent with good eyesight, naturally it is not in vain.

Boss Qian chuckled: "Anyway, if you're idle, you're idle. I'll give you a discount if you pick them out."

Song Min seemed to be very interested in "Taobao in the Abandoned Area". After hearing this, he looked at Yu Tingzhi and Meng Chi eagerly.Meng Chi glanced at Yu Tingzhi, and said that he would go and have a look. Yu Tingzhi didn't refuse, and went with him.

Back at the pile of porcelain, Song Min asked Yu Tingzhi questions as he selected them, while Meng Chi watched silently, but listened attentively.

Yu Tingzhi's understanding of porcelain is not that deep, but because his grandfather Mr. Yu likes it and has a lot of collections at home, he knows a little bit of it.

After a while, Song Min picked out another vase, which was a warm white porcelain vase with a round belly and a slender neck. The mouth of the bottle was in the shape of a petal, and the body was round and shiny.

"Brother Ting, can you see what's wrong with this vase?"

Yu Tingzhi, who was holding another vase, cast his gaze over. He put down the vase in his hand, took the vase, and looked at it for about ten seconds without saying a word.

At this time Meng Chi came over, looked at it carefully for a while, pointed to the petals on the bottle mouth and said, "This petal is a little lower than the others."

"That's true." Song Min's eyes lit up.

Meng Chi laughed, and glanced at Yu Tingzhi indiscriminately, with a somewhat smug look.

The corner of Yu Tingzhi's mouth seemed to twitch slightly, but it didn't seem to be there. He just handed the vase in his hand to Song Min, turned around and walked to the other side.

"Brother Ting," Song Min asked, looking at the plum vase he had put back, "Is there a flaw in this plum vase?"

"No, it's a good piece of porcelain." Yu Tingzhi said, "No problem."

"Then why not... Hey, this painting is "Xiaoxiang Picture"①?" Song Min turned the vase in his hand, and saw a poem written in lines in the upper right corner of the picture——

"The setting sun and solitary smoke pass through the Dongting, and the white Pingting is beside the Huangling Temple. If you want to know thousands of miles away, your eyes will be green, and the tears will make Junshan a little green."

Song Min read the poem once, and when he saw the author Zhang Yuanqian on the seal, he had a puzzled look on his face: "Isn't "The Picture of Xiaoxiang" Dong Yuan's work?"

"Yes." Yu Tingzhi said, "This poem and painting were not created by one person."

The painting "Xiaoxiang Tu" is a landscape painting on silk created by Dong Yuan in the Five Dynasties and Southern Tang Dynasty. It is now in the Palace Museum. .

The poem "Xiaoxiang Picture" is the work of Zhang Yuanqian, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The two are separated by a hundred years, and there is no relationship except that they both describe Xiaoxiang.

Probably, the creator of this plum vase was an amateur, so he painted the two together by coincidence, and even added a seal of Zhang Qianyuan, which did not exist.After all, the existence of both poetry, painting and seal is most people's stereotyped impression of traditional Chinese painting.

"When Dong Yuan created the "Xiaoxiang Picture", the expression method of combining poetry, painting and seal had not yet appeared." Yu Tingzhi said, "The Xiaoxiang picture also did not have the author's seal, which was written by Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty according to the "Xuanhe Painting Book". According to the records, it was confirmed that the author was Dong Yuan, and it was named "Xiaoxiang Tu".

"Poems, paintings, seals?" Song Min nodded half-understanding, "That's it."

Song Min's major has nothing to do with art. Most of his understanding of poetry, painting and calligraphy is due to Yu Tingzhi.

And he will remember Dong Yuan's "Xiaoxiang Picture" only because during a summer vacation five years ago, when he went to see his brother Song Chen in the Academy of Fine Arts, Song Chen and Yu Tingzhi took him to the Palace Museum together.

In front of the "Xiaoxiang Picture", Yu Tingzhi and Song Chen talked about the differences between the northern and southern landscape paintings based on this picture, talking about the past and the present.

At that moment, in Song Min's eyes, Yu Tingzhi was suddenly no longer just a brother next door.

Afterwards, Song Min loved Wu and Wu, and became interested in both calligraphy and art. However, his talent was limited and he was unable to follow this path, and his understanding of traditional Chinese painting was not very detailed, and he could not tell the development of poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal.

"Poetry, calligraphy, painting, and printing developed independently and combined with each other. It was not until the Song Dynasty that poetry, calligraphy, painting, and printing were combined in one painting. After that, literati paintings began to appear." Yu Tingzhi Glancing at Meng Chi at the side, he paused before saying, "It has formed a modern Chinese painting style."

When Song Min mentioned "The Picture of Xiaoxiang", Meng Chi was at a loss. He didn't know what Dong Yuan was, nor did he know what Zhang Yuanqian was, let alone appreciate this painting.

Looking at Yu Tingzhi who was talking eloquently, Meng Chi suddenly thought that Chen Yan had said that Yu Tingzhi was a guest lecturer who taught art history at the Academy of Art.

As far as art is concerned, Yu Tingzhi can indeed be regarded as knowledgeable about the past and the present.It was also at this time that Meng Chi felt intuitively that Yu Tingzhi was a knowledgeable teacher.

Even though he was his rival in love, even though he had slightly offended him just now, Meng Chi looked at him and couldn't help but feel some admiration and appreciation in his heart.

Tsk, it's difficult.

The author says:

Appreciation is the beginning of the fall!

* For related information on Chinese art history, please refer to "Big Talk on Chinese Art History", Baidu Encyclopedia, and university courses that the author has almost forgotten.