Chapter 532

When he saw that it was such a snuff bottle worth nearly three million yuan, Chu Chen was surprised. He could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Sun Dayou regarded such a precious thing as the most valuable one, but it was only tens of thousands. He didn't know much about the antique market!

It seems that I have to remind him that if there is anything else at home, I'd better take it to him to have a look. Otherwise, I'll lose millions. Even if I think about it, I feel sad.

When Chu Chen saw Uncle Wu staring at his snuff bottle, he put it back into the box and said with a smile, "Uncle Wu, have a look!"

Uncle Wu quickly stretched out his hands, took out the enamel snuff bottle from the box, held it up, and looked at the light, appreciating it carefully, while his mouth was full of praise.

Sun Dayou saw their expressions, but he didn't understand that what he brought must be a wonderful thing, which made him a little confused. He asked: "this is a snuff bottle. My neighbor bought one a few months ago, but it's only a thousand yuan. Although the little man on my snuff bottle looks good, it's not much expensive, is it?"

Chu Chen shook his head and said, "Mr. Sun, this snuff bottle is also good or bad. You are the snuff bottle made by Emperor Qianlong. It's very precious."

"How precious is that?" Sun Dayou asked curiously.

"I think it's about three million." Chu Chen nodded to Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu, who came back, and then returned.

"What When sun Dayou heard the value of Chu Chen's words, he immediately opened his mouth. He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.

After a while, sun Dayou came back to his senses. Some of them stammered and said, "boss Chu, you can't cheat me. How can such a little big thing have such high value?"

Old five said: "Mr. Sun, how can our boss cheat you? You don't understand the antique market, so you think it's expensive. But the market value is what our boss said. After all, our boss can't get along with money, right?"

When sun Dayou heard that from Lao Wu, he already believed in this fact, which made him feel a little embarrassed. After all, he was going to give it to Chu Chen. In the end, it was like door-to-door sales, which made his face a little embarrassed.

Chu Chen saw sun Dayou's idea at a glance, and he said with a smile: "Mr. Sun, I want to thank you even more. Such snuff bottles are very rare. I just want to buy them but I can't buy them, but I didn't expect you to send them to my door. No wonder I saw a magpie crowing in front of the door when I went out today

Although he knew that what Chu Chen said was exaggerating, sun Dayou was not so embarrassed. He said with a smile: "boss Chu, you just like it, but the price can't be as expensive as you said. After all, what you said is the market price, but we are friendship price!"

"I'll thank you for being old first."

After chuchen coaxed him to thank him, he said, "but I'd better wait until I finish reading the next thing about the price."

Sun Da nodded and said, "OK, you can see it, but it's a painting in the box. Maybe it's a problem of storage in my early years. There are several holes on it that I didn't want to take. My son said that this painting looks like it's a long time ago. Let me bring it here and say you'll like it! If it's a piece of junk, don't mind! "

"No, no, don't worry about it!"

Chuchen waved his hand with a smile, and then opened the lid of the box. There was a folded drawing paper inside. It seemed that it was a long time ago. Moreover, because of the poor preservation, there were some mildew spots and holes on the drawing paper. Fortunately, the situation was not too serious, which made chuchen's eyebrows loose.

Carefully unfolding the paper, the contents of the scroll immediately caught everyone's eyes. However, when everyone saw the contents, they were all shocked, and Zhou Wenping exclaimed: "the painting of dead wood, bamboo and stone!"

The reason why we are so surprised is that the content on the scroll is very similar to Su Shi's painting of dead wood, bamboo and stone.

In addition to the two inscriptions and postscripts, there is only a withered tree, a few fine grasses under the tree, a stubborn stone like a fist, and a few sparse bamboos behind the stone.

There was no leaf in the dead tree. The main pole was crooked and crooked. At one third of the main pole, a thick branch was broken. At two thirds of the main pole, the main pole was twisted and twisted in an unreasonable direction. The top of the tree was very upward, very like the shape of velvet antler. The strange appearance was like the depression in the chest.

Su Shi, the famous Su Dongpo, is a household name in China. Generally speaking, however, what we all pay attention to is Su Dongpo's literary attainments. He is regarded as one of the most outstanding literary and artistic attainments in China's thousands of years of history.

But little known is that his achievements in painting creation and painting theory are not lower than his literary achievements. In the history of Chinese painting, Su Shi's position is far more than that of many famous painters and theorists in Song Dynasty.

Su Shi's main contribution in this field lies in the "scholar's painting" advocated by him, his cousin Wen Tong and his close friend Mi Fu, which is called literati painting. Their purpose and pursuit are quite clear. They mainly oppose the neat and elegant style of the hospital, and advocate carefree writing rather than striving for work."Shifu painting" is characterized by "morale" and "Yipin", advocating the taste of algae, seeking the integration of poetry, calligraphy and painting, making the painting literary, and opening up the traditional theory of Chinese painting in Chinese classical painting.

Unfortunately, among Su Shi's poetry, calligraphy and painting works, there are few paintings handed down from generation to generation. It is said that Zhou Wenping's "dead wood, bamboo and stone painting" has now gone to the island country, which is rare to see. This is a pity for Chu Chen and others. This is also the fundamental reason why everyone is so surprised.

But immediately Uncle Wu frowned and said, "no, although it's very similar to the painting of dead wood, bamboo and stone, some painting methods and techniques are different, and the artistic conception is also different."

In 1079, Su Shi's political opponents quoted Su Shi's poems out of context to weave political accusations, which led to the famous literary prison and the Wutai poetry case. This time, if it was not for song Shenzong's "don't kill literati" motto and his deep appreciation of Su Shi's talent, Su Shi could not escape this disaster. Finally, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou.

This is why the painting of dead wood, bamboo and stone came into being. It is full of pessimism and depression, which makes people feel uncomfortable after watching it for a long time.

But in front of the painting, in addition to pessimism and depression, it also contains a very sad and desolate meaning. It is like an old man with a sick and frail body who is about to die. It is very sad to see Chu Chen's heart rising with depression and desolation.

However, we soon found out why this painting had such artistic conception, because judging from the poems promoted nearby, Su Dongpo's life was not long after he painted this painting, and that poem was his poem of death.

Why did Su Dongpo draw this work and mention poetry before he died? This makes people feel very strange.

When Chu Chen saw another person's promotion, he suddenly said, "it turns out that this painting was given to Huang Tingjian by Su Dongpo before he died!"

"How did Su Dongpo think that he would send such a painting to Huang Tingjian before he died?" Five asked strangely.

"It's normal for Su Dongpo to send Huang Tingjian such a painting!" After thinking about it, Chu Chen said.

At the beginning, Su Shi saw Huang Tingjian's poems for the first time in sun Jue, Huang Tingjian's uncle. Sun Jue surprised Huang Tingjian and asked Su Shi to make a name for him. Su Shi laughed: "this man is like gold and jade. If he doesn't get close to others, others will also take the initiative to get close to him. If he can't get his name, why should he make a name?"

When Huang Tingjian was 34 years old, he wrote two poems and sent them to Su Shi. Su Shi wrote back a reply to Huang Luzhi: "I've always been sincere and afraid that I can't make friends with you, but you don't hesitate to insult your talent today. It's almost unbearable that you treat me with such courtesy."

At that time, Su Shi was famous all over the world, and Huang Tingjian just showed his head for a while. It can be seen how Su Shi appreciated Huang Tingjian, and since then, they have cherished each other. It is also because of Su Shi's appreciation that Huang Tingjian's life was full of frustrations.

A year later, Su Shi was jailed for "Wutai poetry case" and nearly killed. Although Huang Tingjian had never met Su Shi, he was punished for singing with him and was fined 20 jin of copper.

Seven years later, because the new emperor ascended the throne, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian were called back to the capital. They had a long history of divine friendship, but they met for the first time. However, it didn't last long. In the next few years, they fell into political turmoil, and finally they were both demoted.

Finally, before Su Dongpo left, he asked Huang Tingjian to meet for three days in Poyang Lake, which became a farewell.

After listening to Chu Chen's story, the fifth brother complained for Huang Tingjian and said, "this Su Dongpo is just a bereaved star. Huang Tingjian is a good man. It's a pity that he finally became like this because he interacted with him."

"You are not right!" Uncle Wu said with a smile: "I think the reason why they are like this is because their personalities are too straight. They are not suitable to stay in the officialdom of intrigue. In the end, they will end their official career with the same illness and sympathy!"

"Alas! Good people don't get what they want! " Sun Dayou sighed beside him.

Everyone shakes their heads. This political thing is always determined not to stop until it reaches its goal. When someone cares whether the other party is a good person or not!

"What does this painting mean?" Fifth, I'll go on with the question.

Chu Chen said: "I think it may be Su Dongpo's complaint before he died. He was too bumpy in his life, and he had been depressed all the time. The depression in his heart can be imagined. Huang Tingjian's experience is the same as that of him. In addition, the two of them are sympathetic to each other, so he is a good object to talk about. It is probably because of this that he painted this painting The other side