After talking about this anecdote, Mou Duanming looked at some of Chang Xian's classmates who were down, pointed to the front yard and said, "You must have seen the "Lin Quan Tu" imitated by Ni Yunlin hanging in the store. What do you think?"

While Mou Duanming was talking, he went out, took down the painting with a pole, spread it on the table, handed over a magnifying glass, and asked Chang Xian to take a look.

This is an ink-and-wash painting on paper mounted on a vertical scroll. The scroll is filled with mist, mountains and trees, and a spring flowing down, which is quite artistic.

Linquan Hermit is a popular theme in Chinese paintings, and has been painted by many people.

Chang Xian didn’t know much about the painting, but he took a closer look at some of the technical details. For example, the color of the brocade on the upper and lower ends of the painting’s heart was very new, indicating that it had been recently framed, while the color of the painting’s heart itself was light yellow, like autumn leaves.

, it has gone through quite a long time.

After a while, Chang Xian looked up and smiled: "This painting is very good, but I know it is fake. It is fake at first glance."

"Oh? What do you say?"

Mou Duanming was a little surprised now.

"I don't have much research on ancient paintings, and I can't explain why."

Chang Xian said: "But the painting is not clean, it is a bit dirty."

It was obviously a clean painting with no dirt stuck on it, but Mou Duanming understood it and nodded: "What else?"

Chang Xian smiled, pointed at the hermit in the painting and said, "He shouldn't be in the painting."

Mou Duanming laughed and said, "Your kid's identification method is quite interesting. It's not an ordinary way."

Chang Xian didn't know much about painting, but he knew Ni Yunlin.

Paintings, like the person they are, are not easy to paint over time.

At the end of Chinese painting, it must be what a person is like inside his bones, and no one can hide it.

For a person with this level of mysophobia, his paintings will also be spotless.

People are the cleanest people, and paintings are also the cleanest paintings in the history of Chinese painting.

Even Tang Bohu's teacher Shen Zhou lacked the time to copy Ni Yunlin's paintings, and they often got dirty as he painted.

Fan Wangmeng, Jian Yunlin.

In the Jian Dan Xuan Yuan group, Ni Yunlin would say he is second, but no one dares to say he is first.

There is another detail. Other people's paintings of landscapes all have figures in the paintings, either "playing the harp and watching the waterfall" or "riding a donkey with a staff". However, Ni Yunlin's paintings only include no one at all.

Back then, someone asked him, why is this so bad?

The man rolled his eyes and muttered: "Oh, in this world today, there are no real people!"

…

The two laughed, and Chang Xian said: "I'm just taking a different approach. Objectively speaking, if something like this is carefully packaged and designed, it is possible for people to take medicine."

Mou Duanming nodded and said: "We won't talk about anything else, just make it old."

He lifted up a corner and twisted it with his fingers: "Look at the paper yellow."

Chang Xian lowered his head and looked over, and found that the yellow paper was evenly distributed and the texture was withered.

"In an honest fake, the yellow color of the paper is bitten out by smoke or tea stains. The depth is different, and the yellowing lines are often inconsistent with the texture of the paper. Moreover, this yellow color floats on the surface and will fall off as soon as it is rubbed."

"Come here and give it a try."

Chang Xian stretched out his finger and rubbed it, but the color did not fade.

“Awesome! Well done.”

"This may seem mysterious, but it sounds simple."

Mou Duanming showed a trace of sarcasm on his face, stretched out his right hand, stretched out three fingers and said: "One or two gardenias, a pack of black tea, ten acorns!"

"One or two gardenias, a bag of black tea, ten acorns? What is this?"

Chinese medicine prescription or some kind of drink formula?

Chang Xian was really confused now.

"Gardenia water is burnt yellow, tea water is deep red, and the water boiled from acorn shells is ocher yellow. By blending these three colors, you can create the old color and fragrant gray you want."

"In addition, the hospital has a lamp, an ultraviolet lamp used for disinfection. This lamp shines for twenty-four hours, which is exactly one hundred years."

"Why, paper only absorbs so much ultraviolet light in a hundred years. Using this water and ultraviolet irradiation to embrittle it is really seamless, and the effect is much better than using tea stain alone."

"This thing is the cost of a pot of herbal tea. How much does it cost to sell it? Ten thousand times? One hundred thousand times?"

"For the sake of 30% profit, capital dares to take risks, and for the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample all laws. What is the profit of antiques? I'm afraid Wall Street doesn't have such huge profits, right?"

…

When Chang Xian's face returned to calmness and he seemed to have completely digested it, Mou Duanming continued: "The second is to figure out the positioning."

"Take the calligraphy you brought as an example. This calligraphy is placed in Yuan Hanyun's study at five o'clock. It is a work of art. There is only one standard, which is artistic attainments."

"If you put it in my store at one after five o'clock, it is a commodity, and there is only one standard, that is, how much it is worth and how much profit it makes."

"The former talks about the value of the object itself, and the latter talks about the price brought by the object."

"The value is constant, but the price is multifaceted. The value of Yuan Hanyun's calligraphy will never be higher than that of Mr. Hua Shikui, our great master in Jinmen, but the current price is higher than that of Mr. Hua, and the gap may become wider in the future.

.why is that?"

Chang Xian pondered and said: "Words are passed down from person to person. Yuan Hanyun is the son of Yuan Shikai, the fourth son of the Republic of China, and the leader of the Green Gang. He is definitely the number one figure in the Republic of China. The price naturally has a lot of bonuses that are not artistic attainments.

"

"Yes, I heard from Master Nan that my junior is quite accomplished in calligraphy. You should know that there are two kinds of great masters in the history of calligraphy. One type is passed down by words, such as Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Su Dongpo, etc.; and the other type is passed down by words, such as Mi Fu.

, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Duo, etc., those who pass down words from person to person are close to the Tao, and those who pass down words from person to person are better at skills, and their style is superior to others."

Mou Duanming gave an example to the sages: "Yuan Hanyun was an artist when he was studying in the study. Once he placed orders in Rongbaozhai, he was a worker serving goods."

"The most difficult threshold in this business is how to cross the threshold of art, the threshold of family and country feelings, and become a businessman who deals in art. To put it bluntly, he is an antique dealer. Antiques are not important, but the important thing is the dealer."

His words became more and more straightforward: "The most important thing for a businessman is to carefully observe the market and know the price. Last year, it was popular to play with stamps in the market, so we went to look for monkey stamps, one piece of red, blue army stamp, and black inscription; this year, it was popular to play with walnuts in the market.

Let’s go tinker with the lion’s head; tourmaline will be popular in the market next year, so we’ll buy tickets to go to Liangshan and Baoshan right away.”

"Calligraphy and painting are a major category of collection. We have a master Fan in Jinmen. I don't know how to describe his artistic attainments, but his things are expensive. So we went to his door and waited in the wastebasket to shamelessly accept Bai Jiao's calligraphy and painting.

It is a masterpiece in Shanghai that has been given thumbs up for hundreds of years. The price is seriously underestimated. Even if the quality is a mountain higher than that of Master Fan, then we must be careful when buying it."

"I am now in charge of Tang Bohu, not because Tang Bohu is so famous. A few years ago, his items only cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now it has become more popular. Last year, a small fan in Hanhai sold for 280,000 yuan. It was very popular.

I guess I’ll have to spend a million dollars right now.”

"Our positioning must be clear. We are doing this business, making a living, and this is what we eat. We are not from a cultural and historical center or a museum. Their research is academic and career, and our research is a means to make money.

means."

He often doesn't talk much when he is free, holding a teacup in his hand and thinking deeply.
Chapter completed!