005. The ghost hand of the years, the sea turns to the mulberry field
Professor Zhou Xiaoxian is 58 years old this year. He is currently working in the Cultural Heritage Protection Office of the Palace Museum in Beijing. He is also the executive director and doctoral supervisor of the Cultural Relics Restoration Committee of the China Cultural Relics Association. He is famous in the cultural relics collection industry, nicknamed "Ghost Hand". His level of restoration of various cultural relics, especially ancient porcelain, is simply ingenious. He has been engaged in cultural relics protection and restoration work for many years, and has been repaired by his hands.
As the top expert in cultural relics protection and restoration, and of course, the most authoritative expert in cultural relics identification, today's program can invite Zhou Xiaoxian to the scene! Although Zhou Xiaoxian's focus of academic research is the restoration of ceramics and colored sculptures, for cultural relics like him, the identification of various cultural relics is also based on the analogy. The identification directions of the two experts next to Zhou Xiaoxian also have their own emphasis. One of them is proficient in the verification of calligraphy and paintings, and the other is very good at appreciating jade and bronze ware.
When Li Wan handed over the painting, the calligraphy and painting expert on Zhou Xiaoxian's left frowned. The reason was very simple. The scroll and the mounting scroll were too new, just like I just bought it from a craft store! Many viewers in the audience also had the same questions, but considering that it might have been just framed, it would have to be opened before identification.
In such an occasion, the possibility of authentic works of the Tang Dynasty was too small, it was like a joke. No one thought that this painting would be real, even the copy from later generations had exceeded the expectations of the program team.
Zhou Xiaoxian took the scroll with a confident smile, but his expression was slightly stunned, and his movements were frozen there for a few seconds! It is difficult for ordinary people to understand how he felt at this moment. Zhou Xiaoxian has repaired many cultural relics in his life. Such work requires serious and focused attention and wholehearted dedication that ordinary people cannot imagine. After middle age, he gradually felt a feeling, as if the fragments of the cultural relics had their own lives, and he could even strangely feel them breathing in the sleep.
It may sound very fantastic, but it is not fiction. Every cultural relic reproduces its original appearance in his hands, just like waking up from a sleep and telling it. The objects themselves have the breath of time, and they can truly feel it when they are immersed in their minds. Zhou Xiaoxian is best at restoring porcelain. Even if two very similar pieces of ancient porcelain are mixed together, he can easily separate them with his hands, so he is called "ghost hand".
However, Zhou Xiaoxian himself did not like this nickname and believed that his atmosphere was too strong. He was an academic expert and a scholar who worked in cultural heritage protection all his life, and did not collect Taobao. At this moment, when he took the scroll from Li Wan, he had an inexplicable strange feeling.
Although the scroll was not opened, it was connected to the hand but had a deep breath of vicissitudes of time. Zhou Xiaoxian was puzzled. This feeling could not be fake, nor could it be achieved by any means of old work. However, this scroll did not have any traces of old work! Could it be really the original work of the Tang Dynasty? He came to his senses and couldn't wait to unfold the scroll...
The camera's lens was aimed at Zhou Xiaoxian's expression, and another camera position was aimed at the painting unfolded in his hand. According to the director's arrangement, the program was arranged here and the advertisement was to be inserted, and the appraisal results were announced. However, the recording site was not interrupted. There was a large screen on the central background wall of the scene, and the scene was played with the scene where Zhou Xiaoxian opened the scroll. Everyone in the audience could see it clearly.
When the scroll was unfolded, there seemed to be a layer of water-like ripples on its surface, as if something was dissipating invisibly. Everyone else was not very real. Only Zhou Xiaoxian, who was holding the scroll, felt it inexplicably. The next moment, his expression suddenly became extremely strange.
All the sounds at the scene disappeared, everyone was stunned and forgot to speak, staring at the big screen with their eyes fixed on the strange silence for only a few seconds, followed by a burst of laughter, and many people even burst into tears!
When Zhou Xiaoxian unfolded the scroll, the treasure-holder Li Wan was so nervous that his throat was dry. Reason and common sense told him that it was almost impossible to buy an authentic Tang Dynasty painting at a used book stall for 8,000 yuan, but no one could say that there was no chance of luck. Put yourself in the shoes of the people, and most people would have such a reaction, and Li Wan was already calm.
Li Wan didn't look at the scroll. He had seen the painting many times, and he couldn't see any tricks after looking at it. He just stared at Zhou Xiaoxian's expression intently, as if he wanted to see something from the expression of this expert. Zhou Xiaoxian's expression after opening the scroll was very strange. The recording site of the program was silent for a moment, and then a burst of laughter broke out.
The laughter confused Li Wan, but Zhou Xiaoxian said nothing. Li Wan asked at a loss: "What's wrong? What's wrong with this painting? What's laughing at?"
Zhou Xiaoxian frowned and did not answer. The calligraphy and painting expert next to him said while laughing: "Does there be a Beijing-Shanghai Railway Viaduct in your Tang Dynasty?"
The expert's words were played out by Mike, and there was another burst of laughter on the scene. Many people in the audience were laughing so hard that they rubbed their stomachs. Only then did Li Wan feel something was wrong. He suddenly looked up and saw the big screen. Then he looked down to see the unfolded scroll in Zhou Xiaoxian's hand, and stood there on the spot in an instant.
The painting depicts the scenery of Shantang Street in Suzhou, which is quite in the style of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" or "The Funny Picture of Suzhou", but no matter who it is, you can see at a glance that it is definitely not an ancient painting and does not require any professional appraisal. Because in the center of the scroll, the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and the Suzhou North Ring Elevator pass through Shantang River, which can be seen clearly!
Not only that, this picture of Shantang Street is like a scene taken by aerial photos from a certain angle, which is completely a contemporary landscape. Even the road outside the pedestrian street, the telephone poles next to the road, and the cars running on the road can be clearly identified. Such a painting amused all the audiences at the recording site, and laughter is coming one after another.
Although the experts have not given the identification results yet, does it still need identification?
Amid the laughter, a loud roar suddenly came out, and Li Wan looked red and snatched the painting in Zhou Xiaoxian's hand, shouting: "No, what I brought was not this painting, it must have been transferred! Where is my painting?"
Li Wan brought this painting. If that were the case, he would not have come to the final program recording site to hand the scroll to Zhou Xiaoxian. A special special program like this is also a folk solicitation event. There are many folk treasure holders coming after hearing the news. Those who can finally be on the program recording site must of course be screened by the program team.
The screening and identification of the program team is not an authoritative appraisal, it just shuts down one thing, chooses the most news-effective thing, and also eliminates those obviously unreliable "collections". For example, you can't just take an iPad to the stage to find Zhou Xiaoxian for appraisal?
If Li Wan had taken such a painting at the beginning, it would be impossible for him to come here through the screening of the program team. Before he went on stage today, he had just handed the painting to the staff to check it out, so he rolled up the painting scroll and walked to the front desk with his own hands. During this process, the painting scroll never left his sight and the on-site staff!
But when the painting was opened by Zhou Xiaoxian again, the painting traces changed, from the landscape of the Tang Dynasty to the scene of Shantang Street in Suzhou today. Li Wan was completely dizzy. His first reaction was that the painting was transferred by the on-site staff, so he couldn't help but get angry amid the laughter of the audience. No matter who encounters such a thing, he will get angry. Li Wan is still considered to be of good psychological quality. If someone else is distracted, he might fall head-on and be unconscious.
The program played by the TV station was edited and only until the calligraphy and painting expert asked, laughing in the spot. Later, Li Wan's scene was cut off. How did Li Wan negotiate with the program team and how did the staff deal with it? A week later, the audience in front of the TV did not know the inside story, and everyone was just amused and laughed.
For the program recording site, this is an accident, but this accident has a very entertaining effect and eye-catching news effect. In previous similar programs, the director would also appropriately arrange some similar episodes to promote the entertainment atmosphere on the scene and the broadcast effect of the program. But this time it was definitely not arranged on purpose, and no one expected it! After the accident was edited, the effect was indeed very good, so it was still retained during the broadcast.
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After eating a century-old, affordable noodles and soup buns, he watched a laughable TV show. Cheng Tianle was satisfied. The uncomfortable feeling before the meal had long passed, and he even forgot about the bizarre experience in front of the cat statue. After dinner, he returned to the "company dormitory", Cheng Tianle was embarrassed to ask Yu Fei to continue to help him with his backpack and took the initiative to take the initiative to bring the bag. Yu Fei was about to give him the bag, but Liu Shujun glared quietly, and had to carry the bag again and resolutely act as a hospitality.
Cheng Tianle's luggage was so heavy. Yu Fei, who had finally had a breath, really didn't want to continue carrying it for him. He said that the "company dormitory" was nearby, but in fact he had to go quite far. The pyramid scheme organization "receives new friends", and the introducer had to help new friends get their luggage. This is the discipline of the gang. On the one hand, it is to let new friends feel the "care and warmth of the big family", and on the other hand, it is to prevent new friends from finding something wrong and making excuses halfway.
Seeing Cheng Tian laughing foolishly, he would definitely not run away halfway. But discipline is discipline. Even a fraudulent pyramid scheme organization has its own regulations to abide by. Under the supervision of Liu Shujun, Yu Fei had to backpack.
It was dusk, and street lights were lit on both sides of Shiban Lane. Walking back along Shantang Street, crossing the railway bridge and coming to the tourist pedestrian street that has been commercially developed. There were still many people on the street, and the shops next to them also had doors open. Liu Shujun said: "Turn right in front, we are on the other side of the bridge."
Cheng Tianle didn't want to go back yet. After eating and drinking, he was no longer tired. Anyway, someone insisted on carrying his luggage and there was a beautiful woman holding his arms. He wanted to stroll on Shantang Street in the night for a while, and the bedtime was still very early! Yu Fei said again: "Actually, we don't have to always stroll on Shantang Street. The scenery on the alleys on the other side of the river is also very good. Go back early and you have to walk a while."
At a small bridge, just about to turn across the river, Cheng Tianle suddenly stopped and pointed to a shop next to his finger and said, "Hey, that painting looks so familiar, let's go in and take a look!"
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ps: A story related to the ghost hand Zhou Xiaoxian. If any book friends are interested, please read another novel I published at Qidian, "The Earth Master" (completed version), with a portal connection—
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Chapter completed!