Because he was disappointed with Wenxuan's previous behavior, Dong Dechang did not bring him along, but let him have a long experience in the antique market.
Huang Yongsan was wearing a white satin Tai Chi suit. His eyes were bright and his spirit was no worse than that of Dong Dechang, who was in his sixties. What surprised Yu Fei even more was that Huang Yongsan's hands were not as rough as he had imagined due to years of carving.
, on the contrary, his hands are white and soft, and you feel dexterous just by looking at them.
Seeing Dong Dechang come in, Huang Yongsan smiled and said: Xiao Dong, what treasure have you found again?
Dong Dechang smiled and said: Mr. Huang, the baby this time is not mine, but the child Fei's.
Speaking of which, Dong Dechang's seniority in the antiques trade is not too low, but Huang Yongsan's seniority is too high, and he has many disciples, some of whom are influential figures in the jade trade. It is not an exaggeration to say that Huang Yongsan is the leader in the jade trade.
.This is far beyond the reach of Dong Dechang.
Yu Fei called out respectfully: Mr. Huang.
Huang Yongsan nodded as a response, and then asked: Tell me, what is going on?
Originally, in his opinion, Yu Fei was too young and should be Dong Dechang's nephew. But listening to Dong Dechang's words did not seem to be the case.
Mr. Huang, please take a look at this first. Dong Dechang opened the box, took out the Jade Guanyin and handed it to Huang Yongsan.
Why are you trying to get along with me, the old man? Huang Yongsan took the jade Guanyin and looked at it briefly, then said: "Looking at the rough and powerful sword technique, it should be the work of Wu Gong. Although it was deliberately disguised as clumsy, the skill in it was still revealed inadvertently."
Come out.
The Wu mentioned by Huang Yongsan is Suzhou. Suzhou's jade craftsmanship is rough and powerful, but the carving is very fine. It was ranked first in the country during the Ming Dynasty. Song Yingxing Tiangong Kaiwu believed that although good craftsmen gathered in the capital,
The skill of craftsmanship is favored in Su County. By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a group of jade carving masters appeared, such as Lu Zigang, Liu Geng, He Si, Li Wenfu, Wang Xiaoxi, etc., who were all experts in carving small pieces. The painting of Tongyin Ladies handed down from the Qianlong period was also made by Suzhou craftsmen.
The work. The bottom is inscribed with an inscription from the Emperor Qianlong: Khotan tribute jade, which is used to make a bowl. Wu Gong used the remaining materials to cut it into this picture. There is nothing discarded and the jade is intact. The emperor knows it. Unfortunately,
During the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty, the sales of jade in Suzhou were decreasing day by day and gradually declined.
Are you saying that the clumsy gift of the Ziyu Guanyin was indeed intentional? Dong Dechang asked in surprise. Dong Dechang also had such a conjecture before, but he was not sure.
What do you think? Huang Yongsan asked angrily: It is difficult for people to seek skill, but for skilled craftsmen, it is not easy to seek clumsiness.
Huang Yongsan led Dong Dechang and Yu Fei into the studio. Although it is called a studio, it is far from elegant and exquisite. The tables, chairs and benches are all made of rosewood. Although they are not antiques, nor are they the most precious small-leaf rosewood,
But the price is also high.
There was a red sandalwood table placed in the middle of the house, with nothing else on it except a spotlight and various tools.
Huang Yongsan sat down at the table, turned on the light, looked at the Jade Guanyin carefully and said: This lotus leaf is a bit weird.
Dong Dechang and Yu Fei admired this vision. Yu Fei never saw any problem from the beginning to the end, while Dong Dechang discovered the difference by chance, but Huang Yongsan did not use any tools and just looked at it.
After one try, I discovered something strange about the lotus leaves.
After taking out a magnifying glass and looking at it carefully, Huang Yongsan already understood in his heart. With his experience, he was still unconsciously moved. The skill of the author of this statue of Jade Guanyin was probably not inferior to his. He tried so hard to hide it.
What kind of shocking work will it be?
After confirming with Yu Fei that they were going to take out the Zhilian boy, Huang Yongsan drove them both out. The Yangzhou jade carving was a secret that was not told, and even to two laymen, Huang Yongsan was unwilling to reveal it.
It took two full hours before the studio door reopened.
When Dong Dechang and Yu Fei entered, they found Huang Yongsan still sitting at the table, with a hint of fatigue on his face, but the look in his eyes was brighter.
Seeing the two people coming in, Huang Yongsan let out a sigh of relief, stood up and bowed deeply to them. This shocked Dong Dechang.
Mr. Huang, aren't you ruining our lifespan by doing this? Dong Dechang said.
However, Huang Yongsan sighed: If the two of them had not brought the works of their predecessors today, I am afraid that even today, Huang would not know it even though he is a frog in the well.
Huang and Dong chatted leisurely, which made Yu Fei anxious. He was worried about what happened to the lotus-holding boy in Jade Guanyin's hands, but the two people refused to say that it was still Yu Fei.
He has a calmer temper, but if it were Wenxuan, he would have started shouting already.
With great difficulty, Huang Yongsan turned to the topic and handed the round sculpture of a boy holding a lotus to Dong Dechang.
With the help of the spotlight, Dong Dechang saw that the boy holding the lotus was less than the size of his little finger. The jade was smooth and oily and had a soft luster. It was the finest Hetian jade. The boy held the lotus in one hand, with the lotus stem wrapped around his shoulders. The image was vivid, elegant and innocent.
.The sword technique is exquisite and delicate, showing every detail. It is simply a work of art. Dong Dechang's eyes were straightened when he saw it. The value of this lotus-holding boy is probably more than that of the flying jade cicada.
Seeing Dong Dechang's endless admiration, Huang Yongsan reminded again: Look carefully behind the boy's right ear.
Upon hearing this, Dong Dechang took a closer look at the boy's right ear and found a few jade carvings, but nothing else.
Huang Yongsan handed him a magnifying glass. Dong Dechang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the magnifying glass, and looked closely at it for a long time. I read it right. How is this possible? How is this possible?
Seeing the mature and prudent Dong Dechang lose his composure, Yu Fei asked in surprise: Uncle Dong, what happened? Yu Fei had always called Mr. Dong Dechang before, but Huang Yongsan was older than Dong, so the title of this old man was inappropriate. Yu Fei
Feicai changed his name to Uncle Dong.
Zigang Dong Dechang looked at Huang Yongsan in disbelief and asked.
That should be correct. Huang Yongsan nodded solemnly.
Oh my god, what did I see? It was really the Zigang model! Dong Dechang's hands were shaking with excitement. This made Yu Fei worry that he would accidentally drop the Zhilian boy to the ground.
Lu Zigang was a master of jade carving in Suzhou during the Ming Dynasty. He is known as the first person to create jade in China. His works are extremely rigorous. In terms of material selection, the color of the jade is not beautiful, the quality of the jade is not good, and the nature of the jade is not good. The carving process is more complicated.
It is rigorous, careful consideration, and striving for truth. For example, the difference between the new moon and the waning moon is not obvious in the works of many painters. However, whenever Lu Zigang engraves a new moon, it will go up and to the right; when he engraves a dawn moon, it will go down.
And to the left, he has reached an impeccable state. At the same time, he reformed the traditional sand grinding method into the knife carving method. Holding a Kunwu knife, he carved out a narcissus hairpin with thick flowers and leaves, and stems and branches as thin as a hair and continuous, trembling.
The majestic ground shows the delicate beauty of flowers, which is praised by the world.
According to legend, Emperor Mu Zong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaihe, heard about Lu Zigang's superb skills and deliberately gave him a difficult problem, asking him to carve a picture of a hundred horses on a small jade ring finger. In a small place, ten horses are still crowded, let alone a hundred horses.
In the end, Lu Zigang used only three horses to create a majestic scene of hundreds of horses entering the city and a majestic scene of thousands of galloping horses: under the distant view of the mountains, one horse has galloped into the city, another is galloping towards the gate, and the last one,
The horse's head has just been exposed in the valley. This single stroke gives people a strong shock that there are countless horses hiding in the mountains, ready to emerge.
But it is a pity that Lu Zigang has no descendants, and his unique skills were lost with his death, leaving his descendants to sigh with admiration. Huang Yongsan’s status in the jade carving world of Yangcheng today is unrivaled, but when he saw Lu Zigang’s sword skills