Who is the author of "The Lady with Flowers"?

The Hairpin Phoenix is a silk scroll painting, which is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. The picture depicts the images of five aristocratic women wearing high buns, gorgeous flowers and naked gauze clothes. For a long time, The Picture of Zanhua Ladies has been regarded as the brush of Zhou Fang in the Tang Dynasty. Zhou Fang was a famous painter after Wu Daozi in the late Tang Dynasty. Born in a famous family, I have done a long history of Xuanzhou, and I am good at painting ladies. The characters painted are simple in clothes, plump in figure and soft in color. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a group of experts and scholars, such as Shen Congwen, came to a negative conclusion after in-depth study of China's art history and ancient Chinese costumes. They made textual research from the perspectives of costumes, ornaments, hairstyles and the artistic style of the whole painting, and put forward their own different views.

One view is that, judging from the decoration of the characters in the paintings, the existing works were copied by people after the Tang Dynasty.

One view is that the style of long-sleeved mopping clothes appeared in the late Tang Dynasty. Accordingly, the picture may be a work of the late Tang Dynasty.

There is also a view that from the artistic style, description content, artistic conception and breath of painting, it is undoubtedly a work of Southern Tang Dynasty. Lu You's record in the Book of Southern Tang Dynasty that Li Yu, the ruler of Southern Tang Dynasty, "created a makeup with a high bun and beautiful head, which is effective for everyone" is strong evidence.

The above views are consistent on one point, that is, the costumes and dressing of the characters in the painting do not belong to the middle Tang Dynasty, so The Flower Lady can't be Zhou Fang's work. So, who should the author be? All theorists have not explained it. Therefore, there are still many scholars who believe in the traditional view.

Where did the "Map of Jinshan Scenic Area" fall?

At the beginning of this century, Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty died one after another, and they were promoted as Empress Yulong, hoping to win over revolutionaries to solve the crisis of the Qing Dynasty. One day, accompanied by Prince Su, Wang Jingwei, who occupies an important position, was summoned to the harem. The Queen Mother Yulong personally presented a picture of Tang Bohu's "Scenery of Jinshan" to Wang Jingwei. Wang couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. He knows very well that this "Map of Jinshan Scenic Area" is priceless, and it was bought in Suzhou City when Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Jingwei, overjoyed, was at a loss when he got the painting. Or his wife Chen Bijun, this cunning and greedy woman is quite calculating. She hid the original Tang Bohu in the secret room of a temple on the outskirts of Tianjin. Although Chen Bijun felt that this matter had not been noticed, she still felt uneasy and uneasy. The time has come to 1940, and the international and domestic situation is getting tighter. For fear of deviation, Chen Bijun decided to transfer the painting again. 1940 65438+1On the morning of October 26th, a yacht in Bohai Bay was suddenly attacked by a group of pirates. These disguised pirates were sent by the Japanese secret service for the treasure paintings in Chen Bijun's hands. But when they searched the whole ship, there was no treasure painting and no trace of Chen Bijun. It turned out that Chen Bijun suddenly changed his mind and sneaked back to Nanjing from Tanggu by freighter. In shock, Chen Bijun moved the treasure painting to Zhou Fohai's basement. He thinks the reinforced concrete basement is the best place to hide paintings. Suddenly one day, Zhou Fohai's apartment was filled with smoke and flames. Suddenly, luxury apartments and underground secret rooms were in ruins. It turned out that this was also done by Japanese spies on purpose. They stole the "Map of Jinshan Scenic Area" from the basement and set the building on fire. A few days later, the painting has arrived in Tokyo. When foreign thieves competed to appreciate the painting, a Japanese expert asserted that it was not genuine. When' tis once spoken, the head of the Secret Service regretted jumping into the sea and committed suicide.