Spring is all year round, and flowers bloom forever. ""smooth sailing, good year after year, everything goes well. "As a special form of couplets, Spring Festival couplets bear the traditional customs of China for thousands of years, and also become a culture for literati to convey good wishes. In the collection market, couplets are sought after because of their elegant style, and they are strong in the "off-season" market of the art market. However, the couplet price in Lingnan market is still seriously underestimated. Experts suggest that collectors pay more attention to the works of scholars in various fields in modern Lingnan and collect couplets with learning and potential.
Everyone has the memory of posting Spring Festival couplets at home during the Spring Festival, and many scholars attach great importance to Spring Festival couplets. Every time before the Spring Festival, they will write down their New Year's wishes. Calligraphy and painting experts recalled his teacher, Mr. Xie, who wrote his own Spring Festival couplets every Spring Festival and gave them to students and younger generations to show his concern and blessing.
The Spring Festival every year is also a great event in Guangzhou. At that time, there were activities in cultural parks, Guangzhou Museum of Literature and History, Martyrs Cemetery and other places, as well as celebrities who were rarely seen by ordinary people. "I remember seeing famous artists such as Mr. Wang and Mr. Shang, waving to them. As soon as they appeared, everyone was the most enthusiastic. "
Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets, the main content of which is holiday blessings related to the Spring Festival and spring. Most couplets also have auspicious meanings, and some are used to inspire, cherish the scenery and express emotions. In the auction market, some festive couplets will also be regarded as Spring Festival couplets, but there are few special couplets and special topics.
Mr. Yan studied calligraphy since he was a child and especially loved couplets. Therefore, he specialized in collecting couplets for more than ten or twenty years, and some of the collections appeared in the auction market in the form of special topics. He is very particular about the content of couplets, and his requirements should not be vulgar, but he should be "well-intentioned" and not directly express his thoughts, but should have poetry and philosophy that can be deeply explored: "For example,' the wind is clear and the air is positive, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful and wild' is too straightforward and implicit, and it is not worth pondering and pondering."
Chen Junming believes that apart from content, the collection of couplets should also pay attention to form. For example, the value of special couplets on the market is relatively higher than ordinary couplets. For example, the small narrow "study couplet" is very elegant and the price is higher than that of the big couplet.
He recommended collectors to pay attention to couplets such as big couplets, long couplets, four-line border couplets and Zhu Sizhu couplets. In addition, in the past, seal script and cursive script on the market were more expensive than other fonts, but now the market is not generalized. He thinks that calligraphers should choose the fonts that they are best at. However, the market does not fully reflect this law. For example, Wu Changshuo's Shi Guwen is the best, and his running script achievement is slightly lower, but the price of his running script couplets is higher than that of Shi Guwen's.
Chen Junming believes: "Lingnan calligraphy is seriously underestimated, which has a lot to do with the understanding of local collectors." For example, there are many first-class scholars and calligraphers in modern Guangdong, and their works are cheap and nobody cares. For example, no one is willing to sell the couplets of tens of thousands of yuan by Chen Li, a great scholar, while the couplets of tens of thousands of yuan by Li Wentian, a famous scholar, can still be sold, which is simply "snickering", while Deng Erya's couplets used to be able to sell hundreds of thousands of yuan, but now they have fallen back to 6.5438+10,000 yuan to 6.5438+02 million yuan, not to mention Jian Jinglun and Liang Dingfen.
Throughout the country, the calligraphy prices of literati are rising. For example, Shen, a good student, has a rising price. At present, the price of a pair of couplets can reach 500,000 ~ 600,000 yuan, Xie Wuliang's works can reach at least several hundred thousand yuan, Master Hongyi's couplets can reach more than 2 million yuan, and Ma Yifu's couplets have climbed from tens of thousands to more than 800,000 yuan.
"Even for Jinshi in Guangdong, the price of couplets is extremely low." Chen Junming found that the price of Jinshi couplets from other places was at least 10,000 yuan, while the lowest in Guangdong was only several thousand yuan. "I sold a 7-meter-long Chaozhou magistrate scroll, and nobody cared. In other places, I can sell at least a few hundred thousand yuan. "
In Mr. Yan's view, the reason is either that Guangdong buyers pay more attention to foreign famous artists and national famous artists, ignoring that local "home flowers" are also very fragrant, or that they don't really understand the art of calligraphy, but just blindly follow the trend to chase some grandstanding calligraphy or official books.
Chen Junming thinks that although there are many excellent couplets by Huang He and Qi Baishi, which are valuable for collection, collectors might as well read more books and consult more learned people to dig and collect more potential famous works that most ordinary collectors don't know.