Qi Baishi is a very talented person whose paintings are comparable to the price of gold, and on December 17, 2017, his work "Twelve Screens of Landscape and Water" sold for 931.5 million yuan, becoming the world's most expensive Chinese artwork. However, in his life, the most loved is women and money, and some people say that he is a person of style, a lifetime of flow, and a winner in life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > first marriage: married to a 22-year-old child bride at the age of 19</h1>
When Qi Baishi was 12 years old, his parents adopted a 15-year-old adoptive daughter-in-law, Chen Chunjun, and the two became relatives when he was 19 years old. Qi Baishi and Chen Chunjun can be regarded as green plum bamboo horses growing up together, and their life after marriage can also be regarded as a case of eyebrows.
After marriage, Chen Chunjun fed pigs and chickens, took care of housework, and worked very hard to manage the whole family. For a long time, the couple lived the lives of Qinser and Ming, and after getting married, they also had 5 children.
Qi Baishi was forced to make a living, and at the age of 14, he followed the master to learn carpentry, doing some rough work such as building a house and playing furniture, but because his body was too weak to carry the beams, the master did not want him for a long time, the reason was that his body was too weak to carry the beams.
Qi Baishi, who did not expect to do a good job of furniture, but because the paintings painted on the furniture were very beautiful, every household invited him to paint on the furniture of their own home. So someone suggested to him that he should simply paint, and his wife Chen Chunjun also fully supported Qi Baishi's change of career, and as a result, he painted for a lifetime.
In 1919, Qi Baishi wanted to take Chen Chunjun to Beijing with him because of the poor security in his hometown and the needs of his career development. But his wife Chen Chunjun said that she wanted to live here for the rest of her life and did not want to go out and run, and even said that she wanted to guard the family for Qi Baishi.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second marriage: 57 years old took 18-year-old Hu Baozhu as a concubine, and 92 years old still wanted to continue the string</h1>
Chen Chunjun was afraid that Qi Baishi was alone in Beijing and that there was no one to take care of his daily life, so he found a concubine Hu Baozhu who was only 18 years old for Qi Baishi. A year after Chen Chunjun's death, Qi Baishi straightened out his concubine Hu Baozhu. And Baozhu successively gave birth to 7 children for Qi Baishi.
Especially at the age of 78, Baozhu was pregnant again, and Qi Baishi thought that it was the last child who deliberately named Liangmu. But I didn't expect that at the age of 83, Baozhu became pregnant again, and baozhu died of dystocia when she gave birth to her 8th child.
A few years later, Qi Baishi felt that his life needed to be taken care of, so he looked for a nurse named Xia Wenzhu, but Qi Baishi's children felt that he was old and did not agree to the two of them being together, so the two did not marry. However, Xia Wenzhu did not leave Qi Baishi, but guarded Qi Baishi's side in the name of caretaker.
When Qi Baishi was 93 years old, his family introduced him to a 44-year-old woman, and Qi Baishi shook his head and said: 44, too old! Later, he found a 22-year-old girl, Qi Baishi liked it very much, and planned to get married and have a happy event. Unfortunately, before the day of the marriage, the old man Qi Baishi died.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Qi Baishi's life: he not only loved his young wife, but also loved money</h1>
In this life, Qi Baishi not only likes women, but also likes money. When selling paintings, he will be more generous. Hanging on the living room wall of the home is all runge pen sheets: "four feet 12 yuan, five feet 18 yuan, six feet 24 yuan, eight feet 30 yuan, album folding fan 6 yuan per piece"; "the inscription of the model plus 10 yuan"; "flowers plus insects and birds, each plus 10 yuan, vine and bees, each plus 20 yuan".
Moreover, Qi Baishi sells paintings with the rule of "three noes": no credit, no counter-offer, and no substituting things for money. And he also asked for money on one hand and delivery on the other.
In terms of raising the price of works, Qi Baishi also has a set. Before the guest buys the painting, Qi Baishi will also make a rendering: the guest wants to buy grass worms, Qi Baishi is difficult, saying that he is old, his eyes are not good, and the grass worms do not paint. It was not until the guests repeatedly asked for a high price that Qi Baishi pushed that the lady still had one, and finally sold it at a high price.
Qi Baishi's ability to make money is very strong, but he is very frugal. The rice and oil in the house, he had to lock up. Every time before cooking, he came to unlock and take out the rice. Sometimes he was painting, and his family picked vegetable leaves and threw them a little too much, and he would say with an unhappy face: "These can still be eaten, how can they be thrown away..."
Moreover, the money that Qi Baishi sold his works, after saving to a certain extent, was stored in the bank to generate interest. As a result, inflation was fierce at that time, and Qi Baishi exchanged his life savings for 60 gold bars, put them in a pocket, and slept with these gold bars every night.
Qi Baishi's life is really free and wanton, how many people are envious.
