The excellent guqin has gone through the changes of the times, and it has extremely important value from the perspective of historical relics and musical instruments.
The spring auction "Clouds and Smoke on the Case - Furniture and Handicrafts" selected eight Guqins of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which can be said to be inherited in an orderly manner, with a history of each piano, presenting rich historical and cultural information.
Lot 1882
Late Qing Dynasty Zhang Jingqian Zhongni style guqin
通长：120 cm，肩宽：18.5 cm，尾宽：12.5 cm
Estimate: RMB 180,000-280,000
This qin Zhongni style, paulownia wood panel, maroon lacquer all around, mussel emblem. The back of the piano rectangular dragon pond, phoenix swamp. The right side of the dragon pond is engraved: "Tongzhi Jisi Shanghai Yuqing Palace". The left side of the dragon pond is engraved: "Wild Crane Taoist Zhang Jingqian system", and the following is engraved with vermilion lacquer square seal: "Ask Yun Yehe", and the word is filled with gold.
The Qing people played the piano very popularly, published the piano score more, more than the previous generation, the pianist every collection of the old Yaxing, repair, but also do not forget to cut the heirloom, or bow to the axe, or extend the rope and ink, the piano made a lot. This qin was made by the famous pianist Zhang He of the Pucheng Qin School in the year of Tongzhi (1869).
Zhang He, a native of Ruian, Zhejiang, a native of the Qing Dynasty, has the word Zhitian and the number Jingqian. Abbot of Yuqing Palace of Shanghai City God Temple. Good at drums and pianos, and painting plums. He studied at Zhu Tongjun, the founder of the Pucheng Qin School. Based on the theory of Qin Science in Zhu Tongjun's "and Gu Zhai Qin Score", he compiled Zhu's biography score into "Introduction to Qin Learning" in the form of a comparison score of minus characters and gong ruler scores, which was first published in 1864, the third year of Tongzhi, and was reprinted twice later, becoming an important introductory qin book.
Lot 1883
Qing Lianzhu guqin
通长：122.2 cm，肩宽：16 cm，尾宽：13 cm
Estimate: RMB 400,000-600,000
This piano is beaded, paulownia wood, the material is ancient, and the wood color is golden. Antler frost gray tire, black lacquer all over the body, luodian emblem, red sandalwood mountain, Jiaowei are carved with back lines. There are many abrasion marks under the strings of the piano surface, which is often manipulated by the old master. Broken lines of the snake's belly can be seen on the back of the instrument. The round dragon pond, phoenix marsh, and pond marsh are all made of hardwood lattice. The shape of this piano is beautiful and even, the production is fine, and the law is strict. The sound quality of the soothing sound is clean and moist, with a clear overtone and a loose sound.
In the early years, this qin was chosen by Mr. Gao Zhongjun (1921-2003), a famous guqin artist in Tianjin, for his friends, and the "Old Dragon Yin" qin in the Tang Dynasty was collected by Mr. Gao Zhongjun.
Lot 1884
Yuan Zhongni style guqin
Source: Collection of Mr. Liang Zaiping.
通长：123 cm，肩宽：18.8 cm，尾宽：12.7 cm
Estimate: RMB 800,000-1,200,000
This qin Zhongni style, paulownia wood chopping, luodian emblem, chestnut shell color paint all over the body, there is vermilion lacquer between them. The gray tire of antler frost is thin and firm, showing fine broken lines of running water and cow hair. The rectangular dragon pond with the phoenix swamp on the back of the piano. Longchi Inner Ink Book: "In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), Xu Yuanbai in eastern Zhejiang was dissected, and the material and broken lines of this piano were undoubtedly the old system of the Song and Yuan dynasties. "The overall contour line is soothing, the posture is beautiful and even, the production is exquisite, and the law is strict. The sound quality is clean and moist, with a clear overtone and a loose sound.
Xu Yuanbai (1893-1957), known as Yuanbo, was a native of Linhai, Zhejiang. In 1912, he took a break from Shi University to learn piano in Tianping Mountain, Suzhou, and then traveled to study in all directions. In 1934, he initiated the establishment of the Qingyu Qin Society in Nanjing with his younger brothers Xu Wenjing, Liu Zhongzan, Wang Zhonggao, Zha Fuxi, Xia Yifeng, Hu Yingtang, etc., and assisted Zha Fuxi and others to establish the Jinyu Qin Society in Suzhou, and printed the "Jinyu" qin magazine. In 1945, he initiated the establishment of the Tianfeng Organ Society in Chongqing with Liang Zaiping and Cheng Wujia and served as its president. During the guqin survey, nine songs such as "High Mountain" were recorded. Adapted the pipa song "Weeping Yan Hui" passed down by his father Xu Yueqiu as the piano song, and created the piano songs "Smoke Wave Sculls", "Sea Water and Sky Wind Exercise" and "Ding Zhan Song". "Guqin Song Collection" (1) includes his scores of "High Mountain", "Mozi Sadness" and "Weeping Yan Hui". There is a collection of "Heavenly Organ Scores". In 2000, Longyin published the laser record "The Legacy of the Zhejiang Guqin", which included the recordings he left during the guqin survey. He can play the pipa and the three strings, and is good at painting orchids. In 1913, he went to Guangzhou to follow Sun Yat-sen, served as any secretary of Yingqin, and later traveled to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and Shu.
Liang Zaiping (1911-1999) was born in Beijing, Gaoyang, Hebei Province. In middle school, he learned the piano in Beiping in Yang Shibai, Guan Pinghu, Zhang Youhe, and Zheng Yingsun, and Shi Yinmei and Wei Ziyou. In 1945, he founded the Tianfeng Organ Society in Chongqing with Yang Tingwu, Yang Shaowu, Xu Yuanbai, Cheng Wujia, etc., and went to Yale University in the United States to study in the autumn of the same year, and often played the zhengs all over the United States. In 1953, he went to Taiwan and founded the Chinese Chinese Music Association and the Qin Yun Zheng Society. In 1938, he published China's first Zheng Score "Imitation Zheng Score", wrote "Introduction to Chinese Music" and "Outline of Chinese Musical Instruments", composed more than 60 Zheng songs such as "Water Lotus Variations", and poured a variety of Zheng music records. During the Republic of China, he studied at Peking Jiaotong University. Mr. Tang Zhongliu wrote in "A Brief Study of Bashu Qin Art": Mr. Liang Zaiping is the heir and disseminator of the traditional music culture of the Chinese nation. He was the first person to play Chinese national music for American television, the first person to record the color audio educational film "Ancient Chinese Music", and the only musician to represent the Chinese nation at the NBC concert at the United Nations Air Concert (1946).
Lot 1886
Ming Liu Yong "idle blowing Dongting" Zhongni-style guqin
通长：117.8 cm，肩宽：19.7 cm，尾宽：13.5 cm
Source:
the old collection of the Beijing Cultural Relics Store;
Sumu old collection.
Publication: Institute of Music, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing Guqin Research Association, edited by Wu Zhao, Treasures of Chinese Guqin, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2018, pp. 218, 219.
Estimate: RMB 3,000,000-5,000,000
This piano Zhongni style, paulownia wood chopping, plain black lacquer, lacquer antique. Set up the luodian emblem, jasper goose feet. The shape of the piano body is beautiful, the curvature of the neck and waist is soothing, the contour lines are relatively tough, and the curvature of the piano surface is reasonable. The antler frost gray tire on the panel is broken by the belly of the snake, and the gray paint on the back of the piano presents a mixture of ice chips and plum blossoms. Rectangular dragon pond, phoenix marsh, the sound in the pond is paulownia wood, the color is brown and yellow, but it is still solid, the body is heavier than the common guqin instrument, its timbre belongs to the category of Jianqing, and the inheritance has the meaning of the ancient.
The back of the piano is engraved with the four characters of "idle blowing Dongting", and there is a poem inscribed by Liu Yong, a great calligrapher during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty: the wind and clouds fall in autumn, and the mountains and rivers are heavy at night. The Faqu has been floating for a long time, and it □□ wonderful heart. Signed by: Liu Yong.
Liu Yong (1719-1804) was known as Chongru, known as Shi'an and Qingyuan. A native of Zhucheng, Shandong. At the end of the Qianlong Xin Dynasty (1751), he was a scholar of Tirenge University. Good at Kai, line all the calligraphy, the beginning of Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang, Su Shi, and involved in the Tang and Song dynasties and the Northern Dynasty inscriptions, after middle age into a family, with the pen plump and thick, hidden needles in the cotton, fall generous, the pen is strong, for the collection of the collection of learning, known as one of the four great calligraphers of the Qing Dynasty (the other three are Prince Cheng, Weng Fanggang, Tiebao). Liu Yong also concurrently works with Wenhan, Botong Baijia classics and history, intensively studies ancient texts, works and is good at writing, and is famous for a while. Liu Yong is fond of collecting books, and his family collection of books is both extensive and extensive, in addition to the four subsets of scriptures and histories, he also collects Buddhism, Taoism, books, tablets, calligraphy and paintings, operas, novels, lyrics, music scores, and plain words, and collects strange stones, inkstones, brushes, guqins, etc. At present, Liu Yong's inscription guqin includes the "Gu Ying" qin in the collection of Zhejiang Museum, and the Zhongni style guqin in the collection of Zhejiang Museum.
Historically, the Liu family of Zhucheng Qingaitang and the Wang family, the Li family, the Ding family, and the Chen family of Weixian were relatives, and the in-laws were densely stacked, and the qin school exchanged with each other among several families. Zhucheng Liu, Wang, Li, Ding Zhu clan, there are Ding Weining, Ding Yaokang, Liu Yong and other good piano people, Weixian also produced Chen Hongfei, Chen Ziyi, Chen Jiesheng, Wang Shijing, Xu Qionglin and other good piano players.
Lot 1887
Yuan "Langyu" beaded guqin
通长：122.2 cm，肩宽：21cm，尾宽：14.5 cm
Source:
the old collection of the Beijing Cultural Relics Store;
Sumu Collection;
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the old collection of Ji was released.
Publication: Institute of Music, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing Guqin Research Association, edited by Wu Zhao, Treasures of Chinese Guqin, Forbidden City Publishing House, 1998, pp. 71-73.
Estimate: RMB 8,000,000-12,000,000
This piano is beaded, the waist is made of three continuous concave arc shapes, paulownia wood, black lacquer, the whole body of the small snake belly is broken and the water is broken. The circular pond, as well as the inscription on the bottom of the piano and the circular seal above the dragon pond, the straight line of the waist of the piano and the square seal under the foot of the goose, take the contrast between the arc curve shape and the straight line and the square, so the shape of the piano body is rich in rhythm and rhythm. The surface of the paulownia wood in the pond is painted, mottled, revealing a brownish-yellow nayin, and its material belongs to the ancient paulownia wood selected in the early stage of cutting, and the nayin is relatively gentle, and its groove belly structure is a type that is conducive to the vibration of the body. There are ink books on both sides of the nayin in the abdomen that are faintly recognizable, the left side is "Taiding five years" (1328), and the right side is "Sword Shayang Rises". The word "Langyu" is engraved on the back. The next engraved picture is printed "lifelong confidant is silk paulownia". The foot of the goose is engraved with a square seal "Feeding Ju Tong Room". Under the dragon pond, the seal book is engraved "the shape of the beads, the sound of the jade." The pearl is in its picture, and the jade is clear. The gentleman is at peace with it" and Lishu "Fan's Shizhu got this piano in Yue City, holding it to see it, and inspiring it. In September of the fourth year of Guangxu, Yuan Jiang chewed the genus of the monks, and the people of Baiyue Mountain". The next engraved "Yan's Yongbao".
This qin was formerly in the collection of Mr. Su Mu, director of the Music Research Institute of the Central Conservatory of Music, and was purchased in the Beijing Cultural Relics Store in the late fifties of the last century, and since then he has often entered and exited the "Beijing Guqin Society" of Mr. Wu Jingluo, Zhang Boju and Mr. Zha Fuxi. In 2008, the famous guqinist Li Fengyun and Mr. Wang Jianxin of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music held a concert at the Zhongshan Park Concert Hall.
The "chewing monk" in the inscription is a very important qin monk Shi Kaiji at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The qin monk is a unique cultural phenomenon in the history of the development of the Chinese guqin. Shi Kaiji (1837-1913), a senior monk of the Pure Land Sect in the late Qing Dynasty, was surnamed Yan, formerly known as Qisun, the word Yingzhong, and the number Chewing Siao. Shi Kaiji has written a lot of books, including "Monk's Bamboo Branches", "Forty-eight Songs of Western Music", and "Commentary on Bliss Songs", all of which have been published in the world. There is also a volume of "Lu Tu Shuo", which once wrote a preface to Shi Kongchen's "Dead Wood Zen Qin Score". He and the qin monk Shi Daxiu had an important impact on the inheritance of qin science in Zhejiang and even in Jiangnan.
Lot 1888
Song Chuyuni style guqin
通长：118.5 cm，肩宽：17 cm，尾宽：10.4 cm
Estimate: RMB 2,000,000-3,000,000
This qin Zhongni style, paulownia wood chopping, at least two layers of lacquer can be seen on the lacquer surface, set up a luodian emblem, and the snake's belly is broken and covered on it. The rectangular dragon pond and phoenix swamp on the back of the piano can be seen that the wood is extremely ancient, the red sandalwood tail, and the sunflower goose foot. The shape of the piano body is standardized, the proportion of the contour lines is beautiful and symmetrical, the arc shape of the items and the waist is soothing, and the lines pay attention to the performance of the curved shape in the toughness. The curvature of the piano surface is full, the finger drop feels quite good, the string is tested, the sound of the loose piano is solid and sinking, the overtone is cold and clear like a bead, and the tone is also full of ancient meaning.
Lot 1889
Southern Song Dynasty "Shiquan" Zhongni style guqin
通长：121.5 cm，肩宽：18 cm，尾宽：9.7 cm
Exhibition: The University of Hong Kong Art and Art Museum, "Guqin Treasures: Yanqin Zhai Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty Guqin Exhibition", Hong Kong, October 14-December 5, 1998.
Publication: Rong Hongzeng, ed., Guqin Huizhen - Yanqin Zhai Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Guqin Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 94, plate 17.
See: Institute of Music, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing Guqin Research Association, ed., Wu Zhao, ed., Treasures of Chinese Guqin, Forbidden City Publishing House, 1998, p. 98.
Estimate: RMB 3,000,000-5,000,000
This piano Zhongni style, the shape is standardized, the waist is free, and the production is elegant. The bottom of the face is pine, the whole body is black paint, and the belly of the snake is cracked with ice. Luodian emblem, Zhen and foot are all jade, Yueshan, Chenglu, crown horn, dragon gum, etc. are all made of rosewood wood. The rectangular dragon pond and phoenix swamp on the back of the piano are inlaid with rosewood around the pond. Under the dragon pond, inlaid with white jade sunflower pieces, it was collected by Zuo Xiong, a Guangdong pianist in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Zhao Xihu of the Southern Song Dynasty "Dongtian Qinglu Collection" "Guqin Identification" describes the production atmosphere at that time: "Guqin is only the same as the master and the son...... And the masters and sons are all hanging down and broad, not as shrugged and narrow as they are now. According to Mr. Zheng Minzhong's research, the new style of the late Southern Song Dynasty was "towering and narrow", and the preserved instrument was typical of the Zhongni style qin of "Haiyue Qinghui" in the Forbidden City, and its shoulders were above the second emblem. Due to the upward lifting of the shoulders, it presents a "shrug" trend, and then brings the "narrowness" of the whole instrument. The shape of this "stone spring" Zhongniqin is similar to it, and it can be compared.
Zuo Xiong, the word Shiyi, Shunde people, good characters, gongguqin. The Guangdong Provincial Museum has the "Dongpo Appreciation Scroll". According to Fan Fengxu, Panyu Kong Ji Xuanlunting's "Shoutang Manuscript": "...... Both long, elegant and ancient, learn the piano from Shi Qi Zuo Xiong, get its fingering major ......" and the Qianjia period of the famous Li Jian (1747-1799) from the very close, Li Shi poems often mention the stone of the place, such as "Mr. Li Jian's Annals" contains his "title Su Qi Zhan godson picture small shadow" (godson picture Hong Kong Chinese University Cultural Relics Collection): "Shi Zuo Xiongrenzi November for the Xiaoquan monk portrayal, Erqiao mountain people to write a picture, Shi Wei for Xiaoquan to write a picture of the godson next year, to visit the picture, is a title poem...... On September 10th, Brother Li Jian". There is also a poem entitled "Qiu Xiao Zuo Shi Xiang Xiang Yu Wei Ji
Lot 1890
Ming bluestone Zhongni style guqin
通长：118 cm，肩宽：18.7 cm，尾宽：13.3 cm
Publication: Xu Jian, ed., The Folk Collection of Chinese Guqin, China Industry and Commerce United Press, 2013, p. 129.
See:
Collection of the Palace Museum, Ming Zhongni style stone qin.
Collection of the Palace Museum, Ming Zhongni style stone qin.
Estimate: RMB 1,200,000-2,200,000
This qin Zhongni style, bluestone face bottom, bronze emblem, Yueshan, dragon gum and so on are all made of stone. Rectangular ponds, green and white jade feet. The back of the piano is engraved with the seal book and the name of the piano is "Linglong Jade". The book in the belly of the groove is engraved with "Jin Taiyuan Wuyin February Qian County Dai Kui made". The original xylophone box has not been found. Among them, there is the ink book "Jin Taiyuan Wuyin February Qian County Dai Kui made", the paper and words are ancient, after the calligrapher Mr. Liu Yanhu viewed that the Ming people wrote it. On the back of the box there is an ink book "Shiqin One, No. 13", and the ink is extremely light. This piano is made in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming people are good ancient Xuanqi, pseudo-trust predecessors made, the stone piano is one of the products.
This kind of guqin belongs to the ornamental qin, which is the most suitable for furnishings in the Imperial Garden, and the materials of different materials are known to be copper, iron, porcelain, stone, etc. This piano is interlocked by the upper and lower pieces, the shape is extremely regular, there are still two beds of guqin made of bluestone in the Forbidden City today, and its processing methods are the same, especially rare green stone is the only one bed.