Chapter 266: Netizens of the Two Countries Fight
Since ancient times, the people of Han had a very narrow mindset towards China.
Cui Junyong was popular because of those ancient painting skills. When people asked him where his painting skills were from, Cui Junyong never said that he had learned them from China.
Instead, he said that this was a painting method created by his ancestors. Then, his ancestors passed away and left these precious legacies to their descendants. In this way, he had the background of a painting family.
And those painting skills that one had never heard or seen in the world of calligraphy and painting in the past had made him famous in Han Country.
Information between China and Han Country was not transmitted smoothly, let alone a painter. The Chinese did not pay much attention to him. What attracted Cui Yongjun’s attention was a conversation he had had with a reporter at the art exhibition.
At that time, a Chinese reporter felt that Cui Yongjun’s painting was somewhat similar to the style of an ancient painting master in China, so he casually asked.
“Your painting style is a little similar to that of a master in China. Have you learned some of his painting skills?”
It was a very normal question, but Cui Yongjun had a guilty conscience. He felt extremely guilty after being asked this question, but he pretended to be very arrogant.
“Tsk, China? These paintings were created by my ancestors. Does China know any of these painting techniques? Me learning from China? Who knows if China is the origin of ink painting? According to me, many of China’s painting techniques were learned from our country.”
This statement was sent back to China by Chinese reporters. After the news media reported it, it immediately caused a huge commotion.
Amongst the four ancient civilizations, China was the country without a stop in their heritage. After five thousand years of glorious Chinese culture, the Chinese had always been proud of it.
Cui Yongjun’s words aroused public anger.
[ F*ck!! Where did this Tom, Dick, or Harry come from? What nonsense are you talking about? Does my magnificent China need to learn things from your barbaric land? ]
[ It’s Country Han’s old profession. After all, what they’re best at is stealing things and blaming others. Urgh. ]
[ I’m so angry. As expected, he’s a purebred Han Guo. Hasn’t this lousy country always used our cultural skills to apply for the non-material cultural heritage of the world??? Is this another scam? ]
[ How dare you brag about the ink painting in Country Han?? Don’t you care about our country’s thousands of years of history?? That tone made me laugh. ]
[ I didn’t watch the video. I knew that it must be something the people of the Han Country did. As expected, I clicked on the comments and guessed right. ]
Many netizens spontaneously climbed over the wall to Han Country’s social media app and found Cui Yongjun’s social media account, leaving messages to demand an apology from him.
The netizens of Han Country had never been on good terms with the Chinese netizens. Half a year ago, netizens of the two countries had a huge fight over the black whistle incident of the judge of Han Country and had quarreled on social networks.
Before the old hatred subsided, new hatred arose.
The Chinese netizens had experience this time and gathered in advance. They were worried that the Country Han netizens could not understand Chinese, so the Chinese netizens even considerately wrote Korean on their emoticons.
There was only one motive for all sorts of denouncements. They wanted Cui Yongjun to apologize for his frivolous words.
On the other hand, the netizens of Han Country felt that there was nothing wrong with what their artist said. Many of the techniques were originally created by Cui Yongjun. Although he was a little arrogant when he said this, his words were crude but his reason was not wrong, so they stood beside Cui Yongjun and spoke for him.
Chapter 267: Netizens of Han Country Fight Back
As the country with the largest population in the world, China could crush anything with its population.
Just like this netizen war, because of the restrictions of the VPN, only a small number of Chinese netizens climbed out of the wall to fight with the netizens of Han Country. However, this small number already had extremely strong combat power.
The netizens of the Han Country could not win against them. Cui Yongjun’s comments section was gradually occupied by the Chinese netizens. They were all asking Cui Yongjun to apologize.
At that moment, some painters who had a good relationship with Cui Yongjun from Han Country stood up.
@ Han Zhiyu: “Chinese netizens, don’t rely on the number of people you have to distort the truth. Cui Yongjun’s painting skills have many ways that your China doesn’t have. Take the three-dimensional ink painting method for example. In your historical records, such a painting method was recorded, but in China’s historical paintings, there has never been such a painting. It was Cui Yongjun who reproduced this painting method. You should apologize to him because of your rude behavior.”
Han Zhiyu’s words were like a flag that instantly united the hearts of the netizens of Han Country. Everyone was excited again.
[ You guys said that Han Country learned from China, then do you have such a painting? ]
[ That’s right, that’s right. You keep saying that we’re learning from you, but you can’t even produce such a painting. How can you have the cheek to climb over the wall and make a fool of yourself? ]
[ Oh, China calls itself a big country in the China Dynasty every day. So the big country in the China Dynasty relies on its long history to snatch everything and pretend its their own? ]
[ Get out of Han Country’s social media. The Chinese netizens must apologize to us! ]
The originally valiant and spirited Chinese netizens were in the wrong now. Everyone withdrew from Country Han’s social media and returned to China to investigate.
For example, the effects of the three-dimensional landscape painting in Cui Yongjun’s painting had been recorded in China’s history. This was a painting technique called “Light Mist”.
Ink painting was particular about painting with ink. The color was very simple. In traditional Chinese painting, most of the colors were black and white.
Because the colors were single, the painters did not pay much attention to the level of the images. Instead, they focused on the meaning.
On the contrary, the Light Error Art drew a single ink-black picture through the skilled painter and the deep changes in the ink. It drew the three-dimensional feeling in modern painting techniques.
This technique had disappeared throughout the long history. After checking the information, the netizens realized that Cui Yongjun really knew such a lost technique.
The ancient books that recorded such painting techniques had been recorded much earlier than the ancestors Cui Yongjun had mentioned. The netizens knew that Cui Yongjun must have learned Chinese art from somewhere and claimed it for his own.
However, no one had evidence and they could not do anything to him.
Seeing the Chinese netizens run away with their tails between their legs, the news media in Han Nation became even more arrogant. They grabbed this matter and publicly proclaimed that Cui Yongjun was a national painter in an ink painting.
Furthermore, Country Han began to do its usual job. They began to prepare all sorts of procedures, wanting to apply for protection for Country Han’s cultural heritage and Cui Yongjun’s various painting skills.
With this application, if anyone mentioned this art in the future, they would associate it with Cui Yongjun and Country Han.
The netizens in the country were furious, but there was nothing they could do. Even in the Painter Association, there was no painter who knew such a lost technique. The world was filled with joy abroad, and the world of painting and calligraphy in the country was shrouded in worry.
Chapter 268: Xia Wanyuan Painted
Just as everyone was disgusted by Cui Yongjun’s matter but could do nothing about it, someone from the Painter Association suddenly suggested that Yuan Wanxia’s painting, which had risen abruptly but was also very mysterious, had many ancient techniques.
Perhaps she would know these lost painting skills?
It was only then that everyone remembered Yuan Wanxia. Speaking of this person, everyone felt that it was strange. His painting value had risen too quickly while he himself had kept a low profile.
Until now, other than his painting and the name Yuan Wanxia, no one knew anything else.
Hence, the president could only look for Professor Zhang and see if he could help contact Yuan Wanxia. Although at their age, they did not care about reputation anymore, it still felt aggrieved to be scolded by the painting and calligraphy world in Country Han.
When Professor Zhang called the manor, Xia Wanyuan was lying on the swing reading a book. After hearing Professor Zhang explain the situation, a hint of anger surged in Xia Wanyuan’s heart.
“Then I’ll leave this to you, Xiao Xia. That Light Error Art has been lost for too long. I wonder where Cui Yongjun learned this technique.” Professor Zhang, who had always been easygoing, gritted his teeth when he spoke of Cui Yongjun.
“It’s nothing. I know how to draw it. Don’t worry, I’ll send it to you tomorrow.” Xia Wanyuan was originally a little surprised that Professor Zhang would suddenly look for her in such a hurry. After hearing what had happened from Professor Zhang, Xia Wanyuan calmed down.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Wanyuan searched for Cui Yongjun’s painting online. When she saw the painting drawn by the so-called Master Han, Xia Wanyuan’s eyes showed a hint of surprise.
Could such a painting be famous??
In her teacher’s eyes in her previous life, this painting would stain the stove even if it was burned.
As for the ‘wrong light’ painting method, Xia Wanyuan felt that it was even more simple. In her previous life, this could only be considered a basic painting technique. She did not know how in the modern world this technique had become so popular.
Since she had agreed to Professor Zhang, Xia Wanyuan immediately went to look for Uncle Wang and asked him to prepare the brush, ink, and paper.
Since she was going to show the paintings in front of the netizens of the two countries, Xia Wanyuan drew even more meticulously this time. It took four hours before she finished painting one. When she looked up again, the sky was already dark.
Jun Shiling strode into the main building. Before he could speak, Uncle Wang pointed the way for him. “Madam is painting in the study.”
When Jun Shiling walked to the study door, he smelled a faint ink fragrance.
Xia Wanyuan looked like she had finished painting. There was a Xuan paper on the table that was covered in ink. Xia Wanyuan sat by the side.
“Why did you think of painting today?” Jun Shiling walked over and took a look, his eyes shining with admiration. “Good painting.”
“I have to do Professor Zhang a small favor.” Xia Wanyuan massaged her temples. She had been focusing on painting for four hours consecutively, and her neck and arms were a little sore.
Jun Shiling took off his suit jacket and walked behind Xia Wanyuan, naturally massaging her shoulders.
“It’s been hard on you.” Jun Shiling’s voice fell into Xia Wanyuan’s ears, causing her to be stunned for a moment.
In her previous life, she had drawn so many paintings. There were teachers who scolded her for her poor painting, friends who praised her for her improvement, and parents and relatives who were proud of her.
However, Jun Shiling was the first person to think that it was hard on her.
Jun Shiling controlled his strength very well. After a while, Xia Wanyuan felt that the soreness on her body had reduced by a lot.
“That’s enough.” Xia Wanyuan stopped Jun Shiling from continuing to massage her. She stood up and pointed at a chair. “Sit here.”
Jun Shiling didn’t know what Xia Wanyuan wanted to do, but he still followed her actions and sat down.
The pressure on his shoulders made Jun Shiling’s heart soften, and the warmth in his eyes almost overflowed.
Xia Wanyuan had just started when Jun Shiling stood up.
“What’s the matter?”
“Alright, I’m not tired. You must be tired after painting for so long. Rest and prepare for dinner.”
“Alright.” Xia Wanyuan nodded. There was a commotion downstairs. Thinking that Xiao Bao was back, Xia Wanyuan got up and went downstairs.
As he watched Xia Wanyuan leave slowly, Jun Shiling’s eyes were filled with gentleness. It was as if a large net, as it wrapped around Xia Wanyuan.
How could she be so good? So good that when I thought about how if I didn’t have her in the future, I would feel that the entire world would lose its brilliance.
At the dining table today, Jun Shiling was helping Xia Wanyuan with the food as usual, but Xiao Bao seemed unusually active.
“Wow, Mommy, Daddy brought you meat. Daddy treats you so well!”
“Wow, Daddy is putting prawns in Mommy’s bowl. Daddy really cares about Mommy!”
“Daddy brought Mommy water! Daddy is so considerate!”
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Xia Wanyuan originally did not think much of it, but she was a little embarrassed by Xiao Bao’s gasps and exclaims.
Jun Shiling glanced at Xiao Bao, who widened his eyes and looked at Jun Shiling expectantly. His eyes were filled with anticipation. ‘Daddy, look at how amazing I am! I’ve been praising you. You must work hard and help me give birth to a sister as soon as possible!’
“Eat properly,” Jun Shiling replied heartlessly.
“Ok.” Xiao Bao, who did not receive any praise, was unhappy.
“Daddy, Mommy wants to lose weight. Why did you put so much meat in her bowl?”
“Daddy, Mommy likes to drink milk. Why did you pour her warm water?”
“Daddy, you…”
As Xiao Bao chewed on his favorite pork ribs, he could also spare some space to pick on Jun Shiling.
Jun Shiling’s grip on the chopsticks tightened, and he had the urge to beat up the smaller version of himself.
Xia Wanyuan was smiling from the side. Jun Shiling glanced at Xia Wanyuan, who was gloating, and picked up another piece of pork with his chopsticks. He then turned to Xiao Bao and said,
“Why should she lose weight? If she doesn’t take good care of herself, how is she going to give birth to a beautiful and cute sister for you?”
Xiao Bao’s eyes suddenly widened. Daddy makes sense!!!
Xiao Bao immediately imitated Jun Shiling and picked up a piece of meat from Xia Wanyuan’s bowl. “Mommy, eat more!!! All the best!!!”
Xia Wanyuan, who had been gloating, became the focus of the conflict. She glanced reproachfully at Jun Shiling, who was sitting in front of her.
There was a flirtatious and delicate look in her eyes that she did not realize at all, causing Jun Shiling’s breathing to stagnate.
After a day, seeing that no one from China came out, the people from Country Han became more confident and spoke even more arrogantly.
“It looks like China doesn’t deserve its name. What civilized ancient country? It has a long history and doesn’t even know a small Light technique. How laughable.”
Chapter 269: Slapping Face
Compared to China, the media in Han Country had a much greater say in the international community. After their media hype, even many people in other countries knew about this.
Cui Yongjun had already submitted his cultural heritage application. It was clearly a Chinese technique, but now, it was going to be someone else’s representative. Everyone saw this and were anxious.
At this moment, an account named “Yuan Wanxia” whose Weibo account had been certified as a famous painter was opened with the help of Professor Zhang. Because the people of Han did not use Chinese social media, an account named “Wanxia _ Jade” was also opened on the Fins Network abroad.
Then, as the netizens of the two countries were fighting more and more intensely, this account on Weibo updated with a new dynamic message.
Professor Zhang took the lead in reposting this dynamic message. Old Master Zhong was also very popular on the Internet, so he reposted this dynamic and added, “This is the real Light Error painting method.”
Over the past two days, everyone had been very sensitive to the words “Light Error”. When they saw Elder Zhong mention this, they hurriedly clicked on it.
In the video, only the tip of a brush and a piece of paper could be seen.
The brush was dipped in ink and sprinkled on the paper.
Even though no one could see what the person who drew was like, from the unrestrained flow of ink on the paper, everyone could imagine how indifferent and leisurely the person who drew was.
Yuan Wanxia used ink, using a slightly scorched ink to be light and dyed it exquisitely. Sometimes it was deep and sometimes it was light. When it was dry, it turned dizzy. The ink was as gentle as the spring breeze and as strong as a waterfall. It had both the technique of dye and the ink splashing technique. Everything had the charm of ink.
The depth and color of the ink changed naturally and surpassed nature. It was just right and the quality went deep into the marrow.
Following the tip of the brush, everyone watched the painting seriously. As it was an edited video, under the camera at the back, a magnificent landscape painting quickly appeared in front of everyone.
Although everyone did not know professional painting skills, they felt that the color of Yuan Wanxia’s painting was a little awkward when they looked at it. ‘Did you not know the ratio of the paint?’
Not only netizens from China had this doubt, many people in Han Country who followed the video had already begun to mock him halfway through the video.
[ I thought he was amazing. He made it like that. ]
[ Haha, even a dabbler like me can tell that there’s a problem with the color. Is this the standard of Chinese painters?? How laughable. ]
[ I can only say that it’s embarrassing. ]
[ Chinese, can you get out of the Facebook page??? Can you get back to your Weibo? The Facebook doesn’t welcome you! ]
Although the Chinese netizens were very guilty, how could they allow people from other countries to scold their own country’s painter? They immediately picked up the keyboard and wanted to argue with the other party.
At that moment, the video that had stopped writing suddenly splashed out a patch of red ink.
Is he trying to destroy the painting because he didn’t draw it well??
Everyone watched the video curiously.
Then, they saw that the patch of redness had landed on the upper right corner of the paper. It was in a neat circle, and it was actually the morning sun that had crawled out of the mountain.
It was like a finishing stroke. With this morning sun that had a hint of redness, the colors of the entire painting became lively.
It was only then that everyone understood that it was not the paint that was wrong with the author’s adjustment, but that the author’s light shadow technique was used especially well.
Through the changes in the depth of the ink and the use of brightness and darkness, this landscape gave people an extremely three-dimensional feeling. Even in the camera, everyone felt as if they were standing in front of this mountain range and looking at the mountains in front of them.
Even those who did not know much about painting could tell which was better between Cui Yongjun’s painting and Yuan Wanxia’s.
[ Hahahahahaha, that’s enough. I finally feel better. ]
[ Yuan Wanxia is amazing!!! I declare that from now on, I’m your fan!! ]
[ As expected, you’re a master who sold a painting for a high price of ten million dollars. Yes, I can unilaterally thank you for your ability. ]
[ Wow, this slap in the face makes me feel good. My head hurts from watching those idiots jump around these two days. Just that trash Cui Yongjun dares to come out and talk nonsense about whatever he drew. The real master has to be in China! ]
[ The video has aroused strong comfort. I suggest you watch it repeatedly. ]
Because this matter was very popular, once Yuan Wanxia’s Weibo post was released, regardless of whether it was people in the industry or outsiders, everyone followed and reposted Yuan Wanxia’s post. In just two hours, Yuan Wanxia’s account had broken through the million fans threshold and the number of fans was still rising.
Netizens abroad had also finished reading Yuan Wanxia’s painting. Other than most people who had always supported Cui Yongjun, everyone was very interested in this magical painting technique.
[ Han People, please show us what too much arrogance is. ]
[ Come, Han people, come out. I heard that you guys aren’t convinced? I heard that Cui Yongjun, who drew that kind of trash painting, is your Artist?? So this is the standard of Country Han. ]
[ I’m from the cherry blossom country. I want to say that Country Han has always been a country of thieves. In the East Asian country, the one I hate the most is Country Han. Yuan Wanxia’s painting is very good. I like it. ]
[ As expected, there’s a saying that goes like this. China and peach blossoms are on good terms. This brother from Yinghua Country in front, you even know how to say like in Chinese?? Your Chinese standard is very good. ]
[ Thank you, thank you. It’s mainly because my girlfriend taught me well. My girlfriend is from China and has always taught me Chinese. If I don’t learn it well, she will beat my chest with a small circle. ]
[??????????? F*ck, I’m being fed dog food just by watching a multinational Chinese painting video???? Can this world be more cruel to single dogs? ]
The war between the netizens of Han and China had originally attracted many people from other countries.
Everyone had originally come to watch the commotion. After all, the fact that they liked to watch the commotion was a common trait of all humans. It had nothing to do with their skin color and nationality.
The foreign netizens had always heard in the news that there was such an ancient Asian country with a few thousand years of history. In fact, they did not know much about China.
All they remembered was that the people in this country rode pandas on the streets. Everyone had kung fu and they ate Kung Pao chicken every day.
This was the first time many people had treated a Chinese painter seriously.
Initially, no one was interested in the pile of ink. There was not even any color. What could he draw? Slowly, everyone saw that even monotonous colors could be so rich.
It turned out that Chinese paintings had such a high beauty. Many foreigners were stunned by the mountains and rivers displayed in the video.
Hence, after watching a video, the account “Wanxia _ Jade” actually had nearly ten thousand fans on the account of Fins.
Chapter 270: The Mysterious Dynasty
No matter how arrogant the people of the Han Country were, they could not spout nonsense in front of so many people. After all, the standard of the painting was obvious.
If the netizens of China were to be serious, they could be called modern Sherlock Holmes.
From Cui Yongjun’s family history, the netizens followed the clues and found out that this person had once gathered inspiration from the countryside in China. A very dedicated netizen ran to the countryside to specially visit the family he had gone to back then.
As expected, he asked the truth. Back then, Cui Yongjun had bought the priceless wooden engraving book with 200 dollars, making the Chinese netizens curse him for being shameless.
Just as the bystanders were about to leave the village, they were told by the villagers that the wooden carving book was picked up from the mountains behind the village by hunters when they were hunting. There were many pieces of rotten wood like this in the mountains.
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The netizens could not be bothered to watch anymore and hurriedly reported the clues to the local archaeology department.
No one had expected that this farce would raise the veil of a mysterious dynasty that had never been understood by anyone.
Of course, that was for later.
At that moment, the netizens were busy watching Cui Yongjun’s drama. Once they dug, they were shocked. Everyone realized that this person had plagiarized. From the moment he debuted, his painting had been copied from a Chinese painter.
He used the fact that information was not circulating well between the two countries to wantonly apply the elements of other people’s works to his paintings.
Not only did he copy Chinese paintings, but he also copied the paintings of painters in Han Country. Other people had exercised rights for many years, but because Cui Yongjun had become famous, the original owner of the painting had never succeeded in exercising rights.
The Chinese netizens watched the commotion and dug up his dark history layer by layer. They dug up things like tax evasion, copying other people’s works, and cheating during exams when he was in school.
Due to the fact that there was too much information, the Chinese netizens even considerately packed a whole document and posted it on Han Country’s social media for them to retrieve.
“You’re welcome, Simida [1. Thank you in Korean is ‘Kamsahamida’, so the ‘simida’ is to mock the Koreans and to make the comment more Korean-like so the netizens can understand]…”
Although the netizens of Han Nation said that no one needed to worry about their country, their bodies were still very honest. The download volume of that document was as high as 100,000.
Originally, Yuan Wanxia’s name had attracted some attention due to the high price of the previous auction. However, that was only within a small range. This time, many people recognized this mysterious and powerful big shot.
Many people wanted to investigate this big shot’s identity, but they could not find any traces of this person.
However, to people in the art world, works were everything. Not only was being mysterious not a bad thing, but it also made everyone more curious about this person. Even his works had a hint of mystery.
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Ever since Xia Yuanqing transferred his shares, he had been waiting at home for Xia Wanyuan to beg him to go back and take over the company.
After all, he knew very well how bad the Xia family’s financial chain was back then. The Xia family’s company had suffered a lot of debts over the years. The sudden loss of funds and the series of problems would make him, who knew the company like the back of his hand, feel exhausted, let alone the two people who did not know the company’s situation.
Furthermore, he had been the chairman for so many years. Many of the people in the company were his trusted aides. Now that a new leader had suddenly changed, many people were secretly fighting against the new management.
However, what Xia Yuanqing did not expect was that Xia Wanyuan did not look for him after so long.