Riding the wind of rebirth

"I haven't heard that it's because you are ignorant." The fourth cousin laughed angrily: "It doesn't mean that he is not famous."

"This is the character in "Xuanhe Painting Book" and "Palace·Dragon Fish·Landscape". Biography is not a name, but a dharma name."

Since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in the Song Dynasty, it has attached great importance to the search and visit of ancient calligraphy and painting.During the reign of Emperor Huizong, the collections of the inner palace became more and more abundant, so the catalog of the works of famous painters of the past dynasties collected by the court was compiled into "Xuanhe Painting Book" for reference.

"Xuanhe Huapu" and another bibliographic work "Xuanhe Shupu" are sister volumes, the author is unknown, some people in the academic circles believe that the author is Zhao Ji, and some people think it was edited by Cai Jing and Mi Fu.

In fact, after examining the content and style of writing in the book, Zhou Zhi believed that it should be written collectively by the official organization and manpower under the instruction of Song Huizong and his personal intervention or even participation.

The book consists of twenty volumes and was written in Xuanhe Gengzi.A total of 230 painters from the Wei, Jin to Northern Song Dynasties were included in the book, with a total of 390 works.And according to painting subjects, it is divided into ten categories: Taoism, figures, palaces, Fan tribe, dragon fish, landscape, animals, flowers and birds, ink bamboo, vegetables and fruits.

Before each painting subject, there is a short article describing the origin, development, representative figures, etc. of the painting subject, and then arrange the biographies of the painters and their works in chronological order.

This book is not only a record of the items of court paintings in the Song Dynasty, but also a general history of paintings in the style of biography.

It still has a certain historical value for the study of the development of painting and the spread of works in the Northern Song Dynasty and before.

Interestingly, some famous handed down paintings also caused some interesting controversies because they did not appear in this book.

For example, the "Spring Mountain Journey" by Li Zhaodao, a painter of the Tang Dynasty, was first hidden in the Palace Museum. This painting is called "Spring Mountain Picture" in the "Xuanhe Painting Book". published research papers.

There is also Fan Kuan, a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, whose "Traveling in Streams and Mountains" is not mentioned in "Xuanhe Painting Book", so even though the word "Fan Kuan" is hidden in the painting, some people still question whether it is Fan Kuan. wide authentic.

The reason is that Fan Kuan's original nickname, "Kuan" has an unreliable meaning in Shaanxi dialect, and it is derogatory. Therefore, some researchers in later generations believed that Fan Zhongzheng could not like to use this nickname, and hid it in his paintings. .

So Zhou Zhi naturally thought of a question: "Then, did this painting appear in "Xuanhe Painting Book"?"

"The book is on the shelf, don't you know if you look through it yourself?" The fourth cousin showed a strange smile.

Zhou Zhi hurriedly ran over to take down the book, and turned to the page recording the ancients.

"The monk passed on the ancients, and the people of the Ming Dynasty. The talent is enlightened, and the painting of the dragon is so wonderful. It was famous in the Jianlong period."

"Old and old, the brushwork is stronger and stronger, and it is simple and elegant, which is beyond the reach of secular paintings."

"However, the dragon is beyond the reach of the world. If it is easy to be a worker, it will stop three times and nine times, winding up and down. As for the wind and waves of the lake and sea, so there are very few people who get their name from this."

"It is said that ancient independence is a study, and it should be a celebrity. There was a screen painted in the Imperial Academy, and it was called a unique pen at that time. Today, there are thirty ones in the Imperial Palace:

The second picture of the dragon playing with the fog and the wave, the second picture of the dragon playing with the waves through the stone... There is no such thing! "

"Look here." Uncle Si Biao pointed to a passage in the postscript of the half-restored picture scroll: "There are poems here, and this passage of poems happens to be handed down again, which can be proved as an authentic work."

"Where is it... this is a test."

The restored ancient painting has just been removed from the backing paper, and the characters and paintings are still reversed, and it is still in cursive, which makes it quite difficult to identify: "Deep mountain... Daze... Things... So... Sting, thousands of feet... County Cong ...hanging... green wall..."

"Here!" Just as Zhou Zhi was struggling to decipher the postscript, Uncle Si Biao took down a thick book from the shelf. read."

Zhou Zhi took it over, but it was not a short poem.

In the deep mountains and great swamps, things are stung, and in Qianzhang County, there are green walls.

The water in the pool is dark and bottomless, and the vitality is wet at the beginning of the old rain.

Where did the Canglong come back from the rain, rushing to the head and sitting on the red cloud pile.

The mountain monk was horrified and kept silent, and the dark mist in the myriad valleys made black clothes.

Duozai pass on the ancient hidden dragon nature, and write shadows to see the secrets of the sky from door to door.

Once you drop this pen from Yuanhua, you will no longer be able to watch the sun while drinking the sea.

"Hey, that's not right..." Zhou Zhi compared the poems in the book with the poems in the painting. The poems in the book were obviously longer, and there was an extra paragraph at the end:
There are thousands of chinchillas in the painting books of the world, and the tail mane hides no crystal brilliance.

Every year, there are droughts and burnings, and the sacrifices and coins are nothing but mountains and rivers.

The dragons are sleepy and the cave is black, and the heaven and earth are responsible for the yellow haze.

He Dang thundered and fired from the iron box, rushed to the house and went to Tengtianqu.

Liu Ding rushes to order his servant to shoot at the imperial court, and rolls back the Ming Bo sky ladle.

The torrential washes the world clean, but the magic power is silent.

"Hahahaha..." The fourth cousin looked very happy: "You read the title of the poem on the book!"

The name of the author is Wang Yun, and the name of the poem is also old. Occasionally there is a bitter drought in autumn and no snow in winter".

The name is very interesting, but the translation is a diary:
In the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, in the eleventh month of leap year, Jiaxu day, on the way home from get off work, I immediately remembered the severe drought this autumn and the lack of snow in winter, so I wrote a poem.

This poem is actually a continuation of the poem written at that time when I watched a painting at the provincial governor Zhang Yaoqing in the autumn and September of the second year of the Zhiyuan Dynasty.

That painting is the "Sitting Dragon Picture" by Seng Chuangu, which was originally a treasure in Yan Dongping's collection.

"It's very interesting!" Zhou Zhi looked at the seal behind the poem on the painting, on which was the word "Autumn Stream".

Go back and read the biography of the poet in the book: "Wang Yun, courtesy name Zhongmou, nicknamed Qiujian, was born in Luji County, Weizhou. A famous scholar, poet and politician in the Yuan Dynasty."

"I was an official all my life, upright and upright, poor and loyal, studious and good at literature, and became a famous admonisher of the three generations of Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan, Yuan Yuzong Zhenjin and Yuan Chengzong Emperor Tie Mu'er."

"His calligraphy is elegant and graceful, and he is as famous as Wang Bowen of Donglu and Wang Xu of Bohai. He is the author of "The Complete Works of Mr. Qiujian". He created Sanqu and has 41 Xiaolings."

"On June 78, the eighth year of Dade, he died in Ji County at the age of [-]."

After reading it, I couldn't help being surprised: "This is really right!"

"It's not only here." Uncle Si Biao smiled and pointed out the other two seals: "There is also here."

Zhou Zhi looked at it again, and one of them was very large, with the inscription "Yi Zhai Treasures", which is obviously a Zhai Hao collection stamp.

There is also a smaller one with the inscription "Zizhi".

Wait a minute, Zhou Zhi discovered that there was also a postscript written on the side of the "Zizhi" seal, but it was a bit like a drunken graffiti. Although the calligraphy was not as good as Wang Yun's, it also had a domineering and indulgent temperament.

The text is even more interesting, it seems to be a song "Tianjingsha":
I would rather live ten years less,

I have no right to rest for a day.

When a man is a man, his life is hard.

One day, as people wish,
Sai Tianwen has three thousand customers!
"Ah... what level is this? Is this still the real thing?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel that this thing is really not a thing, and it ruined this ancient painting.