Emperor's Love

Chapter 44

I picked up my favorite work and looked at it carefully. No matter how I looked at it, it was a phoenix!Is there a pheasant this big?They must not understand!I thought angrily.I didn’t ask her until Xiaoling came back. She must be a hero like me and see the same thing. After waiting for a while, Xiaoling finally came back and saw me lying on the desk with no interest, covering my eyes. With a smile on his mouth, he asked: "Miss Yuyun, is your picture ready?" I looked weakly at the paper that was placed next to me and pressed by a paperweight, and I didn't want to look at it anymore, because it The more I look at it, the more I think it looks like a pheasant...

"Miss Yuyun, what is this you drew?" Xiaoling asked me holding the rice paper, sure enough, even she couldn't understand it?Woohoo... really let me down completely. "Is this... a Phoenix?" She looked at it for a long time, and finally asked something that rekindled my hope, "Xiao Ling, you really know me best!!!!" My voice was a little choked up, and I hugged After weeping with joy, she twitched my head, "Even you know it's a phoenix, but they actually said it's a pheasant!", "They? They mean...", "That damned Fu Qing and Fu Heng~" I gritted my teeth and said!Xiaoling paused for a moment, then smiled and said: "Hehe, it's no wonder, you just started learning drawing today, and you can draw such complicated patterns, and you still think of drawing by yourself, which is already considered pretty good. I figured out that this is a phoenix, because it was even more unsightly when I first painted it. The phoenix is ​​the king of birds in ancient Chinese legends. Like the dragon, it is the national totem of our country. The feathers are generally described as red, and the phoenix Like kylin, it is a collective name for both sexes. The male is phoenix and the female is phoenix. They are collectively called phoenix. Phoenixes flying together are a symbol of auspicious harmony and a spiritual creature representing happiness. If you want to draw a phoenix pattern, you must first know Its original shape, according to Guo Pu's annotation in "Erya? Shiniao", the characteristics of the phoenix are: "chicken head, swallow jaw, snake neck, turtle back, fish tail, five colors, about six feet high." "Shan Hai Jing? Tu Zan "Said that there are five kinds of image patterns: "The first text is called virtue, the wing text is called obedience, the back text is called righteousness, the belly text is called faith, and the inscribed text is called benevolence. "So, if you want to draw a phoenix pattern, in addition to working hard on the color, you must incorporate the characteristics of the phoenix you understand in the drawing, and the phoenix on your pattern, with just a few strokes, how can you express its charm? Draw it out?"

"Oh~~~Xiaoling, you are so amazing. You know all about this. It seems that I underestimate the Chinese cultural heritage of embroidery. How much do you need to know to embroider a phoenix?" He was stunned for a while, and said in admiration.

"Miss, Xiao Ling just understands the same as everyone else..." After being praised so bluntly by me, Xiao Ling immediately replied embarrassedly.

"Then...my picture of a phoenix flying up a branch can no longer be used..." I hold it regretfully, I have been drawing it all day...

Seeing my dejected expression, Xiaoling grabbed my hand and comforted me seriously: "Miss Yuyun, don't be discouraged, everything takes a lot of hard work, as the saying goes, haste makes waste, I can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. You start with simple patterns, and then embroider them, take your time, from simple to complex!”

"Yes! I can't give up! I have been learning such boring basic skills of ballet for 18 years since I was a child. There is no reason why this embroidery can stump me! Right? Xiaoling!" I squeezed her shoulder excitedly .

(End of this chapter)