There is a famous village in Minquan County, Henan Province. There are about 1300 people in this village, and nearly 800 of them are engaged in painting and related occupations.

Couple painters, father-son painters, sister painters and it runs in the family painters can be found everywhere in the village. These villagers mainly paint tigers, but also some flowers and trees.

This village sells more than 40,000 paintings every year, with an output value of more than 25 million yuan. About 30% of the paintings are sold to Bangladesh, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and other countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

It has really refreshed the views of ordinary people on the villagers. The tigers painted by people in this village are even more unique. They not only have the spirit of kings, but also endow the tigers with humanized character and rich humanistic spirit.

Therefore, this village is also called the first village to draw tigers in China.

In the paintings of villagers in Huahu Village, the tiger's kingly spirit is vividly reflected, and its shape is vividly outlined, just like the real king of the forest jumping into the painting.

Of course, there are also many painters who have painted tigers. After all, they can draw the tiger, the king of beasts, which is proof of their ability. Therefore, there are many people who draw tigers from ancient times to the present, but not many can really become masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. Think about it, too. What kind of brush can outline the great power of the tiger?

However, there is a strange painting about a tiger in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The majestic tiger in this painting is painted as a "sick cat", which is still embarrassing and despicable. There is no such thing as the king of beasts.

The name of this painting is "Tiger and Mountain Peak".

So what is famous about this painting? Why is the tiger in the picture painted as a coward? Who is the author of this painting?

Let's watch together.

Tiger: Did my cowardice refresh people's understanding of tigers? Our nation has always worshipped tigers, which stems from the totem worship of tigers in Chu culture. Since ancient times, the emperor has been called the real dragon emperor and the people have been called Long Hudou, so if any minister has the shadow of a tiger, it will hardly come to a good end.

Just like Nian Gengyao in the Qing Dynasty, he claimed to be reborn as a white tiger. Later, in 2000, another white tiger entered the general's office in Beijing, which made Yong Zhengdi feel sore throat. He wanted to let him go, but he was really worried. He was sentenced to death.

So tigers have always been quite powerful, but the tiger in this picture of the peak tiger collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei has really refreshed people's understanding of tigers. In order to let readers feel the tiger's cowardice better, let's go directly to the picture.

From this picture, we can easily see that this tiger is really timid. First of all, it has fear in its eyes. Secondly, its tail is like a frightened dog. A scrawny body makes people feel a bit ridiculous.

Yes, I have seen all kinds of tigers and many pictures about them. I believe that few people have seen this amazing tiger.

So what is this tiger afraid of, and what can scare the tiger, the king of beasts?

Wild bee: Even if the tiger is fierce, it is not afraid of me. It is common sense that tigers in the animal kingdom can be said to be at the top of the food chain, and there are very few things that can make tigers afraid. However, the "sick cat" in the picture of Feng Hu looks obliquely upward, while we look at the picture with magnification of 10 at the upper right.

There is an insignificant little thing in the upper right of this picture. Zoom in, this little thing is an unremarkable wild bee. It is standing on the top of a hay "staring" at the tiger.

In other words, it is this wild bee that scares the tiger into this unintelligent picture, or it should be a group of wild bees, because there is not one wild bee in general, but only one in the picture.

So we can guess that the painting means that a scrawny tiger was looking for food, but accidentally broke into the wild bee's territory. Maybe the tiger smelled the sweetness of the hive and wanted to eat it, but it angered the wild bees.

Even a fierce tiger can't handle wild bees. This bony tiger can only escape from the wild bees with its tail between its legs.

Hua Yan: I painted this picture as a reflection of myself. I'm in too much pain. After this explanation, many people must have a new understanding of this painting. Not because the author's painting is not good, but because he painted a mighty tiger into a sick cat. Who is so talented to draw such a different kind of tiger?

Hua Yan is also Hua Yan. He was an outstanding painter in Qing Dynasty and one of the representatives of Yangzhou School of Painting. He is good at drawing figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and insects, and his depiction of animals is even more profound.

Hua Yan portrait

Hua Yan liked painting very much since he was a child, but later because his family was too poor, he couldn't even afford to go to school. Later, he was squeezed out by his fellow villagers. During the reign of Kangxi, Hua Yan had to use first-class painters to paint murals in the main hall when the Huashi family wanted to rebuild the ancestral temple.

But the squire looked down on Hua Yan, and certainly didn't want him to do such a glorious thing, so they all opposed his painting in the main hall. Hua Yan was forced to sneak into the ancestral temple to paint, and finally left his hometown and came to Hangzhou to survive.

Hua Yan arrived in Hangzhou. Although his life is still colorless, at least he has gained a firm foothold with his excellent paintings and full of talents. Later, he often traveled in Hangzhou and Yangzhou to sell paintings for a living. It was during this period that Hua Yan met Jin Nong, Gao Xiang, Zheng Banqiao and others, and made friends with them.

Once a person is talented, he naturally wants to go higher. Hua Yan went north to Beijing at the age of 36, but he was not satisfied. According to the "Introduction to Paintings on a Hard Studio", Hua painted his own paintings, visited the capital, and stayed out of the world. After the cold reception in Kyoto, Hua Yan was disheartened and no longer had any illusions about his career.

Looking back on Hua Yan's life, we can see that young people are marginalized, middle-aged career is hopeless, and life is poor. Isn't the "sick cat" in the painting a portrayal of Hua Yan himself?

Perhaps it is precisely because this painting shows the tiger's "cowardice" incisively and vividly, shows its morbidness incisively and vividly, and contains its own feelings, so it can be collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Do you agree with this?

References:

Painting Bamboo Inscription, Xi Kuzhai Tu, etc.

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