China Art History: Through the Millennium, just to meet you

Wang Xiaobo said, "It is not enough for a person to have this life, he should also have a poetic world."

When we take a moment from our anxious life to read a book, look at an ancient painting and appreciate a calligraphy, our hearts are far away from the world and we see different worlds and different lives. This is art, the "poetic world".

In people's memory, China's art is in the museum, separated by a glass cover, which is relatively silent with them. On the small exhibition sign below, who it is and where it was unearthed. But it came to us through thousands of years, and we know nothing about what it went through and how it came to modern times with wind and rain.

"China Art History", in the form of "big talk", interprets the Millennium art history. There is no sense of disobedience, humorous and vivid language, and 45 famous artists, 151 art treasures, 11111 years of artistic history, and the way of telling stories are very substitutive, which makes you happy and sad with the thousand-year-old ancients. It makes you feel that you are not talking about the ancients, but about your past life, your glory, your poverty, your everything ...

Yi Gongzi, formerly known as Xiao Han, founder of accident art, and former TV host. In 2113, he founded the self-media accident art dedicated to the popularization of art, aiming to popularize the cold art to the public in a relaxed and interesting way and gradually grow into the largest Internet art community in China. The work "The History of Western Art" is ranked in the list of MLM books in 2121. "Is Art Difficult?" has been played for six consecutive seasons, with hundreds of millions of broadcasts.

She said that China's art history is a capital "person", so she divided China's art history into infancy, childhood, adolescence, thirty years old and forty years old ...

Let's take a look at this "most familiar stranger" and take us to tear apart a corner of life, so as to see the past and the future.

11. The best running script in the world: Preface to the Orchid Pavilion

There are scenery that is not old in the world, and young people have a mind that is not old. Because they are young, they are fearless; Because of dreams, I fight hard. Have feelings of home and country, and have the heart of a child.

a generation has a generation's mission, and a generation has a generation's feelings.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, various forces were constantly fighting, and there were several disasters in China, such as "ten thousand surnames were scattered, the death was slightly exhausted, and the chaos was extremely extreme". Therefore, in the frustration of life, in the search for the meaning of life, the literati of that era had more thoughts and feelings.

The war has made life vulnerable, so let's seize the short life and the mountains and rivers. Can't increase the length of life, it is difficult to increase the width of life, so that every day of life makes it valuable.

The "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" are the representatives of the literati of that era, who struggled to be born and enter the world.

"Book Sage" Wang Xizhi. His appearance gave people a new understanding of calligraphy. Every word in his pen has life and soul. His Preface to Lanting Collection is the best in the world, and it is called "the best running script in the world".

This is a work that pays equal attention to literature and calligraphy. Its appearance caused a sensation in that era. Emperor Jiang Xiang wants it, so do elite celebrities, and everyone wants it for himself.

In that era when thousands of horses were silent and celebrities were silent collectively, Wang Xizhi's career path was mixed with too many interest struggles and family struggles, and there was an obvious shot in the back everywhere. At the age of 53, he didn't want to be a victim of the struggle for political rights. He couldn't bear it anymore, completely lost his confidence and patience in officialdom, and made a clean break with his official career in a decisive way.

So the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion was written in that situation. His pain, his disillusionment, all his emotions are intertwined with pen and ink, and I can't help shouting-"Sad husband"!

words come from the heart. When Wang Xizhi was drunk and thought about his life situation, he wrote a stunning work and stood out. He has broken away from the previous techniques and given every word a soul.

War, plague and drought made the Chinese nation "almost extinct" in that era, and celebrities were lucky to live for the time being. They go to the mountains, look for Zhuang zi, think about the universe and life, and eat, drink and be merry. Due to the troubled times, people with different beliefs and cultures have had richer artistic themes and styles through exchanges and collisions, which has also enabled people to explore and awaken more in their precarious lives.

There are many other dazzling names: Ji Kang in Guangling San, Gu Kaizhi in The Goddess of Luo Fu, who is "graceful and magnificent, graceful and Youlong", and Cao Buxing, the "father of Buddhist painting" ...

What they left to the world is not a simple painting and a word, but a spirit that future generations look forward to and follow.

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12. Su Shi: Huangzhou Cold Food Sticker

The age of no doubt is the best age in a person's life. Both the physical strength of the young and the wisdom of the elderly.

After thousands of years, China's art has finally ushered in its best moment-the art of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Kuangyin proclaimed himself emperor, he "relieved the soldiers with a glass of wine", which relieved all kinds of hidden dangers. The imperial powers vigorously developed the imperial examination, abolished the "square market system" and the curfew, which made the commerce and handicraft industry in the Song Dynasty flourish. The nightlife was once extremely rich and the culture was unprecedentedly prosperous, and art was no longer a private product of emperors and princes.

Six of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" lived in the Song Dynasty. Three of the four great inventions were born in the Song Dynasty. Follow my footsteps and take you to feel the peak of China's art in this golden age.

One of my favorite figures: Su Shi, known as Su Dongpo in the world. He can be called the ceiling of China literati. Poetry, prose, calligraphy and painting, there is no one who is not good at it.

Poetry, the highest achievement of poetry in Northern Song Dynasty: Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian.

Ci, the representative figures of the unrestrained school: Su Dongbo and Xin Qiji.

Prose, the highest achievements of prose in Song Dynasty are: Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo.

Calligraphy is one of the four masters in the Northern Song Dynasty: Su, Huang, Mi and Cai, with Su Dongpo as the first.

Painting. His "Strange Stone Map of Dead Trees" set the highest price for ancient paintings in China that year.

There is no one like Su Dongpo. He is second to none in politics. At the age of 24, he was a judge in Fengxiang, Baoji, Shaanxi Province, equivalent to the executive vice mayor. He also served as a local mayor for eight times, and also served as a minister of rites, as opposed to the minister of education. I also worked as a minister of war and a minister of official affairs, but I was just a prime minister.

He has a strong smell of fireworks, which makes him well-known in the food industry in China, and there are 66 dishes related to him.

Therefore, Su Shi can definitely be called our "most familiar stranger".

One of his Huangzhou Cold Food Sticks won the third running script in the world, second only to Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection and Yan Zhenqing's Manuscript for Sacrificing a Nephew.

at the age of p>45, Su Shi was the most lonely year. Su Shi was imprisoned for 113 days because of Wutai poetry case, and almost became the first scholar-bureaucrat to be beheaded since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty.

once, he was also the brightest teenager in the eyes of the emperor, and he was the first in the Northern Song Dynasty in a hundred years. He fell from the altar into the soil overnight. I didn't understand it until I was put in prison and exiled all the way. There are superior intellectuals, as well as people who are hungry for food and greedy for wine.

So his "flower" fell into the "mud" and began to make friends with people of different levels in society. It is precisely because the flowers fell into the soil that he lived out his great tolerance beyond the literati in his life. Only then did I write that "this peace of mind is my hometown", that "life is like a trip, and I am also a pedestrian", and that "there is no rain or shine" is broad-minded.

Therefore, we should have empathy with him, feel him with heart and body, and you will find that, in fact, you and Su Dongpo have feelings. You can feel that he met you through thousands of years, and you may hear his distant sigh when he finally put pen to paper, and he met beauty in despair.

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13. Huang Gongwang: Fuchun Shan Jutu

There will always be a time in a person's life when he feels confused and helpless and falls into a meaningless state of life-this is the middle-aged crisis.

Art also has a midlife crisis.

The Yuan Dynasty was the first dynasty with the largest territory established by ethnic minorities in the history of China, which also promoted the exchanges among various countries, the integration and mutual influence of various ethnic groups, and diversified aesthetics appeared in art.

Muslim merchants from West Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia entered China in large numbers along the Silk Road, bringing a special cobalt material-Sumaliqing, which was widely used in the firing process of blue and white porcelain, showing a very bright blue color.

in the yuan dynasty, literati painting reached the top. There are four literati painters: Zhen Wu, Huang Gongwang, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.

Huang Gongwang originally took the official career, became a small official, and was implicated in prison, so he wanted to die. After he was released from prison, he became desperate and joined the Quanzhen Sect of Taoism, making friends with Zhang Sanfeng, Leng Qian and others. From then on, I traveled to the mountains and rivers, and by the way, I gave people fortune-telling and divination, which is called a big idiot. "Insanity" means "lying in the green heart and looking at the white clouds", and integrating yourself into the landscape.

He revised the "Three Distances of Mountains and Rivers" advocated by Guo Xi in Song Dynasty, and changed "lofty", "far-reaching" into "lofty", "far-reaching" and "broad".

On the moonlit night, he would take a pot of wine and sit on the bridge, singing and reciting while drinking, reciting his loneliness and depression to the landscape in the night. In his eyes, moonlight, mountains, trees, streams, bridges ... are all his old friends and his confidants.

Fuchun Shan Jutu is a long scroll about 7 meters. It describes the four seasons of Fuchun River, from the beginning, to the smoky people in spring, to the lush mountains in summer, to the last splendor in autumn, to the distant mountains in winter.

these are the four seasons and life. Dynasties rise and fall, and the world changes. Huang Gongwang was trapped by the times for the first half of his life and had no power to resist. When he merged into the mountains, he realized that life is like this. There are roundness and lack, sadness and joy. Just like there are four seasons every year, each season has its own scenery, and it won't stay for anyone.

So he finally "looked back on the bleak place, and there was no wind and rain and no mercy" and was open-minded in life.

when Huang Gongwang painted this picture, he didn't know whether he was crazy or awake.

All day long, he sits still in the barren hills and rocks and deep in the jungle, and his thoughts are so vague that people don't know what he is going to do. Sometimes, he will walk into Haikou and watch the torrent rushing like a monster's cry, even if the storm is coming, he doesn't care.

In the face of great sorrow and joy, there is no fear. It should be a Zen enlightenment that "the world is Penglai, and life is the universe". Talking with heaven and earth, appealing with mountains and rivers, transcending the physical spirit of the world. Therefore, there are characters in his paintings, but there is no fireworks, and he is a hermit like himself.

Ni Zan, his contemporaries, won the title of "Top Ten Painters in Ancient China" and was listed as a world cultural celebrity by Encyclopedia Britannica. Qu Yuan and Shakespeare were selected together. Ni Zan is known as a rare flower in the art history of China.

His "Six Scholars" uses little ink, and usually uses a very dry brush to wipe ink on paper. "One river and two banks" is his trademark. Just painting mountains, water, trees and Huang Gongwang gave a high evaluation of "integrity". Later generations said that the Yuan Dynasty landscape painting was good, which created a peak in the artistic conception of the whole China landscape. Ni Zan is a monument above that peak.

Write at the end:

There is a persistence in the world, that is, try to run forward towards the distant light. In this era, there are many young people who love life and are serious about it, and the Italian son is one of them. Strive to popularize the cold art to the public in a relaxed and interesting way, so that art and national treasures can meet you across thousands of years.

stick to yourself and live up to your original intention. Thank you, Mr. Yi. Without your efforts, ordinary people like me would not read books about art.