The most talented great writer and artist in the history of Chinese culture is really an indescribable miracle in the history of culture. He made first-class achievements in the main mainstream cultural fields at that time, such as poetry, document painting, and so on. Anyone who achieved such achievements in one of these fields would be immortal. It is really amazing that Su Shi has both wisdom and wisdom! His prose, in particular, represents the highest achievement of China's classical literary prose, which is in harmony with Sima Qian's historical prose in the Western Han Dynasty. I think that in the 5,000-year cultural history, there are many people who study harder than Su Shi, have more experience than Su Shi, and have a bumpy fate than Su Shi. But if they can have one tenth of Su Shi's achievements, they can be called geniuses once in 500 years. Therefore, talent accounts for 99% of Su Shi's achievements, and diligence and others account for 1%. There is only one such genius in 5,000 years, which can be regarded as once in ten thousand years. Genius index 100
Li Bai:
This madman and drunkard, with his wild imagination and superhuman talent, made the greatest romantic poet in the history of China literature. Li Bai and Su Shi are the most childlike geniuses in the history of literature, while Li Bai is more naive and free and dissolute. The word "Poet Fairy" is really the most correct name for him. He is like a fairy who sings those graceful poems in space, making the 5,000-year-old poetry world a paradise for him to be exclusive. Difficulties in Shu Dao, Sleepwalking in Tianmu, Going into Wine, Fifty-nine Ancient Poems and those heavenly quatrains are all the stars in the sky that he picked at random. To use Ceng Gong's words to describe Li Bai: "The articles of Zi are written by Jieli people. When the earth opens, the clouds steam and the rain falls. It is magnificent to sow everything. Ingenious nature, manpower and application? Another example is the long river, which is vast and unrestrained. Wan Li a diarrhea, especially at the end of the strong. As for the words, as for this. I am in a good mood and carry forward my greatness. " Genius index 98
Cao Xueqin:
The great novelist who wrote the wonderful book A Dream of Red Mansions, although only 200 years away from modern times, has excavated less than one tenth of Li Bai's life information more than 1000 years ago. However, this does not affect him to become the rarest genius after Li Bai. It is no exaggeration to say that A Dream of Red Mansions is not only the history of China literature, but also the greatest novel in the history of world literature. Taken together, the three masterpieces of Thoron will not be half as great as A Dream of Red Mansions. In a few hundred years, when China revives to become the world's first power, Chinese culture becomes the world's leading scholar, and Chinese becomes the world's most popular language, the position of A Dream of Red Mansions as a world novel must be recognized by the world. A dream of red mansions is simply a complete spectrum of characters, a complete compilation of styles, an encyclopedia of life and an encyclopedia of history. Reading a dream of red mansions once is equivalent to living in the world once more. With a novel, he became an outstanding scholar for two hundred years, and Cao Shi was the only one at all times and all over the world. Genius index 97
Qu Yuan:
Qu Zi didn't want to be a poet, but he was forced to become a great poet. This politician who accidentally became a poet, because his political ambitions could not be put into practice, made a few complaints and started a romantic poetry tradition of a great nation. Many writers deliberately want to start a school, but it is only a flash in the pan; And this haggard old man, who is worried about the country and the people all day, has become a star in Wenyuan, with a grumble, a few questions and several sad songs. Li Sao, in particular, is still the greatest work in poetry. He couldn't find a decent poet for 500 years, but he was able to write the greatest poems in the whole history of literature in his childhood. This skill can't be explained except by genius. Genius index 96
Xu Wei:
This is a real psychopath and a real all-round artist after Su Shi. His poetry, calligraphy, painting, and traditional Chinese opera, with a wide range of dabbling and high achievements, can almost stand side by side with Dongpo. In particular, the unique painting style of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting initiated by him reversed the position of flower-and-bird painting in the painting world, and finally became the mainstream variety of China painting in the past 400 years. Zheng Banqiao claimed to be Xu Wei's "running dog" and Qi Baishi's "hate not being born 300 years ago, grinding ink and managing paper for the green vine". However, his life has been intertwined with poverty, illness, intrigue, suspicion, death and violence, and his life is bumpy and his fate is ill-fated. He began to learn painting in middle age, and began to devote himself to literary and artistic creation only after the release of his wife's murder case at the age of 53. In those rickety houses, a man who diverted from the South to the North spent the last twenty years of his life, achieving a lofty peak in art history. When I read Yuan Hongdao's Biography of Xu Wenchang, I often sigh: It's natural to be jealous from ancient times! Genius index 95
Li zhi:
If China stepped onto the capitalist road with the world in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Li Zhi would undoubtedly become Rousseau in China and Voltaire in the East. Four hundred years ago, this great thinker boldly put forward the equality thought that "princes are equal to Shu Ren", pointed out that the essence of "loyalty to the monarch" is "ignorance", and demanded the free development of human nature. He was the only master in China who kept up with the world ideological trend for more than 2,000 years since the ideological imprisonment began in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Genius index 90
Sima Qian:
Many historians in later generations are not inferior to him in Wan Li Road, reading thousands of books and collecting rich historical materials. However, to write a "swan song of historians, leaving Sao without rhyme", you must have extraordinary talent to do it. When Sima Qian was brutally imprisoned, he wanted to die. It is not necessary for him to write history, but he clearly knows that only his genius can complete a once-in-a-lifetime historical masterpiece. Genius index 85
Du Fu:
Near-physical rhythm poetry finally matured here in Du Fu, and finally reached its peak here, and finally made a breakthrough here. When the Seven-character Rhyme became the highest form of classical poetry, Du Fu, with his peerless genius who was good at dancing with shackles, sat in the highest hall of almost physical Rhyme. Du Fu's genius is the most easily overlooked genius, but the history of literature has long proved that no one can achieve one tenth of Du Fu's achievements in the field of metrical poetry with hard work. Genius index 80
Tang Xianzu:
After reading Tang Xianzu's plays, I read the translated Shakespeare's plays, and I feel that the language tastes like wax. I don't know English, so I can't read Shakespeare's original works, but if Shakespeare is the most talented drama master in the English world, then Tang Xianzu is undoubtedly the most talented drama master in the Chinese world. If Sha Weng had read The Peony Pavilion, he might have been ashamed to stop writing. Genius index is 75.
Cao Zhi:
The representative figure of Jian 'an literature, the greatest poet who is best at describing beautiful women in the history of literature, writes romantic poems and miserable poems. "Beauty demon and idle, mulberry circuit. The soft strips are in Ran Ran, and the leaves are falling. " This sentence alone overshadows all the poems describing beautiful women. Genius index is 70.