Idle talk丨 There is no Zen in the painting, only the painting is Zen

Author: Pan Xiangdong (Director of the Akaigawa Museum)

Editor's note: The development of Chinese painting has changed from heavy color to pastel to ink painting, and painters have also changed from court painters to literati doctors to monks, which has formed a trajectory from courtyard painting to literati painting to Zen painting, in short, the development process from complexity to simplicity. The stick figure landscape paintings of the Zen masters at the end of the Ming Dynasty are an important part of this.

Ren Once Said: "There is no Zen in the painting, only the painting is Zen; it will be said that it will be said, otherwise it will not be." "Simple to can no longer be simple pen and ink, less to less content, this is "Zen painting."

《Art Book》

Ten years ago, Professor Zhong Ruqian recommended "Undertaking Painting Collection" to me. I was excited and studied it carefully. A "Collection of Paintings" inspires the mind and has a sense of enlightenment, which is really beneficial to open the book. In addition to reading, I actually picked up a simple pen and ink paper, borrowed the cold night lights, accompanied by the pine moon outside the window, sleepwalked like the ancients to take on the landscape, good life and happiness.

The author intends to be a landscape work

On the first day, Mr. Qian Qian and Mr. Shen Wei came to visit, and I respectfully invited the two of you to be elegant. Professor Shen Wei's inscription:

The pen of responsibility, the cold and the true rate, the depth of the realm and the lack of knowledge, Pan Jun is happy about it. This work of his first practice, a little clear between the pen and ink, sincerely can be used in the heart.

Mr. Ruqian was even more encouraged, and in the middle of the rough work:

Serving as a monk, a Chinese monk dress, sending xing mountains and forests, pen and ink are highly different, and it is quite interesting to the east.

Threesomes, confidants are pleased. I know very well that it is only our worship and respect for mr. Ren, a painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. I have been hanging rough work in the half-day idle house, reading and taking responsibility, and wanting to take responsibility. Knowing that I am shallow, increasing my character.

"Portrait of Ren" Ren (1593-1673), name Puhe, character undertaker, Yunnan Jinning people, originally from Chun'an, Zhejiang, from Rong to Dian in the early Ming Dynasty, living in Jinning.

Born in a family of eunuchs, his grandfather and father were both born in the imperial examination, served as a scholar, and had three generations of successful learning, all of which had anthologies. In such a wealthy home, he served as a young man, and at the age of 13, he was known as the "Strange Man of the Time", and later learned poetry and painting under Dong Qichang and Chen Meigong, and his skills became more and more sophisticated.

Works as paintings

Responsible for being generous and bold, making friends with scholars from all over the world, singing and singing. At the age of 38, Mr. Xu Xiake, a geographer and traveler, arrived in Kunming to take on the hospitality and admiration. When they broke up, in addition to the care of their friends along the way, they also gave away travel expenses, which solved Xu Xiake's entanglement difficulties. Xu Xiake has such a high academic status in Chinese history, and also has a large funding.

In the year of the death of my mother, the Ming Dynasty fell, and there was nothing to send in grief, it was really a broken country and a family, what was the use of leaving me. He cut his hair as a monk, faced the wall for ten years, leaned against the mountains and forests, and was accompanied by green lanterns, studied Buddhism and Zen, and painted and painted rivers and mountains.

Judging from the main experience of the responsibility, due to his solid birth, his early painting style of calligraphy and painting is elegant, in accordance with the self-cultivation and elegance of chinese literati, and is decent. However, after becoming a monk, after sending up the mountains and forests, the painting style turned to the rate of desolation, looking at the mountains like mountains, looking at the mountains and not the mountains, painting orchids upside down, and strange stones like the wind. If the painting style of the Eight Greats is a delicate and elegant minimalist method, revealing a reserved and cold-eyed world, then the painting style of responsibility is a desolate and extensive minimalist ink, showing a stubborn and sad society. The two are the same, but they both reflect the patriotic feelings and sense of grief of the scholars. The person in charge has a poem: "Aiming at the abundant grass and the long forest, I will sink into the depths of the years." How many floating clouds have been cut off, and Qingshan alone is not allowed to invade. "This kind of chinese farming culture has tempered the spirit of literati and doctors, and the feeling of home and country that cannot be killed and disgraced is the foundation and moral norm that supports the survival of the nation. There is no shortage of these people in the history of traditional Chinese culture, but our descendants disdain it, and may have long forgotten it!

Reading the responsibility also reminds me of the famous monk Hongyi in modern times, who has attained great enlightenment and compassion. Resolutely lay down wealth, affection, family, and fresh clothes and angry horses, cut their hair and become monks, and eventually perish. What is left to the world is "outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue in the sky." The evening wind blows the willow flute, the sunset mountain outside the mountain..." The lonely music and the long pavilion of the deep mountain ancient temple evening bell.

The art of calligraphy is also called a must, the former chased Huai Su rough, after inheriting the style of Dong Qichang, a time unparalleled in the world, here is not idle talk. A few vernacular sentences are also used to express admiration for the monk:

A pot of tea and a pillar of incense,

A bend of cold moon full of frost.

Broken pen and ink to write the remaining mountains,

There is a heavenly way to collect the rays.

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