Dragon is a creature in existence and legend, although there is no entity, but the emperors of the past are very admiring of the dragon, painters are also painstaking in painting dragons, to say that painting dragons, "painting the dragon finishing touch" story is a household name, according to legend, Zhang Monks painted a dragon in Jinling Anle Temple, but did not paint eyes.
The monk asked him why he did not draw eyes, Zhang Monk Sui said "point is to fly away", people think he is laughing, so he added eyes to the dragon, and the dragon rushed out of the wall to take off, but Zhang Sangxuan was not the first person to paint the dragon, and the first person to say that the dragon was the Southern Song Dynasty painter Chen Rong.
Although the war and chaos during the Two Song Dynasties were continuous, in the chaotic world, the literati and scholars were born, and they pinned their emotions on the works, chen Rong was also one of them, Chen Rong was a jinshi in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1235), served as the Taishou of Putian in Fujian Province, served as the guozi supervisor, and the official to the chaoshan doctor.
However, what he is best at is to be good at painting dragons, he is half drunk and half awake, the dragon painted has the most changing meaning, "Six Dragon Diagram" is a fine work among the dragon paintings, and the "Soong Dragon" he painted is a model for painting dragons in later generations, and the painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties have taken him as the original.
During the war between the two Song Dynasties, the "Six Dragon Diagram" was scattered in the folk, there has been no relevant record, the "Six Dragon Diagram" began to appear in the Qianlong period, it is an important painting in the imperial study, Qianlong has a very good evaluation of the "Six Dragon Diagram", saying that the "Six Dragon Diagram" is the peak of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Chen Rong not only paints dragons, he is also good at painting pines, bamboo, cranes, and even painting tigers, so it is known as "So Weng Dragon", "So Weng Crane" and "So Weng Bamboo", which shows that Chen Rong's painting skills are quite exquisite, after Qianlong got the "Six Dragon Map", it was circulated in the royal family, and finally to the Gong King's Mansion.
The last prince of Gong's mansion was Ai Xin Jueluo Puwei, who was the great-grandson of the Daoguang Emperor, who believed that he was qualified to inherit the unification, but in the end the throne still fell to Puyi, in 1912, Puyi abdicated, he was very unwilling, and even said: "With me, the Qing Dynasty will not die."
In order to help Puyi recover the country, he sold a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings from the Gongwang Mansion, one of which was quite precious to the Japanese antique dealer Tanaka Shujiro Yamanaka, who sold this part of the Chinese cultural relics to the Fujita Museum of Art, including the Six Dragon Diagrams.
However, in recent years, due to the tight funds of the Fujita Museum of Art, in order to continue to develop, the Fujita Museum of Art has entrusted many Chinese cultural relics to the New York Christie's Auction House, including "Six Dragon Diagrams", because of the majority of Chinese cultural relics, the auction house has set up a "Chinese Art" special session for the Fujita Museum of Art.
The birth of "Six Dragon Diagram" has caused many museums to fall into a period of madness, not to mention that he is a relic of the Southern Song Dynasty, the six dragons on the painting alone are enough to cause a sensation, and finally "Six Dragon Diagram" fell at a sky-high price of 43.5 million US dollars (about 300 million yuan).