Speaking of Qianlong, everyone is no stranger, many people can immediately think of the "Kangqian prosperous" Wenzhi martial arts, the peak emperor of Qing Dynasty politics, but perhaps lost in the desire for power, Qianlong became conservative and closed in his old age, and his life became increasingly luxurious. We learned that most of Qianlong has the processing of television dramas and other film and television works, like the Qianlong depicted in the TV series, some of which are charming, some of which are wise and unmatched, and some of whom are old and dim. Putting aside those dazzling titles and noble statuses, what kind of person is Ai Xinjue Luo Hongli? What are some of his different aspects from the general public perception?
Everyone knows that Qianlong is the son of Yongzheng, and the Yongzheng Emperor only succeeded to the throne at the age of forty-five after experiencing the "nine sons and wives", such an emperor who came out of the bloody storm of political struggle has always been very low-key, and his deep thinking and down-to-earth work have always been his portrayal, which is also reflected in his aesthetics. During the reign of Yongzheng, he always guided the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take the aesthetic route of simplicity and atmosphere, such as the porcelain fired during the Yongzheng period, which was dominated by simple lines and elegant colors, leaving a lot of white space. Similar to the famous "rouge water glaze small bowl", most of them are porcelain with pure color, simple shape and atmosphere. As the son of Yongzheng, Qianlong's aesthetics are very different, and according to the ridicule of netizens, he is simply an upstart.
Compared with his old father, Qianlong prefers the flower cluster and lively atmosphere, which can be seen from the "pastel hundred flowers gourd picture bottle" that he ordered people to burn, and a large area of hundred flowers is tightly clustered together and covers the entire gourd bottle, colorful and dazzling. To say that pastels are indeed very rare, but it is not such a painting style, more famous is the famous "glaze color bottle", this complex large bottle was fired in Jingdezhen during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing, the entire porcelain bottle from top to bottom decorated with different glazes, colors, there are as many as seventeen layers, to know that the more glaze color the more difficult to burn, this bottle at least twenty times to burn! It is also necessary to ensure that the color is perfect, a porcelain bottle condenses all the essence of porcelain production existing from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, which is simply the pinnacle of China's ancient porcelain industry! No wonder some people now call this porcelain vase "porcelain mother".
If Qianlong let go of his imagination and the porcelain produced during his reign are all lively and jumpy, not everyone can appreciate it, then it has to be said that these porcelains have a very high level of craftsmanship, if it is not Qianlong's whimsy, we would not be able to see these peak porcelain works today. However, the netizen's "nouveau riche aesthetic" does not refer only to porcelain, but also to many antique calligraphy and paintings.
It is said that Qianlong has a total of more than 1,800 private seals, the most commonly used is more than 500, so what are these seals used for? This is to talk about the collection of QianlongYe, the Qing Dynasty as the last feudal dynasty in china's history also collected many treasures of various dynasties and dynasties, of which antique calligraphy and paintings are countless, when it was passed to Qianlong, the young emperor naturally had to take out the rare treasures in his own storehouse to play well, and when he met himself and his favorite, he had to evaluate it well, and these seals would not come in handy! What inscriptions on calligraphy and paintings are not allowed to print a chapter? Jade, porcelain, guqin, treasures... Not a single inscription can be less!
Turning over the "Fuchun Mountain Residence Tuzi Ming Scroll" collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, it is obviously a landscape painting, how dense are all words? It turned out that Qianlong Ye loved it so much that he left fifty-five inscription poems, covering the entire picture scroll, and even later he could not find a blank place to write poetry, and had to continue writing in the mountain without ink. If only this one painting was tragically poisoned, it would be enough, and the Book Saint Wang Xi Zigzag ZhuJie's "Qing Ti in the Fast Snow" was also crowded with annotations by Qianlong, the original text was only twenty-eight words, but Qianlong Ye's annotations were several times more than it was, and even added four large words "Divine Skill"! Just like others don't know. Poor calligraphy lovers, they had to look for the clues of "Qing Ti in the Fast Snow" in the dense Qianlong Imperial Pen Annotations, and while admiring Wang Xizhi's true handwriting, they also had to know all the handwriting of this Qianlong Master.
Although we are all ridiculing Qianlong's "nouveau riche aesthetics", we also have to say that it is also under his bold innovation that a window has been opened for future generations to look back at the "Kangqian prosperous world", the works of that era have the aesthetic taste of Qianlong himself, and also use the most complex process to present the glory of that prosperous world; those dense annotations are no different from the current bullet screen culture, they are all an expression of love for things, not to mention that the annotations of the Qianlong Emperor himself are also a kind of cultural relics, and his royal pen certification, Doesn't it also add a lot to the work? From these "upstart aesthetics" literary and play paintings, we also see from the side a vivid and interested Qianlong, is it different from the emperor who does not smile in everyone's imagination?