Eight Immortals Gallery painting
Text: Zhou Zheng
People walking under the Eight Immortals Corridor of penglai eight immortals over the seascape area, they will be attracted by the colorful paintings, and can't help but look up to admire it, like a person in the painting, fascinated by the five colors, tireless.
Foreign friends are even more interested in the color painting of the long corridor.
I once accompanied the Russian writer Lina on a tour of the Eight Immortals sea view area and told them a colorful picture of the story of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea.
On the screen, the eight immortals use their magic weapons to fight with shrimp soldiers and crabs, and cross the sea with their own skills.
When I told this story, Lina felt very novel, so she searched for the eight immortals on the promenade to take pictures of the story of the eight immortals, and she smiled and thought that it was more valuable to take pictures of the promenade paintings.
The Eight Immortals Promenade resembles two dragons that soar out of the sea, inhabiting the Eight Immortals Seaview Area, about a thousand meters long, with four pavilions on each side, named after the Eight Immortals, and a tall and majestic pavilion called Yixin Pavilion in the middle. Inside the Yixin Pavilion, there are the imperial monuments of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, and in each pavilion there are stone stele of poetry written by the literati you Baxiandu in the past.
The gallery is painted with nearly a thousand large and small paintings, which can be described as a collection of eight immortal stories.
When strolling along the promenade and carefully viewing these paintings, your first impression is the simple emotion, which is not only the Chinese New Year painting style adopted in the painting technique, but more importantly, the content of the color paintings is humanized, and the stories that say that the eight immortals punish evil and promote goodness are specially lifelike, and it is easy for tourists to dissolve into their paintings.
The paintings of the Eight Immortals Gallery are mainly based on the stories of the Eight Immortals, but there are also other stories. Metaphorically, the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" promoted in traditional Chinese culture, as well as the praise of heroic characters, such as "Qi Jiguang Resistance", "Yue Feichuan", "Yang Jiajian", "Guan Yunchang", etc., most of these character stories are based on classical novels, some come from folk dramas, and some scenery and flowers are more folk customs and the creative ideas of artists. These paintings by famous masters are vivid and vivid. Many tourists looked and watched, unwilling to leave.
If you carefully read the story of the Eight Immortals Corridor, you will be touched by the story of the Eight Immortals' tempering and enlightenment, and feel that if there are no waves in life, there will be no results.
The story of the enlightenment of the Eight Immortals is something that everyone can do, seemingly ordinary, but it is actually hiding an undercurrent, this potential thing is not something that everyone can have, that is, we often love to say the Tao.
A person's true understanding of the Tao is related to his nature, human nature, heart nature, and the nine wisdom roots of man, so although man and immortals have one thought, people are human beings, immortals are immortals, and if a person wants to become an immortal, he must treat the world with kindness and filial piety as the first.
Reading the eight immortals gallery paintings, you seem to be reading a philosophical dictionary of life, covering up the feeling of rebirth, understanding the worldly dust, everything is in nature.
That's my little insight.
(About the author: Zhou Zheng, former name, Bi Yuan, Bi Yichang, born in 1951, created and published more than 5 million words of literary works, is a member of the China Reportage Literature Society, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, and a member of the Shandong Writers Association.
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