Ugly is not ugly. When we describe a person as ugly, we all use a word, that is, ugly. But have you thought about it? Why ugly? Instead of ugly nine weird, ugly ten weird. Today I will tell you about the origin of ugly monsters.
In fact, the word ugly eight monsters was first derived from yangzhou eight monsters. The calligraphy and painting art of yangzhou's eight monsters, led by Zheng Banqiao, is famous all over the world. They were Li Eel, Wang Shishen, Gao Xiang, Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Li Fangyi, and Luo Ping. The Zheng Xie mentioned here is Zheng Banqiao, his name is Zheng Xie Banqiao, so people call it Zheng Banqiao. In their paintings, we can see the unique scholarly style behind them. Among them, Zheng Banqiao is the most famous. Zheng Banqiao, these people, they have learned the traditional art of painting since they were young, it can be said that they began to practice from a stroke. Originally, according to their talent and the teacher's patience, they were able to become the best painters at that time.
Yangzhou eight monsters
However, after they grew up, they witnessed the cruel reality of society and their dissatisfaction with the Daxing literary prison of the Qing Dynasty at that time, which made their painting style change suddenly. They would use paintings to satirize the society of the time. Their paintings became incompatible with the dominant aesthetics of the society of the time. These strange painters are different in the eyes of traditional mainstream school painters. Some mainstream painters at that time believed that Zheng Banqiao, who had been reading sage books and learning painting techniques since childhood, had now become like this, which was simply deviant. Therefore, their paintings were called ugly by the upper nobility and orthodox painters. However, the people do not think so, because although the paintings of Zheng Banqiao and others are strange, they are not divorced from reality, and their paintings reflect life, criticize ugliness, satirize current events, and innovate, which is loved by the majority of the people. Therefore, in the folk wind evaluation, Zheng Banqiao these people are called Yangzhou Eight Monsters, this strange word is actually to highlight a characteristic of the painting and humanity of this group of people. Later, when the Qianlong Emperor went to Jiangnan six times, he heard the story of the eight monsters of Yangzhou, and he was very curious, so he admired their paintings.
Qianlong, who loved art, praised these words, and when he praised them, he also reflected on the social contradictions at that time and the problem of The Qing Dynasty's literary prison. Therefore, qianlong's cases in the late period of his reign were gradually reduced. The emperor admired the paintings of the eight monsters of Yangzhou, the prosperity and physical painting style in the Jiangnan area once again swept the world, and the reputation of the eight monsters of Yangzhou was also recorded in the history of the Qianlong Emperor's living notes and official repairs of the Qing Dynasty, the name was called Yangzhou, but the local gentry and traditional painters in Yangzhou were more and more dissatisfied, and privately called the eight monsters of Yangzhou ugly. Later, the word ugly eight monster spread, and slowly became a derogatory term to describe a person's ugly appearance, but the reputation of Yangzhou eight monsters became more and more popular.