Chen Hongshou is a famous painter with Cui Zizhong known as "Southern Chen Bei cui" in the Ming Dynasty painting world, he was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, an official eunuch family, and was able to write poetry and paint since childhood. It is said that when his works were brought to the market at the age of 14, they would be bought by people.
He is good at painting characters, mostly based on historical stories, often borrowing ancient metaphors to pin feelings on the present, and his characters are exaggerated, or slender or short, or strange or grotesque, with a strange charm.
One of his paintings, now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, depicts the story of Yang Shen in the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Shen, a native of the new capital of Sichuan, may not be a very famous figure in history, but when it comes to the "rolling water of the East Yangtze River" in the opening words of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I am afraid that women and children will know it.
It was the sixth year of Ming Zhengde, and Yang Shen entered the Beijing Association to take the "first temple examination", becoming the only one in Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy for cultivation. If he had a soft and easy-going personality, he could have been an official with a straight face and a spring breeze, but Jiajing's three-year "great ceremony" incident changed his fate.
At that time, after the death of Emperor Zhengde of MingwuZong, Zhu Houzhao, because he had no children to inherit the throne, according to the ancestral precept of "brother and brother", Emperor Zhengde's cousin Zhu Houxi was made emperor, that is, Emperor Jiajing of The Ming Dynasty. Just six days after the new emperor ascended the throne, he unexpectedly proposed that he pursue his father Xingxian Wang as the emperor and welcome his mother to Beijing. According to the ancestral family law at that time, it was naturally not allowed, so it was opposed by the ministers of Yunzhong, and Yang Shen was one of the activists. Twice, he went to the ceremony and "knelt at the door to cry and advise", and shouted to the hundred officials at the Jinshui Bridge outside the palace gate: "The state has been a hundred and thirty years of raising soldiers, and the battle festival is dead and righteous, and it is today." The Jiajing Emperor was furious and was beaten to death twice in a row, and he was relegated to Yunnan after "killing and recovering".
Although this Yang Zhuangyuan person is just and straight, he is a bit informal in life. You only need to take a serious look at Chen Hongshou's inscription in the painting, which reads: "When Mr. Yang Sheng'an put on the southern Yunnan, the double bun hairpin flowers, the number of women holding respect, stepping on the song path, occasionally for the small scenery zhizhi." Hongshou. It is also said that he was drunk for a while, painted his face with white powder, made his head into a double bun, arranged flowers on it, and was carried by the students, asking the female tricksters to hold the scene and parade the city. This matter was rumored to be a beautiful talk, and after the good deeds exaggerated it, it became a miscellaneous drama of "Yang Sheng'an Poetry Wine Hairpin Flower", so Chen Hongshou created this "Sheng'an Hairpin Flower Diagram" according to this.
In the painting, Yang Shen's robe has large sleeves, faltering steps, sluggish eyes, full of drunkenness, swaying leisurely, staggering in front, followed by two women, one holding a fan and a wine vessel, and the characters are simple, strange and vivid. The two foil characters, although there are not too many movements, but the body is slim and the posture is reasonable, and gu pan also has a period of wind and current between them. In the background, it is an ancient tree, with strong branches and twists, and the branches and leaves are still tenacious although they have withered and yellowed; the foreground is a few stones that are hard and ugly but elegant.
From the middle of the painting, it is painting Yang Shen, but when you think about it carefully, it seems to have a bit of Chen Hongshou's shadow. According to sources, his alcoholism and prostitutes are also famous, and he once wrote a poem: "People who are sick with foot diseases should be forbidden to drink alcohol, and there are many diseases through prohibition." He also said, "Do not want the kingdom to be a man, and use your life to cherish this body?" If you are not drunk and buried in Su Xiao's tomb, the tombstone is inscribed with the name of the drunkard Chen. ”
You can savor the meaning of the poem. If you don't drink alcohol, you will still get sick; if you drink alcohol and die, it is best to be buried with su Xiaoxiao, a famous prostitute.
Therefore, whether It is Yang Shen or Chen Hongshou, their behavior of debauchery, such as being put into the literati to understand it, is a kind of "celebrity style", perhaps the literati at that time admired this way of life, otherwise Yang Shen's crazy behavior would not have been widely circulated.
As a famous painter, he also has "Lotus Stone Diagram", "Yaji Picture Scroll", "Fairy Picture" and so on. This is the story that happened in Chen Hongshou's "Sheng'an Hairpin Flower Diagram". #Micro Headline Day Sign # #Story in Cultural Relics # #收藏 #
