But anyone who can relate to the identity of an artist has more or less a quirk in personality. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, those world-renowned artists, they either have some brain problems, such as Van Gogh; or they can't live without bamboo all their lives, such as Zheng Banqiao; or they have a lonely and obedient personality, such as Beethoven... All in all, their ability in a certain aspect is higher than that of ordinary people, but there are also many behaviors that ordinary people cannot understand.
The artist we are going to talk about today is a painter of the Yuan Dynasty. His special personality is related to cleanliness.
This Yuan dynasty painter named Ni Zhan was highly talented and intoxicated with Taoist teachings. Although his painting skills are superb, Ni Zhan's cleanliness is extremely serious, and he will let his subordinates bathe the plane tree and lay goose feathers in the toilet.
Why is Ni Zhan's cleanliness so serious? Does his fetish for cleanliness have anything to do with his painting skills? What was the final outcome of Ni Zhan? Today, let's take a look at this strange painter.
The family is good, intoxicated with Taoism
In fact, when it comes to the quirks of artists, Chinese may be most familiar with the Song Dynasty poet Lin Kui. Lin Kui retreated into nature, not asking about the world, Mei's wife and cranes, so unhappy. He never felt that his life was incomplete, that with natural beings in his company, he was already happy enough.
Like Lin Kui, the Yuan Dynasty painter we are going to talk about today also has quirks and a personality that is different from ordinary people. The painter's name was Ni Zhan, and he was born into a well-to-do family. However, shortly after Ni Zhan was born, his father died. He grew up with his elder brother.
Ni Zhan's elder brother was a well-known Taoist leader. At that time, the political background of the Yuan Dynasty was very important to Taoism, so Ni Zhan's brother was not short of fame and fortune and was highly valued.
Ni Zhan, who grew up in such a family, did not worry about eating and wearing, like a little young master. Moreover, his brother pampered him very much, making him a person who did not eat human fireworks.
Because the family environment is good, Ni Zhan's life is very exquisite, and the quality of life is also very high.
When he was a child, Ni Zhan was very concerned about his living environment and the objects he used, and he demanded that everything must be clean and no dirt should appear in front of his eyes.
Later, Ni Zhan gradually grew up and began to contact the poetry and book culture. He had a lot of books in his house, so he devoted himself to these books. He read many classic teachings of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and was influenced by the family environment, and the last thing he was most interested in was Taoist culture.
At the same time, Ni Zhan also loves painting and is extremely talented.
He integrated Taoist culture and some quiet ideas into his paintings, so that his works look quiet and noble, quite spiritual.
Soon, Ni Zhan's painting reputation spread out, and everyone knew that the Ni family had produced a great painter.
However, although Ni Zhan's painting skills are gradually becoming pure, his personality is very strange. When I was a child, I loved to be clean, and when I grew up, this degree was even worse, and I developed to the point of cleanliness.
Sycamore bath, toilet goose feathers
The reason why Ni Zhan's cleanliness habits are getting worse and worse has a lot to do with his obsession with Taoist teachings.
Ni Zhan was obsessed with the Taoist feeling of purity to the extreme, so he asked himself to live in an environment that, as the Taoist texts say, must be pure to the extreme.
How serious is his cleanliness? Not only could he not bear the slightest dirt on his painting tools, but he didn't even let go of the plane tree in front of the room.
He told his subordinates that he painted in front of his desk every day, facing the plane tree. If the plane tree is dirty, then he has no way to paint.
Therefore, he asked the next person to bathe the plane tree every day. Moreover, Ni Zhan's requirements are still very strict. What standard the next person cleans his painting tools, he must clean the plane tree according to what standard. Ni Zhan's perverted request made many people who served him daunted and retreated.
In addition to the sycamore bathing, Ni Zhan also required that the toilet at home must be covered with goose feathers.
This is because he can't stand the dirt and the smell. As soon as you enter the toilet, the goose feathers will fly and cover up the filth. At the same time, he will also put some perfumed things in the toilet. In this way, the toilet is not only not dirty, but also has a burst of fragrance.
These perverted demands have made Ni Zhan's life more and more isolated from the world. He couldn't stand the dirty environment when he went out to chat with his friends, and he couldn't stand people coming to his house and soiling it.
Therefore, in the long run, Ni Zhan's friends are getting fewer and fewer.
At first, there were still people who could tolerate his quirk, but as time passed, those people couldn't stand it either.
Moreover, the next person who is waiting around Ni Zhan is also updating and iterating very quickly. He is very strict with his subordinates, and few people can fulfill his requirements. Therefore, in the end, Ni Zhan could not find the next person. But he still refused to lower his standards, and even became more and more intense.
Never married, died of dirt
Because of his cleanliness habits, Ni Zhan lost his friends and could not find his next person. At the same time, he also never married because of his cleanliness. In fact, he did not deliberately curb his emotions, but he loved cleanliness too much to stand the lifestyle of other women.
He actually liked a girl, who was beautiful and beautiful, and she was also very fond of him.
He took the girl home, but he hated her for being dirty. So, before the same room, Ni Zhan asked the girl to take a shower first. The girl didn't think anything at the time, and obediently went to wash it.
Half an hour later, the girl came out and returned to Ni Zhan's bedroom. But Ni Zhan still felt that something was wrong, and he asked the girl to continue to take a bath. This went back and forth many times, and the girl herself had no patience. In the end, the girl actually spent one night in the bathtub. Therefore, the girl was also angry and told Ni Zhan that the old woman was no longer waiting.
Before leaving, the girl also said to Ni Zhan: "People like you should not have wives and should not start a family." A lifetime of loneliness and old age, don't go to harm others. ”
Ni Zhan did not think so, and never married.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was very unaccustomed to his style of behavior. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang found a mistake and let people throw him into the dung pit.
epilogue
Cleanliness is a very normal personality quirk, but Ni Zhan Wutong bathing, toilet laying goose feathers, lifelong unmarried, to a less normal extent. In the end, the person who loves cleanliness the most actually dies in the dirtiest place, let people
Sigh
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But then again, we have to face it too
Ni Zhan
This character. People in the world have a variety of personalities. Different people can achieve the colorful world.