"Title Liu Xiucai Hsinchu"
[Tang] Du Mu
A few stems of jade color, Xiao Xi cui smoke.
Sound breaks the cold window dream, the root wears green moss pattern.
Gradually caged when the threshold day, want to hinder into the curtain cloud.
Not a San'in guest, who loves this jun.
In traditional Chinese culture, bamboo is loved by the literati because of its habit of being verdant in all seasons and proud of snow and frost, so it is called "four gentlemen in flowers" together with plum, orchid and chrysanthemum, and "three friends of the cold year" with plum and pine. So today we will explore how in ancient daily life, how the literati and inkers chanted at bamboo.
Bamboo is also known as winter grass, because the ancients believed that bamboo is a kind of grass, and it does not wither in winter. "Guofeng Weifeng Qi'ao" has clouds: "Zhan Pi Qi'ao, green bamboo is a lyn." There are bandits, such as cutting like a knife, such as grinding. It can be seen that as early as two thousand years ago, there were relevant records of bamboo, and in ancient times, there was also a saying that "angry writing bamboo, happy painting orchid", so the poems about bamboo in the past dynasties can be described as innumerable after being passed down.
So in ancient daily life, how did the literati and inkers chant to bamboo? Like Tao Yuan,Ai ju, Su Shi also loved bamboo, and wrote a poem that read, "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo", and even created the idiom of "having a heart to be a bamboo". ("Wen and Can Be Painted Yundang valley Yan Bamboo Record": "Now the painter is doing it for the sake of festivals, and the leaves are tired, is there bamboo again?") Therefore, painting bamboo must first be made into bamboo in the chest. Not only that, the famous scholar Wang Yuwei of the Song Dynasty once built his own bamboo building and wrote the "Bamboo Building Record": "Xia Yi is in a rapid rain, there is the sound of waterfalls... It is advisable to throw the pot, and the sound of the arrow is solemn; All bamboo buildings help also. ”
In addition to Su Shi, a literati who was extremely obsessed with bamboo, the Qing Dynasty painter Zheng Banqiao spent almost two-thirds of his life painting bamboo. He once wrote the poem "Forty years I have painted bamboo branches, and I have written nighttime thoughts during the day." And after returning to Yangzhou in his later years, he also moved his family to the Zhulin Temple in the north of the city and lived a life with bamboo.
In addition, according to historical records, during the Middle and Tang Dynasties, bamboo has become one of the main subjects of painting, so a large number of paintings such as Northern Song Dynasty Wentong, Yuan Dynasty Ke Jiusi, Gao Kegong, Ni Zhan, Ming Dynasty Wang Fu, Xia Chang, Xu Zhi, Qing Dynasty Shi Tao and other painting bamboo people were born in the history of Chinese painting.