Be a simple person
If man is covered by things, he will have fellowship with dust; if he is made by things, his heart will be labored.
Shi Tao recorded his personal feelings and included them in the "Far Dust Chapter" together with his painting theory. Far away from dust, that is, away from the intrusion of troubles, the meaning of this sentence is that people are blinded by foreign objects and driven by foreign objects, and their minds will be strained.
One of the "Landscape Albums" of the Qing Dynasty Shi Tao
Far away, easy to understand and difficult to reach.
In that year, Shi Tao gave up the illusion of joining the army, no longer attached to the official magnates, and left the capital and went straight to Yangzhou. He felt like a beggar, and on his way back to the south he left behind a desolate seven-word poem: "All the parties beg for bitter melon monks, and the abstinence is all Hinayana and the practice is not inclined to Hinayana at all." Fifty lonely walks alone, and a Zen disease is colder than ice.
When he was over fifty years old, he suddenly woke up and was determined to be a simple person, so he lived in simplicity, grew his hair, turned from the Buddha, took the nickname "Great Dizi", and began to prepare for the construction of the Great Di Caotang.
Polyester, for washing, is also polyester removal, removal. Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty once wrote in the "Tokyo Endowment": Enter the MingDe and worship the industry, and purify the greed of food. I have seen the bustling Shi Tao, with the polyester as the number, sitting quietly on the bridge to watch the water, and the pen is rolled up in front of the table, which is much quieter.
Occasionally, he would walk into the mountains, stroll around, and read about the beauty of the forest springs.
However, at this time, Shi Tao was no longer the intruder who only knew how to climb blindly. He had seen mountains, looked down at streams, and now he understood even more that mountains were not only peaks, nor could they be conquered, and he had learned to look up, to perceive the beauty of looking up at the foot of the mountain.
Just like the old man in the "Landscape Book", standing alone on the stone bridge under the dangerous peak, feeling the grandeur of the mountains and rivers and waterfalls, and the vastness of the natural sky, at that moment, nature and self exist together, harmonious and quiet.
Look up at the mountains
Shi Tao continued to write in the "Far Dust Chapter": I am covered with things, and the dust is with the dust, then the heart is not tired, and if the heart is not tired, there is a painting.
With the situation, do not gain or lose, follow nature, so the mind will not be tired, the heart is calm, so that painting has entered a good state. Shi Tao elevated the painting theory to the height of the cosmology, and experienced the changes of the original principles himself, and then arose at the end of the brush, such a state of mind and painting, unconsciously or at the top of the mountain.
Far away dust can also be found in the secular world.
Unlike Shi Tao, who retired to the Caotang to focus on painting, although Shen Zhou was hidden in xiangcheng and had a bamboo residence, he was never far away from the world. He had frequent contacts with the literati painters of Wumen, often gathering elegantly, but more importantly, Shen Zhou, who was in the midst of the bustle, still retained his own spiritual world and left a simple residence on the paper silk.
Just like the scenery in the "Suì) Antu", which he did for Yang Taichang (号邃庵), it is actually Shen Zhou's own inner reflection, where perhaps it is the bamboo residence he really yearns for.
Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou
邃 in the title of the painting means deep. The Warring States poet Qu Yuan wrote in "Leaving the Troubles": "In the boudoir, it is not only far away, but the king of zhe is not lonely( wù). The Eastern Jin Dynasty literary scholar Gan Bao also mentioned this word in the "Search for God": the house is dense, not the place where the dragon is located.
It can be seen from this that the temple is a deep and quiet residence. However, Shen Zhou did not focus his pen and ink on the living room, but deliberately sketched a literati who watched the water - he sat on a stone bridge, with his back to the viewer, and had no desire to communicate, here, not a place of friendship, it takes several twists and turns to reach, but it is far-reaching.
Meditation literati
Obviously, Shen Zhou's "far dust" is hidden in the painting and is not in daily life. Daily travel and observation is only a way for him to get a picture.
In a poem in the painting, he wrote: "Lovely Cloud Rock Day Trip." Yunyan is located in the Tiger Hill not far from the bamboo dwelling, and whenever he comes to this place, he will mostly record it, either the Yunyan Zen Temple, or the Qianyan Spring, or the Thousand People Stone that represents the ancient "social safety distance":
Tiger Hill of the Thousand People Stone Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou
In his later years, Shen Zhou could not travel far, but still went to the flowers and trees outside. So, he wrote the "Lying Tour Atlas".
Woyou, proposed by Zong Bing of the Southern Dynasty, has gradually become synonymous with literati painting after thousands of years of evolution. Shen Zhou's sleepy tour is not deep, he just cares too much about the blandness of life, that simple dead tree, a pomegranate, for him are all beautiful.
Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou (can slide left and right) Huainanzi and Erya both believe that there is an innate beauty between heaven and earth. Perhaps, simple people already know how to appreciate this free dust beauty.
However, Shi Tao and Shen Zhou's distant dust are very different, they are one hidden, one is out, one is dripping, one is delicate, in any case, when the two fall into the ink, the state of mind is finally in one place - simple.
Author: Mo Yi'ao, a writer, has long been engaged in the writing of pan-cultural content such as Chinese and Western art history and humanistic history, and all articles are currently published on the WeChat public accounts "LCA" and "Mo Yi'ao's".
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