Since the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, all dynasties and dynasties have erected statues of Su Dongpo, and Su Dongpo's portraits not only depict his appearance, but also have the iconographic value of carrying the spirit of traditional Chinese literati and the bones of literati, and thus construct an ideal cultural personality.
In Lin Yutang's eyes, Su Dongpo "is an optimist with a difficult disposition, a moralist who is sad and compassionate, a good friend of the people of Li Min, a prose writer, a painter of the new school, a great calligrapher, an experimenter of winemaking, an engineer, an opposition to false Taoism, a practitioner of yoga, a Buddhist, a scholar, a secretary of the emperor, a drinker, a judge with a compassionate heart, a political insistence on his own opinion, a wanderer under the moon, a poet, a person who is witty and joking by nature." "Then, what does this Su Dongpo, who can have two without one difficulty in the world, look like?"
Northern Song Dynasty Legend has it that Li Gonglin wrote "Portrait of Su Dongpo"
As a close friend of Su Dongpo's contemporaries, Li Gonglin, Su Dongpo had a close relationship with him for more than twenty years, so Li Gonglin's "Hanging Stick Drunken Sitting Diagram" restored the true appearance of Su Dongpo, and the work was also evaluated by Su Dongpo and Su Dongpo's student Huang Tingjian as the most similar portrait of Su Dongpo himself, as Huang Tingjian said: "Luzhou Li Boshi recently made Zi Zhan press the cane, sit on the pan stone, very similar to his drunken mood. This paper is wonderful in the world, and it can be used as a statue of a son when the beggar is begged, and when my generations meet, it is also a good thing to open a table, if you see his person. ”
Ming Zhu Zhifan 《東坡笠屐圖》
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhifan's "Dongpo Kasa Map" is a painting copied by Li Gonglin, and through Zhu Zhifan's "Dongpo Kasa Map", it can not only restore the state of Su Dongpo wearing a clogs in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also provide an indirect pictorial paradigm for the creation of the theme of "Dongpo Kasa" in the Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times, and the "Dongpo Kasa Map" created by Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, Zeng Whale, Yu Ji, Yang Jun and other painters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as Zhang Daqian's three drafts of "Dongpo Kasa Map" are based on the Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhifan's "Dongpo Kasa Map".
In Zhu Zhifan's "Diagram of Dongpo Kasak", Su Dongpo wears a bucket hat on his head, wears a wide robe, wears clogs on his feet, his feet are uncomfortably staggered back and forth, his hands unnaturally lift the hem of his robe, and his eyes stare nervously ahead, because his state of confusion makes his whole body lean forward, as if nervous and curious, as if he is moving forward and as if he is adapting to the feeling of clogs. In short, the embarrassment and comfortable living conditions of Su Dongpo's first attempt to wear a sandal are vividly expressed, and thus the confucian image of a generation of literary heroes and the majestic posture of a parent official are transformed, so that the world can see a Su Dongpo who is degraded to Hainan but still loves life.
Ming Qiangu 《東po Kasa 屐圖》
Ming Dynasty Qiangu's "Dongpo Kasa Map" and the existing "Dongpo Kasa" theme creation are not the same, the picture of Su Dongpo wearing the short clothes often worn by farmers, and the character image is no longer in the leisure state of historical records, but appears in the image of serious thinking, and the face of the character is no longer rounded and plump, but has a sense of vicissitudes of the years.
Ming Sun Kehong 《東po先生屐屐圖》
Ming Author unknown 《Dongpo Praise Portrait》
In the Ming Dynasty Zeng Whale's "Dongpo Kasa Map", the face of Su Dongpo in the picture has a thick and flowing long hair, and the thick and flowing feeling of this long hair just brings a rounded and comfortable posture to the shaping of the character image, unlike the vicissitudes and sadness brought about by the sparse beard on the shaping of the character's face. This seems to be Zeng Whale's intention to shape the image of Su Dongpo - not to deliberately pursue the real viewing effect of the picture image, but to capture the inner state of the characters, in this work, Zeng Whale saw through Su Dongpo's state in Danzhou, and also saw that Su Dongpo was about to go through a bumpy but great life course, so it is not so much for Su Dongpo to make a statue, but rather to say that this is a cultural personality statue of Su Dongpo, and it is the painter who constructs a personal cultural personality state by expressing the image of Dongpo Kasa.
Zhang Daqian《 "Diagram of dongpo jushi Kasa"
Zhang Daqian《 "Diagram of dongpo jushi Kasa"
In the "Dongpo Jushi Kasa Map" painted by Zhang Daqian in modern times, it is different from the images of dongpo kasaks of the aforementioned dynasties, in the "Dongpo Jushi Kasa Map", Zhang Daqian has a personalized translation of the image of Su Dongpo wearing a clogs and leaning over the clothes in the traditional Dongpo Kasa map, not only showing Su Dongpo's standing and upright posture, but also integrating the action of the staff with the image of Dai Kasa wearing a clog, presenting a full-spirited and self-assured image of Su Dongpo between the fluttering clothes, beautiful hair, and high strides. The kasa and cane here obviously no longer have the physical effect of the kasa and cane quinoa at the primitive cognitive level, and have begun to transition to the spiritual symbolic level.
Yuan Zhao Mengfu "Little Portrait of Su Dongpo"
Qing Li Li 《東坡屐圖》
Su Dongpo's image of an independent literati and the cultural spirit of going straight and upright constitute The enduring cultural personality charm of Su Dongpo. It can really be described as "the great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters of the ancient winds and currents" can not forget Su Dongpo!