The ancients said, "Heaven rewards diligence." ”
Wen Zhengming spent his life confirming the importance of these four words, and also confirmed his father's evaluation of his sentence "great instrument late".
It is reported that Wen Zhengming can not speak and walk at the age of two, still stands unsteadily at the age of six, and is still inarticulate at the age of nine, and when he grows up, he participates in the township examination nine times in his life, all of which have fallen behind. In the eyes of others, he was seen as a naturally stupid and difficult to become a talent, but in his eyes, these setbacks have become a whetstone on the road to success.
He proved to everyone with his persistence and stubbornness that he was a genius and that there was nothing wrong with his persistence. Wen Zhengming has devoted himself to poetry and painting for more than 30 years, creating a leading calligraphy and painting of an era. Throughout his life, he wrote Xiao Kai to the realm of reaching the pinnacle of perfection, and was known as "the first of the Ming Dynasty". His paintings were studied by Shen Zhou, the founder of the Wumen School, and after Shen Zhou's death, he supported the entire school for decades. The artistic talents he cultivated affected the Ming and Qing dynasties. In his later years, he was famous all over the world, extremely prestigious, and was an ally of Suzhou and even the entire Jiangnan literary circle.
We have admired many of Wen Zhengming's famous calligraphy before, so let's take a look at his paintings today.
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Rainy Spring Tree Diagram
Wen Zhengming's "Yu Yu Chun Tree Diagram" vertical axis, paper, color, 94.3 x 33.3 cm, National Palace Museum, Taipei.
"Rain and Spring Tree" is his early fine-knit masterpiece. This year, he was 38 years old and was deeply influenced by Shen Zhou. The whole map master Shen Zhou green landscape method, dyeing the slope of the platform with ochre, dividing the surface with ochre ink, and then dyeing with green and green, dyeing less and more, and the layers are clear. The character Lin Mu is still clumsy with his pen, but he has taken on a graceful appearance, which is a farewell work he gave to his friend Sethi in the north.
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Tour Wu's Dongzhuang Map
Wen Zhengming's "You Wu's Dongzhuang Tu" on paper, color, 73.2x34.6 cm, the author was 44 years old at the time.
On the sixth day of the first month of May 1513, around the Time Of the Dragon Boat Festival, Wen Zhengming traveled with Wu Ye, Cai Yu, Qian Tongai, Tang Zhen, Wang Shou, Wang Pet, and the Eastern Zen monk Dexuan.
Wen Zhengming studied literature with Wu Kuan and painting with Shen Zhou, and Shen Zhou and Wu Kuan were confidants. I think of the days when I and the two masters traveled together in Dongzhuang to sing and sing, enjoy flowers and tea, and read in the rain and clear, I miss it very much. Now they are all gone, but Wen Zhengming and Dongzhuang's feelings are still there. After returning, Wen Zhengming began to draw this "You Wu's Dongzhuang Map" and gave it to Wu Kuan's nephew Wu Yi.
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Xiangjun Xiang Lady Figure
Wen Zhengming's "Portrait of Lady Xiangjun Xiang" vertical axis, silk, color, 100.8 x 35.6 cm, is in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing
This volume of "Portrait of Lady Xiangjun Xiang" was painted in 1517, and Wen Zhengming was 48 years old at the time. Figures are rare in Wen Zhengming's paintings, and this one comes from Qiu Ying from Taicang, who wanted to invite him to paint a picture of Lady Xiang and give it to the noble prince. However, Qiu Ying was not very satisfied with the painting, so he re-painted it himself.
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Picture of the Huishan Tea Party
Wen Zhengming's "Huishan Tea Party Diagram" on paper, color, 21.9 ×67 cm, author is 49 years old, beijing Palace Museum collection.
Wuxi Huishan has a "second spring in the world", which is the spring water evaluated by Lu Yu, the "tea saint" of the Tang Dynasty, and he believes that the tea boiled from this spring is particularly delicious. Wen Zhengming loved to drink tea, in 1518, during the Qingming Dynasty, new tea was listed, Wen Zhengming and his friends Cai Yu, Wang Shou, Wang Pet, Tang Zhen and other people went to Wuxi Huishan To enjoy the tour, in the foothills of the "bamboo furnace mountain house" to take spring water to cook tea, chanting and singing, very comfortable, so he left a masterpiece.
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Snow map of Guanshan Mountain
Wen Zhengming,"Snow Map of Guanshan Mountain", national palace museum in Taipei.
In 1528, Wen Zhengming was 59 years old, this winter, he and Wang Pet stayed at the Lengjia Temple on the mountain above Suzhou, that year Suzhou "snow was full of feet", Wang Pet was very emotional after seeing it, so "out of the good paper rope painting", Wen Zhengming originally loved the snow scene, gladly obeyed the fate, and took the opportunity to make "Guanshan Snow Map".
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Tea tasting chart
Wen Zhengming,"Tea Tasting Diagram" axis, on paper, 142.31X 40.89cm, national palace museum in Taipei, the author is 62 years old at the time.
After the valley rain in 1531, Wen Zhengming boiled tea in the forest tea house to receive Lu Zifu, and there was a low table built into the main room of the hut, and there was only one pot and two cups on the table, and the host and guest sat opposite each other and talked happily. These are Wen Zhengming and Lu Zifu.
This grass hall is a place where Wen Zhengming often gathers with his friends to taste tea, "with a bucket room to meet the mountain, with a tea set, and a special tea service for a long day to talk about" - quite in line with Wen Zhengming's requirements for the tea room, reading and reading paintings here, sitting alone at night, receiving friends and hospitality, long day talk, really beautiful things.
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Atrium step moon chart
"Atrium Moon Diagram" is a rather rare courtyard moonlight theme in Chinese paintings, and it is a relatively rare theme based on the interview of the literati husband on the night of the moon. The picture is a work by Wen Huiming when he was sixty-three years old, during the transition from middle age to old age, which was the period when Wen Zhengming's painting style matured and became stereotyped.
It depicts a moonlit night in the early winter six years after Wen Zhengming returned from the Beijing Master, the moon was bright that night, and after he and his disciples and others drank a little, they started in the atrium, saw the bitong under the moon, the shadows were on the ground, the people were silent, so they were happy and happy, and ordered the boy to cook bitter tea and sip it, and also sat under the eaves of the wind, not realizing that it was three o'clock.
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Imitation of Zhao Bohua after chibi futu
Wen Zhengming's "Chibi Futu After Imitating Zhao Bohua" was 79 years old at the time, in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
In 1548, the 79-year-old Wen Zhengming painted Xu Jin's "Chibi Map After Imitating Zhao Bohua". Speaking of lamentations, Xu Jin collected Zhao Bohua's "Later Chibi Tu", and the officials asked for it to be dedicated to Yan Song's son Yan Shifan, Xu Jin was reluctant to give it, and Wen Zhengming advised him not to cause trouble, so he drew this volume of green imitations for him.
Although it is copied from Zhao Bohua's "Later Chibi Tu", the treatment of hue in the painting, the paving of green and green, thick but not greasy, is already the painting method of the literati after the Yuan Dynasty. In the color of Nongli, there is a different kind of light elegance that symbolizes itself.
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Magnolia Chart Roll
Wen Zhengming, "Magnolia Scrolls", collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Magnolia Picture Scroll" was painted by Wen Zhengming at the age of 80, when he was strolling in the courtyard, he suddenly smelled the refreshing fragrance of flowers, so he painted with great enthusiasm and "played with pen". This work still adheres to the combination of Wen Zhengming's brushwork and freehand painting, which is the precedent of Chen Chun and Xu Wei's large-scale freehand paintings of flowers and birds.
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Taoyuan Asking Forsay Picture Scroll
Wen Zhengming's "Taoyuan Qingjin Picture Scroll" Hand Scroll Color on paper 23x578.3 cm, Collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum
In 1554, Wen Zhengming was 85 years old. Not only has Shen Zhou passed away for many years, but Tang Yin and Qiu Ying have also died for more than twenty years. Probably thinking of the deceased, Wen Zhengming used the rough brushwork learned by Shen Zhou to draw this volume of "Taoyuan Qingjin Map".
Although it is a thick pen, but it is also particularly rigorous, there is no vulgar pen - vigorous and thick but warm, coarse and not strange, simple but not rate, pen and ink without the drawbacks of dryness and madness, hook dot dye skillfully use the calligraphy pen. This is where Wen Zhengming's thick brushshet landscape is higher than people.'
When he was 90 years old, Wen Zhengming wrote an epitaph for Yushi Yanjiemu, and at the moment when the epitaph was completed, he sat down with his pen and died. "There are three thousand meters of dust in the city, and it looks like two elk traces." Across the pool Bishan for a smile, away from the self-receiving evening cool breeze. This is his inscription in "Sitting in the Pine Shade". It is also just like his life, idle, calm, and indisputable with the world.
Which one do you prefer for Wen Zhengming's calligraphy and painting? Let me know in the comments section!