In the spring water of the spring mountains, there was the sound of horses' hooves, as if a good news was sounding. In the deep valley of the mountains, under the shade of the willow trees, two riding scribes flashed out, one with their backs to the outside of the painting, the positive one with a soft hat on his head, his beard flicking on his chest, and his right hand clenching his fist, as if he was in control of a controlled fate. He leaned back sideways, apparently explaining something to the next scribe, followed by a waiter carrying a book.
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The author Shen Zhou inscription: "The spring wind is full of flowers and branches, and the black hat is half drunk in the spring." The wild jade whip urged the horse to hurry, and Qionglin also remembered that the feast was late. "Reading the poem, layer by layer, like peeling spring shoots. The first sentence writes the scene, the second or third sentence writes about the state of the person, half drunk, whipping, urging the horse; to the last sentence, finally to the inside - "Qionglin still remembers the late return of the feast", for a while let the viewer understand why the person in the painting is so emotional. This sentence is an inverted structure, which should be "remember the late return of the Qionglin banquet", and the heart is still intoxicated in the luxurious and proud pomp of the Qionglin banquet, clinging to it.
Ming Shen Zhou Chunhua Daytime Brocade Figure 278.6× 95.7cm Color on Paper Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
The Qionglin Feast is a banquet held for the new kojinshi after the temple examination. In Huang Mei's play "Female Pony", the most familiar sentence is this sentence: "I have also been to the Qionglin Banquet, and I have also beaten the horse in front of the Royal Street." "The scenery is endless.
The alcohol injected into the body at the feast has long since faded, but the wine mixed with the ripples of spring has not yet dissipated. Shen Zhou's pen, in the spring mountain forest, people, mountain stones, trees and houses, are loosely placed with the pen. At the top of the mountain, it is decorated with thick moss dots to express the image of grass and trees. In such a scenery, it is best to return home. The title of the painting is "Chunhua Daytime Brocade".
In fact, Shen Zhou himself did not participate in the imperial examination. Unlike many scribes who gave up the imperial examination after repeated trials, he was determined to be unworthy from beginning to end. All his life he clothed and made a living from calligraphy and painting.
Ming Shen Zhou Chunhua Daytime Brocade Diagram (Partial)
This painting, with a vertical shaft of nearly three meters vertical and nearly one meter wide, is a huge scale. Just imagine, hanging in the middle hall, how to attract attention! It makes people guess the intentions of the customizer or collector, or the remembrance of the "highlight moment" of the return of the clothes, or the good wishes of "every exam must pass". Whether it is a custom painting or a social painting, Shen Zhou's painting of such a work also shows that although he does not participate in the imperial examination, he does not criticize the imperial examination, will not have the sour taste of "meat eater contempt", and he respects everyone's free choice for his own future. If you change to Xu Wei, who has fallen behind many times, "Party A" went to the door of Qingteng Bookstore to ask for a painting of "Chunhua Daytime Jinjin", he promised to close the door and shouted: "Xu Wei is not there, there are paintings that are not for sale!" ”
Shen Zhou had a gentle personality, and his friends ranged from ordinary people to high-ranking officials and nobles such as Wu Kuan. In his opinion, Shi and Cain are good. In Wuzhong in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the political atmosphere was relaxed, the economic environment was active, and the literati tended to pay more attention to their current quality of life. Everyone can find their niche in the "embryonic markets of capitalism". The channels for changing fate will not be like in dramas such as "Female Pony", there are only two kinds of "out of the general" and "into the picture".
Ming Shen Zhou Chunhua Daytime Brocade Diagram (Partial)
Some researchers believe that although the work has Shen Zhou's title, the brushwork is slightly stagnant and weak, and it is suspected that it is a work of pseudo-entrustment by posterity (with the brushwork of a painter who has no intention of pursuing a career, painting a picture of the high school emperor list and returning to his hometown, it can also be seen that people admire the open-mindedness of the painter himself). Some researchers believe that not necessarily, Shen Zhou also wrote a real title for the fake author. It is said that a poor painter, in order to support his mother, copied Shen Zhou's paintings and brought them to Shen Zhou for inscriptions. Shen Zhou was not displeased in the slightest, and actually polished and supplemented the pen and stamped the inscription.
In addition to the figures in the lower part of the painting, there is a parallel world in the painting - two or three rooms, diagonally in the mountains and forests. Among them, the hermit, like a plant facing the sun, was almost "planted" in the house by the painter, and the gentle spring breeze also flowed in the placket. The History of the Ming Dynasty says that Shen Zhou "was tired of entering the city and set up a nest outside Guo... In his later years, he hid but was not deep, and successively inspected Wang Shu and Peng Licheng to pay tribute, wanting to stay under the curtain and resign with his mother. "The mother's year ended ninety-nine, and Shen Zhou was also eighty years old at this time. That year, someone painted a portrait of him, and the following year he inscribed a cloud: "It seems to be different, it is really not true, the shadow on the paper, the outsider." Death and life are dreams, and there is dust in the heavens and the earth. The creek rests, I cherish the spring. Tang Sikong's "Record of Xiu Xiu Ting" depicts the Xiu Xiu Pavilion he built on the creek and pursues the realm of tranquility and self-adaptation - as Zhu Liangzhi said: "There is always a warm spring in his (Shen Zhou)'s bosom, and there is the true color of 'even if it is warm', even if life is short, the path of life is full of cold breath, and he still appears with his own warm heart." ”
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