Ancient calligraphers and painters could paint their hair and fingers

Successive generations of calligraphers and painters have their own painting styles and methods. In addition to using a brush, you can also use human hair, fingers, butts, etc. to perform skills, writing and drawing.

Tang Dynasty grass saint Zhang Xu, good cursive, good sex wine. Every drunkenness, call for a wild walk, or write with your hair dipped in ink, free and free. When you wake up drunk, you will watch the work and think that it is magical and cannot be recovered. Known as Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Xu "Now I Want to Return"

Tang Dynasty Du Fu's "Eight Immortals in Drinking Song" verse: "Zhang Xu's three cups of cursive writing, before taking off his hat and revealing the crown of the prince, waving the paper like a cloud of smoke." There is also a poem "Yang Jian sees Zhang Xu's cursive diagram": "Woo Woo Dong Wu Jing, Yi Qi Emotional Awareness." ”

According to the Song Dynasty Wu Zeng's "Records of being able to change the Zhai Dynasty", Du Shi did not say anything in detail, "but Li Ji had a poem to give it, and his words 'Hao Shou was poor and grassy, and was then called Taihu Jing', which was enough to see Du Shi's so-called Eastern Wu Jing. His words , 'Bare top according to the bed, long shout three or five sounds', is enough to see the meaning of the so-called hat removal. ”

Zhang Xu 《Champion Post》

Zhang Xu dipped his hair in ink, straight writing wild grass, continuous winding gestures, a variety of glyph changes, indulgence and exaggeration, soaring and running. For this almost crazy state of creation, the Great Scholar Han of the Tang Dynasty praised it more and more: "Moody, poor, sad, joyful, resentful, longing, drunk, bored, uneven, moving in the heart, will be in cursive writing." Looking at things, seeing the mountains and rivers, cliffs and valleys, birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers and trees, the sun and moon, wind, rain, water and fire, thunder and thunder, song and dance battles, changes in heaven and earth, it is gratifying and shocking, a dwelling in a book, can not be revealed, so that it will be known to future generations for the rest of his life. ("Send high idle people to the prologue")

There are also books that are dyed with ink with fingers, called finger books. The Song Dynasty Ma Yongqing's "Lazy True Son" says, "Wen Gong and private are in the northwest of the county, and all the places are publicly infected with finger books, and their methods are based on the second fingertip against the first finger, the fingers are slightly curved, and the ink books are dyed." "Duke Wen, also known as Sima Guang, was a politician and historian during the Northern Song Dynasty, and a scholar in the early years of Emperor Renzong's reign (1038), who was posthumously awarded the Title of Duke of Wen by the four dynasties of Emperor Yingzong, Emperor Shenzong, and Emperor Zhezong. Those plaques are all Sima Guang's finger books, and I am afraid that the official name is greater than art.

In addition, there is no shortage of people who write with their feet dipped in ink. The author recently met Wang Peien, a calligrapher in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, and demonstrated his foot book in public. The white paper is paved, and one hand carries a bamboo stick, which is independent on one foot; the other foot wears a long white cloth of cotton cloth, dipped in ink and written on the paper. The characters are kingly, vigorous and powerful. Dip in the book and swing freely. Under close inspection, in fact, most of them are written by toes, but "this toe" is not the other "finger", and the skills are similar.

If there are finger books, there are finger paintings. The so-called finger painting is painted with the fingers dipped in ink.

The Qing Dynasty Wang Shizhen's "Chibei Occasional Talk" records the "Imperial Painting Cow" article. PengShen (7th year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty, 1668) On the fifth day of xinzheng, at the monk's house of Ciren Temple, he personally saw the picture of the buffalo crossing painted by Emperor Shizu. Qing Shizu, the Shunzhi Emperor Ai XinjueLuo Fulin, the ninth son of Emperor Taizong Taiji, ascended the throne at the age of six, reigned for eighteen years, was good at calligraphy and painting, painted with a statue of Zhong Kui, and is now in the Palace Museum.

What is amazing is that his painting of the buffalo is "printed with a thread on the finger, and the meaning is vivid, which cannot be reached by pen and ink baking". Regardless of the thread of the first few fingers, the imperial painting printed is ultimately counted as a type of finger painting.

Who pioneered finger painting since ancient times? There are disagreements. However, most of them think that it is gao Qipei, a painter of the early Qing Dynasty. Gao Qipei, originally from Tieling County, Liaoning, was born in Jiangnan, grew up in Jiangnan, and began to learn painting at the age of eight. It is said that he was taught techniques in his dreams, so he created a unique school of finger painting in the painting world.

His great-grandson Gao Bing's "Finger Painting Theory" said that Gao Qipei "dreamed of an old man, the introduction of the soil room, the four walls are painted, the theory and law are all prepared, and the room is empty, can not be imitated, only the water is a cup, the finger dipped and learned, feel and rejoice." Nai got it in the heart and could not respond to it with a pen, and it was sullen. Even if I remember the method of using water in the earthen chamber, because I dipped my fingers in ink, I believed in its general outline, and I covered its god, and I took the head of the hand and the head was the Tao, and the pen was abolished."

Qing Gao Qipei "Spring Wave Fish Music"

Not to mention the credibility of the dream theory, just by virtue of Gao Qipei's exploration of painting for more than ten years, there is no doubt about his own finger painting. Gao Qipei paints finger paintings, not only with his fingers, but with the full use of all parts of the hand: nails, fingers, palms, backs of the hands, etc. His paintings include landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, etc., and his disciples include Gan Shitong, Zhao Chengmu, Li Shizhuo, Liu Chenyuan, Ma Fang and other well-known people, who were quite influential at that time.

Even more peculiar is painting with an ass.

According to the painter Zhang Ziji, in 1936, he studied painting with Qi Baishi in Beijing. At that time, Qi Baishi was famous for painting shrimp and lotus flowers, and a painting could sell for two silver dollars. Many children who learned to paint with Mr. Qi had difficulties in life.

Qi Baishi 《Lotus》

In order to help the children, Qi Baishi thought of a way: pour the polished ink into a large washbasin, tell the two fat children to take off their pants, dip their bare butts in the large basin with ink, and then let them sit on the cut rice paper. Sit down and there are two ink blobs printed on the paper. Suddenly, the two students sat down one or two dozen.

Qi Baishi picked up a pen, and on the paper printed with ink balls, quickly drew a few oblique stems to outline two lotus flowers with buds; then outlined several lotus leaf tendons on the ink balls, inscribed two poems, stamped them, and a lotus flower picture was drawn. Let the students take it for sale, and it is quickly sold out. Students refer to these lotus drawings as "sitting paintings."

For various reasons, there is nothing wrong with seeking new and different in art. As for the beauty and ugliness, it is a matter of opinion. Fortunately, there are also historical commentaries.

Qi Baishi 《Lotus》