In the midsummer of the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), the Qianlong Emperor exhibited a collection of paintings and calligraphy of Zhao Mengfu's "Treatise on Music", and inscribed the first one: "The last is the first three absolutes". Today, we can not only feel the Qianlong Emperor's extreme love for this work from the four paragraphs of the imperial inscription, but also seem to be able to feel the ease and cheerfulness of this emperor after just pacifying the Great Jinchuan from the relaxed and smooth inscription and the relaxed wording such as "the quasi-fastu, but also the tiredness of twenty years of hard work". The "Lezhi" with "concealment" as the main line in this stone canal heavy treasure is also the "floating life half-day leisure" outside the emperor's "ten perfect martial arts".
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Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322)
"On Music" is a collection of calligraphy and painting
Hand-scrolled ink on paper, coloring paper
Illustrate:
(1) The Qianlong Emperor's "Inscribed Zhao Mengfu Lezhi on the Combination of Calligraphy and Painting, Volume 3" was recorded in the fourth volume of the "Imperial Poetry Anthology", volume 37.
(2) According to the "Catalogue of Ancient Books, Calligraphy and Paintings in Pu Yi's Appreciation of Pu Jie Palace", this work was awarded to Pu Jie by Pu Yi on December 12, the 14th year of Xuantong (1922), numbered 1877.
(3) From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin dynasties, the wind of seclusion flourished. The "Theory of Music" written by Zhong Changtong of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the first to comprehensively depict the way, environment, and thought of hidden life. Zhong Changtong (179–220), character axiom, was a native of Gaoping, Shanyang (near present-day Jin County, Shandong). Former Shang Shulang. Philosopher, political commentator, and literary scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The outlook on life advocated in the "Theory of Music" that focused on the enjoyment of life turned to the pursuit of a hidden and leisurely taste for life, which had a profound impact on the later scholars. This is a painting painted by Zhao Mengfu according to Zhong Changtong's "Treatise on Music".
(4) At the end of the volume, Wen Zhengming said that the volume was an old historical object of Gao Tai. In 1531, when he was with Wang Shou (performing the treaty) and Chen Chun (Daofu), he was fortunate enough to be viewed at Cai Yu (Jiukui).
1. Gao Taishi should be Gao Qi, a famous poet in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Gao Qi (1336–1374), courtesy name Jidi, also known as Qingqiuzi, was a native of Changzhou (present-day Suzhou). Yuan Shi lived in seclusion in Qingqiu and entertained himself with poetry. Yang Ji, Zhang Yu, and Xu Ban are all the same name, known as the "Four Masters of Wu Zhong". Ming Hongwu Chu, summoned the "Yuan History" to edit the history of the Hanlin Academy, so he was called Gao Tai Shi. Can write poetry, especially good at history. There was some irony in tasting Fu Shi, and he was beheaded by Taizu in the city. He is the author of "The Complete History of Gao Tai" and so on.
2. Cai Yu (?) -1541), character Jiukui, self-proclaimed Linwu Shanren, a native of Wu County, living in Dongting Mountain. All lives, on a par with Wen Zhengming. Gong entered the Tai Xue and was taught by Guozi to the Nanjing Hanlin Academy. Good ancient words, good at poetry, good at calligraphy.
3. Wang Shou (1492-1550), character fulfillment, number Hanfeng, a native of Wu County. In the fifth year of Jiajing (1526), he became a scholar, appointed the official of Ningbo Prefecture, promoted officials to the department, and changed the river course. He worshipped Cai Yu with his brother Wang Pet and lived in Xishan for three years. Friendship with Wen Zhengming and Zhu Yunming. Gong poem, calligraphy Li Huailin, can also be engraved.
4. Chen Chun (1482-1544), Zidaofu, a native of Baiyang Mountain and Changzhou. Beings. Gong Shi is good at painting and is a disciple of Wen Zhengming.
(5) The Bawen of the later paper photo imitated Han Yu's "Picture Notes", and the Qianlong Emperor gave it a high evaluation, and under the "Inscription Zhao Mengfu Lezhi on the Three Volumes of Calligraphy and Painting", it was noted that "Later Zhang Zhaoji is excellent".
Description:
1. "Shiqu Baoji Continuation - Chonghua Palace", "Secret Hall Zhulin Shiqu Baoji Compilation", Volume 5, pp. 1563-1566, Shanghai Bookstore, 1988 edition.
2. "Appreciation of Pujie Calligraphy and Painting" (in "Four Catalogues of Calligraphy and Paintings in the Forbidden City"), page 25, National Peking Palace Museum, 1934.
3. "National Treasure Shen Fulu - Scattered Calligraphy and Painting in the Forbidden City", edited by Yang Renkai, pp. 421-423, 550, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1991 edition.
4. Bibliography of Historical Bibliography, edited by Zhu Jiapu, page 495, Appendix - Combination of Calligraphy and Painting, Forbidden City Press, 1997 edition.
5. "Qianlong and Songxue Calligraphy and Painting: A Little Knowledge of the Art and Literature of the Qing Emperor", Li Wa Yikun, Studies on Chinese Court Painting, pp. 553-554, Palace Press, 2015 edition.
Full volume: Approx. 30×541.8 cm Approx. 14.6 square feet
Painting: 27.3×153.3 cm Approx. 3.8 square feet
Book: 27.3×99.1 cm Approx. 2.4 square feet
Zhao Mengfu's "Treatise on Music" is a collection of calligraphy and painting
Zhao Mengfu was the greatest artist of the Yuan Dynasty. He is good at poetry, writing and painting, and can be called the first in his time. In painting, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, walking beasts, pommel horses, and orchids are all incapable and refined. Calligraphy is true, grassy, subordinate, and seal, and no one else can match it in contemporary times. Huang (Gongwang), Wang (Meng), Ni (Zhan), Wu (Zhen), Yuan, Cao Yunxi, Sheng Zizhao, Tang Di, Wang Yuan, Zhang Wu, etc. were all irrigated to form a far-reaching generation, and literati painting climbed to another peak. It has written a brilliant page in the history of Chinese art.
Zhao Mengfu's "On Music" Calligraphy and Painting Volume Part 1
Zhao Mengfu's landscape paintings are diverse in style, either inheriting Li (Cheng) Guo (Xi), or Shifa Dong (Yuan) Ju (Ran), most of which are simple and elegant, and self-propelling. There are also imitations of Tang Xiaoli General Li and Song Zhao Boju and Zhao Boqi as green and green colors, then bright and clear, Yuanmu Xiurun, and the successors are not as good.
Zhao Mengfu's "On Music" Calligraphy and Painting Volume Part 2
Zhao's "Le Zhi On the Book and Picture Scroll" depicts the leisurely and rich hidden life scene of the ancient Shifu described in the text of the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhong Changtong's "On Le Zhi", a paradise far from the world. In the picture, the mountains are deep and densely forested, the clouds are springing, and the mountain villa is built at the bottom of the valley between the two mountains, although it is a thatched hut and cornice, but there are halls, courtyards, pavilions, buildings, study rooms, and kitchen gardens. The surrounding bamboo trees are ringed and pine-like. There is a Xuanting Water Pavilion not far from the next bank, which can be overlooked by the owner from afar; Turning around the foot of the mountain, there are orchards near the water, flowers and trees are flourishing, and farmers in the fields are hoeing and planting. In the picture, the owner sits in the garden and sits in the garden to chant according to the case. Between the dense trees outside the garden, above the rapids, there is a winding path of Banqiao leading to the outside of the mountain, waiting for the occasional visit of good friends and guests. It is really a paradise where you can breathe peacefully, cultivate yourself, and have plenty of food and clothing.
Zhao Mengfu's "On Music" Calligraphy and Painting Volume Part 3
With the yearning for the ideal of Zhong Changtong, the author expands his imagination, ingeniously inspires the pen, meticulously depicts, and meticulously but skillfully draws a real wonderland on earth. The brush is drawn by Li Cheng, with light green and green colors, lush and plump without being stuffed, beautiful and refined and trying to avoid restraint, it is a fascinating masterpiece that is enough to swim in the eyes.
Zhao Mengfu's book "On Music"
Later, there is a small line of calligraphy and music on the full text, the calligraphy is round, and the painting can be called double beauty. At the back of the volume, there are poems such as Deng Wenyuan of Yuanren, and long inscriptions by Wen Zhengming and Zhang Zhao, who once entered the Qing Inner Mansion, and there are four long inscriptions of Qianlong across the water, and the four characters of the big book "Three Absolute Later" are introduced, which shows that it is a cherished thing that he often exhibits and plays. There are many Zhao Mengfu calligraphy and paintings in the collection of "Shiqu", but Qianlong especially appreciates this picture and the three volumes of Zhao's "Water Village Map" and "Quehua Autumn Color Map". He said in the fourth language of this volume: "The old collection of Neifu "Quehua Autumn Colors" and "Water Village Map" are both masterpieces of Wu Xing, and this volume is specially mastered with precision, and Shiqu Zhao painted it brilliantly!" "The joy in my heart is beyond words.
Introduction: First three exceptions
In 1922, the Xuantong Emperor smuggled this volume out of the palace in the name of rewarding Pu Jie, and hid it in the "Little White Building" in Shenyang during the puppet Manchu government, the Japanese army was defeated, Pu Yi fled, this volume and the Shiqu collection of other divisions were snatched out by the defenders, and Mr. Yang Renkai's "National Treasure Sinking and Floating Record" recorded that this volume was purchased by a private person in Nanjing. Discovered overseas decades later. It is also a great blessing to be back in place today.
The Qianlong Emperor has a good heart
This work has the seals of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xuantong, and four emperors, a total of 38 parties. In addition to the 35 square seals of Qianlong, the "Asahi Radiance" of Daoguang is particularly rare. It can be seen that this work is very popular with several emperors.
Small statue of the Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor's cherishing of this work is not only reflected in the number of seals, but also in the introduction written on the dragon-patterned wax note: "The first three absolutes". And the fourth degree of royal questions:
Contemplate the crystal Taoist diagram, as in reading Gao Ping's treatise. and recited the Tianping bachelor's record, and it seems that Song Xue painted a rerecognition. There is no need for a picture, and there is no residue in the theory of the taste of the picture. One and two and two and one, the first three and the back three water emulsion. Zheng Qian is a unique artist of the ancient rhyme. However, it is not Shanyang Chao's work, so why ask. Min Xiangchang is angry, and Si Cheng can also go with him. Bingshen (1776) Midsummer Moon Mid-Huan Imperial Title. Seal: Qian Long (see Qing Dynasty Imperial Seal Catalogue Qianlong Scroll, page 18)
The picture of Quehua's autumn color water village is a masterpiece of King Sun of Jin. This volume is very well-intentioned, and it is written with a broad approach. The second picture entered Shiquzhen early, and it is hereby allowed by the temple to obtain its trust. And the mountains and streams to build a beautiful house, let the guest life servant. Good fields are planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and they are happy with their relatives. Happy is not intentional, Tusi is difficult to write. As if Old Man Songxue said, the original Fudan Qingxuan was as sophisticated. On the same day, the book was inscribed and merged. Seal: Qianlong Chenhan, Ji Xiao Linchi (see Qianlong Scroll, pp. 11, 32)
High ambition and talent, the consequences are as prescient as words. In this way, the order is heard, and the hidden period is stopped. Wen Min's structure is so satisfactory, and there is a fei gentleman. More than 400 years of wonderful traces remained, and Ding Jia will never change. The pond is divided and loses its name, and the name goes to exist in chaos. The literary commentary imitates Li Beihai, and Zhang Xueyan writes You Jian. Quasi-Fastu, too, is tired of twenty years of hard work. What is the repetition question, and recorded as on the right. Seal: Qianlong Chenhan, Shui Yue in hand (see Qianlong Scroll, pages 11, 267)
The third poem on the right, the first chapter is Gao Ping Lezhi, sustenance Gao Yuan; Gurumbo paints things, and the music is wonderful; Zhang Zhao made a note, the water and milk blended, and the combination can be called the three exceptions. The second chapter is due to the old collection of Neifu "Quehua Autumn Colors" and "Water Village Map", both of which are masterpieces of Wu Xing. This volume is specially written with great rigor, and Shiqu Zhao painted it brilliantly. Gu Kao's previous generations of collectors, if the books of "Qinghe Calligraphy and Painting" do not contain this picture, and in the frame, Zi Ang is not signed, there is almost no verification. However, judging his pen and ink, there is a graceful style in the workmanship, and it is suspected that it is a family law of thousands of miles, and it is believed that he can handle it. Its loss may be severed, and its existence does not hinder its name. So the three chapters come to an end. However, after the scroll of the truth, Zi Angshu talked about self-obedience, which is quite like a double hook, and it is suspected that it was forged by later generations. And Zhang Zhaozhi's record, Xiaokai is similar to the plain Magu altar, and the writing is imitated by Changli painting, and Yu Songxue praised Xu Te. It is the theory of the mountain and the yang, complemented by the painting of Songxue, and this picture of Songxue is not the record of the heavenly bottle, but the faith. The poem is divided into books and waters, and several words are read in the back grid, and the book is attached on the same day. Imperial Pen. Seal: Bede, Langrun (see page 91 of the Qianlong Scroll)
At that time, the Qianlong Emperor was over his age, but he was full of energy. In the spring of the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), the Qing army conquered Dajinchuan, ending a war that lasted five years and cost 70 million taels of silver. Perhaps because of this matter of heart, writing is particularly pleasant, and in the inscription, there is even no lack of "Pseudophasis is also difficult, and it is tired of twenty years of diligence." Such lighthearted wording. To this day, we can still imagine how the Qianlong Emperor traveled between the intentional layouts he made, and left behind the sigh that "more than four hundred years of wonderful traces remain, and Ding Jia will never change".
What is "three first"
The Qianlong Emperor wrote the introduction "Three Absolute Later". And personally made annotations in the text. What he thinks is the last three are:
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Gao Ping Lezhi, pinning on Gao Yuan
Gurumami paints things, and the music is wonderful
Zhang Zhao made a note, and the water and milk blended
Together, it can be called three exceptions.
Gao Ping refers to the author of the "Theory of Le Zhi", Zhong Changtong, Zi Gongli, and Shanyang Gaoping people. Born in troubled times, he sought a pure land where his body and mind could be sustened, and expressed his hidden feelings in "The Theory of Music". And Zhao Mengfu delicately portrayed this hidden feeling through his superb painting skills, which can be called "the best of the song". Finally, the Qianlong Emperor specifically mentioned Zhang Zhao's long journey, which can be called one of the three absolutes.
Zhang Zhaoba
The Qianlong Emperor also gave Zhang Zhao a copy of Han Yu's "Painting Notes" with a "Guxi Tianzi", which was extremely courteous. Under the "Inscription Zhao Mengfu Lezhi on the Three Volumes of Calligraphy and Painting", it is noted that "Later Zhang Zhaoji is excellent".
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