In the two years from the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi to the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi, Wang Yi and Yu Zhiding were both in The Beijing Division, and the two not only had a common "circle of friends", but also painted many works together, forming a creative mode of portraits written by Yu Zhiding and Wang Yi supplementing the scenery, which was an ideal Chinese model for the scribes gathered in the Beijing Division at that time...
<h1>Lianbu Jinghua: Starting from Yu Zhiding's painting "Mr. Ishitani Returns the Mountain" inscription poem</h1>
In the 30th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1691), Wang Yimengzhao presided over the painting of the long and huge Kangxi "Southern Tour Map" volume from Changshu To the Beijing Division, which lasted for about seven years before returning to his hometown. In the spring of the twenty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yu Zhiding, who had lived in Beijing for many years, followed Xu Qianxue, who had promoted him to the south, and for six years settled in Dongting Dongshan and participated in the compilation of the "One Unification Chronicle", and when he returned to Beijing, it was already Kangxi thirty-five years. Wang Yi and Yu Zhiding were together in the Beijing Division for about two years. In this short period of time, the two did not know each other and had no contact with each other, on the contrary, not only did they have more overlap in the circle of communication, but also painted many works together, forming a creative mode of portraits written by Yu Zhiding and Wang Yi supplementing the scenery. This was an ideal for the scribes gathered in the Beijing Division at that time Chinese a model of people's walking music.
Qing Yu No Ding Mr. Ishitani Return mountain picture scroll (Takumoto)
Regarding the exchanges between Wang and Yu, we may wish to start with the people who have inscribed poems on Yu Zhiding's painting "Mr. Shigu Returning the Mountain" in the Changshu Museum. When this volume is expanded, you can see the inscriptions of Chen Yuanlong, Wang Shichen, Wang Tuan, Jiang Chenying and other nineteen people. Ishitani asks people to write poems on this commemorative scroll, and the invited objects are naturally people who know each other on weekdays. Shen Zhai (禹之鼎, number Shen Zhai) had no shortage of contacts with several of them, and this can be seen from the pictures he drew.
<h1>Wang Yi, Yu Zhiding and Cao Sancai</h1>
Of course, Wang and Yu have general friendships in the overlapping circle of friendship, and there are also close friends. Here, only Cao Sancai is taken as an example. Cao Sancai, Zi Xiwen, Lian Rang, Zhejiang Haiyan people. In the 38th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1699), he was a calligrapher, good at seal carving, and was a temporary yan with Cha Shenxing, Cha Sheng, Gu Sili, Jiang Chenying, etc., and his poems were heavily valued by Wang Shichen, the master of the poetry circle, and he wrote "Lian Rang Tang Poetry Collection" and "Half Yan Leng Yun Collection".
Qing Wang Yi and Yu Zhiding Painting Wang Tuan Tingquan Picture Scroll (Partial)
For Cao Sancai, Shi Gu has given good works more than once. In the thirty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Xi Wen gladly inscribed five unique poems because of the three small scrolls of landscapes and rivers donated by Shi Gu. In addition, feasting and drinking and collecting were the most common ways of communicating with the Jingshi literati during the Kangxi Dynasty, and Xiwen, Shigu, and Shenzhai were also participants in various literati activities. From January 19 to 21, 36 of the Kangxi Dynasty, the three of them met twice, and Shigu and Shinzai all collaborated on the spot to paint and give Xiwen. With the small seeing the big, it is not difficult to imagine the density and grandeur of the scribes in that year.
<h1>Wang Yi, Yu Zhiding and Wang Shishen</h1>
Compared with Cao Sancai, who was a cloth-clad celebrity at that time, Wang Shichen can be regarded as an eunuch, and his poetry is far-reaching, and he is already a bull's ear holder in the literary world. In the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1678) and the twenty-fourth year (1685), Shi Gu entered Beijing twice without meeting with Yuyang (王士禛, yuyang shanren, known as Wang Yuyang). In the thirty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1692), the year after Ishigu presided over Kangxi's Southern Tour to Beijing, yuyangji, who was then the minister of the feast and the inspector of the military department, captured the Right Attendant: "(Shi Gu) Xin future beijing master, quite self-respecting, his paintings are not made by people. The desire to give a poem as a gift has been given by the princes, and it has been specially composed of a long scroll and eight pieces of the booklet, and its meaning is so strong that it can be felt." (Wang Shichen's JuyiLu, vol. 18) At this time, Shi Gu's eagerness to make friends with Yuyang was clearly visible.
Qing Yu No Ding Seongnam Ya Collection Picture Scroll
Yu Zhiding's first meeting with Wang Shichen predates Wang Yi, and at least in July of the 21st year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1682), Shen Zhai painted the "Collected Maps of Chengnan Ya" for Yuyang, Xu Qianxue, Wang Maolin, Wang Youdan, and Chen Tingjing, shen zhai, who was an official from Jiupin and a preamble of Hongxu Temple, became acquainted with Yuyang, an official from Sipin and then a guozi sacrificial wine.
Judging from the interaction between Shi Gu, Shen Zhai and Wang Yuyang, the wonderful ink given to the pen is a way for many painters to make friends with officials and folk sages in the dynasty. Wang Yi, who had long been known as the "Three Kings of Jiangzuo" with his teachers Wang Shimin and Wang Jian, was a model figure who was good at using his painting skills to make friends with officials and celebrities. He was connected with Zhu Yizun, Gao Shiqi, Song Xing, Wu Xuan and others through painting donations, and literati and painters all responded with poems and paintings to form an elegant event in the art world.
Original author: Wang Qi
Original source: "Forbidden City" August 2018 issue of "Twenty Years of Master's Writings, Eight Years of Fast Dependence- The Journey of Li Zhen wang yi and Yu Zhiding"
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