Yan Liben's hometown is Lintong District, Xi'an City, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museum
Yan Liben was a great painter of the Tang Dynasty, who was good at painting Tai Ge, chariots and horses, portraits, especially historical figure paintings and landscape paintings with major themes, such as the "Twenty-Four Heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion" painted by Feng Zhao in the Ling Yan Pavilion of the Taiji Hall. Others include "Eighteen Scholars of Qin Province", "Wei Zhengjin Zhi Tu", "Filial Piety Picture Scroll", "Exotic Dou bao map", "Gong Gong Tu", "Western Region Map", "Ming Ling Column Portrait Map", "Foreign Map", "Yonghui Courtier Map", "Imperial Emperor Picture Scroll", "Xiao Yi Earn Lanting Picture Scroll", "Bu YuanTu" and so on. The pieces are classics, and his great name has been famous for all eternity.
Tang Yan Liben Emperor Figure 51.3×531cm Silk Color, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In fact, as early as the Sui Dynasty, Yan Liben was already an official and a junior prisoner. In the first year (656) of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he was promoted to the rank of General of the Ministry of Works, and in 668 he was promoted to Right Minister. Moreover, it is true that painting is not his right profession, but only a hobby, and it is only because he is so good that he and this skill are used as a tool, and are often used as tools, so that they miss the right karma and are ridiculed by the New Book of Tang.
Tang Yan Liben "Xiao Yi Earn Lan Ting Tu" Silk Color 27.4×64.7cm Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The prime minister, who has achieved nothing in politics, who does some mundane work all day long and "does not do the right thing", of course, will be ridiculed. However, would he be willing to do so? Of course not. But he couldn't. The emperor has long used him as a "private painter". I wanted to paint a "standard portrait", I called Yan Liben, I wanted to draw a "family portrait" (there is no historical record that the emperor painted a family portrait, but it is just a metaphor), and yan Liben was called.
Early Tang Dynasty Yan Liben "Step Map" Silk color length 38.5cm horizontal 129cm Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing
Someone even killed a wild animal, and the emperor asked him to paint it. For example, once, a fierce beast appeared in Nanshan, injuring several people, and Tang Taizong sent warriors to catch it, but it was not caught, and the beast ran away and continued to endanger the people. A man named Li Yuanfeng volunteered to eliminate harm for the people, and with one arrow he wanted the beast's life, And Tang Taizong said: This is a hero, a heroic deed, and we must paint the scene of him shooting the beast to show how heroic the Tang Dynasty people are.
Yan Liben did not see many heroes shooting beasts, how to draw? Of course, by imagination, as a result, the paintings he drew, even the kurama servants, were vivid, just as he was present at the time, and what he saw with his own eyes, everyone who saw the painting admired his superb professional level -- "When there were beasts of prey in Nanshan, Emperor Taizong made the brave people hunt them, and they could not." Yuanfeng, the King of Yu, was loyal and righteous, taking it from himself and killing him with one arrow. Emperor Taizong was strong and made the original map. Kurama servants, all written about their truth, are all amazed by their abilities. This is an incident recorded in the Taiping Guangji Vol. 211.
Tang Yan Liben Filial Piety Scroll Liaoning Provincial Museum
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There was something that made Yan Liben even more depressed. Once, Tang Taizong and his attendants were rowing and playing in the lake of the Imperial Garden, and found that there was a strange bird he had never seen before, flying on the surface of the lake, which made him happy, like a child, clapping his hands on the boat railing, and applauding one after another. First, the attendants who ordered him to play improvised poems and praised the strange bird's "beautiful dance", and then it seemed as if he suddenly remembered something: Hurry up, go and call Yan Liben, go and go fast!
The palace attendants did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately went ashore to call: "The painter Yan Liben is coming soon, and the emperor calls you!" Hearing the summons, Yan Liben hurriedly ran to come, sweating profusely and embarrassed, came to the lake, and immediately "prostrated himself on the side of the pool" and drew with a paintbrush in his hand.
Tang Yan Liben Confucius disciple statue
Tang Yan Li is a tribute to the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Then he told his son: You should remember this lesson from your father, don't learn to draw. (Tang Yulin" ("Emperor Taizong tasted and the attendants sailed in the Spring Garden, there were birds in the pool with Bo Ronghe, Emperor Taizong rewarded the number four, and the one who sat down was a chant, and Yan Liben was summoned to write it.") Outside the cabinet, He yang yun: "Painter Yan Liben." "When he was in power, he ran and sweated, leaned over the side of the pool, and waved Danqing in his hand, and he was ashamed. Moreover, he admonished his son: "I am not good at reading, and I am spared from facing the wall." The affection is quite affectionate and quite flowing. Only Dan Qing saw and knew, and the business of raising people was humiliating! Ruyi deep precepts, do not learn this also)
So the question is: Is there no one Yan Liben really wants to paint? During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang (649-655), Yan Liben was an envoy to Henan Province, and his main job was to evaluate officials. In Beizhou, he met such a person, a "talent for ruling the world" who he had sought for a long time and finally appeared in front of him like a Lin sister who fell from the sky.
Yan Liben said to him: "I like to paint, I am what people call painters, in my heart, there are people who want to paint and people who don't want to paint, you are the people I want to paint, and I have the impulse to paint at the first sight, such a person, never appeared before, you are the person I must paint, please allow me to paint you." ”
That person was Di Renjie. At that time, Di Renjie was just a small soldier with a low status.
In "Detective Di Renjie", Liang Guanhua, the fat "Di Renjie", is very subversive
Chen Shunchen, a Japanese, wrote a book called "The Tang Empire - Three Hundred Years of Sui Chaos and Tang Sheng", in which the Japanese described the scene of their meeting in this way
Di Renjie was later promoted to the position of Fa Cao, the governor of the prefecture, and from then on he entered the ascending passage of his career, and eventually became a generation of famous courtiers and assistants to the good minister of the country. It can be said that if there were no Yan Liben's insight into pearls, Di Renjie, an outstanding talent, would not have been buried for long. I was delayed, I didn't make much of a name, but I found an outstanding talent for the country, and I didn't do it in vain.
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