The vibrant, flowery spring is the season of revival of all things, symbolizing life and hope. The famous sentence of the British poet Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" "Winter is coming, will spring be far away" is inspiring, and the Chinese proverb "The plan of the year lies in the spring" is even more inspiring.
Spring is beautiful and yearns for the vast majority of people. However, in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, there was a strange person in the "strange man" who did not like spring. He calls himself "Winter Heart" and "Shameful Spring Wing", and there is a "Shameful Spring Pavilion" surrounded by plum trees in his home. He is the head of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" - Jinnong.
He likes to paint plums, but also likes to paint bamboo, try to say that "pieces of notes, there are bamboo of changchun; Linchi dyeing Han, many flowers of gratitude." Mei and Bamboo are friends of the cold years, and Qingyan is his evergreen bamboo and the flower of no thanks.
Jinnong is afraid of spring, avoids the theme of spring, and uses spring as a metaphor for a fleeting life. He loves plums and does not want to see the sight of plum blossoms falling in spring. He has a famous poem of painting plums:
"Horizontally slanted plum shadow ancient wall west, eight or nine points of flowers have bloomed together." The spring wind is more cunning, blowing and falling chaotically. ”
The poem tells the story of his state of mind in order to transcend the dilemma of life and pursue the true meaning of life. He inscribed a poem on the "After the Rain Repair Chart":
"After the rain, the fence was exceptionally green, and Xiao Xiao was crossing the creek pavilion. The world is full of heartless things, and only the sound of autumn is the best. ”
He likes to paint wild plums on The River Road, he said: "Wild plums are like thorns full of jiangjin, don't have scenery and don't love spring." "He painted plum blossoms to avoid the theme of spring.
He said: "Every cold day as a snow calyx, do not wait for the east wind to blow and spit flowers." "Lamei is the messenger of winter, and when spring comes, she has no trace."
He has a famous painting poem: "Horizontal plum shadow ancient wall west, eight or nine points of flowers have bloomed together." The spring wind is more cunning, blowing and falling chaotically. "The spring breeze was strong, and the spring was full of spring, and it opened the flowers, made her brilliant, and made her lingering, but suddenly, the wind and rain hit her, and she came from east to west, and scattered into mud, drifting with the water." Spring is warm, creative, and new, but cruel, destructive, and perishing.
Jinnong uses spring as a metaphor for life, life is this seemingly beautiful spring, in the blink of an eye, if you are attached, you will inevitably be abandoned; if you have expectations, you must end with disappointment. The so-called east wind is evil, and the joy is thin.
Jinnong 丨 Wanyu scramble for spring figure
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Plutonium Printing 丨 Jinnong Seal Letter Song Shi Clan Zen Master is good at painting plums, tasting clouds with forty years of heart can make flowers, circles less round ears; Yuan Zhao Zi Gu Yiyun, thick ink pepper, it is a big difficult thing. It can be seen that the ancients were not scrupulous, defeated coal bald pipes, and were willing to easily fall on paper. Yu painted Mei, meaning it, every time a circle a little bit, deeply understand the magic of this language, to show my disciples also. Mr. Winter Heart Remembers.
Avoiding spring is an important theme of Jinnong's paintings, in fact, it is to transcend the dilemma of life and pursue the true meaning of life. Jinnong's hometown in Hangzhou has "Shame Spring Pavilion", and he calls himself "Shame Spring Wing". He was ashamed of spring, and he smiled at the spring wind, which expressed such a meaning. He has a poetry cloud: "Snow is slightly thinner than the spirit, and the two or three cold flowers are still reserved." Recently, the old ugly has not been rewarded, and shame has blossomed into the spring breeze. "Jinnong will make the spring flowers unbroken, and the flowers will never be thanked in his heart."
Jinnong also likes to paint bamboo, and his bamboo is called "the bamboo of changchun", which also means "to avoid spring". Jinnong believes that among the many plants, bamboo is one of the few special objects that are not enlightened for the spring wand. All year round, bamboo is always green. He said that bamboo "has no morning glory" and is not like a flower, "and if you are proud of it, you will have a sense of prosperity and decline than happiness."
Bamboo became a symbol of his pursuit of eternal thought in him, with a character that transcended the world. Bamboo is not the kind of master who suddenly shines, sways when it is brilliant, and "pleases" people with a demon's appearance and strange fragrance.
He said: "It is like the evening wind stirring up flowers and making wild noises, but there is no pain of falling to the ground and getting muddy." "Meaning, bamboo does not pitch with the world. Bamboo acquires eternal meaning here, and bamboo is his unsatisfactory flower. The bamboo shadow swayed, it was his favorite beauty in his life, the autumn wind blew, the sound of bamboo rhyme, he felt that this was the most beautiful sound between heaven and earth.
Jinnong is a strong advocate of the sense of fragmentation. Li Yan was a lifelong close friend of Jin Nong, and when people had the saying that "the hair was thin and strong", Li Hu once saw the Tang Dynasty JinglongGuan Zhong Ming Tuoben hidden by Jin Nong, and was very fascinated by its "ink book rotten and ancient color", Li Hu said: "Zhong Ming finally got it, and the mottled dare to spit." "The feeling of ban barge landed on a lot of artists of that era.
Jin Nong has a poem praising a good friend of Jinshi, Zen Jun, saying that he was "good at expanding his spine, and extremely searching for remnants and stripping away the text". In fact, Jinnong himself is exactly like this. His whole life was broken, so peeled off, so broken. He had a picture of plum blossoms, and the inscription said: "A plum stick missing lip bottle, cold incense through the bone wind edges, at this time it is advisable to the pointed monk." When Li Yan talked about Jinnong, he also talked about his hobby: "The leaves on the side of the folded foot bell are cold, and the thin plum in the bottle with missing lips is lonely." The bottle is lacking, the plum is thin, lonely and self-congratulatory, lonely and self-pitying.