Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1759 There is a paper

"So amazing? What did you come up with, Elbow?" The fourth cousin looked at the words that popped up on the screen and said, "With this, will people in the world still need to study in the future?"

"Of course you still have to read books." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "But it's just more convenient to read them."

"Let me check this. Hmm, wait a minute. Elbow, first input 'emperor' and then 'shoot the dragon'." Fourth aunt was also a little excited and asked Zhou Zhi to try.

"Emperor Wu of Han Shooting the Dragon" is a historical allusion. The three people in the room certainly know it, but if you walk out of this room, it can be said that many people do not understand this allusion.

Fourth Aunt wanted to use the ordinary people's method to search and see if the system could find the information about this allusion.

Zhou Zhi typed it in with a smile. After a while, the search engine sent back information, some of which were very clear.

"Han Shu·Emperor Wu Ji" records: "In the winter of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he went on a hunting tour in the south. When he arrived at Shengtang, he hoped to worship Yu Shun at Jiuyi. He climbed the Tianzhu Mountain, floated on the river from Xunyang, and personally shot a dragon in the river and captured it. After sailing for a thousand miles, he came out of Congyang and composed "Song of Congyang in Shengtang"."

"Records of the Grand Historian - Annals of Emperor Wu of Han" records: "In the winter of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Wu of Han ascended Tianzhu Mountain in Liqian, which was called Nanyue. He sailed across the river from Xunyang to Zongyang, passed Pengli, and offered sacrifices to the famous mountain and river."

The Ming Dynasty Unified Records states: "The Shejiao Terrace is in Congyang Town, and it was here that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally shot a dragon."

"This is a great tool for liberal arts students to search for historical allusions." Fourth aunt praised: "I'm really impressed by you. Isn't it like carrying a living historical allusion book with you when you travel?"

Zhou Zhi added a picture after Han Wu shooting a dragon and said, "Not necessarily. If you input shooting a dragon as shooting a dragon, it might take some effort to search here. So you still have to have a basic knowledge reserve. If you really want to follow the picture, the people in the "Biography of Virtuous Women" all wore Han Dynasty costumes, just like modern people wearing dragon robes when singing Peking Opera regardless of the dynasty. Without a certain knowledge reserve, facing the massive amount of information data, you don't know where to start."

At this time, the search text had already come out, and the bibliographies included "Xuanhe Painting Album", "Records of Famous Paintings of All Dynasties", "History of Public and Private Paintings in the Zhenguan Period", and "Records of Paintings and Drawings". Among them, Zhang Sengyou's works mentioned included "Diagrams of the Gods and Shapes of the Five Stars and Twenty-Eight Constellations", "Portrait of Emperor Wu of Liang", "Diagram of the King of Wu Fighting with Wu", "Diagram of the Walking Heavenly King", "Diagram of the Water Monster in Qingxi Palace", "Diagram of the Immortal Mona", etc., and "Diagram of Emperor Wu of Han Shooting the Dragon" appeared in several books.

In Guo Ruoxu's "Tuhua Jianwenzhi", this picture is used as an example to prove his point. This description is very important.

Guo Ruoxu was a native of Taiyuan in the Song Dynasty. He was appointed as the Minister of Supply and Storage in the third year of Xining and the Deputy Minister of Literature in the eighth year. His "Records of Paintings and Drawings" was written to continue Zhang Yanyuan's "Records of Famous Paintings of All Dynasties" in the Tang Dynasty. It has a total of six volumes. Zhang Sengyou's "Han Wu Shooting Dragon" is mentioned in "Explanation".

Guo Ruoxu put figure painting first based on the standard of "indicating the wise and foolish, and revealing order and chaos". He also believed that the painting of various figures should be based on the commonality of their types, that is, the so-called "making a model". For example, when painting an emperor, there should be "the emperor worships the dragon, phoenix, and sun".

This theory of characterization by type, although it takes into account the common characteristics of various characters, ignores the individuality of the specific characters being depicted, and easily leads painting creation to a stereotyped path. This may not be true, but the "Hanwu Shooting Dragon" as an argument has been retained in the materials of Chinese painting history.

The same is true for the other books.

The previous determination that this painting was a Song Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's work was the result of a comprehensive consideration of the painting style and painting history materials. In other words, it also relied on the knowledge reserves of the three people. However, the knowledge reserves of the three people cannot be said to be very complete and they cannot remember everything they saw. Except for "Xuanhe Huapu" and "Records of Famous Paintings of All Dynasties", which they remember relatively clearly, the other two books are not so detailed.

The four cousins ​​were all watching with great interest: "Haha, it's quite interesting to follow the map!" Then Zhou Zhi searched for Lu Tanwei's "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Grove" and this time he actually found a paper.

In the recent rescue excavations of several large tombs in Danyang area of ​​Jinling, a large number of cultural relics were unearthed. According to the cultural relics, the owners of these tombs were all from Southern Qi. Among them, the owner of the Xishanqiao Tomb was a nobleman of Southern Qi; the owner of the Hexian'ao Tomb in Huqiao was Emperor Jing of Qi, Xiao Daosheng; the owner of the tomb in Wujiacun, Huqiao may be Emperor Xuan of Qi, Xiao Cheng, or Emperor Gao of Qi, Xiao Daocheng; and the owner of the tomb in Jinjiacun, Jianshan may be Xiao Baojuan, Marquis Donghun of Qi, or Xiao Baorong, Emperor He of Qi.

In each of the four large tombs, a tomb mosaic brick painting titled "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi" was found. There are four paintings in total, with similar styles, and they were made based on the same master model.

The eight people in the painting are all sitting, with different temperaments and expressions, but they all have the appearance features of thin figure, narrow shoulders and waist, loose clothes and wide belts. The brushwork is fluent, and the lines are dense and tight, which is very similar to Lu's painting style.

The paper quoted the record in "History of the Southern Dynasties·Chronicle of Qi·Deposed Emperor Donghun Hou", which stated that there were murals of "Seven Sages" in the court of Southern Qi. Therefore, the murals of "Seven Sages" in the mausoleum should be the relocation of the murals of "Seven Sages" in the court, reflecting that the admiration for pure talk and metaphysics had reached an unprecedented level at that time.

Rong Qiqi lived in the Spring and Autumn Period. His thoughts were similar to those of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" headed by Ji Kang, including Ruan Ji, Shan Tao, Wang Rong, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, and Ruan Xian, so they were also painted together and praised.

Although the mausoleum dates back to the Southern Qi Dynasty, Lu Tanwei, who entered Qi from the Song Dynasty, once served Emperor Ming of Song, Liu Yu. Liu Yu's death was only eight years after Xiao Daocheng established Qi. Therefore, Lu Tanwei had a great influence in the Southern Qi Dynasty. This can be seen from Xie He's high evaluation of Lu, who "embraced the past and the future, and was independent of ancient and modern times."

At the same time, "Records of Famous Paintings of All Ages" records that Lu Tanwei painted "Portraits of Meritorious Officials of Emperor Wu of Han in the Bamboo Grove" and "Portraits of Rong Qiqi, Confucius and Yan Zhenqing", all of which actually depicted the Eight Sages.

Therefore, the paper believes that the powder model of the brick painting "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi" is very likely to come from Lu Tanwei, or at least has some of the distinctive characteristics of Lu's painting style.

"Brick painting? Can you find the image data?" The fourth cousin was immediately excited: "Your software, can it see the painting?"

"This..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel a headache: "It's not possible now. Small images are OK but meaningless, and large images are too resource-intensive, so our system doesn't use them."

"Don't worry about that for now, it's easy to handle. Elbow, contact Mr. Wang or Mr. Qi. They will definitely be able to find a rubbing of the brick painting. Ask them to fax it to the county cultural center after they find it and the problem will be solved." Fourth Aunt said, "The paper said there were eight people in total, and there was also Rong Qiqi?"

"Yes!" Zhou Zhi threw himself back on the painting. Because the scroll was already very dark, many pictures could not be seen clearly. People only made inferences based on the painting style and subject matter as well as the inscriptions and postscripts left by later generations. However, the inscription on this painting was very simple, with a line of small characters written in Jin Kai: "Picture of Various Sages in the Bamboo Grove by Lu Tanwei, presented by Li Zhaoqing, the Hanlin Academy Attendant and Attending Scholar of the Painting Academy".

I was misled by this line of text just now. The story of the three people is too familiar. When I mentioned the Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the first thing that came to my mind was the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, but I didn't expect that there was another person.

Sure enough, after some searching, the fourth cousin found a figure under a banana tree: "Here!"

Previously everyone thought it was a banana tree stump, but now you can vaguely make out a figure, and there is a small frame on the side, which is where the person's name is written, but it can't be seen clearly now.

"It should be here." After saying this, Fourth Aunt remembered a shocking fact: "So this copy and the brick paintings in the four tombs of the Southern Qi Dynasty are from the same original model?!"