Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 322 Shuzhong Painting School

However, the country can't produce anything that can be exchanged for foreign exchange. It is two completely different concepts from the situation of the "world factory" in later generations. Therefore, in this special historical period, as long as it can interest foreigners, it can be obtained from them. For the things that are taken out by foreign exchange, we try our best to find out and send them out to satisfy them.

These include rare resources, valuable cultural relics, a huge market with great potential, and extremely cheap foundry costs.

These are the prices to be paid for lagging development, and there is no way around it.

Even the wax seals exported by the national cultural relics, commonly known as "monkey butts" in the industry, have changed into four colors.

What's even more funny is that in another dozen or 20 years, when the national collection winds up, these "monkey butts" will become something sought after by people. Many people don't even know that the state has organized research and produced high imitation Porcelain, stamped with sealant for export.

And those who resell this kind of porcelain, after tasting the sweetness, simply racked their brains, and finally even made fake high-quality imitations of "monkey butt", which is even more excessive than selling high-quality imitation porcelain for export, directly pretending to be fakes as "overseas return porcelain" , coupled with convincing stories, defrauding money wantonly.

Fortunately, this kind of phenomenon is still very rare now, at least the Shudu Gongmei brand is definitely one of the best in the southwest region.

Shudu Gongmei is located inland, and the export task is not heavy. It is considered to complete the share by getting a few foreigners who come to travel every year.

Foreigners prefer other handicrafts in Sichuan - Shu embroidery, bamboo silk weaving, Shu brocade, tea, silk... Even Jiachuan is producing paper umbrellas and carved wooden fans, which are also in the business scope of Gongmei shopping mall. Shared a considerable part of the foreign exchange pressure.

There are quite a few handicraft exhibits, but what Zhou Zhi cares most about is the paintings in this hall, which are all masterpieces of ancient and modern masters.

Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, and Fu Baoshi are the most numerous and largest masterpieces in Sichuan, while Qi Baishi, Wu Zuoren, Zhang Shuqi, Zhao Shao'ang, Li Keran, Lu Fengzi, Chen Zhifo, and Guan Shanyue also have many paintings in Shu.

Now it is basically "cabbage price". Take Qi Baishi and Li Keran as examples, but it is only [-] yuan per square foot.

And a higher level is the ancient painting.

The landscape of Sichuan has a very deep relationship with many ancient painters. For example, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once thought of the beautiful mountains and rivers of Jialing in the middle of Sichuan, full of wit and humor, and ordered Wu Daozi, who was later honored as the "Painter Saint", to go to Jialing River to sketch by post boat.

When he arrived at the Jialing River, Wu Daozi wandered on the river, looking far away, the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and the scenes and scenes passed by. The experience and feelings at that time were deeply engraved in his heart, and he did not draw a sketch.

When Wu Daozi returned to Chang'an after visiting the mountains and rivers of the Jialing River, Tang Xuanzong asked him about the situation of painting, he replied: "I have no powder book, and I keep it in my heart." Tang Xuanzong ordered him to paint on the wall of Datong Hall.

Wu Daozi did not list the Jialing River's mountains and rivers superficially, but grasped the fascinating realm of the Jialing River's mountains, rivers, hills and valleys, and swiped his pen intently, completing it in one day.

The beautiful scenery of the three hundred miles of the Jialing River is vivid on the paper, and Tang Xuanzong praised it after seeing it.

This is the origin of the famous picture scroll of "Three Hundred Miles of Landscape of Jialing River".

On the road of investigation, when Wu Daozi passed by Luoji Temple in the south of central Sichuan, he also painted a "Avalokitesvara Image" for Luoji Temple.

At the same time as Wu Daozi, there was another master, Li Sixun.

Li Sixun inherited and developed the painting method of Zhanziqian's green and green landscape painting, perfected the "green and golden" style of landscape painting, made it mature, with obvious aristocratic color, and was regarded as a model of green and green landscape painting by later generations.

He was the first to create a style of big blue and green landscapes and golden and green landscapes, forming a magnificent effect of "golden and green", pushing the green landscapes to a peak, known as "the first in the prosperous Tang Dynasty".

Similarly, he also made a long history in central Shu, and was ordered by Tang Minghuang to draw a picture scroll of "Three Hundred Miles of Landscape of Jialing River".

At that time, there was a note record: "At that time, there was General Li Sixun, who was good at mountains and rivers, and the emperor also announced it in the map of Datong Palace. It took months to complete it. Ming Emperor said: "Li Sixun's achievements in several months, and Wu Daozi's one-day traces are all extremely wonderful. '."

The five members of Li Sixun's family are all good at painting, and the one with the highest achievement is Li Zhaodao. In the history of painting, he is called together with his father.

After Li Sixun's death, Li Zhaodao praised him as "the number one landscape in the country".

As for his relationship with Shuzhong, he left behind the famous picture scroll "The Picture of the Ming Emperor's Happiness in Shu".

In addition, Wei Yan once came to Sichuan to respond to Du Fu's request and painted horses on the walls of Chengdu halls with dots and clusters;
There are also figure painters of the Five Dynasties who entered Shu during Tang Tianfu's reign, were good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, learned from Yan Liben, and later formed a family of their own.

In the Song Dynasty, it became even more exaggerated. Although there were warlords in the former Shu and the later Shu, the damage was relatively small. Countless famous scholars came to seek refuge in Shu. The situation is quite similar to that of the later World War II.

Therefore, a large number of painters were gathered, and the most exquisite painting skills at that time were also inherited, and the development of art in Central Shu reached a historical peak.

After Pingshu in the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizu not only captured the Shu Lord in the north, but also recruited many painters to concentrate in Kaifeng, the capital.Among the waiting edicts of Hanlin Academy of Painting, the National Academy of Painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, painters from Later Shu accounted for half of the quota.

The palace-style flower-and-bird paintings from the later Shu Dynasty have been more popular for more than a hundred years.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was even a master of Chinese ink and wash freehand brushwork in Shuzhong——Fachang.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Fachang's paintings flowed into the island country and had a great influence on the island country. His three works, "Evening Bell in Yansi Temple", "Sunset Picture in Fishing Village" and "Ape and Crane Picture of Guanyin" are recognized as "national treasures" by the island country.

There are countless people who have learned his painting methods, and an artist in the Song Dynasty was even called "the great benefactor of the island country's painting style".

In addition, there is Wang Duo who came to the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty;
Together with Shi Tao, he was called "Er Shi", and together with Bada Shanren, Hong Ren, and Shi Tao, he was called "Four Painting Monks in the Early Qing Dynasty". All of them had a deep relationship with Shuzhong and left a lot of memories in Shuzhong. less works.

In addition, there are many others, such as Su Shi's cousin Wen Tong, who is a famous painter of bamboo, and even Su Shi himself can paint.

There is a unique painting method in Chinese painting, which uses red cinnabar instead of ink. At the beginning, it started from painting bamboo, and later developed into painting orchids. This is Su Shi's invention.

Therefore, central Shu has been a paradise and fertile ground for painting art from ancient times to the present. In the Republic of China, there were famous Zhang in the south and Pu in the north, Puxinshe in Hebei in the north, and Zhang Daqian in central Shu in the south.

Brothers Zhang Daqian and Zhang Shanzi are only the outstanding ones in the Bashu School of Painting, and there are also a generation of painters such as Chen Yeping, Chen Zizhuang, Zhao Yunyu, Zhu Xuanxian, Zhu Peijun, and Xiao Jianchu.

Including Shi Lu who founded the Chang'an School of Painting after leaving Sichuan.

Because of the profound cultural traditions of the region and the accumulation of the cultural environment, the typical style of the Bashu School of Painting is implicit and elegant in artistic conception and profound in traditional skills, especially in terms of color and lines, which is beyond the reach of other schools of painting.

(End of this chapter)