Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Chapter 232, New Year's Lottery, Special Skills

After the party, Jiang Yi and his wife washed up and rested.

Jiang Zhe returned to his room.

The sound of firecrackers outside the window has become sparse, and Xiao Ka, lying in the corner, has squinted his eyes. The sound of firecrackers today makes him suffer.

Jiang Zhe turned off the lights but did not fall asleep immediately.

He turned on the system.

Just after 12 o'clock, I received a reminder that the system had settled the lottery today.

A reminder with a festive pattern appears on the page:

Today is the beginning of the new year. In the past year, you have studied hard, completed many tasks, and met the monthly assessment standards. The system rewards you with a special New Year lucky draw opportunity.

You can draw one skill from the three categories of skills, or you can specify a category of skills for the draw. This draw is a special opportunity, and the rewarded skills are all advanced skills or above.

Seeing that he could extract advanced skills and above, Jiang Zhe became excited.

Click on the lottery page.

There are three categories of rewards: the first category is professional skills, which refers to painting and calligraphy skills; the second category is knowledge skills, which includes the cultural subjects he has studied; and the third category is life skills. This category has the largest number of skills.

Jiang Zhe directly removed the last two items and clicked to select professional skills. After all, this was his major.

System prompt: You have selected calligraphy and painting skills. You can start the lottery. Skills you already have will not appear in the prize area.

Jiang Zhe clicked on the lottery, and the turntable pointer began to spin.

While he waited, he thought about the skills he needed most.

At present, his best skills are oil painting, watercolor and sketching. Apart from that, any other skills seem to be fine. He is looking forward to drawing a skill that he has not mastered yet, turning it from blank to advanced, which is the most cost-effective.

The pointer of the lottery wheel spun rapidly and finally landed on a prize box.

Congratulations, you have acquired the traditional calligraphy skill (skill).

Good! Jiang Zhe was delighted. For the first time, he directly upgraded his skills to the special level through the lottery, and it was a very practical calligraphy skill.

With this skill, his calligraphy is only one step away from reaching the highest level of grandmaster.

He clicked to receive it, but a new prompt appeared on the page:

Since there are many traditional calligraphy fonts and styles, it is impossible to integrate them all. You need to choose a well-known calligrapher as the main template. The skill package issued by the system will be based on the skills of this person.

Jiang Zhe read the prompt text and realized that this skill package was not omnipotent. Because the system needs to collect and integrate existing data to create a skill package. Therefore, it is impossible to integrate calligraphy skills of different styles.

The skill pack released this time can only be based on the skills of a certain calligrapher and be compatible with calligraphy skills of similar style.

Below the prompt, there is a list of ten ancient calligraphers that you can choose from.

Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang, Wang Duo.

Famous artists such as the two Wangs and Yu Shinan did not appear among the options. Jiang Zhe speculated that it might be because there were too few extant works and the system could not integrate them.

His eyes flickered over the list of names.

Each of these calligraphers is amazing, and if one can master the skills of one of them, it will be enough to make a name for oneself.

He tried hard to control his excitement and analyze calmly.

How should I choose and what do I need most?
In the future, my development should focus on painting. Now that I have such an opportunity, I must consider laying a solid foundation for future learning.

After much consideration, Jiang Zhe decided to choose someone who was both a calligrapher and a painter.

He initially selected Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang. Although the other calligraphers were very skilled, these two were more in line with Jiang Zhe's learning requirements.

Jiang Zhe was hesitant between the two choices.

Zhao Mengfu is one of the four masters, Ouyang Xiu, Yan Shi, Liu Bei and Zhao Shi. He is proficient in many styles of calligraphy and dominates the calligraphy world with his charming and mature style.

Dong Qichang, with his fresh and elegant style, created his own unique style among many famous artists who had great influence on the art.

Both of them integrated calligraphy and painting, which met Jiang Zhe's learning needs.

After repeated consideration, Jiang Zhe decided to choose Dong Qichang as his template.

The reason is that while Chinese people were learning from Zhao Mengfu, because of his behavior, they evaluated his calligraphy as being "boneless".

Jiang Zhe chose Dong Qichang, and the system started running.

Soon, the page showed that the bonus skill package was ready and players could claim it.

Jiang Zhe clicked to receive it, and a huge amount of information came into his mind.

This information includes Dong Qichang's skills and knowledge in calligraphy, as well as calligraphy skills in the same style.

Jiang Zhe accepted and understood.

These skills and knowledge quickly elevated his understanding and mastery of calligraphy to the level of a great calligrapher.

Although the skill pack only includes calligraphy skills, the skills are the embodiment of the calligrapher's thoughts. By understanding and mastering the skills, you can also gain insight into his thoughts.

Later generations commented that Dong Qichang's calligraphy combined the styles of Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, forming a unique style and a culmination of ancient methods. He was proficient in the "Six Styles" and "Eight Methods".

However, Jiang Zhe believes that Dong Qichang's calligraphy is best in cursive script, and his regular script and other scripts are also quite exquisite. His calligraphy was not influenced by the popular calligraphy style at that time. He mainly learned from the calligraphy of Jin and Tang dynasties such as Zhong Wang and Yan Zhenqing, forming a style of elegant and self-sufficient calligraphy.

After a long time, all the information was received.

While Jiang Zhe was experiencing his new skill, he used his index finger to draw in the air, imitating the state of writing with a brush. Although he couldn't see the effect of writing, just the state of writing made him feel happy.

After mastering the special skills, he already felt the distance between the special and the master. This distance needed to be broken through with perception, and it was possible that an unintentional touch could lead to the master level.

With the joy of harvest, Jiang Zhe fell asleep.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zhe and his parents visited relatives and friends.

In the afternoon, the Binhai Art Association and the Art Society both had group gatherings, and Jiang Zhe was notified that he could attend.

Jiang Zhe refused. This kind of social activity didn't mean much to him.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang Zhe came to the studio to familiarize himself with his newly acquired traditional calligraphy skills.

He started by copying Dong Qichang's works, writing small regular script, large regular script, running script, cursive script...

As he practiced, he quickly achieved a state of unity of mind and hand, transforming the skills he had learned into his own.

He looked at each piece of work, secretly weighing whether his level could surpass that of most of the so-called calligraphers today.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zhe asked Chen Yan to go out for fun.

Chen Yan likes shopping, and with Jiang Zhe's company, she is as happy as a child. The two of them were shopping until noon, and when they were looking for a restaurant to eat, Jiang Zhe received a call from Gu Qian.

"Jiang Zhe, there will be a New Year's calligraphy event the day after tomorrow, and the members will get together to have some fun. Do you want to join us?"

Jiang Zhe asked: "Do you want to draw for the calligraphy club? What are the requirements?"

Gu Qian said: "On-site creation, including calligraphy and painting."

Jiang Zhe said: "I am good at painting, so I am not suitable for this kind of performance." He suddenly remembered that he already had calligraphy skills, but he had not yet changed his mind.

Gu Qian said: "The requirements for the works of the pen club are not high, it is just for the effect of the event."

Jiang Zhe was about to refuse politely when he suddenly heard a system prompt.

It was inconvenient for him to open the system, so he said to Gu Qian: "Let me think about it. I'll call you back later."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan asked, "Who's calling?"

Jiang Zhe said: "The association is organizing a writing meeting and asked me if I would like to go?"

"you want to go?"

Jiang Zhe said: "I'll think about it."

He took the opportunity to go to the bathroom, opened the system, and saw the prompt:
In this mission, you have chosen to follow your inner thoughts. The couplets you wrote were once ridiculed by some people. Now, you have acquired the special skills of traditional calligraphy, and you can make a splash at the Spring Festival calligraphy meeting and gain the reputation you deserve.

Jiang Zhe saw the system prompt asking him to participate, and it was a series of task operations, so he could only follow the prompts and continue to persevere.

He immediately replied to Gu Qian that he could attend the writers' meeting the day after tomorrow.
Gu Qian instructed: "Report at the association's auditorium the day after tomorrow morning. The association will provide pens, ink, paper and inkstone. You don't need to prepare anything."

"Okay, see you the day after tomorrow."

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zhe was practicing calligraphy in his studio, preparing for tomorrow's calligraphy meeting.

If you want to achieve the stunning effect required by the system, you must choose the style and content that you are currently best at.

He wrote works of different sizes and styles continuously for comparison.

It is found that small regular script and small-sized cursive script can hardly create a strong visual impact in this kind of performance activity.

Jiang Zhe decided to participate in tomorrow's calligraphy gathering with a large-scale running script.

In order to be more confident, he carefully selected the content and repeatedly considered the composition. Because of Dong Qichang's skills, he was able to learn calligraphy of the same style by analogy...

On the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zhe came to the Binhai Art Association and saw members gathering towards the office building one after another.

"happy New Year!"

"Teacher Ren, Happy New Year!"

Jiang Zhe greeted the members he knew one by one.

He came to the auditorium and saw many members chatting and greeting each other.

The auditorium was decorated with lights and banners for the New Year's Writers' Meeting. In the open space of the auditorium, there were several rows of long tables with pens, inkstones, and paper on them.

Jiang Zhe saw Gu Qian and walked over to ask, "What are your plans for today?"

Gu Qian said: "We divided them into two groups, one for painting and one for calligraphy. However, due to time and venue constraints, the association only prepared tools for calligraphy and Chinese painting."

She whispered to Jiang Zhe, "It's just a symbolic performance. If you don't feel confident, you can find a reason not to participate."

Jiang Zhe said: "My calligraphy is OK, I will join the calligraphy group."

He walked to the sign-in area, signed his name, and told the person in charge that he was attending a calligraphy meeting.

The writing session will begin.

The president of the association and guests gave speeches respectively, and the host announced the start of the writing exchange.

Everyone walked to the group of their choice.

Jiang Zhe came to the calligraphy group's venue and picked a relatively spacious spot. Several people around him were trying to give up this spot.

Because there were many members who chose to write calligraphy, there was limited space on the long table that could be used for writing, and everyone could not write at the same time, so the phenomenon of humility emerged.

(End of this chapter)