Settled in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 473
The Wenhui will be held in Wanchun Garden.

Wanchun Garden is located in the south of Yuezhou City, with mountains and water behind it, and the gate is facing the water, so you can only go there by boat.Pei Yunzhao sent someone to prop up a black-covered boat, and he was waiting for the two of them by the edge of Jinghu Lake, and they could go directly to Wanchun Garden by the waterway.

Get on the boat and go down the river, but after a cup of tea, you will arrive at the Wanchun Garden. There are handymen waiting on the stone bench beside the gate. When the boat arrives, you will help the guests get off the boat and welcome them into the garden.

Pei Yunzhao greeted the two at the gate, and when he saw them coming, he smiled all over his face and said, "Youyang, I finally waited for you two, follow me in quickly!"

Jiang Lindao: "My name is Haoge. Since brother Pei is commensurate with my elder brother, why not call me Biaozi as well."

"good!"

The guests that Pei Yunzhao personally greeted were Xue Lang and Jiang Lin, and they were ushered into a pavilion near the water. Pei Yunzhao said, "We haven't got all the participants in the literary fair yet, so let's sit down for a while."

Xue Lang smiled wryly and said: "Although Brother Jing Xi has good intentions, let's not hide it from Brother Jing Xi, I can't recite poems or compose Fu, and participating in the literature meeting... is really a pretentious act, so I just help Brother Jing Xi get a head."

This remark made Pei Yunzhao laugh, and said: "The so-called rulers are short and inches are strong, Youyang don't worry, I invite you here today, not to let you recite poems and compose poems, but to show you what you are good at."

Show off your strengths? !

Xue Lang was a little confused. If it was said that what he is best at...does it count as cooking?Does math count?Although the sage recommended his mathematics book as an enlightenment book, it shouldn't spread to Yuezhou so quickly, right?
Xue Lang murmured.But Jiang Lin could see it clearly, and reminded in a low voice: "Brother, you forgot that Pei Jingxi praised your paintings again and again?"

After being reminded by Jiang Lin, Xue Lang remembered that Pei Yunzhao once praised his paintings.Xue Lang has never had the self-consciousness of a painter.

Back then, he studied painting with a teacher who was a friend of his father and a painter who had made great achievements in the painting world.After accepting Xue Lang as a student, I saw that he was skilled enough, but I always felt that there was something missing in the paintings, and I couldn't teach them no matter how I taught them. I concluded with the sentence "Dead wood can't be carved", so I willfully treated Xue Lang as a student. Expelled from the gate wall.

Because of this, Xue Lang never felt that he was good at painting.After traveling through the Tang Dynasty, perhaps due to the increase in life experience, he felt that his painting skills had improved, but he did not know how far he had improved. His techniques, rather than marveling at his painting skills, so there has been no artist's self-consciousness.

Because of this, it is completely unexpected that Pei Yunzhao would invite him to participate in the literary meeting because of his paintings——

Being illiterate and getting used to it, he was suddenly included in the ranks of literary and artistic people... I was caught off guard, okay!Could it be that in the future, when students take exams, they will get something like "Xue Lang, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty..."?
Just thinking about it a little makes me feel ashamed, but it's also a kind of beautiful imagination, maybe I can try harder?
Xue Lang asked Jiang Lin next to him not confidently: "A Lin, do you think my paintings are good?"

Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Okay!"

"Didn't you coax me?"

Still not confident, it seems that I was hit too hard by the teacher at the beginning!
Jiang Lin thought for a while, and said: "Big brother's paintings are mostly portraits. Although my younger brother is not good at painting, I often hear people say that if you want to draw a portrait well, you need not only the shape, but also the spirit. Looking at the big brother's paintings, they are lifelike. , as if in front of your eyes, every frown and smile, every movement and stillness, vivid and energetic. How can such a painting not be praised?"

Pei Yunzhao, who was listening to the two brothers, nodded in agreement and said: "That's it! Youyang's paintings are as if you are in front of your eyes. It seems easy to look like, and there are painters who can do it, but Youyang's paintings have both form and spirit. , as if it has a soul, it can be called unique!"

Xue Lang blushed from the praise, but still couldn't believe it.Jiang Lin asked curiously: "Why is elder brother so unconfident in his painting skills? It is very different from how elder brother used to be."

Xue Lang smiled embarrassedly, and told about the fact that he was directly kicked out of the door by the teacher because he was too old to learn painting, which aroused Pei Yunzhao and Jiang Lin's amazement.The three of them talked lively, and the servant came to report: "Master, all the guests have arrived."

Pei Yunzhao nodded and said, "Youyang, Haoge, let's sit down. Please!"

"Please!"

The three of them just passed by——

It was a spacious courtyard, the courtyard was full of lanterns, reflecting the brightness of the courtyard, the seats were placed in the middle of the courtyard, not separate seats, but long seats, melons, fruits, wine and water were available, and there were already many people sitting on the seats.

Pei Yunzhao delivered his speech first, and then invited Xue Lang and Jiang Lin to the table after the speech. Xue Lang sat on the upper seat on the left, and Jiang Lin sat on the right, but he did not intend to introduce the two.

Pei Yunzhao said: "On this festive occasion, it is a grand event for us to gather together to appreciate the masterpieces. Can you bring all the paintings from your collection?"

The old man with white beard and hair in the field smiled and said: "Your envoy has an order, dare you not bring it? Please watch it!"

As they said that, many people took scrolls from the servants and asked them to hang them on the prepared shelf beside them.Pei Yunzhao said with a smile to Xue Lang: "A few days ago, I saw Youyang's paintings, and I was very pleased with them. It coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I deliberately organized a literary meeting to make friends through paintings, gathering famous artists from the south of the Yangtze River, or using collections. , or participate in the meeting with your own work, please appreciate it."

For a long time, Xue Lang was invited to watch the art exhibition!

Xue Lang breathed a sigh of relief, cupped his hands towards Pei Yunzhao, and walked slowly in the courtyard with Pei Yunzhao.Jiang Lin was not proficient in this way, so he didn't move, but sat on the seat, poured himself a drink, and tried his best to fill his stomach.

Xue Lang walked and watched. The paintings at this time were very different from those inherited by later generations. Although they were all ink paintings, figure paintings were mostly done in line drawing. Even the technique of changing the thickness of thin strips had not yet been developed. Changes can only be manifested in the hands of Wu Daozi.

However, the figure painting method inherited in China emphasizes freehand brushwork, pays attention to similarity, and focuses on expression, unlike Western painting, which focuses on reproduction.Xue Lang's painting method is influenced by Western painting techniques. While emphasizing expression, he also pays attention to realism, which is quite different from the current popular painting method.

Xue Lang has studied New Year paintings for many years, and he has a certain level of appreciation. Later, after being kicked out of the door by the teacher, he did not give up painting, and he liked painting in his heart.These painting techniques and paintings, which have been lost in later generations, made him fascinated. Along with Pei Yunzhao, he looked at them very seriously and attentively. Naturally, he had no time to notice that there was a guy in the crowd looking at him, waiting for confirmation. It was him, with a bitter look on his face.

"Brother Wang, why do you keep paying attention to the guests invited by the envoy? Could it be that mysterious visitor...do you know him?"

The friend who took him to the literary meeting noticed his eyes and asked curiously.

The young man called Brother Wang, with a face as bitter as a bitter melon, nodded and said, "I know it, I saw it when I was in Chang'an."

"Oh? It's an old acquaintance of Brother Wang!"

The friend was surprised, and said: "I don't know who is sacred? Guan Shijun's attitude is very polite to him. I think he has some background. Can you tell me, Brother Wang? If not, come over later to say hello and show respect?"

The young man surnamed Wang kept silent——

I'm afraid that the son-in-law is not happy to see him!Is this the so-called Narrow Encounter Road?
(End of this chapter)