Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The hall in Yecheng was not big, and Fu Shou's voice was not deliberately lowered.

Everyone heard clearly, and many people looked in agreement.

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After all, aside from other things, for those of them who have experienced it, isn’t that what the Dong thief was like in the Han Dynasty?

And among the crowd, there were those who were brave enough to spread their thoughts:

If Dong Zhuo were alive, he would probably be surprised by these ambitious people in later generations.

If Cao Cao had seen it in person, he would have been dumbfounded by the impatience of future generations of usurpers.

Speaking of this, Liu Xie became a little curious:

"Since the national seal has been lost long ago, why should future generations still care about it so much?"

"What will happen to the country in the future? The emperor's uncle has said something before. If it is really that strange, there will be no need to pass down the national seal to prove its destiny."

Regarding Liu Xie's question, Liu Bei smiled and shook his head gently:

"Although our descendants and I are separated by more than a thousand years, we are still of the same blood and inherit the Han name."

"It's so beautiful that this seal is united, and the people of Xia honorably inherit it."

"Future generations will remember this thing like a child looking for relatives, like a leaf returning to its roots. It is based on the ancient records and the present to represent the souls of the ancestors."

Although Liu Bei's words were calm, Liu Xie could feel the weight of the emperor's attire more and more.

Zhang Fei didn't have too many feelings about this. After all, he had already read the Proclamation to Promote the Han Dynasty, and he knew that this document was to be presented to the world to frighten Jiangdong Shiwan... No, the military advisor said that it was to frighten Xiao Xiaoxuan and Han Xing.

In comparison, it was more interesting to look at the things of later generations. At this moment, the Xing Han Xi in the light curtain was carefully put away by these plain hands, and then slowly unfolded a picture scroll, the content of which made people laugh. Zhang Fei's eyes lit up:

"What a handsome man!"

Following Zhang Fei's admiration, everyone could clearly see that the words "Spring Outing" on the side of the scroll clearly explained the theme of the painting.

The slowly unfolding scroll shows a corner of Spring Street, where peddlers and literati and ladies are having fun together, and those who are leading horses to spring are facing each other while riding chariots.

What is particularly different is that the characters in this painting are real and moving, just like the paintings of later generations, without the flat feeling of the portraits that people in Yecheng have seen before.

[Let’s call this painting Spring Outing, um... Judging from the signature, it was painted by Yan Liben and Yan Lide in the sixth year of Zhenguan.

Although Yan Liben is more famous among the Yan brothers, Yan Lide is relatively more versatile. Not only is he as good at painting as his younger brother, he is also an outstanding architect in the early Tang Dynasty. The tombs of Li Yuan and Li Shimin were designed by this person. It was different from the Han Dynasty which used land to build mausoleums. It was the first of its kind to build mausoleums based on mountains.

From Yan Lide's identity as an architect, it can be explained why the perspective painting method was used in this "Spring Outing". After all, the modern perspective painting method was perfected by architects. This kind of painting technique requires a mathematical foundation. Obviously it is also more practical for architects.

Although illiterate people like this kind of plot where brothers work together, it is obviously a bit difficult to perfect perspective in the Tang Dynasty, because it requires not only painting skills and mathematics skills, but also perfect geometry, and then on this basis. Inventing linear perspective, aerial perspective and invisible perspective is an invisible and huge project. Therefore, even if this painting is a fake at first glance, the illiterate people still like it quite much. After all, with the blessing of perspective painting, the upright mental outlook of the early Tang Dynasty people has become more three-dimensional, which makes people happy to see it. 】

In the Manna Hall, the straight backs of the Yan brothers relaxed slightly, and the two brothers couldn't help but smile at each other.

The "fake at first glance" mentioned by the younger generation will not discourage the two brothers in the slightest. After all, the names of the two brothers have been mentioned more than once when talking about the Tang Dynasty. In comparison, the authenticity of a painting will not dissuade the two brothers. Brother is half-mindful.

In a few words, the two brothers were given a glimpse of the so-called "perspective", which made people even more happy.

"Although geometry is difficult, your Majesty has sent envoys to the west before, and there are even Persian monks who are willing to pass on the textbooks on your behalf. Why can't you learn it by following the traces?"

Yan Lide was somewhat high-spirited. For more than a year, whether it was his younger brother who reluctantly followed Sun Yaowang to explore the principles of the human body's muscles and bones, or he tried to follow the essence of later generations' paintings and integrate them with the map of the city gained.

And just at the beginning of spring this year, His Majesty once said that according to what later generations said, in the more than 20 years since the sixth year of Zhenguan, there will be disasters every year.

Therefore, the two brothers were ordered to paint the spring outing in Chang'an to "record the remaining years of Zhenguan's peace." The volume presented for later generations was created by the two brothers working together to do their best. That's a return favor.

At present, it seems that the two brothers' answers are not bad, and Yan Lide's ambitious appearance also makes Li Shimin very happy:

"What Yan Qing said is absolutely true. Now that you know it, you should do it, so that your descendants will not lose their virtuous reputation in future generations!"

Listening to the duel between His Majesty and his eldest brother, Yan Liben felt a little proud in his heart, but then he remembered that Sun Yaowang had forced him to fight with him countless times, and this heroic spirit disappeared immediately.

Otherwise... follow your brother to learn architecture using civil engineering methods? Just in time to escape Sun Yaowang's envoy, Yan Liben fell into deep thought.

And the criticism of the painting on the light screen is not over yet.

[In addition, apart from the perspective painting method that did not exist in the Tang Dynasty, some people may wonder why the portraits of the women in the painting are so slender. Is it true that the Tang people regarded fatness as beauty?

In fact, the fact that fat was beautiful in the Tang Dynasty is also a stereotype. Apart from the painting in front of us, the original painting of the Steps of the Buddhist Monk Yan Liben is still preserved today. In the painting, we can see that the palace maids are all slender, which has nothing to do with fat.

From the historical context, it is well known that both men and women in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties regarded beauty as beauty when they painted their faces with powder and looked at weakness. Zhang Jingwan, a dancing girl in the family of Liang Yangkan in the Southern Dynasty, claimed to be able to perform palm dance, and left a record of "waist circumference of one foot and six inches", which is just 40 centimeters. Their aesthetic trend can be seen.

It is impossible for the early Tang Dynasty to suddenly turn 180 degrees. For example, the early Tang poet Liu Xiyi loved thin waists very much. "Slim waist and bright moon" was written by this guy. In addition, it is not uncommon for poets in the early period of Emperor Gaozong to praise thin waists in poems.

The modern well-known "Tang people prefer plumpness" is generally believed to have originated in Wu Zhou, prevailed after Xuanzong came to power, and ended around the Anshi Rebellion.

The evidence that it originated from Wu Zhou comes from the record of Princess Taiping in the Old Book of Tang. "Plump and broad cheeks" are the physical characteristics of Princess Taiping. Wu Zetian's "similar to herself" shows that the mother and daughter should be the same, with wide faces and slender bodies, not weak.

The evidence that it was popular during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong is the "beautiful figures" in the paintings of ladies. Curved eyebrows, plump cheeks and plump bodies are the characteristics of this type of paintings. Its masters Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang were both active during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years. 】