Gu Kaizhi was versatile, meticulous in poetry and prose, and good at calligraphy. He was called "a genius, a painter, and an infatuation" by people at that time. His painting style is unique, the characters are slender and handsome, and the lines are smooth, just like silkworms spinning silk. It is called "caring for the family" and "showing the bones and clearing the image".
Gu Kaizhi also wrote some works on painting, such as Painting by Wei Jinsheng, Painting Yuntai Mountain and so on, and put forward vivid theories of "describing the spirit with form" and "everything is blocked".
Gu Kaizhi studied painting with Wei Xie, a famous painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is best at drawing figures. Xie An, a famous figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, thinks that Gu Kaizhi's figure painting is unprecedented. Later generations commented on Gu Kaizhi's painting theory: it means to save the pen first, and the painting is intended later, with meticulous handwriting and continuous strength; Its brushwork, such as silkworm spinning, is light and smooth, vigorous and refreshing, and is called "iron line drawing"; The modeling layout is complete, the thinking is exquisite, and the mind is unpredictable.
Gu Kaizhi, together with Lu Tanwei, a famous painter in the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty, and Zhang Sangyou in the Liang Dynasty, are called "three outstanding artists in the Six Dynasties". At that time, there was a saying, "If a person is beautiful, he can get his flesh, his bones and his spirit. It is wonderful and unreasonable, and it is the best." Together with Lu Tanwei, it is called "Lu Gu", which is different from the "Shufeng" school of painting in Nanliang Zhang Sengyou and Tang Wu Daozi.
Gu Kaizhi's paintings include Qiu Shui, Lushan Mountain, Xue Ji Looking at Five Old Peaks, etc. Among them, Xue Ji Looking at Five Old Peaks is regarded as the pioneering work of landscape painting.
According to legend, Gu Kaizhi's "The Goddess of Luo" is a long scroll drawn in the form of conjoined paintings based on the literary works of the same name by the famous poet Cao Zhi in the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Zhi is Cao Cao's third son in Wang Wei. He has little talent and has been in the army for a long time. He is very popular with Cao Cao. He was going to be a prince, but he was not attracted by Cao Cao because of his willfulness.
Later, after Cao Pi and Cao Cao proclaimed themselves emperors one after another, Cao Zhi was highly suspected and had migrated three times. His literary achievements are very high, and some people later called him "high-spirited, and his words were taken from Huamao". Author of Cao Zijian Collection 10.
At that time, Cao Cao was obsessed with his hegemony. Cao pi was also sealed the official position and often went out with his father. However, Cao Zhi was young and didn't like war by nature, so he could get along with his sister-in-law Luo Zhen, and then gave birth to feelings.
In the year of Luo Zhen's death, Cao Zhi, who was sealed in Juancheng, went to Luoyang to see his brother. Zhen's prince Cao Cao accompanied his uncle to dinner. Cao Zhi looked at his nephew and remembered Luo Zhen's death. His heart is very sour. After dinner, Xelloss gave Luo Zhen's relic, the gold belt jade pillow, to Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi sees things and thinks about people. When he returned to the fief, he stayed on the boat for the night. In a trance, he saw Luo Zhen Ling Bo coming from a distance. Cao Zhi was awakened. It turned out to be a dream of Conan.
Back in Juancheng, Cao Zhi was still thinking about his meeting with Luo Zhen Luoshui, so he wrote an essay "Feeling Zhen Fu".
Four years later, Ming Di succeeded to the throne of Cao Cao. In order to avoid his mother's name, he changed it to Luo Shenfu. Due to the influence of this poem, people were moved by the love tragedy of Cao Zhi and Zhen Shiyin, and they praised each other and regarded them as Luoshen, which gradually became a romantic story throughout the ages.
Gu Kaizhi