Su Dongpo once happened to see a painting, which touched his heart and wrote a series of beautiful poems, such as "Feng Dan turned the crow with the water, Chang Song fell asleep in the snow", which made people sigh for a long time. Song people love painting, mountains and rivers are pavilions and forests, all of which are quiet and elegant, ethereal and graceful. Different from Su Shi's Yun Shui Qing, the Snow Cold Forest Landscape painted by Fan Kuan, a contemporary painter, does not have the "floating green" of "spring breeze shaking the river", but shows the magnificent picture of the northern winter mountains and rivers after snow with a bold pen, which is praised as "the masterpiece of Huayuan's life" by Angel, a famous calligraphy and painting collector in Qing Dynasty.
According to the Review of Famous Paintings of the Holy Dynasty, Fan Kuan's landscape painting is "a beginner's pen of Li Cheng". Although it is exquisite, it is not as good as it is, so he writes about the true bones of mountains without carving, and is a family. After learning the creative essence of Hao Jing, Li Cheng and other senior painters in the early stage, he entered the period of "learning from things", that is, taking "things" as "teachers". It is Fan Kuan's study and pursuit of the concept of landscape creation that can condense the magnificent mountains and rivers in the atmosphere on square paper. His masterpiece "Snow Scene and Cold Forest Map" is the magnificent scenery of Qinling and Sichuan in front of mountains and rivers.
However, such a national treasure famous painting was almost destroyed because of the confusion of the years.
Emperor Qianlong was elegant and profound. After several generations of collectors' hands, The Map of Snow Scene and Cold Forest was finally collected by Emperor Qianlong in the Forbidden City and in the Royal Garden-Yuanmingyuan. Since then, although famous paintings have a long-term place for national treasures, it is inevitable that disasters will befall them. 1860, when the British and French allied forces looted Yuanmingyuan, they wandered into the rivers and lakes.
Fortunately, this famous painting was recovered by Zhang Yi, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, during the Guangxu period, and has been passed down to this day. The Zhang family loves this painting so much that most relatives and friends dare not look at it. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Japanese antique dealers repeatedly coerced Zhang Shucheng, the son of Zhang Yi, to send him famous paintings. Zhang Shucheng did not forget his father's entrustment, and under the arrogance of the Japanese, he tried to preserve all kinds of cultural relics left by his father. 198 1 year, Zhang Shucheng resolutely decided to donate this painting. He sorted out 455 cultural relics at home and donated them to the country for free. The famous painting "Snow Scene and Cold Forest" of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has been circulated for thousands of years, has been safely displayed in Tianjin Art Museum since then. No matter rich or poor, all people who like it have the opportunity to see its amazing beauty spanning thousands of years.
Over the years, there have been many problems in the snow scene and the cold forest map, but these have not affected people's appreciation and love for it. Why is this painting so admired? The painting in Song Dynasty is beautiful and true. This painting is not only realistic and vivid, but also vigorous and freehand. Cold forests in deep valleys and cold springs in ancient temples make people sigh and linger. This painting, which is 193.5 cm long and 160.3 cm wide, penetrates the back of the paper, as if a breeze was blowing in the forest and a cold spring suddenly flowed under the mountain.
This ancient painting with a clear rhyme of the Northern Song Dynasty, all the way from the war, let us see and appreciate the eternal beauty of the motherland more clearly.