There is a folk story about the Korean painting "Five Cattle Map", which is a bit legendary and accidental. It is said that one day it was sunny and sunny, so Han Yun wanted to travel to the countryside. It is very interesting to go to the suburbs and see cows grazing and shepherds playing beside them.
Han Yun watched the cows running eagerly, chirping with their longitudinal toes, licking their tongues backwards, or looking for grass. He couldn't help seeing God. After returning home, everything he saw during the day haunted his mind. I was moved beyond words, so Han Yun decided to paint the scene.
With this plan, Han Yun began to concentrate on painting, which lasted more than a month and finally completed this famous painting. The five cows painted above are different in appearance, fat and thin, different in color and concrete in image. Some of the five cows in the picture seem to be unattended, while others stand on tiptoe and crow, as if calling for their departing partners. There is also a cow walking slowly, which seems to be going to the farmland and returning from the farmland, which is unforgettable.
Han Yun's paintings show the simple folk customs in the countryside with dignified strokes. The most subtle thing is that viewers can clearly see their simple, robust, simple, stubborn and diligent characters from their gestures and eyes.
With superb skills and high artistic value, it was still treasured by the court until the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, because of the war, he lived among the people and was finally collected by calligrapher Zhao Meng. Zhao Meng was overjoyed to get this treasure. Please mention it for "Five Cattle Map" and praise him for his high spirit and ingenious pen.
Of course, there is more than one painting by Han Yun: The Picture of Five Bulls, but because of the impermanence of the world, the ups and downs of history and the constant wars throughout the ages, there is only one painting: The Picture of Five Bulls has never been lost, despite the great disaster. Now this painting has been collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, becoming one of the rare famous paintings of the Tang Dynasty in the Palace Museum. It is a national treasure.
Being one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China shows the value of this painting. It is because there are so many treasures in the Palace Museum that if they are put in other museums, they will definitely be the treasures of the town museum. Because of its value, many people think it is the pinnacle of Han Lian's works. But this is actually a wrong view. Wu Niu Tu is really excellent, but it is not the highest representative of Han's painting skills.
Han Yun is not only an expert in cattle and livestock painting, but also has profound attainments and unique style in figure painting. Moreover, from the existing historical data, Han Tao's achievements in figure painting are obviously higher than those in cattle and livestock painting.
Although it is called Han Lian's "painting a cow and putting pen to paper", Han Lian is listed as a character door, not a beast door. It can be seen that Han Lian's main works and artistic achievements still lie in figure painting.
Of the 36 North Korean paintings in the imperial palace in the Northern Song Dynasty, more than half are pastoral, more than one third are figures, and only four are paintings of cattle and livestock. Judging from this record, it is a Korean couplet pen with pastoral customs and characters as its main content. Not only a large number, but also high attainments, all of which are fine products.
Cheng Xiu, a painter in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, once commented on Han Yun's figure painting, thinking that Han Yun's figure painting even surpassed Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang, who are famous for painting figures. Cheng Xiu said: "Zhou Wei hurt his preciseness, and Zhang Xi 'an made a fuss about it, which made it a Korean thing! " ! Deng Chun also said, "A gentleman's pommel horse is not as good as Han Gan's, a Buddha pursues Wu Daozi, mountains and rivers are like Li Sixun, and people are like South Korea. "
For example, Niu Hua can only be said to be a feature and specialty of Han Lian's paintings, not his specialty. South Korea's highest achievement should still be in people and rural customs.