Write ideas during the day and at night.
Redundant and thin,
Paintings are ripe when they are born.
-(Qing) Zheng Banqiao
The poet painted bamboo and wrote bamboo all his life, and looked back on his experiences with deep affection.
The first two sentences are about painting writing, which requires diligence and hard work to succeed.
"Redundancy" means that writing poetry and painting is actually the same as being a man. Only when we can delete complexity and simplify complexity can we reach a certain height.
"Painting is born and cooked" implies a deeper truth, which is actually the three stages of artistic pursuit: birth, maturity and birth. He once said that he painted bamboo in three realms: "There are bamboo in his eyes, bamboo in his chest, and nothing in his chest." Of course, he borrowed the three realms of "seeing mountains is mountains, not mountains, but mountains or mountains" from the Zen master.
Painting bamboo is like this. Isn't it the same to be a man? So some people say that writing is like a person, and painting is like a person.
-Excerpted from the book Poetry and Calligraphy of Zen.