Qingpingle has painted and painted many times. Why are the kings of the Song Dynasty good at painting and calligraphy?

In the recent hit TV series "Qingpingle", Song Renzong, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, took out some paintings and calligraphy works from time to time to watch, which made people curious. Did the Northern Song Emperor like painting and calligraphy so much? In addition, Song Renzong also wrote an extremely exquisite flying white book, and later Song Huizong created a thin gold body, which makes people wonder why the emperors of the Song Dynasty were very good at painting and calligraphy. I think this is probably related to the tradition of the Song Dynasty. Song Dynasty was a dynasty that valued literature over martial arts. For the scholar-officials, not only did the ancestral motto of not killing officials be established in the Taizu period, but even military officers were only given to literati.

Although Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin initially did this only to limit the excessive power of military attaché s and prevent the Song Dynasty from being divided again as in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. But later, the civil servants gradually gained the attention of the emperor. Therefore, as the head of a country, the emperor also began to take the lead in learning calligraphy culture. From then on, the Emperor of Song Dynasty began to go to a literary point of no return.

Later, Song Zhenzong, Song Renzong, Song Gaozong, Song Huizong and others all made great achievements in literature, especially Song Huizong. Although he had no talent for governing the country, he eventually led Jin people into the capital of song dynasty and took him into exile in the north, but his painting and calligraphy art was outstanding. He studied under Huang Tingjian and others in calligraphy, and finally got a mastery of it, forming his own unique thin gold font. He even made up "Xuan He Hua Pu" in his paintings. Moreover, Song Huizong's paintings are very good at sketching. His paintings are very vivid, and Song Gaozong's cursive script is also very famous.

Therefore, under the influence of the royal atmosphere of learning calligraphy and painting, intellectuals in the Song Dynasty rushed to learn piano, chess and painting, so the whole Song Dynasty formed a top-down upsurge of learning poetry and painting. Every official can also write, which is one of the reasons why there are so many famous calligraphers and poets in Song Dynasty.