1. "Luo Shen Fu Tu" was created about 1,600 years ago.
2. "Ode to the Goddess of the Luo" is a work handed down from generation to generation by the painter Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is based on his observation of the famous literary work "The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo" written by Cao Zhi, a famous scholar in Jian'an during the Cao Wei period of the Three Kingdoms and the third son of Cao Cao. Painted with emotion.
3. Gu Kaizhi (348-409), whose courtesy name was Changkang and whose nickname was Hutou, was Han nationality and a native of Wuxi, Jinling (now Jiaoxi, Jiangsu Province). Gu Kaizhi was erudite and talented, good at poetry, calligraphy, and especially painting. He was good at portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. People at that time called him the three masters: painting, writing and infatuation. Xie An attached great importance to it, thinking that it had never happened before. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei, and Zhang Sengyao were collectively known as the "Four Great Masters of the Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's paintings were intended to express the spirit, and his arguments such as "imagination is wonderful" and "describing spirit with form" laid the foundation for the development of traditional Chinese painting.
4. "Luo Shen Fu" is full of beautiful words and emotional descriptions. The love between gods and humans is lingering, sad and touching. Gu Kaizhi was deeply moved after reading it, so he composed the "Pictures of Luo Shen Fu" with concentration. This scroll is worthy of being one of the treasures of Chinese classical painting in terms of content, artistic structure, character modeling, environmental description and pen and ink expression. As soon as this volume was published, no one dared to draw this picture again, so it has become the most influential masterpiece in Chinese history and the most famous painting that has been praised by the world for thousands of years.