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People need to let go when they are in very difficult times, and calm down when everything goes well.
This couplet is not only concise, concise, ethereal and far-reaching, full of philosophical color, with high warning and enlightenment, but also shows the lofty realm with plain and vulgar words, which is a great motto standing in the world.
Couplets are only a few dozen words, but they are rich in philosophy of life. They tell people when to make a decisive decision, when to put down their courage and when to be calm. The author points out the tactics in life very concretely, just like a beautiful and exquisite life motto.
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ChangDai-Chien (1899 May10-1983 April 2), formerly known as Zheng Quan, was later renamed Feng Tang, whose name was Daqian, and his nickname was Daqian, a Hong Kong resident. A native of Neijiang, Sichuan, born in Panyu, Guangdong Province, 10 was born in Li Anliang, a suburb of Neijiang City, Sichuan Province on May/0/9. He is a painter and calligrapher in China.
In 1950s, Zhang Daqian traveled around the world and gained a great international reputation. Known as "the pen of the East" by the western art world.
He and his second brother, Zhang Shanzi Kunzhong, founded the "Dafengtang Painting School", which is the most legendary splash-ink painter in China in the 20th century. Especially landscape painting. After living abroad, he combined painting style with painting meaning, emphasized color and ink painting, especially splashing ink to set colors, and created a new artistic style, because his poems, books and paintings are as famous as Qi Baishi and Xinyu Pu.
Therefore, it is also called "Southern Zhangbei Qi" and "Southern Zhangbei Pu", with various names. Together with Huang Junbi and Xinyu Pu, they are called "crossing the sea three times". In his twenties, he had a big beard, which became a unique symbol of Zhang Daqian in the future.
He had exchanges and discussions with Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang, Lang Jingshan and Spanish abstract painter Picasso.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Daqian