"History of Painting and Calligraphy" What an enviable official position it is! As we all know, Emperor Qianlong loved calligraphy, and he set up a "Sanxi Hall" in the imperial study to collect all the books and posts in the world.
As a "history of calligraphy and painting", if Zheng Banqiao can take advantage of the opportunity of the emperor's eastward tour to be respected by the emperor, it will be an excellent opportunity to fly in and out of the imperial court.
Zheng Banqiao thinks differently from others. He is honest and sincere to the people. What he thinks in his mind is to benefit the next official, and he has no ambition. Since it is the magistrate of Wei county, it is necessary to seek welfare for the people of Wei county.
Zheng Banqiao came to Taishan ahead of time and began to decorate the Qianlong Imperial Garden. He framed his best Lanzhu poems on paper and hung them in Qianlong Palace.
Qianlong finally came to the palace, looked at Zheng Banqiao's works in front of him and praised him. He inquired about his achievements in wei county, personally praised Zheng Banqiao as a good official, and gave Zheng Banqiao a seal of "History of Ganlong Cambodian Painting and Calligraphy" as a reward. Zheng Banqiao claimed to paint bamboo, not only alluding to the sunlight and the moon shadow on the paper window powder wall. He once wrote: My bamboo is elegant, calligraphy has lines, bamboo has lines, calligraphy has shades, bamboo has shades, calligraphy has density, and bamboo has density.
He is good at writing bamboo, and even wrote the poem "Between Bamboo and Stone", expressing his aloof feelings with the "between nothing and many knots" of bamboo.
Zheng Banqiao, handsome and tough, is known as "a blue flower that never fades in four seasons, a bamboo that lasts for a hundred days, and an invincible stone that never changes". Jiang Shiquan, a writer in Qing Dynasty, wrote in his poem Painting Orchids: Banqiao painted like orchids, the waves were elegant and graceful, Banqiao wrote orchids like words, and the flowers and leaves were beautiful.
In this passage, the relationship between "book" and "painting" in Zheng Banqiao's works is really incisive. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are regarded as compulsory "four arts" by ancient literati: those who are good at Qin are easy to understand, those who are good at chess seek wisdom, those who are good at writing are affectionate, and those who draw are perfect and beautiful. Chyi Chin's paintings and calligraphy are noble in taste, rich in connotation and infinite in charm, and they are the classic life art of China people.
Zheng Banqiao's poems, paintings and calligraphy pay attention to "raising the sky and exposing the ground, shaking the sound of thunder and rain, cursing the words of ghosts and gods, and not painting before". As one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, he just wants to be different from the ancients and have an original style. His works violate people's appreciation habits and make people feel novel, so they feel a bit "strange".
As Zheng Banqiao himself said: "Writing is unique, it is better than poetry. Most of them have experienced the ups and downs of life and finally embarked on the road of selling paintings for a living. "
Although he sells paintings, he sends his feelings with paintings, and he has a higher pursuit in painting and calligraphy, and he does not want to flow into the ranks of ordinary painters. His knowledge, experience, artistic accomplishment, profound skill and artistic pursuit of innovative ideas are different from ordinary painters, reaching the realm of new ideas, new compositions and new techniques, and creating a generation of calligraphy and painting atmosphere.
Zheng Banqiao was an official of the Qing Dynasty, a famous painter and writer. The name is Xie, and the word is soft. He lived mainly in Yangzhou all his life and was one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". His poems, books and paintings are outstanding and unique, and he is known as the "three musts" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines, chrysanthemums and other plants, among which painting bamboos has been the most outstanding achievement for more than 50 years.