Gu Kaizhi is well-read and good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. Specializing in portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. People call it the three musts: painting, writing and infatuation. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou are also called "Four Masters in Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's painting intention is vivid, and his thoughts of "moving the mind" and "expressing the spirit with form" laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
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Not long after Gu Kaizhi was born, his mother died. Gu Kaizhi because all the other children have mothers and she doesn't. He pestered his father and asked, "Why don't I have a mother?" Father said, how can you have no mother? Gu Kaizhi asked, "What does my mother look like?" Father had to endure the idea and describe it to him.
Gu Kaizhi used his father's description to describe his mother again and again. After each painting, he always asks his father if he looks like it, and his father will always express regret after he is sure. Gu Kaizhi, however, was not discouraged and still insisted on painting. When his father's eyes lit up and said "like, like", he put down his brush with satisfaction. His mother will live in his heart forever.
Step 2 be stupid
Shi Shuo Xin Yu said that Gu Kaizhi ate sugarcane uncharacteristically. Others eat from the sweetest place, and throw it away if it is not sweet, while Gu Kaizhi eats sugar cane from the end, and the sweeter he eats, the better he eats. Gu Kaizhi's Eating Sugarcane Day by Day contains profound philosophy of life, which can't be said to be great wisdom in life.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Kaizhi