Source: Song Gongkai's "Two Pictures of Gao Ma Xiao": "This horse is pitiful; The horse is three feet high and has no crown; Innocent, good-looking; Chuchu clothes will do. "
Naive idioms and allusions:
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a painter named Zheng, who got a bachelor's degree and took the Bo Zi exam. Later, the northern Mongolian nobles invaded the south, and he wrote to the court to advocate resistance, which was not adopted. After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, he changed his name to "Xiao Si". Originally, Zhao dominated the Song Dynasty, and "Xiao" was Zhao's radical. The painter said that he always missed the Southern Song Dynasty and lived in seclusion in a temple in Suzhou.
Zheng Sixiao hung a big plaque in his apartment, with "The World of the Cave" written by him. It turns out that "Ben" is composed of two words: big and ten. Put the cross in the middle of the word "hole" and it becomes "Song", and "big" is "Great Song". It means that you still live in the territory of "DaSong".
On one occasion, he drew two rolls of Chinese cymbidium five inches high and more than ten feet long. The Chinese cymbidium in the painting is naturally rootless. He also wrote eight words on the painting: "pure gentleman, no villain." After enjoying this painting, everyone was full of praise and unanimously praised it for its innocence, naturalness and vitality.