Artists pursue truth, goodness and beauty, and the pursuit after drinking is more intense and unscrupulous, or they despise powerful people or denounce snobs. And the list goes on. After Li Bai's ninth birthday, he dared to let the hot Yang and Gao Lishi sharpen their motuo boots. Such a slave despises the arrogance and affability of powerful people! Cute! Respectable! Kai Liang in the Southern Song Dynasty was even wilder. Liang Kai was a figure painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. He is a heavy drinker and usually entertains himself. "When he was drunk, he was soaked through again." His behavior is wild, and he got the nickname of Liang Crazy. As recorded in Treasures of Painting, when he was in Song Ningzong, he was waiting for a letter from the Academy. The emperor gave him a gold belt, but he didn't accept it. He hung it in the yard with the emperor's reward. In feudal society, what the emperor gave must be preserved and enshrined respectfully. Kai Liang's action is what most people dare not do and don't understand. In the Ming Dynasty, Gui Zhuang (16 13- 1673) could write cursive script and was good at drawing ink bamboo. After the death of Ming Chengzu, he refused to cooperate with the Qing government and often used wine to drown his sorrows. After drinking, he was very sad and there was no one around. Gui Zhuang is as famous as Gu, a great thinker at that time, and is known as "returning to the strange and keeping the strange". Wei Wu, a court painter in the Ming Dynasty, went in and out of the court, but looked down on the powerful. Eunuchs at that time had great power. The autocratic behavior of eunuchs endangering the country is despised by people, while some people are awed by their arrogance and bow to their knees. Tachileik is what he seems, and his love and hate are clear. The attendants want to draw, but they will never get it. There are also some people who ask Wei Wu to paint. If they are impolite, he will never write. Only when you are drunk will you automatically wipe the paper clean, throw it on the ground after painting and let others take it away.
The works of Dionysian artists are often the embodiment of their own nature and the concrete reflection of their understanding of truth, goodness and beauty. Most of the works are hearty and natural, revealing a true feeling, without the slightest female affectation.
1 1。 At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a man named Xu, who was afraid of being an official, fled to the mountains. Can't talk because of illness. A few years later, a Buddhist temple will choose a person who is good at calligraphy and write couplets for the pillars in the temple. Xu accidentally crossed the beam on the ground and made a big taboo. The abbot of the temple was very angry and hit him on the back with a cane. He quickly wrote on the ground with his hand: "Although I can't speak, I have learned Chinese calligraphy. I hope I can try it." As a result, let him have a try, and all the monks in the temple are convinced and willing to let him write everything, no matter what his faults are.
12。 One day, Liu Gongquan and several friends held a "reading club". At this time, an old man selling tofu saw his handwriting, "I can write about Feng Fei's family background and dare to boast in front of people." He felt that the child was too proud and frowned and said, "This word is not well written, just like my tofu, it is soft, flat and spineless. Is it worth boasting in front of people? " Hearing this, Hsiao Kung chuan said unhappily, "Write some words for me if you can."
The old man smiled heartily and said, "No, I dare not. I am a clown and can't write well. " However, some people write with their feet much better than you! If you don't believe me, go to Huajing. "
The next day, Xiao Gongquan got a vigil and went to Huajing alone. As soon as he entered the capital of China, he saw many people gathered around a big pagoda tree. He squeezed into the crowd and saw a black and thin old man, without arms and barefoot, sitting on the ground, his left foot pressing paper, his right foot holding a pen, writing couplets freely, and his handwriting was like a galloping horse, while flying while flying, which won applause from the onlookers.
Xiao Gongquan plopped down on his knees in front of the old man and said, "I would like to worship you as a teacher, please tell me the secret of writing ..." The old man quickly pulled Xiao Gongquan up with his feet and said, "I am a lonely man, born without hands, and I can only live skillfully with my feet. How can I be a teacher? " Xiao Gongquan begged, and the old man spread a piece of paper on the ground and wrote a few words with his right foot:
"Write eight cylinders of water, inkstone dyed black; When you win hundreds of parents, you will get a phoenix in Yi Long. "
Liu Gongquan kept the old man's words in mind and worked hard to practice calligraphy. Thick cocoons were ground on the hands and the elbows were patched layer by layer. After hard training, Liu Gongquan finally became a famous calligrapher in China.
Liu Gongquan is a famous calligrapher in China. His calligraphy is clear and straight, which is admired and studied by later scholars. Why did he achieve such success? The above passage answers this question. At first, he thought his handwriting was excellent. He wrote the words "I can write Feng Fei's family background and dare to boast in front of people", which shows his pride. However, when the old man deliberately satirized Liu Gongquan's words as "tofu, soft and flat, spineless" in "Burden", Liu Gongquan was extremely angry. "Write a few words for me if you have the ability." The pride is beyond words. When the old man challenged him with the phrase "Some people write with their feet much better", Liu Gongquan didn't fly into a rage. However, from his action of "vigil the next day and going to Huajing alone", we can also see that he is not convinced, which is the pride of writing Liu Gongquan. When Liu Gongquan entered Huajing, he saw "a black and thin old man without arms", "writing couplets freely" and writing "Like Ma Benteng, flying". So he was dumbfounded. He plopped down on his knees in front of the old man and begged him to be his teacher. Here, a "shock", "kneeling" and "begging" fully show the change of Liu Gongquan's thought, and his pride is swept away. When the old man told Liu Gongquan the "secret" of writing, he suddenly realized that "practicing calligraphy hard from now on" finally became a generation of famous artists. The full text describes "energetic" in detail and "practicing calligraphy" slightly, which gives us profound enlightenment.