Where the water hangs from the cliff of Qifeng Mountain.

There are many masters in Paintings of Ming Dynasty, among which Xu Wei (1521-1593) is the most creative master of ink and flower painting. Xu Wei, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, whose first word was Wen Qing; Later, it was changed to a long article. He was in the late Ming Dynasty, and a scholar was struggling. He failed to achieve "fame" in his life and suffered a lot of bad luck. He is often humiliated by other things and his spirit is almost crazy. Later, he was jailed for manslaughter of his wife. When he got out of prison, he was over 50 years old. The vicissitudes of life have formed his wild character of poetry and painting, leaving many anecdotes for future generations, but most of them belong to collateral encounters, which may not be true. Because of long-term poverty and poverty, he is easy to get close to the lower class, and he is really different in painting.

Xu Wei's poetry, calligraphy and painting have developed in an all-round way and he is quite conceited about calligraphy. He believes that his freehand brushwork of flowers and birds originated from calligraphy cultivation, and once said that "freehand brushwork began when cursive script prevailed." Art is even more provocative, "not seeking the rhyme of survival". Although it is scribbled at random, it is full of interest. He likes to make ink-and-wash grape peony, which is a metaphor for his lack of talent. He expresses his laziness through things and compares things with people. Later, many famous painters, such as Shi Tao, Badashanren, Zheng Banqiao and Wu Changshuo, followed suit.

In his anthology, there is a comment:

Qifeng Cliff, hanging water, strange rocks, pine and cypress, secluded guests, mostly ink drops, full of haze.

Paper is boundless and dense as land. Hundreds of beautiful calyx, dry branches, moist ink, fresh color.

Flying sounds and living, moving like life, having fun and making love, working and relaxing, thinking is a wonderful product.

To annotate ...

1. Painting history: the title of a painter is equivalent to a painter.

2. Youren: Hide. Feather guest, a Taoist teacher.

3. Lan: Fog in the mountains. The haze here refers to the foggy effect.

4.Top: first-class, excellent.

5. Beautiful flowers. Beautiful and lovely. Calyx, receptacle

6. Ink: Used as a verb here to draw with ink.

7. color: here is also a verb, use color.

8. workmanship: exquisite and meticulous.

9. Yi: Elegant and chic.

Explain a text word for word.

Steep peaks, waterfalls, rugged rocks and pine trees stand tall. Those hermits and

Taoist priests are mostly dripping this ink, full of paper fog, empty without seeing the sun, or dense forests in Mishan.

Works that can't see the earth are all top grades. In fact, whether it is a bunch of flowers or a dead branch; Use ink

Moisturizing like rain and dew, with bright colors. No matter what happens, birds perch on trees.

They are lifelike, pleasing to the eye, edifying temperament, neat, fine, elegant and vivid, that's all.

A real masterpiece.

Comment and analysis

Xu Wei was an accomplished painter in Ming Dynasty. This paper discusses his painting art. author

Look, everything in nature is beautiful. Whether it is dead branches or colorful, whether it is

Whether a bird is dull or bright, moving or static, the key is to draw its charm; painter

Of course, the technical requirements are high, but there may be no certain rules. Using ink is "moistening" and using color is "

The key is to show the vitality of nature, which is a wonderful work, not necessarily a strange stone.

Qifeng cliff, desolate, dense as endless. Xu Wei believes that the function of painting is pleasing to the eye, that is, what it is.

"Pleasant flirting"; The wonderful product of painting should be "work and escape", which not only expresses the natural form, but also conveys.

Its charm. This view is quite accurate.