As we all know, he is not only an emperor, but also a painter, poet, calligrapher, athlete and even a perfect lover. The mountains and rivers shot down by his parents are in the heyday, and the country is rich and the people are safe. He is naive and puts all his thoughts into what he loves. Xu Huixin's life should be the dream life of all artists. At that time, it was full of ink and strong style of writing.
Song Huizong's biggest move is to be the president of Hanlin Painting Academy, where he positions himself as an emperor, studies hard, practices art teaching, compiles teaching materials, teaches in person and trains artistic talents.
In order to attract the best talents to the Academy of Painting, Hui Zong established a set of examination system, which was formally incorporated into the imperial examination, called "Painting Examination". It is divided into Buddhism, Taoism, figures, landscapes, birds and animals, flowers and trees, and agarwood. Choosing ancient poetry as the examination questions requires candidates to draw the artistic conception of poetry, which is ingenious in conception, unconventional and complete in writing.
Not only that, Song Huizong also gave the questions himself, presided over the exams, and personally approved the papers. Only when his professional quality and innovative consciousness are tested can he be admitted to the Painting Academy.
Exam 1: step on the flowers and return to the water chestnut fragrance.
This topic is also original. How to express the "fragrance" in water chestnut fragrance?
Candidates scratch their ears and take pains: "Xiang" is abstract and can only be smelled with the nose, not with the eyes. How should I draw?
Some painters have racked their brains and worked hard on the word "stepping on flowers". There are many petals painted on the picture, and a person rides on the petals, indicating the meaning of going out in spring; Some painters have worked hard on the word "horse". The main body of the painting is a teenager riding on horseback, coming home with a whip at dusk. Some painters think hard and work hard on the word "hoof" to draw a big horseshoe shape on the screen, which is particularly eye-catching.
Xu Huixin saw it, and they were all very dissatisfied. Only one painter is original. He did not simply focus on individual words in the poem, but on the basis of fully understanding the poem, he focused on the word "Xiang" at the end of the poem. His picture is: a summer sunset, an official riding a horse back to the village after playing all day. Horses galloped, hooves were raised high, and several butterflies were chasing hooves.
Of course, this candidate stood out and was chosen as the top scholar of the painting academy.
Test 2: Wan Li, the hometown of butterfly dream.
This topic is taken from "Wan Li, the hometown of butterfly dreams, azaleas for three nights", which has profound implications. Poems such as Butterfly, Purple Return and Bright Moon on the Branches show a lonely mood of a wanderer sleeping alone in a foreign land.
None of the candidates likes it. The only one selected is Wang Daoheng's test paper.
Wang Daoheng painted a picture of Su Wu herding sheep. In the picture, Su Wu is dozing off in a foreign world of ice and snow. In his sleep, he must be a hometown thousands of miles away: trees are spreading, butterflies are chasing, and rules are standing. The moon is just empty, and the wooden shadow is on the ground. I still hear crows. Wang Daoheng grasped the meaning of the topic well and won the championship in one fell swoop.
Most importantly, Song Huizong's examination method is called "selecting scholars by poetry", which makes painters deeply realize the truth that "it is terrible to be unlearned and unlearned". They can no longer paint behind their backs, but study, exercise their poetic imagination and understand painting at a higher level.
However, don't think that you are finished if you are accepted. As for the accepted painters, they have to be divided into "scholars" and "miscellaneous notes" according to their status. We should constantly train and assess them so that they can develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way, and then divide them into professional titles.
For example, Song Huizong once asked the painter of the Academy whether to raise his left foot.
In A.D. 1 126, the army of nomads from the Jin army broke through Bianjing and escorted Qin Shihuang to the north. Bianjing was looted and the Northern Song Dynasty perished, which is called "the shame of Jingkang" in history.
During his imprisonment, Song Huizong suffered a lot of mental torture, and wrote many sad, sad and desolate poems, "Looking back at his hometown for three thousand miles, there are no geese flying in the south", which is one of the true realms of Su Wu pastoral paintings painted by Wang Daoheng.
Personally, I think he can be called an artist, and he has made great contributions to the development of painting in the Northern Song Dynasty and even in China. No one can deny his amazing achievements and talents in art. At home, he is incompetent. As the head of a country, he shouldered a heavy responsibility, but did nothing. People always yearn for a completely different life. Wind and waves envy peace and calm, they pursue melodramatic twists and turns, but the fact is that they can't escape a sentence of "helplessness". In fact, they can't escape the fate arranged by heaven. Li Yuhe, Xu Huixin.