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Badashan people, a former Ming imperial clan, obtained the qualification of "all students" and lived in Nanchang for generations. When I was young, I suffered misfortune, ran away from home, fled to the mountains of Fengxin County, shaved my hair, and became a monk. In a few years, call a monk with Buddha dust.
Badashanren has lived in the mountains for twenty years, and there are more than one hundred people studying with him. Linchuan county magistrate Hu heard of his reputation and invited him to the official residence. After more than a year, my heart was empty and dissatisfied, and I went crazy, laughing and crying all day. One night, he tore up his monk's clothes, burned them and ran back to Huicheng (Nanchang). He wandered around the market alone, often wearing an old cloth hat, a worn robe and worn shoes, showing his heels and swinging his sleeves, and walking briskly like dancing. Everyone in the city laughed at him, and no one recognized him. His nephew recognized him and let him live in his own house. It took a long time to recover.
Ren Shan is good at calligraphy, learning Daling and Lu Gong (Wang Xianzhi, Yan Zhenqing) seal script, and can form his own unique style; The weeds written are very strange and imposing. I also like painting ink plantains, strange rocks, flowers and trees, wild geese and ducks. I am free from the constraints of painters' rules and regulations and carefree. People get his paintings and scramble to collect them, so they cherish them very much. He can't drink two liters, but he likes to drink. Poor scholars or ordinary people, butchers of livestock, wine sellers invited him to drink, and he went; Every time I go drinking, I always get drunk. When you are drunk, you will drip ink and not cherish (my work). Badashan people went to the monk's house outside the city many times, and the young monk struggled to pester him to paint, even pulling his sleeves and skirts, but Dashan people did not refuse. Some of his friends gave him property, but he didn't refuse it. However, the dignitaries wanted to exchange a few taels of silver for an ink painting, but they could not get it; Someone brought silk, and he accepted it directly, saying, "I use it as the material for socks." Therefore, the paintings and calligraphy that dignitaries want are actually bought from poor scholars or monks, livestock butchers and wine sellers.
One day, he suddenly wrote a big word "dumb" on his door, and never said a word to anyone again. Instead, he preferred to laugh and drink. When someone offered him a drink, he shrank his neck, clapped his hands and smiled. I also like the game of guessing boxing. If I win the gambling, I'll laugh my head off. If I lose a lot, I will punch the winner on the back and laugh my head off. When you are drunk, you often sigh and cry.
As a guest of Nanchang, I have always admired Badashan people, so I asked them to meet at the Mountain Temple. On this day, it was windy and rainy, and I expected that the mountain people would never go out. Soon, the public sent a text message saying, "The dawn of the mountain people has arrived." Surprised and delighted, I quickly called a bamboo sedan chair and braved the rain to see him, holding hands and smiling at each other. Staying in the mountains at night and talking by candlelight, Badashan people can't help but want to communicate with others, just like itching, so they use gestures to express themselves. Then I asked for a pen to write on the table to reward me until the candle burned out and the root of the candle was exposed.
I think: There are many people in the world who are familiar with Badashanren, but no one really knows him. The feelings of the mountain people are angry and depressed, and there are other reasons why they can't get rid of themselves. Like a boulder blocking the spring water, like a wet wadding stopping the fire, there is nothing to do, so he is crazy and speechless, hiding the state of playing with the world, while some people regard him as a madman and a master. Their understanding of mountain people is really superficial! Pathetic!