Among them, Tang Yin took poetry and painting as a stunt, was good at writing calligraphy, was proficient in poetry and painting, and took poetry as a hero.
With the pen as the bone and the art as the soul, the four people outlined the poetic and picturesque feelings in the vast world under the three-inch soft peak. If you rank four people according to their artistic attainments, it will be as follows:
First: Wen Zhiming.
Ancient people didn't have to study boring mathematics and physics, but devoted their time and energy to poems and paintings that "nourish the soul and construct the state of mind". Therefore, people who can be called "gifted scholars" in ancient times are naturally proficient in poetry and painting, especially the four famous gifted scholars in Jiangnan since ancient times! Wen Zhiming, on the other hand, can turn "essence" into "perfection", ranking first among the four gifted scholars.
Poetry and prose
Wen Zhiming wrote about 526 poems in his life and was a prolific scholar. Wen Zhiming's poems are rich in words, imaginative in content, free and easy in style, romantic in color, and have a deep connotation of "Bai Su" (Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo).
Wen Zhiming often writes poems with the theme of "Mountain and Moon", which makes people feel relaxed and open. For example, "At sunset, the wind blew me up, and I woke up. I knew I was on top of a Yun Lan." In short, it gives people a refined feeling of "playing the piano between streams, and the mountains and rivers know my joys and sorrows."
(Poem inscribed and sealed)
Painting and calligraphy
In the Ming Dynasty, the court took "Zhao Meng's retro calligraphy style" as the test standard, which made the calligraphy in the Ming Dynasty have no obvious individualistic style. Wen Zhiming disdained the pursuit of "utilitarian art" and began the lonely road of pursuing his own style. With the efforts of ten books a day, he created calligraphy with words like tigers and hidden willows and became the representative of Wu calligraphy.
Wen Zhiming is good at painting landscapes, flowers, bamboos and figures, taking landscapes as his "unique skill". Wen Zhiming is different from Tang Yin. Wen Zhiming's paintings are not exquisite and gorgeous, but have a feeling of "simplicity means great complexity, and clumsiness means great workmanship". The picture is full of layers and profound artistic conception, which is deeply loved by Emperor Qianlong, the "first scum of the Qing Dynasty".
Wen Zhiming's talent is slow. He began to learn poetry at the age of seven. When I was young, I was laughed at by my teacher for being stupid, but my fate was always afraid of "hardworking people"! Wen Zhiming slept only four hours a day all his life, and devoted the rest of his time to poetry, painting and calligraphy. Until his death, Wen Zhiming still had a pen in his hand! ?
At the age of eighty-eight, he devoted his life to writing Biography of Zhang Yichuan. The calligraphy attainments in the works are as deep as the Dragon Garden, and they are praised as "works with a clear heart" by later generations.
Second: Tang Bohu?
Tang Yin is the first in the author's mind. He is the "soul figure" among the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan. He combines talent and temperament perfectly. His poems and paintings all show the resistance of an "unruly soul" to boredom and secularity. He is a gifted scholar and an unparalleled "Peach Blossom Fairy" in ancient and modern times.
Poetry!
Tang Yin's poems are meaningful, natural and romantic, neatly arranged, closely linked, appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Children read fluently, adults read calmly, reducing their desires, which is quite Taoist in nature. ?
In a word: "I hope I die of old age. I don't want to bow my head in front of the car." In order to show their noble personality and broad-minded state of mind, instead of living for mediocrity, it is better to pursue inner stability and quietly make money and fame in the rivers and lakes.
(Tang Bohu's Poems of Falling Flowers)
Painting and calligraphy!
Tang Bohu's calligraphy is unconventional and unique. He also abandoned the "standard calligraphy" stipulated by the imperial court, combined with his own understanding of calligraphy and painting, and created the "Tang calligraphy" with strong beauty outside and meticulous inside.
However, Tang Yin's calligraphy has a strong personal color, and it is very difficult to copy and learn, so there are not many people who study Tang Yin's calligraphy in later generations, which also leads to Tang Yin's calligraphy being less famous than his paintings. ?
Tang Bohu's painter attainments are the highest among the four talented people in the south of the Yangtze River, and Wen Zhiming is Tang Bohu's "hardcore fan brother". Tang Bohu is a "realistic" painter. He combines artistic conception, charm and characters, and outlines a series of peerless masterpieces with gorgeous and exquisite painting style, fine brushwork and sparse layout.
At the Christie's auction in 20 13, Tang Bohu's "Lushan Waterfall" fetched a sky-high price of RMB 3.6 billion, while Van Gogh's "Sunflower" was only RMB 320 million, which shows that the world collectors recognized Tang Bohu's paintings.
(Mountain Road Songyin Map)
Everyone knows that Tang Bohu is frivolous and cynical, and they all think that Tang Bohu is just a crazy scholar who lives by "talent". ? As the saying goes: others laugh at me too crazy, and I laugh at others because I can't see through it.
Tang Bohu's debauchery is full of the universe and heaven and earth. The reason why he put Tang Bohu in the second place is a kind of respect for him. He died at the age of 53 when he was frustrated. At the end of his life, he was still alone, and he finally saw through the secular and poor life.
How about poetry and painting? What about talented people? Isn't it because others are jealous of Tang Bohu's talent that his career is not smooth and his fate is doomed? People who are too tall are more likely to be jealous, so are people who are too clean. Who can say that the second is not the first?
Third, Zhu Zhishan?
Zhu Zhishan is a madman, and his madness runs through his artistic career.
Poetry and prose
Zhu Zhishan died at the age of 66, and wrote 138 poems in his life, which were not widely circulated. Among the four gifted scholars, his poetic attainments are not as deep as those of Wen Zhiming and Tang Bohu. Zhu Zhishan's poetry level is not bad, slightly inclined to Du Fu's "realistic style", but his artistic conception is far from Du Fu's and his readability is not great.
Zhu Zhishan has a bad temper and hates evil. He is best at writing Weeds. His brushwork is arbitrary. Every word is like the sea of Wang Yang, and every sentence is like the sky and the universe. The row spacing is compact and simple. In the Ming Dynasty, there has always been such an evaluation as "Tang Bohu's paintings, Zhu Zhishan's words". Therefore, Zhu Zhishan surpassed Wen Zhiming and Tang Bohu in calligraphy attainments, which made up for the deficiency of poetry and painting.
Fourth-Xu Zhenqing?
Xu Zhenqing's calligraphy attainments are not as deep as Zhu Zhishan's, his painting attainments are not as good as Tang Bohu's, and his cultural knowledge is not as wide as Wen Zhiming's. Why can he rank among the four talents in Jiangnan?
Because of poetry, his poems are like wine, which can't be praised in words, so we can only savor the wonderful taste.
This song "Occasionally" seems to say that "love" is fleeting, and it seems to say that "times have changed". Just four sentences are so touching, like a pot of old wine, with endless aftertaste.
The article "Smoke Moon" is like a smoke moon, like a long night wind, full of flowers and Yangzhou trees. When the blood and heart are dried up and annihilated, they will hold bowls to salute the Buddha and recite the slow sutra.
Xu Zhenqing's poems are elegant in style. Although deliberately retro, but not rigidly adhere to the "landscape." Instead, the lines are full of pure love between men and women and elegant descriptions of people's lifestyles, which are widely loved by young men and women. ?
Xu Zhenqing is defined as "a poem of deep affection" in the official commentary "Poetry of the Ming Dynasty", and is a poet endowed with the most "human touch".