You should be talking about Xue Ji~~
Xue Ji (649-713), courtesy name Sitong, was born in Fenyin, Puzhou (now southwest of Wanrong, Shanxi), and was a famous minister Wei Zheng grandson. From his official position to Prince Shaobao and Minister of Rites, he was known as "Xue Shaobao". Famous for his calligraphy, he was one of the four masters of calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty. He was also good at painting figures, Buddha statues, birds and animals, trees and rocks. His crane painting was particularly vivid and was considered a masterpiece at that time. Li Bai, Du Fu and others once recited poems praising his crane painting. No paintings survive.
Crane painted by Xue Ji. Both form and spirit. It has reached the point where it is ready to come out. Therefore, Li and Du once said, "The color of the painting has been exhausted for a long time, and the green color is still out of the dust." The other said, "The crane feels the spirit and changes with the spirit, making shadows and floating smoke." It seems that the crane on the wall will break through the wall and fly away as soon as life is injected into it, which makes people think of the legend of "the finishing touch". What Li and Du admired even more was the detached, elegant and proud temperament of the crane shown in Xue Ji's works. It is the so-called noble character of "Chixiao has real bones, shamelessly drinks from the pond, and can go wherever it goes, no one can tame it if it escapes." . In a sense, this can also be said to be a symbol of the feudal literati hermit, and it has two completely different cultural connotations from the auspiciousness and wealth that ordinary people take as meaning crane. Mi Fu, a great painter of the Song Dynasty, also focused on this. In his poem "Inscribed on Xue Ji and Two Cranes", he said, "Stepping calmly and elegantly in the courtyard, with a mighty and leisurely heart thousands of miles away." He also said: "I have been addicted to this old thing all my life. (Referring to Xue Ji) There is nothing else to do." This expresses the strong sympathy between him and Xue Ji that transcends the times.
Xue Ji’s painting of cranes was very successful and had a profound influence. "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties" records: "The screen with six cranes is from the beginning of (Xue) Ji." The "type" is the model for painting. Xue Ji was able to create the "type" and be accepted by the society, which shows that he was good at painting. important position in history. after. The "Six Cranes Picture" has become a kind of freeze-frame. During the Five Dynasties, Huang Quan painted six cranes on the wall of the side hall, and the hall was renamed the "Six Crane Hall". More than a thousand years later, the Six Crane Screen was still painted in the palace of the Qing Dynasty. There have always been many people who studied Xue Ji's painting of cranes. The famous one is Kuai Lian of the Tang Dynasty, who was able to "understand its wonderfulness". Huang Quan, a Huawu painter in the Stone Dynasty, was known as "Xue Ji, the master of cranes". He also came from behind and was known as one of the best.
Xue Ji's crane paintings include one piece each of "Crane Pecking Moss", "Gu Buhe", five "Ruihe" (the first "Crane"), and "Two Cranes" "Picture", "Picture of Playing with a Crane", etc., these are all scroll paintings, and there are many murals of crane paintings; such as the Secretariat of the Tang Dynasty, the Examiner Wailang Hall of the Shangshu Province, the Prince Qi's House in Luoyang Shangshufang, and the two halls of the Chengdu Yamen , Tongquan County Department, etc. are also masterpieces recognized by Tu Suo.