1. In the early years, Qi Baishi sold paintings. For the sake of simplicity, he calculated them by quantity, such as paintings of vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks, fish and shrimps. Someone asked for a painting with shrimps as the theme. After Qi Baishi finished the painting, he counted the number of shrimps on the painting. The man looked at the painting and asked for an extra shrimp, as he did when buying vegetables at the wet market.
Qi Baishi was unhappy, but he still took the pen and added a shrimp to the painting. The man looked at the painting and found that the shrimp seemed out of shape and lifeless, which was a bit strange. Qi Baishi said: "The shrimp you want to add is not included in the price, so I drew a dead shrimp for you, which is included as a free gift."
2. Qi Baishi ordered many Runges in his life. Some of them were personally ordered by Qi Baishi, and some were ordered by his disciples. The following style was ordered by Qi Baishi himself in the 1930s. The full text is as follows: I am more than seventy years old. If I want to take a rest, I can't because of bad contacts and a serious heart disease. If you have too much eyes to see and are sick and tired, if you increase your talent, you will have fewer people knocking on your door. If a person is abandoned by me, it will be a great blessing for him to rest in peace and protect his life.
It is in vain that I beg you to reduce the profit, credit, refund or exchange. From now on, I forgive you and do not need to meet each other, for fear of getting sick. I don’t ask for introductions, and those who do want introductions don’t expect rewards. Use cotton paper, half-raw rice paper, or other thick cardboard for drawing. He did not paint landscapes, figures, finely detailed grass and insects, freehand brushwork of insects and birds. Named drawings have been rejected for a long time.
Flower banners cost 10 yuan for two feet, 15 yuan for three feet, 30 yuan for four feet, and one foot wider. Five feet is 30 yuan, six feet is 45 yuan, and eight feet is 72 yuan. The above paper is divided into two pages. The width of the nave is doubled and the banners are not painted. Album pages cost six yuan per page within eight inches and eight yuan per foot. The width of the fan is ten yuan, the width of the fan is eight yuan, and the small one is not painted. If someone has written before and the ink of the brush penetrates and stains the handwriting, no compensation will be made. If there is no inscription or postscript on the painting, an additional ten yuan will be added to the inscription.
Engraving costs four yuan per character. The name seal and the number seal are white and red, and the remaining seals are not engraved. In Zhu Wen, the characters are measured in three-thirds and four-quarters of a large scale. Small characters are not engraved, but larger characters are added. He who carves a word on a stone will not carve it. Metal, jade, and teeth cannot be engraved. The side of the stone is engraved with an inscription and the year and month, plus four yuan for each cross. Add ten yuan to the engraving. If the stone is cracked, no compensation will be paid if it breaks with a knife. Suirun processing. No matter who you are, the money will be collected first.
3. Qi Baishi likes to draw cabbage and is good at it. Qi Baishi praised cabbage as the king of vegetables. He used the characteristics of cabbage as fat, tender white and crisp green in his paintings. The cabbage he painted was fresh, juicy and full of vitality. Moreover, Qi Baishi often claimed that he had "the energy of vegetables and bamboo shoots all over his body." He was born in a farmer's family and painted cabbage. It was very natural for him to draw cabbage well.
There was a painter who privately learned from Qi Baishi and also painted cabbage, but the painting never looked like it. Finally, he couldn't help but ask Qi Baishi, what's the secret to painting cabbage?
Qi Baishi laughed: "You don't have a trace of vegetable shoots in your body, how can you draw like me?"
4. Qi Baishi is a modern calligrapher, painter and seal engraver in my country. But he was originally a carpenter and only studied painting and seal cutting in his spare time. At the age of twenty-seven, his life took a major turn.
On the Spring Festival day of 1889, a calligrapher and painter gave Qi Baishi a painting title and asked him to draw a horizontal shawl. After finishing the work, Hu Qinyuan was very surprised and immediately accepted Qi Baishi as his apprentice. He taught Qi Baishi to read Tang and Song poems and guided him to read novels. Qi Baishi cherished this opportunity very much and often read late into the night.
After several months of hard study, Qi Baishi memorized "Three Hundred Tang Poems", studied many ancient Taoist texts, and browsed many classic works. His poems are also unique, with the charm of Tang style and Song Dynasty.
Hu Qinyuan taught Qi Baishi basic skills such as "conceptualization" and "brush use", and also lent him his collection of ancient and modern famous paintings for viewing. Qi Baishi's horizons were greatly broadened. He studied the works of the "Bada Shanren", studied and understood the beauty of their brushwork, and absorbed the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought. His painting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he mastered mountains, water, people, objects, and flowers in less than a year. , basic drawing methods and techniques of birds.
Under the teacher's words and deeds, he practiced calligraphy and engraving hard. In just a few years, Qi Baishi made amazing progress in painting, seal cutting, poetry, calligraphy, mounting, etc., and became a world-famous calligrapher and painter.
5. When Qi Baishi was young, he liked seal carving very much. One day, he went to visit an old seal carver. The old seal carver said: "Go and pick up a load of foundation stones and go home. When the load of stones turns into mud, your seal will be carved."
"Others thought that the old seal carver was teasing Qi Baishi and advised him to ignore the old guy, but Qi Baiyou really picked up a load of foundation stones and carved day and night. While carving, he compared it with ancient seal carving artworks. Pondering.
Carving and polishing, polishing and carving again, he didn’t care about the blood blisters on his hands, he just kept carving and carving with all his heart, day after day, year after year. , the foundation stones became less and less, but the mud on the ground became thicker and thicker. Finally, all the foundation stones turned into mud. Qi Baishi also mastered the art of seal carving. The seals he carved were strong, refined and unique. He reached the state of perfection.
On one occasion, he celebrated his birthday because Mr. Qi was a great master, so many students and friends came. From morning to night, there was an endless stream of guests, and the old man greeted him with a smile. , when the last batch of guests were sent away at night, the old man couldn't bear it anymore. He lay down and fell asleep quickly.
The next day, old man Qi Baishi got up early, and he didn't bother to eat. , he went to the studio to paint first, but his family members persuaded him to have a meal, but he refused to take a break. Finally, after finishing five paintings, his family members breathed a long sigh of relief and waited for him to spread out the paper. Hui Hao continued to paint. His family members were afraid that he was exhausted, so they all said, "Have you already painted five pictures? Why are you still painting?"
The old man raised his head slightly and said: "On my birthday yesterday, there were many guests, so I didn't paint. I'll paint a few pictures today to make up for yesterday's leisure time." After saying this, he lowered his head and continued painting.
It was for this reason. With a spirit of diligence, Qi Baishi's paintings became more and more refined and were loved by people all over the world.