Translation:
Gu Kaizhi was born in Wuxi, Jinling. Gu Kaizhi is knowledgeable and talented. People asked him about the landscape of Kuaiji Mountain. Gu Kaizhi said: "Qian Shan is a competitive show, and there are countless hardships to contend with. The grass and trees are covered in cages, like Yunxing Xiawei. " Gu Kaizhi often eats sugar cane, always eating it from the tail to the root. Someone was surprised, and he said, "It's getting better."
Gu Kaizhi is particularly good at painting, and his paintings are fantastic. Xie An thinks highly of him, because there is no one like him since ancient times. Every time he draws a portrait of a character, it is always wonderful. He once painted a portrait of Pei Kai and added three hairs on his cheek, which made the viewer feel particularly beautiful.
Original text:
Gu Kaizhi, born in Wuxi, Jinling, is knowledgeable and talented. People ask about the shape of mountains and rivers, and the cloud of Kai says, "Thousands of rocks compete for a show, and thousands of valleys struggle to flow. "The grass and trees are covered in cages, and if the clouds flourish, Xiawei will flourish." Every time Kaizhi eats sugar cane, he is always from the tip to the root. People or strange, the cloud: "getting better."
You Shan Dan Qing, with a wonderful picture, is deeply grateful, thinking that there is something that has never been seen since the beginning of life. Every picture is human, which is wonderful at the time. Taste the picture of Pei Jie, add three hairs on the cheek, and the viewer will feel that the gods are extraordinary.
source: the book of Jin written by Fang Xuanling in the Tang dynasty.
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Gu Kaizhi (348-49), born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province), was a tiger with a small character. Outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi is well-read, good at poetry and calligraphy, and especially good at painting.
Being good at portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc., people call them three unique skills: painting, writing and infatuation. Xie an is so deep that he thinks that it has not existed since the birth. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou are called "Four Great Masters in Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's painting is intended to convey the spirit, and his ideas such as "moving the mind wonderfully" and "describing the spirit with form" have laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
Gu Kaizhi pays attention to describing the physiological details, showing the facial expression of the characters, drawing a portrait of Pei Kai, adding three cents to his cheeks, and suddenly feels radiant. Good at using environmental description to express the character's interest and demeanor. Painting Xie Kun in a ravine highlights the character's interest. The clothes lines of his paintings are made of ancient You Simiao, and the lines are tight and continuous, such as spring silkworms spinning, spring clouds floating in the air, flowing water running on the ground, natural and smooth.
Gu Kaizhi has also made outstanding achievements in painting theory. Today, there are three painting theories: Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise, On Painting and Painting Yuntai Mountain.
put forward some viewpoints, such as vivid theory, observing the spirit with form, and thinking wonderfully, and advocated that painting should show the mental state and personality characteristics of characters, attach importance to the experience and observation of objects, grasp the inner essence of objects by thinking wonderfully, and write the spirit with form on the basis of shape. Gu Kaizhi's painting and his theory laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
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