Evonne
Evonne (1082- 1 135), Emperor Hui Zong of the Northern Song Dynasty, reigned for 25 years (1082-135). During his reign, the traitors were in power, arrogant and extravagant, the state treasury was empty, the people were in trouble, and domestic and foreign troubles broke out one after another. In the seventh year of Xuanhe (1 125), the nomads from the army went south, and at the end of the year they turned to Zhao Huan (Qin Zong), claiming to be the emperor's father. In the second year of Jingkang (1 127), he was captured by Jin Bing, became the king of national subjugation with his son, and finally died in Wu Guocheng (now Yilan, Heilongjiang).
Evonne is an artist emperor. He is obsessed with calligraphy and painting all day long, and has no intention of sitting in the dragon chair to deal with the huge political affairs of the Song Dynasty. First of all, he used Gao Qiu, a football star at that time, and made him the commander-in-chief of the palace. Then he reused Evonne's archives, such as Cai Jing and Tong Guan, and handed over all political affairs to these people. He paid great attention to the cultural and artistic undertakings, personally took charge of the Hanlin Painting Academy, gave generous treatment to painters and encouraged them to create excellent works. A generation of great masters like Mi Fei and Zhang Zeduan came into being. He extensively collected folk cultural relics, especially epigraphy and calligraphy, expanded the Hanlin Painting Academy, and compiled the ancient calligraphy and painting collections collected by the imperial court into books such as Xuanhe Shupu, Xuanhe Huapu and Xuanhe Bo Gu Tu. He made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of the Song Dynasty Painting Academy, the promotion and advocacy of calligraphy and painting art, and the arrangement and preservation of ancient art. He can be called the emperor who loves painters instead of mountains and rivers. The conquered emperor was politically incompetent and lived in luxury, but he had profound artistic attainments. He plays the piano, paints and calligraphy, sings songs and writes lyrics. He is a great master. I have a lot of works in my life, all of which have been lost. The existing paintings include Furong Golden Rooster, Autumn Night in the Pond, Four Birds and Guixue River. There is a collection of Song Huizong's Ci.
Zhao Ji studied Huang Tingjian's calligraphy at the beginning, followed by Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and Xue Yao, who mixed various schools of thought and learned from others, creating a unique "thin gold book" style. The Book of Thin Gold is an original creation in the history of calligraphy, which is characterized by being thin and straight, with bamboo edges, horizontal painting with hooks, vertical pens with dots, daggers, knives and slender vertical hooks. The so-called "like bending iron and breaking gold". This kind of calligraphy is a very mature style. Evonne brought its artistic personality into full play, which many later generations have learned, but few have learned. As the Book History Society praised: "The brushwork strives for strength, and the intention is natural, and it must be sought." There are thousands of cursive words handed down from generation to generation, mid-autumn moon poems and so on.