On one occasion, Gu Kaizhi and Xie Zhan, a famous talent, worked the night shift together. It was a long night. Gu Kaizhi put on his clothes and wandered around the yard, staring at the bright moon. He couldn't help chanting poems loudly. After hearing it through the window, Xie Zhan praised him. This praise is incredible. Gu Kaizhi was greatly encouraged, and he became more and more selfless. One after another held a personal poetry recital, and Xie Zhan applauded. Xie Zhan stayed with Gu Kaizhi for an hour. He was really sleepy, but the goods were still moving and he kept talking endlessly. Xie Zhan couldn't bear to spoil his fun, so he found a servant, turned over and accompanied him to sleep there. Gu Kaizhi didn't realize that people had changed, but he was still writing poems with great interest in praise, and didn't stop until dawn.
Compared with Xie Zhan's careless teasing out of battle righteousness, Huan Wen's son Huan Xuan is simply a parody of Gu Kaizhi. Feng Menglong's History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times records that there is a leaf that covers the hiding place of cicada, so birds can't see it. This leaf is called "cicada leaf". Anyone who covers himself with cicada wings can be invisible. One day, Huan Xuan gave Gu Kaizhi a willow leaf and lied to him, saying, "Well, this is a cicada wing used for stealth. Here, this magic weapon is for you. " Gu Kaizhi, too, took the willow tree to block his eyes. At this moment, Huan Xuan deliberately looked around and shouted, "Gu, where have you been? Why can't I see you? " Gu Kaizhi didn't reply. Huan Xuan played a prank on him to pee, but Gu Kaizhi danced for joy, thinking that Huan Xuan couldn't see him before he peed on him, so he hurried home to collect the willow leaves.
This is not the most wicked. Gu Kaizhi once lived in Huan Xuan's home for a period of time, and there was no place to store many paintings, so he chose a group of particularly proud paintings, put them in a big cupboard, sealed them with seals and stored them in Huan Xuan's place. Huan Xuan got his idea of fine painting, secretly pried open the back panel of the cabinet, stole all the paintings, and then repaired the cabinet. When Gu Kaizhi went to get the painting, he opened the cupboard and looked, Wow, it's empty! Gu Kaizhi's reaction made people vomit blood and repeatedly exclaimed: "It seems that my paintings are so good that the paintings of psychic treasures can't stay on earth, and they have ascended to heaven like immortals. Yes! Yes! "
At the beginning, Huan Wen's evaluation of Gu Kaizhi was: "Everyone is stupid. In a word, it is simply." It can be seen that Gu Kaizhi is not a real idiot, but a smart idiot. In the face of ridicule from people he can't offend, his delusion is more like playing the fool to protect himself. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the political situation was turbulent, and Gu Kaizhi moved freely among the rich, nobles, senior officials and celebrities. His bosses, such as Huan Wen and Yin Zhong Kan, have fallen, but he is proud of his love for officialdom, painting and literature. I think this has something to do with his infatuation.
Character life:
Yi (405-4 18) was the first official of Tongzhi Sanqi. Emperor Wu of song northern expedition to Southern Yan, write "the tooth (flag)". He is versatile, with works in poetry and calligraphy, especially in painting. He is famous for his talent, painting and infatuation. Portraits of figures, immortals, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. The painter pays attention to the finishing touch and vividly depicts himself from the clouds, all in Adu (that is, here refers to the eyes). Try Pei Kai's portrait and add three hairs to your cheeks. It feels good. The mural "Vimalakirti" painted in Jiankang Crock Temple is dazzling and sensational. Later generations talk about his paintings, which means to save the pen first and paint as best as possible; The handwriting is meticulous and firm, like a silkworm spinning silk. He and Lu Tanwei, the painter of the Southern Song Dynasty who learned from him, are collectively called Lu Gu, with the title of dense body, which is different from the sparse body of Zhang Liang monk You and Tang Wu Daozi in the Southern Dynasties. His works include On Painting, Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise, Painting Yuntai Mountain, etc. Among them, the idea of moving the mind and expressing the spirit with form has had a great influence on the development of Chinese painting. The existing Biography of Women's History and Zhentu is an early manuscript, which records the canon written by Zhang Hua in the Western Jin Dynasty to bind court concubines. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing and was taken away from the Qing Palace by the British. He is now in the British Museum in London, England. What to pass on, what to care about
Gu Kaizhi's works, according to the records of people in Tang and Song Dynasties, contain portraits of some political celebrities as well as some Buddhist images, which was a popular theme at that time. In addition, there are birds and beasts, which are related to paintings in the Han Dynasty. He also painted some images of immortals, because that was also a popular belief at that time. Most notably, he painted many portraits of famous people. This changed the ethos of advocating ethics in Han Dynasty, and embodied the new method of observing characters and the new purpose of artistic expression, that is, to leave ethics and politics and attach importance to the speech, style and talent of characters. This represents the expansion of the artistic vision of painting; Therefore, it puts forward new requirements for figure painting-expressing people's personality and spiritual characteristics. In Gu Kaizhi's works and speeches, we can see that he repeatedly emphasized the description of people's expressions and mental states. Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou were the three most important painters in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, representing the rapid development and maturity of figure painting in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huaiguan spoke highly of his paintings, saying, "Zhang Sengyou gets his flesh, Lu Tanwei gets his bones, and Gu Kaizhi gets his spirit."