Of course, Xu Chongju's The Lady Catches Butterflies is also a masterpiece related to butterflies. Painters in the Northern Song Dynasty are good at painting cicadas and butterflies and capturing the beauty of nature. She is also a talented woman with Tang Dynasty style. Together with his brothers Xu Chongsi and Xu Chongxun, he was a famous figure who dared to innovate in the painting circle of the Northern Song Dynasty.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, butterflies were more closely related to people's lives. This painting is actually depicting the customs of a festival at that time. What festival? Flower festival This festival has been popular until the Qing Dynasty. A Dream of Red Mansions describes how many women in the Grand View Garden celebrate the Flower Festival. We don't have this festival now.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, at the Flower Festival, a "butterfly catching party" was held, which was also a rare opportunity for aristocratic women to play and entertain. In fact, it may not matter whether they can jump on the butterfly. What is important is to show their elegant posture and graceful posture in front of everyone to satisfy their own little thoughts. In the TV series "You know, it should be green, fat and thin", which family gathering is not a woman's Huashan sword?
The lady in the picture is also a general term for aristocratic women. Her face is very white, and her skin is like jelly, dignified and lovely. Her bun was rolled up high and surrounded by pearls, which should be the latest style at that time; She is slim and graceful, and her clothes are flying, as if dancing with butterflies. What attracts special attention is her two hands, right? Hao's wrist gently protrudes from the wide sleeve, arousing the reverie of the viewer. Didn't Jia Baoyu look at Xue Baochai's arm in A Dream of Red Mansions and make such an association: I don't know what kind of beauty the lotus root arm in that sleeve is?
Looking at a lady's finger, which poem do you think of? I suddenly thought of two sentences in Peacock Flying Southeast: "Pointing at an onion with Dani in my mouth". When I was a child, when I watched Peacock Flying Southeast, I always couldn't understand how beautiful fingers like "cutting onion roots" could be, because I couldn't help but think of the green onions in the north, which were too thick! As I grew older, I gradually understood the charm. Looking at this painting now, I suddenly feel: Isn't this "peeling onion roots"?
Her white right hand flicked the round fan, and her left hand bypassed her abdomen, gently holding up the jade ornaments decorated at her waist, ready for the butterfly to flap. Where are the butterflies? Looking down her line of sight, a butterfly is dancing. There are no flowers here. Why do butterflies fly? Think about the story of "horseshoe fragrance after stepping on flowers", and we will understand that although there is no fragrant flower here, it is a woman's own fragrance. This is not a butterfly, but a butterfly playing with people. It's really interesting.
This poem is as follows:
The clothes are flying in the dust, and the small fan wants to shake the butterfly and play people.
Where is the fragrance of flowers? Dancing.