The translated phonetic notation of Zheng Banqiao's seven-character poem of Guyu is as follows:
Qing Zheng Banqiao's "Seven-Character Poetry"
It is sunny and peaceful, with no wind or rain, and the green bamboos are beautiful.
What I love most is the arrival of guests in the cool evening, and a pot of new tea brewing usnea.
A few branches of new leaves are fluttering, and a few brushstrokes are streaked across the mountain.
It happens to be the Qingming Festival and the Guyu Rain, so I sit down with a cup of fragrant tea.
Zheng Banqiao (1693-1765) was an official, calligrapher, painter, and writer in the Qing Dynasty. Ming Xie, courtesy name Kerou, Han nationality, from Xinghua, Jiangsu. He mainly lived in Yangzhou throughout his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou".
His poems, calligraphy and paintings are all unique and unique. He is known as the "Three Wonders" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pine, chrysanthemums and other plants. Among them, he has been painting bamboo for more than 50 years, and he has the most achievements. protrude. Author of "The Complete Works of Banqiao". He was a scholar in Kangxi, a scholar in Yongzheng, and a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong. After becoming a Jinshi, he served as an official in Fanxian County, Henan Province, and as magistrate of Weixian County, Shandong Province, and he was helpful in administration.
Zheng Banqiao is famous for his weirdness. His "weirdness" is a bit like Jigong Living Buddha. The "weirdness" always contains a bit of sincerity, a bit of humor, and a bit of sourness. Whenever he saw corrupt officials and traitors being paraded through the streets, he would draw a picture of plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and stones and hang them on the prisoners as a screen to attract the audience and serve as a warning to the people.
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy uses official script mixed with regular script. He calls himself "Six and a Half Calligraphy" and is known as "Banqiao Style". Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy art, which mostly uses orchids, grass, bamboo and stone, is his soul, is unique in the history of Chinese calligraphy.
Zheng Banqiao's poems on paintings have broken away from the traditional stereotype of simply using poems to compose paintings or painting to compose poems. Every painting he paints must be inscribed with a poem, and every inscription must be good, achieving "the image of a painting like a painting" "Poetry expresses the meaning that is difficult to paint", poetry and painting reflect each other, and infinitely expand the breadth of the picture. Zheng Banqiao's painting poems are concerned with real life and have profound ideological content. He uses words like spears and swords to criticize the current ills.