"Haha, what you said is really good, this Queen Mother Lafayette, if I listen to you, I'm afraid I will be happy to 'show off my branches'!" Yang Yu listened to Xu Hong's joke, and she also said a joke. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When Xu Hong heard this, he smiled again and said, "Professor Yang, don't you know a lot! Can you tell me the story of this painting?" There are more than 10,000 paintings here, and each painting expresses a historical story, so I don't know how much you know about the story in this painting. ”

Yang Yu listened to Xu Hong's words, and said with a smile: "You're testing me again! This question, I can't say that I know all the stories above, but most of them are not bragging." ”

"Okay, then you can tell me what kind of content these painting stories express, and what are the characteristics of these paintings!"

Xu Hong wanted to see if this beautiful professor had a vain name and no real talent.

"Okay, it seems that you are a little dissatisfied with me, a beautiful professor, then I will teach you another lesson, so that you can learn more about these painted stories.

"Some people say that architecture is a frozen history, so the corridor of the Summer Palace can be said to be a museum of colorful paintings. The color paintings of the corridor are like a small window into Chinese history and culture, from which people can learn about many legendary allusions and cultural connotations of China.

The most attractive thing about the promenade is that it is a veritable painted promenade. The upper beams of the corridor are covered with brightly colored paintings. When people wander through the promenade, it is as if they have stepped into an architecturally unique and exquisite gallery.

In 1990, the Summer Palace Gallery was named the longest gallery in the world for its unique architectural form and colorful paintings.

According to the different forms of architecture, the painters made more than 14,000 colorful paintings of different sizes, wide contents and various forms in the beams and fangs around the corridor. These colors can be roughly divided into four categories: figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and architectural landscapes. Thereinto?

The most fascinating are the more than 200 stories of people painted in color.

The story paintings on the corridor include classical literary masterpieces, historical legends, myths and legends, opera stories, and so on. However, there is no text on the painting that explains what it represents. People can only guess the content of the story based on the faces and expressions of the characters in the painting, the way they dress, the action modeling, the scene setting, and so on. This provides people with the pleasure of guessing. Because only the deeper you understand Chinese culture, the more stories you can tell.

Like the three characters on this picture, the middle one, old and serious, with a white face and long ears, the other is like a heavy jujube, with beautiful hair and fluttering, and a black-faced beard, and the environment is in the peach orchard, which is naturally the "Taoyuan Three Knots" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". On this picture, a young general is pulling a beautiful woman, and the painting is "Fengyi Pavilion Lu Bu Playing Mink Zen". The large picture in the four pavilions on the promenade is called the "door headboard". On this panel is an ancient Chinese famous article, "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring". The picture depicts the quiet and remote paradise world in detail. In this picture, a painter is holding a pen and looking at the painting on the wall, and he wants to spray it out. This is the ancient Chinese idiom story "The Finishing Touch". There is also this picture of the door headboard, and the shape of the object can be seen at a glance as the storyline in "Journey to the West" - "Monkey King Nezha". Sun Wukong was majestic, and he beat the heavenly soldiers and generals and the third prince of Nezha to run away, and fled in defeat. The characters and scenes in this painting are depicted very delicately and vividly, which can be called a masterpiece in the story painting of the corridor.

On the promenade, not only the figure paintings contain many allegories of the story. The paintings of flowers and birds in the color paintings also express many meanings. The painting of flowers and birds looks like an ordinary realistic depiction, but in fact, there are all kinds of exquisiteness here, using the symbolism of flowers and birds and the homophony of Chinese characters to create a picture that represents auspiciousness.

This flower and bird painting in the corridor of the Summer Palace is different from our general paintings, it has rich meanings, for example, you paint peonies, paint two white-headed birds. What does it mean, it means "rich and white-headed", which is a very beautiful yearning. Painting lotus, painting swallows, painting lotus flowers and swallows together, implying "Haiyan River Qing". Talk about the stability and unity of the country. What does it mean to draw magpies and plum blossoms? Many of the flower and bird paintings in the promenade of the Summer Palace have meanings.

Painting on architecture has been a long-standing traditional craft in China. Most of China's ancient buildings used wood as a building material like a promenade, and the paint color of the painting actually played a protective role. Therefore, color painting has become an important decoration in Chinese architecture. Among the various types of ancient Chinese architectural paintings, the corridor paintings belong to the Soviet-style paintings.

The main picture of the Soviet-style color painting is enclosed in the outline line that resembles the majority of the half-time, which is called the "baggage" painting by the folk, and the color tone of the color painting is mostly brick red, earth yellow or white as the keynote, which basically constitutes a warm tone. Using the method of segmented layout, the pattern in the middle section of the painting baggage is the character story, landscape and so on we see, and the color "retreat" technique on the outside is to paint the baggage frame with a layer of darker colors, which looks very three-dimensional. The square pattern is prominent, and the auxiliary pattern is even more flowery.

The biggest feature of Soviet-style color painting is that it is free to create and has a strong breath of life, which is very different from the palace color painting with rigorous patterns and neat uniformity. It is painted layer by layer with strong contrasting and rich colors, reflecting the royal grandeur. Although it came from the south of the Yangtze River, it has been innovated and developed in the northern gardens. Despite the passage of time, the architecture of the Summer Palace promenade and these Soviet-style color paintings are still full of ancient meaning.

Soviet-style color painting in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong period, that is, from 1736 to 1795 Liuwei to the north, it is said that when the two emperors Kangxi and Qianlong respectively went down to the south of the Yangtze River to inspect, they found that the color paintings in Suzhou and Hangzhou were very beautiful, so they called the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pass on the Suzhou craftsmen to come to Beijing to draw the color paintings they painted, so they got the name of Soviet-style color paintings. Its biggest feature is that it is free to create, and the atmosphere of life is rich, which is very different from the rigorous pattern and neat and uniform palace color painting.

Why do royal gardens like to use this Soviet-style color painting?

Because of this Soviet-style color painting, the content is richer, the tone is more lively, the landscape, the figures, the feather flowers, can be painted.

Soviet-style color painting belongs to the traditional folk craft techniques, there were no textbooks in ancient times, and the trust of this kind of painting is in the form of masters and apprentices, oral transmission and passed down from generation to generation.

Ancient building color painting, it belongs to this artisan school of painting, then the artisan painting, it also has a prison sentence ratio, this sentence ratio relationship, it is passed down orally, it is according to the border of the mouth Liao, it is definitely not to say that today's sketch, this anatomy of Western law, that promotes the meaning of ancient painting. It is likeness, between formality. If you talk about people and draw people, it starts with the eyes, that is, the head of "three noses and five eyes" comes out. Then this head came out and it was "line seven sitting five plates and three halves", that is, standing is seven heads high, sitting is five heads high, pan ruin?

Architectural color painting: It is different from ordinary painting. It needs to accept the natural environment, the atmosphere, the air. It has to endure for a long time, and it has to withstand the sun, so the color used in our ancient building paintings must be used, and many of them are used in the stone color of minerals.

To this day, the colors of these Soviet-style paintings on the corridor are still vivid and full. And the use of such bright and rich colors is also exquisite. The architectural paintings in the Summer Palace are in a natural environment with rich colors, and in order to stand out from them, they must be depicted layer by layer with such contrasting thick ink and heavy colors. In order to reflect the royal grandeur and achieve such a bright and eye-catching decorative effect.

Although Soviet-style color painting came from the south of the Yangtze River, it was innovated and developed in the northern gardens. Despite the passage of time, the architecture of the Summer Palace promenade and these Soviet-style paintings are still full of ancient meaning. Let's take a look at the wonders of the promenade.

This one-of-a-kind corridor represents the superb level of Chinese garden architecture and is an architectural classic in the Summer Palace. Its subtleties can only be experienced by yourself in order to feel its beauty and charm more deeply. ”

After Yang Yu finished speaking, he looked at Xu Hong confidently and said, "How about it, what I said is okay! I'm not a university professor in vain!"

Xu Hong really didn't expect that the beautiful professor in front of him was really not bragging about it, not only was she beautiful, but she also had a belly of knowledge in her belly!

"Well, it's very good, it seems that your embroidered pillow is not filled with straw, it is all knowledge!" Xu Hong looked at Yang Yu and made another joke.

"Don't always think that we beauties only know how to wear makeup and dress, and some of us are also very knowledgeable. Of course, people like me may be a minority, and most of the beauties only know about eyebrow drawing and makeup, and it is unlikely that they will be asked to tell some historical stories. ”

Yang Yu didn't forget to boast about herself again, as if the beauties in the world were all uneducated embroidered pillows, and she Yang Yu alone was a cultural beauty.

"Professor Yang is right, there are not many learned beauties like you in the world! This gallery, we have seen almost it, in this way, did the tour guide Yang take me to the Buddha Xiang Pavilion to see, I heard that this is also an important attraction of the Summer Palace. ”

"Okay, then let's go to the Buddha Incense Pavilion! get there, I'll tell you a story!"

The two of them laughed as they walked out of the corridor and along a small stone paved road towards the nearby Buddha Incense Pavilion.

After walking the stone-paved path, and then following a stone staircase, climb a hillside of Wanshou Mountain, you will come to the famous scenic spot of the Summer Palace, the Buddha Xiang Pavilion.

When the two arrived at the main gate of the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, Tian Feng took a look at the majestic building, and then said to Yang Yu beside him: "Comrade tour guide, can you tell stories again." ”

Yang Yu smiled and said: "Of course, I also know a lot about the story of this Buddha Xiang Pavilion, so I will tell you about the knowledge of the Buddha Xiang Pavilion now!"

After speaking, Yang Yu began to use a beautiful voice to tell Tian Feng about the Buddha Xiang Pavilion.

Foxiang Pavilion is the main building of the Summer Palace, built on the square pedestal of 20 meters high in front of Wanshou Mountain, facing Kunming Lake in the south, backed by the sea of wisdom, the various buildings with it as the center are strictly and symmetrically spread out to the two wings, forming the trend of the stars holding the moon, and the style is quite magnificent. Foxiang Pavilion is 41 meters high, 8 sides 3 layers 4 heavy eaves, there are 8 huge iron pear wood optimus pillars in the pavilion, the structure is quite complex, it is a classical architectural boutique.

The pavilion is majestic in the mountains, the mountains are beautiful because of the pavilions, Wanshou Mountain is in the far away under the screen of the peaks of the West Mountains and the foil of the nearby Yuquan Mountain, the small is big, the momentum is extraordinary, the pine and cypress are green, the beautiful color is verdant. The Kunming Lake facing the Buddha Xiang Pavilion is just right to reflect all this picture, the verdant mountains, the clear blue water, the light of the sky is leading, it makes people feel comfortable. The gardening technique that Chinese gardeners talk about, borrowing scenery, has been perfectly used and embodied here.

Foxiang Pavilion is the central building of the whole garden, the symbol of the Summer Palace, and also one of the ancient Chinese architectural masterpieces, with high architectural and artistic value. In front of the pavilion, there are figure-eight steps straight to the platform, and when you climb the Buddha Incense Pavilion, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the entire Summer Palace. In particular, the lake and mountains of Kunming Lake are in full view.

Above the Buddha Xiang Pavilion is the commanding height building "Wisdom Sea" of the Summer Palace, commonly known as the "Beamless Palace". The internal structure supports the top with criss-crossing arches, and does not need to be load-bearing by fangbeams. The hall was made of no wood and was able to escape the fire of 1860, but the Buddha statues in the hall and more than 1,000 small Buddha statues on the outer wall of the hall were stolen by foreign powers.

When Qianlong built Qingyi Garden, he was originally going to build a nine-story pagoda here, but when he built the eighth floor, Qianlong made a holy decree to demolish the eight floors that had been built, and rebuilt an eight-sided pavilion, that is, the Buddha Xiang Pavilion. Regarding Qianlong's demolition of the tower and the construction of the pavilion, there have always been different opinions. One thinks: Qianlong built the longevity tower, nominally for the mother's longevity, but in fact to connect the three mountains and five gardens into one, and wanted to make the longevity tower the main building carrying the east and west royal gardens. But when it was built to the eighth floor, it was found that it did not match the original imagination, so the tower was demolished and the pavilion was built; the other believes that there have always been many towers in the western part of Beijing, and in order to avoid the overlap of the tower shadows, Qianlong decided to dismantle the tower and build the pavilion. In fact, the establishment of the pavilion has indeed received relatively good results. The pavilion is tall and imposing, large and steady, and is in harmony with the building of the front mountain.

There is also a legend that says that the emperor wanted to build a large garden in the beautiful area of Haidi. The earliest was Emperor Qianlong, people said that there was an ancient tomb under this Wanshou Mountain, the tomb of a princess in the Ming Dynasty, claiming that this concubine was not a good lord back then, and her tomb could not be moved! Qianlong listened, said what he was afraid of, when Qianlong personally went to the scene to see that the big stone door of the tomb had been dug up, but the door was engraved with eight big characters: 'You don't move me, I don't move you!' (to be continued. )