Chapter 67: Zhong Kui Hunts Ghosts 2
The dentist sent me a photo, and it was a large river beach, small boats, fishing nets, and at the end of the river beach there was already a sun-orange forehead......
Not to be outdone, he took pictures of the surrounding plants, birds' nests, and gravel roads......
"Would you like to try jogging? Persist in getting through the moment of fatigue, a little sweat, the whole body will suddenly become lighter, and it is very comfortable......".
Mr. Dentist is more and more able to guide and seduce a certain lady, and Li Yushang's pace began to speed up, and then speed up, and that speed almost caught up with the frequency of jogging.
How many years have you not run? It felt very strange, even strange, a little shy to see people, clumsy under the soles of my feet, as if I was stumbling.
However, I must admit that after jogging for about one or two hundred meters, my chest was blocked and I was short of breath, but my mood was happy.
continued to persevere, and ran a distance of more than 200 meters, the clothes stopped, changed back to walking mode, panting, sweating, every pore on the face was opened, everywhere was wanton and transparent.
She walked home slowly, her breathing calmed down, and she didn't feel the slightest tiredness, and the slight pain on the soles of her feet made her sense of touch more sensitive, the grass was greener, the flowers were more colorful, and the birdsong was more moving......
"Hi-", she raised her voice to say hello, Xiaoma had already put breakfast on the table, Xu Yingxiu and his wife took Qiu Miaomiao downstairs, and they were surprised to see such a radiant Li Yusheng.
"You-go for morning exercise? Is the sun coming out of the west today? Since Shaohua didn't return from a business trip, Yingxiu's experienced mouth has worked hard to replace the function of Shaohua's poisonous tongue.
Qiu Miaomiao's eyes were full of little stars: "Wow, Aunt Dress, you are so amazing!" Tomorrow, I will also ...... with you."
Li Yushang was in a good mood, and reached out to pinch the tip of Qiu Miaomiao's nose: "Then it's decided, I'll call you tomorrow morning, but you can't get out of bed." ”
Qiu Tianci raised his hands to make a surrender form: "Don't shout too loudly, disturb my good sleep." ”
Night owls hate getting up early the most, and Yingxiu also folded her hands: "Grandma must spare me." Don't knock on the wrong door. ”
Or Mr. Dentist is the most pleasing to his heart, Li Yushang pouted and went upstairs to take a shower and change clothes, sweating profusely, and his nose was no longer stuffed at this time. The traces of the cold are completely gone.
By the time they were finished, the three of them had already left together, and they were in a hurry to go to school and work, and Xiaoma was checking and tidying up in the activity room on the first floor, helping Yaqing and the teachers take care of the children who came early. He planned to wait until almost all the children were in the kindergarten, and then rush to Laijia's old house.
Yaqing's acting new official took office, and her enthusiasm was extra high, and when she was changing clothes, she heard her crisp voice spreading in the courtyard, and she was all thriving.
Li Yushang intended to exercise Yaqing more, and after observing through the windowpane, she stayed in the small studio on the second floor to sketch the "Zhong Kui ghost hunting picture" that customers of the online store wanted.
On the computer, the mobile phone searched for a few pictures of "Zhong Kui", and they were all vicious and hideous. The leopard's head is ringed, the iron face is bearded, the appearance is strangely ugly, and even the long and dense beard is like a King Kong thorn, no wonder such a portrait is posted on the door of the house, and the dream of the insomniac lady is even more terrifying.
However, for a talented student of the art department who loves painting in his bones, such a highly personalized image, the uglier the more cute it feels, and the more fierce it is, the more vivid it feels. It's like when you first learn character sketching, you draw too many skulls, and you don't feel terrible at all, and you draw a work that you are very satisfied with, that is, a very bony one. It is also important to put it on the bedside, and appreciate it from near and far, and never get tired of looking at it......
Well, ordinary people who have never entered the palace of art really can't understand this lofty realm, and Li Yushang has to work hard to design an image of a fierce god that is both majestic and not terrifying to ordinary people. It's hard.
Zhong Kui hunted ghosts, and the most widely spread legend is that during the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong once returned to the palace from Lishan, and he was unwell, and he was too healed for more than a month, but it was ineffective.
One night, Xuanzong fell asleep in a high fever, and suddenly saw a little ghost walk into the hall, wearing a color shirt, a long bull's nose, a bare foot, wearing a shoe, and a shoe hanging from the waist, inserting a bamboo bone paper fan in the back collar, and reaching out to steal Yang Guifei's embroidered incense sachet and Xuanzong's jade flute. Xuanzong was annoyed and asked, "Who are you?" The little ghost said in a funny tone: "I am wasteful." The void looks at stealing other people's things in emptiness, like child's play; Consumers, dedicated to consuming people's auspicious events, let them turn joy into sorrow."
Xuanzong was furious, and was about to exorcise the ghost by the samurai, only to see another big ghost running into the temple, with fluffy hair and beard, a terrifying face, a horn belt on his head, wearing a blue robe, exposing his arms, and wrapping his feet in leather.
Xuanzong was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and hurriedly asked, "Who are you?" The big ghost saluted Xuanzong and said, "The minister is Zhong Kui of Zhongnan Mountain. During the period of Gaozu Wude, because he went to Chang'an to respond to the martial arts, he returned to his hometown in shame and died by touching the stepping stone in front of the palace. Fortunately, the ancestor gave him a green robe to bury the ministers, and the ministers felt that their virtues were inexhaustible, so they vowed to remove the world's wasteful charm for the Tang Dynasty! The sound was like a bell in the ears, and it suddenly woke up Tang Xuanzong. When I touched my body, I broke out in a cold sweat, and malaria was cured.
The emperor summoned the famous painter Wu Daozi to the palace and told him what he had dreamed of at night, asking him to paint a picture as he saw in his dream. Wu Daozi was ordered, as if he had seen it himself, and he painted it with his pen, and after presenting it to Xuanzong, Xuanzong was dumbfounded for a long time, and sighed: "Do you also have the same dream as Lian?" How can you draw it like this! Wu Daozi said: "Your Majesty is worried about the night, so malaria has to take the opportunity to invade." Now there is something to ward off evil spirits, and to protect the holy virtues, it is a good omen for your majesty to live for a thousand years! ”
Li Kui saw this story for the first time, and couldn't help but yearn for Wu Daozi's painting skills, if it wasn't for the insomnia lady's ability to bear in advance, Tuo Sheng really hoped that he could cut such a vivid and expressive picture of Zhong Kui catching ghosts and gouging out his eyes.
A different approach had to be found.
She struggled to suppress her urge to create as she pleased, and pencil sketched a more cultural, more elegant and warm image of Zhong Dashen.
In the Dunhuang suicide note, a Tang manuscript "Chinese New Year's Eve Zhong Kui Drives Away the Text" was found, and the article was to the effect that in a ritual called "Wu", Zhong Kui had a steel head and a silver forehead, was dressed in leopard skin, and dyed his whole body with cinnabar. Lead 100,000 jungle monsters to hunt down lonely ghosts wandering the rivers and lakes. Perhaps this is the reason, later generations called the dance "dancing Zhong Kui", this kind of dance also has to wear a mask, in the early witch sacrifice ceremony, the mask also played an important role, and the dance of Zhong Kui dance, also inseparable from the mask......
The first small sketch of the paper cut is the design of "Dancing Zhong Kui Dance", which is designed to divert the fear of the insomniac lady through exaggerated dance movements. (To be continued.) )