She said: "No matter how superb his painting skills are, no matter how moving the works he produces, they can't cover his mediocrity and stupidity, arrogance and indifference." Painting and writing poetry are the same in this respect. It is far from enough to just look at paintings and poems, and it is necessary to combine people to read paintings and poems, so as to have a real beauty and taste. ”

Xiang Ye said: "But nowadays, the new custom advocated by literati is to focus on texts and paintings, not to mention the author or the person. ”

Wen Qingzhen glanced at her and said: "That's because they know that now that demons are rampant, and the people are chickens, there are few characters who can not stand watching, even if there are one or two, they can't bear to be pulled out of the square to show the public, and they are instructed by thousands of mouths to teach benevolence, righteousness and morality." ”

Xiang Ye disagreed, frowned slightly, and planned to argue with her: "You can write articles that pay attention to the layout of techniques, political and historical thoughts, and the artistic conception of beauty." Painting for novelty, left and right can not fade away from the similarity. The article is only written with a pen, and the painting is only colored. In this way, no matter how talented a person is, he has to learn the technique. On the other hand, no matter how mediocre a person is, as long as he is familiar with the rules, he can naturally spit out good works through diligence and studiousness. Isn't it a blessing for the whole country that people are no longer blindly ignorant and crazy in pursuit of geniuses, but that more ordinary people are given room to jump and work hard? ”

Wen Qingyi also became serious, and she replied: "But I thought that the luck of the country was not just to get rid of the sacred pagoda that was built at this point. acknowledging genius without over-pursuing it; I don't love the craftsman, but I also keep a little kindness to praise him for his efforts. Isn't that great? What's more, there is nothing remarkable about genius in the first place. What is a genius, is a person who is a few years younger than others, and he can easily embroider mountains and rivers, but where is his genius, it is difficult to draw people, and it is difficult to catch people. Feelings and thoughts are not necessarily beyond the reason, but the technique must be amazing. I have never seen a saint who pleases me as a genius, because if you want to think, you are destined not to become a genius. Genius has always been a strange theory with confusion, and if a person who is an early bloomer does not have the momentum to be created, he will not be able to last long. So who should envy them? It's just a delusional person who wants to get something for nothing, a person who is greedy for fame and profit, or an honest person who doesn't like to think. Of course, everyone must learn techniques, and they must follow the emperor's will to domesticate the people, sing praises of virtue, and have to paint what people love to see. But I have always thought that what really makes a person stand out is not his technique, but the good product that is brewed after integrating his whole thought. ”

Xiang Ye pondered for a while, and then said: "But thinking about this thing is not empty, it must carry something before it can be manifested." Moreover, many grand themes in the world, such as loyalty and righteousness, propriety and faith, filial piety and wisdom, love and kindness, and beauty, are things that have remained unchanged for thousands of years, and they do not need to be written if they are not conveyed through the replacement of grammar and length. If you have been speaking according to the rules of the beginning, and no matter how hard you have been writing for thousands of years, won't you never be able to write about others? ”

Wen Qingyi smiled faintly and said, "This has always been the saddest place for me, and it is also the place where romance can survive." You're right, in the beginning, people set a lot of rules in order to be able to communicate, and later, in order to accurately convey their ideas, they set more rules. Later, in order to prevent everyone from understanding what they meant, they continued to set new rules, and in order to make it understandable to those who wanted to understand, they followed the pretense. Among them, there are always people who want everyone to understand, and there are always people who want others not to understand. Whether you understand or not, sometimes it determines whether you succeed or not. Here, there are many factions. But obviously, I'm definitely a straightforward person who doesn't like pretentiousness. I hate the rotten rules of the imperial court, I disdain their framed aesthetics, they always want to regulate many works, take care of their own entertainment and anesthesia, and claim to be the best in the world. In my opinion, it's not as valuable as the out-of-tune nursery rhymes that children on the East Street casually hum. In order to better convey his meaning, some people use some techniques and rules, and I can understand everything, because the difficulty of dictation is this, and it is a problem of language. But if he writes all the time, it is only for the complicated and exquisite, and the empty and tasteless. ”

Xiang Ye's eyes were empty, obviously she needed a little time to come back to her senses, she was afraid that she had forgotten that this was in the palace, but the two big people who eavesdropped at the door had not forgotten, and when she heard their sister Wen say this, she was so frightened that she looked away and looked around to see if anyone was coming, this son should go down to the court, if anyone came to hear it, Sister Wen would definitely be punished.

After a while, Xiang Ye seemed to understand a little, and said to her again: "I can probably understand what you mean, but what does this have to do with romance?" ”

Wen Qingyi was pretty, and said: "Romance lives in this world, not for anything else, but for the beauty of meaningful music." This meaning is mostly not related to tradition, and sometimes it is more beautiful to betray those who are wrong. Romance survives in these places because it is difficult for you to convey yourself accurately through these established formulas, the language is limited by the occasion, the characters are sketched, the writing is framed by the crowd, not to mention others. But romance is about feelings, just a feeling, this feeling is free, it can make you touch beyond time and space, which is extremely precious in the cold rules. The second point is that the more places you are asked to die, the more romantic it will be, and it will be just small and big. I don't know if those rigid people who want to regulate everything clearly understand that if romance disappears one day, if beauty is stereotyped, the rules and techniques they love will be worthless, and they will occupy the high ground like fools here, howl at each other, and suppress madly. ”

Xiang Ye laughed out loud and told her: "Then the thoughts you want, how to count existence and non-existence?" There is such a big difference between people's feelings, there are not a few universal emotions, it is easy to hit one person, but it is difficult to penetrate a group of people. ”

Wen Qingyi said: "This involves how to see the world, but it is not a small problem. ”

Xiang Ye tugged at her sleeve and said, "That's not good, you brought me up, you have to make it clear to me, what is this fluttering?" ”

Wen Qingyi let her pull, her eyes were far away, as if she was thinking, her whole body was quiet, her hair didn't bounce a little, she said: "This is a question, I have been thinking about it." If you need me to say one now, I can tell you that there is one thought that is higher than anything else in me, and that is rebellion. This rebellion includes rebellion against evil, injustice, dirtiness, ignorance, and chaos in the world, as well as rebellion against all established rules, systems, and ideological heights that seem to be flawless. In my opinion, a good country means that there are always people who speak for the few, there are always people who insist on truth, goodness and beauty, and there are always people who are constantly fighting for the better. There will always be people who can accommodate these people. ”

Xiang Ye felt that she was shining again.

If Hua Chengyan is a rich flower in the world, it is the most prosperous Hua without peerless appearance, and it is the elegance that everyone envies. That Wen Qingzhen is a natural beauty with a peerless appearance, she is not careful, most people can't see her, but a few people can't forget her if they really see her true appearance. She is a woman who will be rooted in her heart, and she is a tile that cannot be shaken no matter how much others shake her. The look in her eyes is peerless, and the vague shape is opposite her.

Xiang Ye added water for her, and although the water was cold early, the two of them drank happily. It's almost time for her to leave the palace, but before she leaves, she still wants to ask: "Wen Wen, then you don't like Lu Tanwei, is it because he is less rebellious and paints more scenery and flowers?" ”

Wen Qingyi shook his head and said, "It's not bad to have many scenes and flowers, it may be that you are resisting loneliness." I didn't look at his paintings before, not because I hated him, but because I didn't love painting that much. Now I don't like him, it's not because of his paintings, I have neither seen nor understood him, how can I judge? I hate him only because he, like everyone else, embraces a vulgar aesthetic. ”

Xiang Ye asked: "What's the solution?" ”

Wen Qingyi said: "The beauty of the heart is not as good as the beauty of the heart, and the beauty of the heart is lazy and the beauty of the form." ”

Xiang Ye hurriedly stopped her: "Which heart, which line?" ”

Wen Qingyi looked at her and smiled, and said, "Blame me, I should say so." If the mind is beautiful enough, it doesn't bother to care about the body. ”

Xiang Ye nodded and said, "That's the reason." ”

Wen Qingyi continued: "If people have this judgment, they can peel off the surface and grasp the inner reality. But it is obvious that Lu Tanwei does not. ”

Xiang Ye was puzzled and said, "I have known him for a long time, and he has never loved Miss Beauty." ”

Wen Qingyi said: "If you don't love beauty, you can only say that he is not trapped in the beauty of the logo, which does not mean that his aesthetics are not deformed." I don't know which emperor loved the slender waist and wicker body at the earliest, so that people all over the world gradually loved slats. Nowadays, it is even more like a slat, a slat, a slat, a slat, a slat This is their aesthetic, but it should not be a wise man. When I was a child, Imperial Doctor Zhao took me for two months, and I followed him to know a lot of human body maintenance methods, too bloated and easy to get sick, too thin and easy to break. But everyone has their own situation, and minor illnesses do not kill people. Living in the world, I still pay attention to the word happy all my life, I am normal and healthy, not thin and weak to sway with the wind, where is there a little bit of badness. Even if I am born unsymmetrical, how can I not be beautiful? That girl has been loyal to the Lord for half her life, considerate, and puts her young lady in her heart, and the young lady is not a person, and she sent people away. He Lu Tanwei is no different, saying that people are bad for painting and ruining the beauty, but I don't know that there are still true and good souls in this world who will corrupt and filthy. ”

Xiang Ye smiled, but he could be regarded as finding the crux of the problem.