048 step on the flowers to return to the horseshoe incense

In addition to being good at writing, Zhao Ji is also first-class in painting. Not only did he paint well, but he also cultivated a large number of first-class painters. For example, Zhang Zeduan of the painting "Riverside Scene of the Qingming Festival" and Li Tang of the painting "Treading Flowers and Returning to the Clouds".

Due to Song Huizong's love for painting, he established the Hanlin Painting Institute soon after he ascended the throne. According to the level of the position, the academy has set up the posts of painting study, art study, waiting for edict, and waiting, and the scale of the academy painting has been continuously expanded, the system has been further improved, and the status of the painter has been greatly improved. In fact, Song Huizong is the president of the painting academy, which is much higher than the director of the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" and "Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts".

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered the identification of the paintings and calligraphy collected by the Inner Palace, classified them, wrote book reviews, and compiled the "Xuanhe Book Spectrum" and "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum", etc., which have had a far-reaching influence so far.

Zhang Zeduan is a poor boy, his birth and death are unknown, and he should be seven or eight years younger than Song Huizong. He was a painting wizard and was deeply liked by Huizong. It can be said that it was with the full support of the emperor that Zhang Zeduan painted the national treasure-level famous painting "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", which became world-famous all at once. People talk too much about "Qingming Riverside Picture", so I won't go into details.

Li Tang's fame is not as famous as Zhang Zeduan's now. But at that time, it was much more famous than Zhang Zeduan.

Li Tang was born in 1066, died in 1150, lived for 84 years in one go, and now the surviving works include "Ten Thousand Pine Winds", "Godson", "Qingxi Fishing Hidden Map", "Changxiajiang Temple", "Cai Wei Tu". "Smoke Temple Pine Wind Map" and so on.

Li Tang was 16 years older than Song Huizong, and in his early years, he made a living by selling paintings, and his life was quite hard, similar to Qi Baishi's first arrival in Beijing. It wasn't until I was in my early forties that it came to work.

One day, Li Tang had just sold a painting, which was enough for three days of firewood and rice, so he was wandering around Tokyo. Suddenly, I saw a notice posted on the wall, Hanlin Painting Institute recruiting painters. There are no restrictions on age, origin, or culture, only a small painting is required, and if you pass the test, you can take the exam.

There are two staff members sitting under the wall, with paper and pen, and they can draw on the spot. Li Tang asked for a pen and paper, and drew the two staff members by dividing them by two, with both form and spirit. Three days later, I got the news that I passed the preliminary examination and could go directly to the Hanlin Painting Institute to participate in the re-examination. Li Tang was overjoyed and went early the next day.

In the examination room, they are sorted according to the "Thousand Character Text": Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate...... The predicate helper is also a blessing.

Li Tang searched for a long time before he found his name at the word "care". Good guys, it's 999. He had just sat down for a long time when the 1,000th man ran over and. Strand smashed on the chair.

Li Tang let out a sigh of relief, and was almost ineligible to participate in the retest. After observing it, I was a little deflated again. Everyone is brightly dressed, with white teeth and red lips, and most of them are in their 20s. Only he has a "scruffy beard", in his 40s, like 60 years old, almost like a person who asks for food.

The examiner cleared his throat and said, "Today's painting question is made by the saint himself - stepping on flowers and returning to horseshoe incense!" ”

As soon as everyone heard the music, they immediately picked up the pen and painted. can be painted and painted, one by one, like Zhang Fei staring at the weasel - big eyes and small eyes. I don't know how to draw the word "incense".

The six words "stepping on the flowers and returning to the horseshoe" are easy to draw, because they can be felt through vision. But the word "incense" belonged to the sense of smell, and there was no word "synaesthesia" at that time. But the use of synaesthesia has become quite common. "When I feel the flowers, I splash tears, I hate to say goodbye to the birds", "The spring of the red apricot branches" and so on.

Li Tang finished drawing quickly, but when he looked back, he couldn't do it, and he painted well in other places, but the incense character was only reflected on the flowers, not on the horseshoe. I tore up the painting casually. Observe it again, there are half of the people who tear the painting, and about 500 people tear the painting together, which is very spectacular, and the debris is like a butterfly flying.

Li Tang drew another one, but he was still not satisfied, so he tore another one. You can't tear it anymore, because each person is only given three pieces of paper, and if you tear it again, it's gone, so you can only use it as a paper and a fart. Shares are gone.

Li Tang began to meditate. He had seen too many flowers, and he had painted thousands of them; I've seen too many horses, and I've painted thousands of them. But it's the first time that horse's hooves have been combined with floral scents. This Daojun Emperor is really difficult to be.

Many people are meditating. There was a white-faced scholar, who had an idea, pinched out a little agarwood from the purse given by his lover, and rubbed it back and forth at the horse's hooves, smelling the fragrance quite enough.

There was also a black-faced man, who asked for a gong, broke a jasmine next to the toilet and ran back, carefully picked a few petals, and pasted them on the horse's hooves.

There's also a cream kid who thinks he's smart. Let the horse's front hooves tread a piece of grass; The back horse's hooves kick away the sun - the sun. The combination of "He" and "Day" - "incense" is there.

Zhao Ji looked at the selection of nearly 100 paintings, and the more he looked at them, the more discouraged he became, none of them were intimate. When I was impatient, I saw a "stick figure" of a handsome horse galloping on the grassland, with four hooves hanging in the air. There are two small butterflies, one yellow and one white, which are barely visible to the naked eye, chasing the horse's hooves......

"That's it!" Zhao Ji took the case and looked at the name of the painter - Li Tang. It was immediately announced that only Li Tang would be admitted out of 1,000 candidates.

When the news came out, everyone saw that Li Tang was such a person, and none of them were convinced, and they felt that the judgment was unfair and asked for a review. The examiner didn't say anything, and hung Li Tang's painting in front of the academy. All of them didn't even let out a fart and walked away obediently. For a while, good stories spread frequently-

The emperor thought about the question, and stepped on the flowers to return to the horseshoe incense. Li Tang borrowed the fairy pen, and Danqing wrote all the spirits.

Song Huizong immediately summoned Li Tang, and there was another problem on the scene - Yedu unmanned boat self-restraint. Li Tang waved it and presented it to the emperor.

I saw an old man on the picture, sitting on a small boat, playing the flute.

"Li Aiqing, it's bad! The title of my painting is - wild crossing without a boat and self-restraint. You've got someone on the screen. Song Huizong's face sank like water.

"Your Majesty, although there is someone in my picture, he is just a ferryman. I used to be a captain, and no one came to the ferry, so it was so lonely! Later, I switched to collecting firewood......" Li Tang explained.

"Li Aiqing, from now on, you don't have to row a boat, and you don't have to collect firewood. Seal you as the sixth product 'to be edicted', 50 taels of snow silver per month...... It's okay to raise a family, right? ”

"I haven't married yet, I'm full of food alone, and the whole family is not hungry."

"You haven't started a family yet?!" The emperor looked at the other party's eldest and didn't want to believe it.

"I was too poor before, which girl is willing to marry me?!" Li Tang said embarrassedly.

"How about I marry Nian Nujiao to you?"

"Thank you, Lord Longne!"

Li Tang threw himself on his knees. The palace maid Nian Nujiao also quickly knelt down, happy as if picking up a gold ingot.

Since then, Li Tang has lived a happy life without worrying about food and clothing. Song Huizong liked Li Tang very much, often took him with him, and often came up with problems to test him, and every time Li Tang could draw a satisfactory painting.

Song Huizong admired Li Tang's paintings, and said happily: "Li Tang, Li Tang, this is the precious painter sent to me by Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

It wasn't until the Jin people went south that Li Tang's happy life ended, he began to wander, and he lived a life of selling paintings for a living.

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