The wheel turns, and time flies backwards. One day thousands of years ago, there was also a young man with a dream, after experiencing countless hardships and setbacks, standing at the door of the flower courtyard again and again.

Again and again, countless people hurried by, and his eyes were always fixed on these hurried pedestrians, or pawn merchants, or merchants, or dignitaries.

He watched the coming and going under the shade of the trees, sketching one stroke at a time, rendering or depicting, in short, recording everything he could record, everything he saw.

A full 365 days, across the four seasons of the year, the flowers bloomed and thanked, and he didn't seem to notice it.

Finally waited until one day, Song Huizong Zhao Ji had a whim, wanted to train a group of young and promising court painters, Wang Ximeng was fancied, Wang Ximeng He was very lucky, it was not easy to become a student of Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

In the mountains, slopes and waters, pavilions and thatched cottages are dotted.

The long bridge of the water mill and fishing, sailing, traveling, birds, etc., are depicted in fine and vivid manners. There are many scenes on the picture scroll, the colors are uniform and clear, and the artistic conception is majestic and magnificent.

This is what we see now as a "map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains,"

Classical painters, most of whom have been carved and polished over the years, can transcend the moment and become a family of their own.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, among the group of landscape painters, the exclusive status of the white-haired old man was determined. Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, and Zhang Daqian in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China confirmed this single imagination. But the author of this famous painting is Wang Ximeng, an 18-year-old young man.

Destined to be the founder of the genre, destined to be different, and destined to be ill-fated. The fate of Wang Ximeng is closely linked to the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty, the most famous calligrapher and painter in Chinese history, Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty, who did not love gold and silver jewelry, but only loved calligraphy and painting.

The Great Song Dynasty, since the founding of the country, has been destined to be an extraordinary dynasty, and unlike all previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty created a world ruled by literati.

Zhao Ji of Song Huizong is a mediocre king who has no achievements in politics, but Zhao Ji of Song Huizong has a high artistic accomplishment, and his poetry, calligraphy, and painting are quite profound, which can be called a generation of art giants.

Zhao Ji of Huizong of the Song Dynasty loved books all his life, had a habit of collecting, created a generation of unique brushstrokes and thin gold bodies, attached importance to painting academies and preferential treatment of painters, which made the culture and art of the Northern Song Dynasty reach its heyday.

Loving books as life is a common problem of intellectuals, but to truly love "like life" is not something that ordinary people can do.

The "Compilation of the Remains of the Song People" records that during the Jingkang Change, the Jin people broke through Bianjing and looted treasures everywhere. Song Huizong watched the sedan chair he usually rode in being snatched away, and his favorite concubine being taken away, he forced himself to be calm and did not change his face. But when he heard that his collection of paintings and calligraphy in the three houses was looted by the Jin people, his psychological defense line completely collapsed, and he sighed and felt heartache.

It is also recorded in the "Northern Hunting Record": It is said that once the Empress Dowager Zheng sent someone to send ten silks to Huizong, and she wanted to sew a few changes of clothes for Huizong. But he happened to meet a bookseller selling Wang Anshi's "Diary", and Huizong had no money on hand, so he picked up the silk and went to exchange for books. He would rather read books without changing new clothes, which shows his obsession with books.

Song Huizong's calligraphy was not only unique in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also his original thin gold style has been passed down to this day, influencing generations of calligraphy artists.

Song Huizong's calligraphy absorbed the advantages of Xue Ji and Huang Tingjian, but without falling out of the ordinary, and was able to create an unprecedented thin gold body on the basis of the calligraphy art of his predecessors. The so-called thin gold body, the main feature is that the gesture is elegant, light, but not slender and weak, but as thin as gold and stone, with backbone. Someone praised: "The gesture is elegant, like the shadow of a crane in the sky, tall and extraordinary; The water-skimming swallow feather, light and traceless, thin but not slender, neat but not board", vividly said the characteristics of the thin gold body.

There are not many calligraphy works of Huizong that have been handed down today, but we can still get a glimpse of his unique style of thin gold body from his imperial pen inscriptions.

"Peony Post" is a representative work of Huizong's thin gold body, the whole post is 110 words, chic and elegant, rigid and soft, and the structure and line of writing are just right.

In addition to the self-created thin gold body, Huizong's cursive script can also be described as perfect. The "cursive thousand-character text" that has been handed down to this day is the superior representative of Huizong's cursive, this volume is more than 1 meter long, written on the whole painting of the golden cloud dragon paper, the line of writing is like a dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, the style is chic, comparable to a generation of "cursive holy hand" Zhang Xu.

During Huizong's lifetime, his calligraphy works were widely loved by the government and the public, and everyone was proud to get a scroll and a scroll.

According to the record of "Xuanhe Painting", one day Huizong came to the secretary province, and he was in a good mood, so he had a whim, and took out his own calligraphy and painting works. As a result, everyone was flattered and flocked to the front, "all wearing broken scarves to compete for the first". Seeing these courtiers competing for their works regardless of Sven, Huizong's heart was naturally fluttering, so he laughed alone beside him.

Huizong single-handedly founded the only royal painting school in ancient Chinese history, the School of Painting. Cai Jing made a clear record.

The message that Wang Ximeng left to the world, in addition to this huge masterpiece, is only a few records of Cai Jing, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and Song Ju, a collector in the early Qing Dynasty.

There is no exact answer to the question of where he came from or in what year he died. It is only known that he died shortly after completing the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" in 1113. This became an eternal regret.

Wang Ximeng, who died early at the age of 23, spent half a year in his short life to make the Chinese who had nearly a thousand years behind him miss him.

Wang Ximeng's only surviving painting, the 12-meter-long "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which is said to have taken him half a year to complete, has a twisty composition, brilliant colors, and subtle brushwork. What is even more amazing is that Wang Ximeng, the painter who completed this huge work, was only 18 years old at the time.

Chinese painting, which embodies the character of the Chinese nation, psychology and temperament, has a unique system in the world painting garden with its distinctive characteristics and style, and Chinese painting is driven by the surging atmosphere of the times, bringing forth the new and the charm will last forever.

Wang Ximeng entered the palace as a student of the painting academy when he was more than ten years old, and Zhao You, who was a student of the Painting Academy when Emperor Huizong of Song, was later called into the forbidden Chinese library, and served Emperor Huizong, but Emperor Huizong of Song had a unique vision: "Its nature can be taught", so he personally taught his method.

However, it has to be said that a large part of the success of the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is due to Song Huizong, because it is with Zhao Ji of Song Huizong who loves the rivers and mountains and is obsessed with Chinese painting, that the later masterpiece "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" came out.