Chapter 50: Painting the Gods (I)
"Daoist, if you want to go out, I will open the entrance and exit for you." Song Huizong waved his hands in the air a few times, ready to start casting spells.
"Wait...... Please wait a moment. It was supposed to be a wish, but Daoist Zuo chose to interrupt him. Naturally, I know the Taoist's intentions, because like him, if I can't get to the bottom of something, I will have trouble sleeping. "Huizong, before we leave, I want to clarify many doubts in my heart."
"I guess you have a lot of things to wonder about, is it related to this painting?" Song Huizong was also smart, and he guessed the Dao Chief's thoughts at once.
"Huizong is really a smart person, this should be regarded as a reward for us to send our daughter back to you safely." Daoist Zuo stared at Su Er for a long time, and then asked slowly. "Can you tell us first, how did your daughter Su'er enter the realm of the painting of "Han Xizai's Night Banquet"?"
"Since you want to hear it, now that the matter has come to this, I will tell you about some of the higher levels of the realm in this painting." Huizong packed up his clothes, put the overturned table back up, and then took out a brush and began to ink on the paper. "I think that since you know the name of the painting realm, you must have a relatively basic understanding of the principle of it, then you must know how a painter creates the painting realm."
Zuo Daochang nodded. "We think we know very well that it is the painter who fuses mana into the ink to create an illusory world."
"And do you know? Can this illusory world be modified by another painter? Song Huizong smiled slightly. The premise is that the painter must have a higher level of painting skills. A painting technique that surpasses the level of the original artist. ”
"You mean to say you......" Daoist Zuo looked at Song Huizong in surprise, he could see that he remembered something, but he didn't dare to confirm it, so he became slurred when he spoke.
"You should know that there is a legend about me, that I was born wrapped in a portrait of Li Yu." Song Huizong explained to us while waving his brushstrokes. "Although this is nonsense, I am indeed very similar to the queen Li Yu, and I also like his poetry, and after becoming emperor, I collected all his paintings in the court. Among them is the "Han Xizai's Night Banquet". ”
"And then you sent your daughter's ghost into the middle of that painting."
"It's not that simple, if you look closely at the "Han Xizai's Night Banquet Map", you will find a very strange problem." Song Huizong paused. "Have you noticed that the costumes of the characters in "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" do not belong to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period at all?"
"Ahh Indeed, the costumes in there are all from the Song Dynasty. "I can't help but exclaim, because this is a question that many people are wondering about." The explanation given by experts is that the original "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" has long been extinct, and all we can see today is a tracing version of the Song Dynasty. ”
"Tracing ? Ha ha. What a joke. Song Huizong laughed out loud with a slight mockery. Can the painting be traced? How can this unfathomable realm in the painting be depicted? ”
His tone was very arrogant, but he was indeed right, if it was just a simple tracing painting, then Han Xizai would not be in it, the colors and lines of the painting could be imitated, but the world in the painting could not be repeated.
"I did the deep processing on the original painting, and a few new strokes were added to the painting, which improved its middle context." Song Huizong said slowly. "Just like now."
After speaking, he showed us the painting he had been painting just now, and we looked at it intently, and we gasped, this painting method is exactly the same as the "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", which can be confused with the real.
"If the style of painting can be imitated to the extent of me, then as long as a little bit of mana is incorporated, you can change the realm of painting that has been formed, and this change is a change in the soul." At this moment, we really feel the genius of Song Huizong's painting, and his understanding of the realm in painting is probably a level higher than that of anyone else in history. "You know that the original "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is not what you see at all, and the original painting has no entrance and exit at all, it is a completely closed environment. And the people inside are even more numb than they are now. ”
"No entrances and exits......"
"That painting was originally made to punish Han Hee-jae, and when I saw that painting, Han Hee-jae had been imprisoned in the painting for a hundred years, can you imagine those lives?" Song Huizong said meaningfully. "So I improved the painting, first by opening a gap in the painting so that it could connect with the outside world, and then I recreated every character at the banquet so that they could have a better dialogue with Han Hee-jae."
"Are these all for Su'er?" I can't help but secretly sigh Song Huizong, if this is the case, it can only be described as taking precautions.
"When I remodeled that painting, Su'er had just been born. It's not that I will transform that painting because of Su'er, I just think that the realm in the painting is too cruel and has departed from the original meaning of the realm in the painting. Song Huizong sighed, as if he had a thousand words to say. Zhuangzi's original intention in creating the realm in the painting was to provide a space that is opposed to the real world, to heal the pain that people experience in reality, rather than to punish and torture a person. ”
All of us are deafened by Song Huizong's words at this moment, this kind of heart, this kind of thinking, it seems that we are completely different from the mediocre emperor we are familiar with.
"At that time, the queen and many concubines and even some ministers who leaned towards the government and the opposition were hostile to Su'er, and I couldn't resist the strength of so many of them, and I remembered the realm in the painting as a last resort, I sent her to the "Han Xizai Night Banquet" before Su'er's soul was taken away by the ghosts of Hades, I didn't want her to let a child wander alone in Hades, and I didn't want her to wander in the world as a lonely ghost, Han Xizai was a learned minister, and sending Su'er to him was the best way I could come up with at that time." Song Huizong's eyes at this time were both lonely and relieved, which was really nostalgic. "You won't know that I have so many princes and princesses, and the one I love the most is Su'er, because only she doesn't have the nature of those children as royals."
It is really unexpected that this will be the case, and there is such a side behind the history that we are familiar with.
How much of our understanding of history can be the truth?
"Then what's going on with this "Qingming Riverside Map". Is it Zhang Zeduan's punishment for you and the teacher? Dao Chang Zuo asked with a little astonishment, as if he had guessed a suffocating truth in his reasoning.
"Haha, Zhang Zeduan punished me?" Song Huizong smiled bitterly helplessly. "If I say so, whether it's Zhang Zeduan, Fan Kuan, or any famous artist at that time, their understanding of the realm in the painting is far lower than mine, if he really wants to assassinate me in the painting, how can I not be aware of it?"