A living snake that becomes the snake in the painting.

I saw that the little white snake just now still maintained the appearance of coiling and struggling, but at this time, it seemed that it was completely painted by pen and ink.

Originally, Bai Chang was still a little suspicious that Guo Cripple was playing tricks, but after a closer look, the little white snake was tied in a knot.

There will never be a fake.

Bai Chang was amazed, this painting had such a magical and terrifying ability!

"It's ...... Lao Guo, tell me clearly, what's going on with this painting?! ”

He stepped forward and grabbed Guo Cripple's neck by the collar and asked loudly.

"Ahem, stinky boy, you want to strangle my old man, let go, I can't get angry......"

Bai Chang realized that he was too excited and grabbed too tightly, so he let go of his hand and said: "This matter is too strange today, Lao Guo, I have always been interesting to you, what is going on, you can explain it to me." ”

"Well, in fact, it's nothing, what about this painting, the legend says that it is the most mysterious painting in the world, because the author of this painting, Wu Daozi, is said to have made this painting after breaking into hell......"

Wu Daozi, the "painting saint", is a very famous painter in history, and he is also a royal painter during the Wuzong period of the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty worshiped Buddha and the temples of Chang'an were popular to paint religious murals of immortals and Buddhas.

So, there is a small temple that is not very famous, and I also want to ask Wu Daozi to paint a mural.

But I don't want to be the same as others, so I want to be unique.

So they came up with ingenuity and invited Wu Daozi to paint a "picture of hell".

The so-called Hell Diagram depicts the conditions in the eighteen layers of Hell.

In the painting, there are groups of ghosts and demons, swords, mountains and fires, and all kinds of cruel punishments.

Not only are the scenes complex, eerie, and large-scale, but there are also many ghosts and characters involved.

It is the most ambitious, challenging and difficult material to paint in Buddhist murals.

Even the top artists of the time did not dare to touch this subject matter lightly.

Moreover, to paint this subject, it takes an extremely long time and consumes a lot of energy, and I dare not imagine it without more than a month.

Wu Daozi didn't want to take this job originally, so when the abbot of that temple found him, Wu Daozi kept shirking and didn't agree.

The abbot of that temple did not force him, he knew that Wu Daozi was good at drinking, so he left him behind, treated him with fine wine, and drank for three days and three nights in his meditation room.

Three days later, when Wu Daozi walked out of the meditation room in the temple, he agreed to the abbot's request, declaring that he would complete the mural of hell during the Midyear Festival.

In the months that followed, Wu Daozi disappeared, and occasionally he was seen, either in the wilderness or in a temple in the mountains, and he was turned upside down like a madman, and sometimes he didn't even know anyone.

Time flies, fleeting, and soon there are only three days left before the Midyear Festival.

On this day, Wu Daozi finally appeared in front of everyone, but he was already unkempt, his face was haggard, and he was completely devoid of human form.

He came to the Zhao Jinggong Temple, but when he picked up the pen and wanted to paint, he stood for a few hours without painting.

The people in the temple stepped forward to ask, and Wu Daozi shook violently, vomited blood, and fainted on the ground.

Everyone hurriedly helped him into the room, and it took him a while to wake up, but his eyes were glazed looking at the paintbrush in his hand, tears streaming down his face.

After that, Wu Daozi was in the meditation room of the monastery, closed doors, did not eat or drink.

No one knows what he's doing in there.

Until the first night of the Midyear Festival, Wu Daozi suddenly ran out with his hair scattered, his eyes bleeding, and his appearance was extremely terrifying.

He ran to the painting wall, painted with a pendulum, and completed the huge "Hell Map" overnight!

The news spread throughout the capital in just half a day.

On the day of the Midyear Festival, the entire Chang'an City came to see this "hell map".

The eerie horror shown in this painting shocked the people of Chang'an extremely.

Under the blue sky and white sun, all the viewers shuddered and shuddered.

It is said that the butchers and fishermen who saw his painting did not dare to kill, so they changed their careers one after another, so that there was a shortage of fish and meat in Chang'an City.

This small temple has also become the most famous temple in Chang'an City.

And this "Hell Map" has also become Wu Daozi's masterpiece, and its achievements far exceed all his previous murals.

Because this picture of hell is varied, and all kinds of hell scenes emerge one after another, it is also called "hell change" by the world.

……

Guo Cripple slowly told this story, but Bai Chang listened to it inexplicably.

"You're talking so lively, aren't you talking about a mural, what does it have to do with this painting?"

"Yes, I'm talking about murals, but that's one thing that a lot of people know. And not many people know about this painting. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Guess what, what did Wu Daozi experience in the meditation room that day?"

Bai Chang shook his head: "Where do I know where to go, I'm not at the scene." ”

Guo Cripple blinked his eyes and said with a mysterious expression: "If it weren't for someone who had gone to hell, how could he paint such a painting?" ”

"Do you mean that Wu Daozi completed the mural of the Hell Diagram overnight because he went to hell?"

"Hehe, after this incident, there have been many speculations in later generations. Some people say that there were ghosts and gods who helped him that night, and some people say that Wu Daozi committed suicide and traveled to hell, and when he was painting, he came back to life, because if he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have been able to paint such a ghostly workmanship. ”

"But, in fact, it is true that Wu Daozi traveled to hell, but he copied a scene painted in hell, and after he came out, he would draw that mural overnight with a stroke of his pen and memory."

After Guo Cripple finished speaking, Bai Chang seemed to vaguely grasp something.

"Wait, do you mean ...... This picture scroll is the scene copy of the one painted by Wu Daozi in hell? ”

"Yes, yes."

Bai Chang suddenly brushed his whole body, like pouring a bucket of cold water on dog days.

If what Guo Cripple said is true, then in other words, this painting was actually brought by Wu Daozi from hell!

A painting from hell is terrifying to think about.

No wonder, the little white snake was wrapped in the painting, disappeared in minutes, and became a snake in the painting.

If you put it this way, isn't this painting a treasure to the extreme?

"No wonder when you saw this painting at the time, your eyes were blue light, it turns out that you have long known the goods."

Bai Chang also secretly regretted it, he knew that this worthless thing in Qiu Xiaodie's mouth would be such a treasure, and he couldn't give it to Guo Cripple for nothing.

"Hahahaha, don't worry, stinky boy, my old man won't let you suffer, you can just pick a few of those big things."

Bai Chang glanced at the large pile of Qiu family collections on the ground, but he was not interested.

In front of this picture, those are just a pile of garbage.

With a roll of his eyes, Bai Chang smiled and said, "How can I be the kind of mercenary person, I'll just help you send these things back when I go back, I won't take any of them." ”

"Hey, why are you so good at talking today?"

"That's that, it's just that if I have anything difficult in the future, I hope your old man will help me a lot."

"Hmph, I knew you didn't let me go so easily, okay, okay, I'll talk about it later, when did I let you go home empty-handed?"

While the two were talking, Qiu Baisheng rushed over with someone, and a group of people loaded the treasures on the ground into the car, and they were about to go to Guo Cripple's house.

"Hey, Lao Guo, you forgot to take this stone."

Bai Chang pointed to the ground, the oval stone that had broken in half.

Guo lame looked back and waved his hand very generously.

"Well, I'm useless with this thing, I'll give it to you."