"From afar, the mountains are colorful, and the water is silent; The flowers are still in spring, and the birds are not surprised. This is the poem that is said to have been written by Wang Wei and is called "Painting".
If you pick out the core characters in each sentence of this poem, they are mountains, water, flowers, and birds, and these four are the basic elements of traditional Chinese painting; If the poetic eye of this poem is, it must be "far, near, coming, and going". There is no conventional depiction of the content of the painting, but through the touch of the viewer, from far to near, one to the other, a simple four words, the vivid expression of a painting into three parts. As the so-called avenue is simple, a picture of landscapes, flowers and birds, through such a simple and simple understatement, it is vividly presented in front of us. A good painting should be like this? And there is no need to carve it with any flowery language.
The mountain is not high, there are immortals, the water is not deep, and there are dragons. The Chinese literati's sustenance for mountains and rivers is beyond the worldly. Their pursuit of lakes and mountains highlights the elegance and uninhibition in the depths of their souls. The "flat, lofty, and far-reaching" that Chinese landscape painting pays attention to is even more long-lasting, which is actually the three realms of being a person, doing things, and doing knowledge.
Looking at the poems and paintings of the ancients, there are many people who inquire about mountains and rivers. The text itself is speaking, and the painting is more subtle, therefore, landscape painting is indispensable to pavilions, pavilions, or figures to embellish, otherwise the artistic conception expressed is insufficient. Towering green mountains, long green water, small buildings in the meantime. In fact, the building also represents people, and the building is where people live. Add your own emotions or yearning to the painting, and then express it with the help of the landscape, which is the meaning of the existence of the landscape.
What's more, Chinese are keen to paint landscapes and have been painting for more than a thousand years. What is it that drives Chinese people, from ancient times to the present, to have such a soft spot for mountains and rivers?
This has to mention the integration of "Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism" in traditional culture. Confucianism is the mainstream culture, and the "clear mind" advocated by Buddhism and the "pure heart and few desires" advocated by Taoism are also the realms that Confucianists strive to achieve. The Buddhist temples and Taoist temples we usually see are basically located on the famous mountains and rivers, and the practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism are accompanied by mountains and rivers on weekdays, which may also be regarded as the standard of practice by the world. And Confucianism ** is entangled in mundane affairs on weekdays, how can he have time to run to this green mountain and green water to cultivate?
Therefore, can you choose an alternative way to immerse yourself in the mountains and rivers, but at the same time give your soul some degree of comfort to your soul? Perhaps, using landscape as a medium to chant poetry and paint is a way to enjoy yourself.
The Yellow River flows into the sea at the end of the day", in fact, it is not a strange scene, but this situation and this scene, in the poet's pen and on the painter Danqing, presented, it has become a poetic and picturesque feeling.
In a landscape painting, what we see is "mountains and rivers are restored", and "willows and flowers are bright", but in the inner world of the practitioner, how can the drunkard care about the mountains and rivers, that is really self-absorption!
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