Chapter 2180

Lin Xi was even more surprised that Zhou Fang's only two handed down works were in this small study. He couldn't help looking carefully. He saw that all the ancient books on the Bogu shelf were ancient books of various colors, including historical materials and biographies, unofficial history and legends. There were countless calligraphy and paintings of famous masters, and he didn't know which one was Zhou Fang's work.

An Yutian seems to see Lin Xi's surprise and frankly tells the origin of his ancestors with Zhou Fang:

Zhou Fang has learned all the painting skills since he was appointed as a minister. Therefore, he often contacts with dignitaries and dignitaries. He can be called a real noble childe.

Zhou Yi, Zhou Fang's elder brother, is good at riding horses and archery. He once went on an expedition to Tubo with elder general Shu Han and took back Shibao city. Due to his war achievements, he was awarded to be in charge of Jinwu and take charge of public security in Kyoto.

At that time, Tang Dezong was repairing Zhangjing temple. He summoned Zhou Ying and said, "Zhou Aiqing, your brother Zhou Fang is good at painting. I want him to draw the statue of Zhangjing temple. Please tell him..."

After some time, Tang Dezong asked Zhou Zhe to invite him again, and Zhou Fang began to paint.

Zhou Fang put the first painted statue in the temple like a screen, which everyone in Kyoto can see.

Zhangjing temple is located in front of the imperial palace. Both virtuous and foolish people run to see the real face. Some say the painting is good, some say it is not good, and others find faults. Zhou Fang will revise it at any time.

After a month, there were no people who commented on the good and bad. People were praising that this statue of God was so well painted!

Finally, the painting was finished, which was the first in the world at that time.

At that time, an offshoot of anjiazu, who loved calligraphy and painting, once asked another painter Han Gan to draw a portrait, which was praised by the world. Later, when he heard that Zhou Fang was a good painter, he asked Zhou Fang to paint a portrait for him.

Once, an Jiazu put the portraits of Zhou Fang and Han Gan together for people to evaluate, but no one could judge them. Just in time for his daughter to come back to visit relatives, he asked his daughter, "who are these two portraits..."

His daughter replied, "it's all about the father..."

He asked again, "which portrait is the most like..."

His daughter replied, "both portraits are very similar, but the latter one is the best..."

He asked why.

His daughter replied, "the first portrait only shows the father's face, and the latter one has a complete look, expression and laughing posture, so the latter one is good..."

So he asked the servant, "who painted the last one..."

The servant said, "it was painted by Zhou Fang..."

In the afternoon of that day, his ancestors arranged for their servants to send Zhou Fang hundreds of brocade pieces as a token of gratitude.

In addition, in Chang'an city of Kyoto at that time, the portrait of "water moon Guanyin", the portrait of "Taoist monk" in front of Dayun West Buddha Hall and the portrait of "double faced gods" in front of Guangfu temple are all strange and wonderful.

These portraits are all works of Zhou Fang.

Zhou Fang later served as an official in Xuanzhou. During his tenure, he painted an image of the northern heavenly king for the Zen temple. After the painting was fixed, he often saw the heavenly king come to see him in his dream, which became a good talk for a while.

Zhou Fang's paintings of men and women in the world can be regarded as the first master in ancient and modern times, including the banquet picture of Hun waiter, the dance picture of Liu Xuanwu, the powder version of Princess Dugu's song, as well as the picture of Zhongni asking for rites, the picture of descending to the truth, the picture of five stars, the picture of fluttering butterflies, as well as the real people and the ten disciples of King Wenxuan. Unfortunately, they have been lost.

It is said that in the late years of Zhenyuan of Dezong of Tang Dynasty, a businessman who came back from Xinluo bought dozens of volumes of Zhou Fang's paintings at a high price in the Jianghuai area. When he was about to leave, he found that the immortals, real people, men and women in the paintings he bought had become immortals. Only pommel horses, birds and animals, bamboo, stone, grass and trees were still on the paintings. It was very strange and spread to this day.

These changes are all here in an Yutian.

After listening to an Yutian, Lin Xi was shocked by the details of settling down again. All the famous paintings recorded by the outside world are settling down, and the famous paintings not recorded by the outside world are also settling down, as if they were all objects outside, all the junk that the settling down despises, just like leftover bones, no meat and a pity to abandon.

If so, didn't Lin Xi send the picture of beautiful women with hairpin flowers to the wrong person and express the wrong feelings? If it caused a misunderstanding, wouldn't it be self defeating?

An Yutian explained with a smile, "brother Lin, don't get me wrong. I just like calligraphy and painting ancient books, so I added some collections or exchanged them with others. Only a few have been handed down from my family..."

"For example, I've never heard of or seen this picture of beautiful women with hairpin flowers. I'm lucky to see it today. I like it very much. Thank you brother Lin for the gift..."

Lin Xi was relieved that there was no misunderstanding.

While talking, an Yutian has fully unfolded the picture scroll, which is a thick silk color painting. The painting describes the scene of six brightly dressed noble women and their maidens enjoying flowers and visiting the garden at the turn of spring and summer.

Starting from the left end of the picture, the first woman is a noble lady standing in a bun with peony flowers. On the light purple gauze shirt, there is a rhomboid pattern with four oblique angles Tianyu as a group. The white ground buns are painted with colored cloud cranes, hanging from the back of the shoulder to the chest. She holds the newly captured butterfly in her right hand and lifts the buns in her left hand to make it vertical. Her upper body tilts forward slightly to meet the dog running towards her.

The second woman from the left of the picture is petite and dignified. She is dressed in a scarlet cloak and a purple gauze mask. She moves lotus steps from a distance. She has crabapple flowers in her hair bun, a gold cloud collar around her neck, and purple flowers on her white skirt. She looks very gorgeous from below the gauze shirt. She hangs down from her back shoulder to her arms. She holds the gauze with her hands, covers the gauze, and tightens her loose clothes at the same time.

The third noble woman from the left of the picture is wearing a white plaid gauze shirt with lotus flowers in a bun. Her chest is tied with a long vermilion oblique grid skirt, which is dragged on the ground. There are patterns of pink and blue and white branches on the purple bun. Her right hand is slightly raised, her palm is turned upside down, she picks up a red flower, takes off the gold hairpin from the bun in her left hand, and moves to the right. She looks at the newly folded flower branch, concentrates on reverie, and is ready to insert it into the most prominent place of the bun.

In front of her, there was a Red Crowned Crane raising its feet to walk, which didn't seem to attract her any interest.

The fourth maid standing on the side from the left of the picture holds a round fan with a long handle. The round fan is painted with peonies in full bloom, set off by red flowers and green leaves. Her makeup is different from other noble ladies in the volume.

She had thick black hair in a bun with two crosses, tied together with a red satin band in the middle. A part of the oblique collar of the vermilion water chestnut pattern she wore was exposed, and the gauze belt with white circle flowers was tied in front of her abdomen after bypassing the gauze shirt for a circle. The tips of white soft soled shoes are exposed under the colored petticoat. Its shape is different from the heavy platform shoes worn by several other noble women.

Her expression was calm but thoughtful, which was in sharp contrast to the playing occasion at that time.

The fifth lady from the left of the picture, with red petal branches inserted in the bun, dark white diamond patterns on the gauze shirt, a long skirt pulled under the chest, and purple green flowers evenly distributed on the bright vermilion ground, which looks elegant and rich; The color of the covered part of the warp sweater decreases accordingly.

The purple Ponzi was painted with cloud wind patterns and hung back. She raised her right hand gently and lifted the gauze shirt collar pasted on her neck and shoulder with her slender index finger and thumb, which seemed to be invincible in the muggy climate of early summer. Her left hand stretched out from the side of her gauze shirt, and her fingers greeted the playful dog on her back, hoping that the dog would also come to amuse her.

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