? "Confident" tells the story of Wen Tong, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The story comes from "Wen Yu Keyúndāng Valley Yanzhu Ji" by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty. "Be confident" means being fully prepared before doing something and being very sure of the success of the matter; it also means not panicking and being very calm when encountering difficulties.

?The painters of the Northern Song Dynasty had the same style and style. His bamboo paintings are famous far and wide, and many people come to ask for paintings every day. What is Wen Tong’s secret to painting bamboo? It turns out that Wen Tong planted various kinds of bamboos in front of and behind his house. No matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, whether it was cloudy or rainy, he often went to the bamboo forest to observe the growth and changes of the bamboos, pondering the length and thickness of the bamboo branches, the shape and shape of the leaves. Color, whenever I have a new feeling, I go back to the study, lay out paper, grind ink, and draw the impression in my heart on the paper. Over a long period of time, the images of bamboo in different seasons, different weathers, and different times are deeply imprinted in his mind. As long as he concentrates on picking up his pen and standing in front of the drawing paper, the various forms of bamboo he observes will immediately emerge. In front of you. Therefore, every time he painted bamboo, he seemed very calm and confident, and the bamboos he painted were all lifelike and lifelike.

When people praised his paintings, he always said modestly: "I just painted the bamboos that I had thought about in my heart."

A young man wanted to learn to draw bamboos. , learned that the poet Chao Buzhi had studied Wen Tong's paintings very much, and went to ask for advice. Huang Buzhi wrote a poem for him, including two sentences: "I can draw bamboo, and I have a mature bamboo in my heart.

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