Evonne, Song Huizong
Speaking of Evonne's artistic talent, it is really admirable. He is a master of calligraphy. Huang Tingjian was a beginner, and later learned the brushwork of Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and others, taking the strengths of others and integrating them to create a unique "thin gold body". This kind of books are generally long, relaxed, with thin and elastic strokes and sharp tail hooks, such as "bending iron to break gold", which has a feeling of thinness, smoothness, beauty and elegance, and requires extremely high calligraphy skills and mood.
Ma Weidou, a cultural celebrity, spoke highly of Song Huizong's thin gold style. He believes that in the established pattern of Wang Xizhi, Liu Gongquan, Yan Zhenqing and Ou Yangxun, Song Huizong only fought his way out alive, successfully created a new style of calligraphy and made great achievements in calligraphy art.
Song Huizong Evonne's "Thin Gold" Calligraphy
Calligraphy and painting are interlinked, and Song Huizong Evonne is a great painter. He advocated "both form and spirit" and was the founder of meticulous painting. He painted flowers and birds, landscapes, figures and pavilions, among which flower-and-bird painting achieved the highest achievement, leaving behind such famous works as Ruihe, Liuti, Chiqiuye, and Furong Jinji. These works are full of spirit and images, and pursue similarity from form to spirit. Realistic techniques are known as "magic realism" and works give people "magic temptation" (Lawrence, American scholar? Sickmann's evaluation) reflects a very high artistic level.
Song Huizong Evonne's "Rui He Tu"
Song Huizong and Evonne advocated learning from nature in their creation, and once wrote some painting theories, such as "proud as a peacock must raise his left leg first". He pursues the overall aesthetic feeling of combining poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, and often sets the title, style, signature and seal of imperial poems on paintings, which set off each other, and the paintings are more complete because of poems. The inscriptions and signatures on paintings are generally in his unique "thin gold body", and the seals are mostly gourd-shaped. The combination of the four shows China's art of painting and calligraphy.
Wang Ximeng, a painter in the Song Dynasty, created a picture of a thousand miles across the country.
Song Huizong Evonne not only paints by himself, but also vigorously promotes the development of calligraphy and painting art. He is an excellent art educator and collector. He established the Hanlin Painting and Calligraphy Institute, which was then the Palace Painting Institute and became a "courtyard painting" of his own. He divided painting into six branches: Buddhism, Taoism, figures, landscapes, animals, flowers and trees, and houses and trees, and made it a formal way to enter the imperial examination. People who entered the academy were awarded different positions according to their painting ability, such as painting school, art school, painting student, painter status in the Great Song Dynasty, etc. Wang Ximeng, who was only 18 years old, personally created the "A Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers", which is an eternal artistic treasure.
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan, a painter in Song Dynasty.
Evonne is a great collector. He widely collected antiques, calligraphy and painting, expanded the Hanlin Painting Academy, and organized people to edit books such as Xuanhe Shupu, Xuanhe Huapu and Xuanhe Bo Gu Tu, which promoted the development of painting art and left important research materials for future generations. Evonne was the first collector of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in Zhang Zeduan. With his unique fine gold brushwork, he personally inscribed the words "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" on the painting. At the same time, he made a small seal of Shuanglong, and the artistic intersection of two geniuses made The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival a national artistic treasure that has been spread to this day and admired by countless people.
In addition to his top talent in calligraphy and painting, Evonne also has many talents, and his poetic skills are profound. Zhu Xiaozang, one of the four great poets in the late Qing Dynasty, compiled 300 poems of the Song Dynasty, and the first word included was Evonne's Banquet Pavilion: Looking at Apricot Flowers in the North; He is well versed in tea art, and he wrote "Daguan Tea Theory", which became one of the classics of tea science in China, and promoted the Song Dynasty to become an important stage in the evolution of tea affairs in China, where tea orders, tea fights and tea tricks prevailed. He is good at horseback riding, archery and cuju, and has a strong interest in exotic flowers and rocks, birds and animals.
Cai Jing was a traitor in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Song Huizong likes Cai Jing's calligraphy very much.
Legend has it that Song Huizong is very fond of Li Shishi, a prostitute.
Unfortunately, the enchanting banter of Song Huizong and Evonne could not save the decline of the Northern Song Dynasty. He is not cut out to be an emperor, as Prime Minister Zhang Dun said: "A king is frivolous and cannot rule the world." Facing the special historical background and job responsibilities, Evonne's personal preferences and talents became the bane of the Northern Song Dynasty. He trusted Wang Shen and Wang Fu because of his romantic love and was regarded as "the son of heaven in a brothel". Cai Jing was prized for his calligraphy and painting, and Gao Qiu for his cuju. A group of henchmen left this troubled world, and Evonne came to the same tragic end as Li Yu, the poet!