This is a dance in the Spring Festival Evening of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, which originated from the Northern Song Dynasty 18-year-old painter Wang Ximeng's Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains.
In these years, we basically don't watch the Spring Festival Gala. In this era of media flooding, there are too many good-looking programs, and the Spring Festival Evening has long lost its exclusive charm. Just after dinner, although the TV is showing the Spring Festival Gala, I didn't care too much. It's just the noise of the New Year. I was walking on the treadmill, and melodious classical music came from my ears. I looked back at the TV. A beautiful picture of a Chinese style attracted me, with a green waist, a peak bun and a long eyebrow. In the picture, green mountains are green and green water is looming. The dancer's eyebrows were pointed, her lips were red, her hair was high, her sleeves were neatly swung, and she disappeared into the painting. . . . Dancers, with their gorgeous bodies, draw the outline of endless mountains and rivers like poems and illusions, telling the classical legends of China. The poetic drama takes the chapters of "exhibition of painting axis, asking about seal script, singing silks, searching for stones, learning calligraphy and quenching ink painting" as the key link, creates a dream that spans thousands of years with elegant and beautiful China aesthetics, and praises the motherland with mountains and rivers and humanities. It is worth watching the dance with your heart and feeling that era with your heart.
From this wonderful work, the audience can re-recognize the beauty of originality and re-perceive the beauty of tradition, which is also a process of understanding the context of China and enhancing cultural self-confidence. The repeated presentation of Chinese style programs is inseparable from the needs of the times for the spread of traditional culture. Based on the long history and splendid civilization of China, these programs can lead the audience to appreciate the profoundness of China culture, enhance our cultural centripetal force and inspire more. Knowing the cultural confidence behind literary innovation can create more literary masterpieces, make the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land and the words written in ancient books come alive, make the traditional flowers bloom forever, and make the cultural confidence stand firm.
A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is a turquoise silk book, which is about12m long and 50cm wide. The whole picture is from far to near, and the momentum is open. The village market, fishing boats, bridges, waterwheels and birds in the forest are well placed. The whole volume is reset in green, showing the beauty of mountains and rivers. The upper layer is continuous with mountains and peaks, and the intricate forest villages, pontoons, towers, halls, pavilions and various figures in the picture are arranged in an orderly manner. In the painting, Zhongshan stone is painted with ink first, and then with green and heavy colors. The top of the mountain is dyed green with stones and bluestone, showing green mountains and green waters. The river draws a waterline, which contrasts with boneless color. The whole picture is magnificent and exquisite, and it is a masterpiece of green landscape painting.
What's even more surprising is that "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was written by Wang Ximeng, a genius of 18 years old in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also his only masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. Because Wang Ximeng died in his twenties, there are few historical materials about him. He is the only talented person who is famous for his painting in the history of China painting. It is said that this painting must be instructed by the Northern Song Emperor Song Huizong Evonne. "A Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers" was later collected by the then Prime Minister Cai Jing, who described his experience of being admitted to Hanlin Painting and Calligraphy Institute. After the map of a thousand miles of mountains and rivers, it was collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The paintings in the Northern Song Dynasty also remind me of the famous Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is about Kaifeng, which is the border city today. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 25.2 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is in silk color. In the form of a long scroll, the work vividly records the city appearance of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time by using the scattered perspective composition method. It is the witness of Bianjing's prosperity in that year, and it is also a portrayal of the urban economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In this five-meter-long picture scroll, * * * painted 8 14 figures of various colors, including 73 cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, and 29 ships of different sizes. Houses, bridges and towers have their own characteristics, which embodies the architectural characteristics of the Song Dynasty. It has high historical value and artistic value.
This article has many excerpts, because I like "only green" and have paid more attention and understanding. Therefore, I love my house and my dog. I should learn to expand my knowledge and record my beauty in words so as not to be forgotten.