The Spring Festival Evening shows only a fragment. The whole dance drama tells the story of a young researcher from the Forbidden City "crossing" back to the Northern Song Dynasty from the perspective of "exhibition" and "catching a glimpse" of the painter Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
The story is very simple, but in the form of dance, let us cross the mountains and rivers in wonderful music and dance, and feel the magnificence of the mountains and rivers of the motherland together. But a dance, let more people know about China culture, and stimulate our interest in appreciating China's paintings.
So what are the stories behind this "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"? As one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China, this painting is collected in the Palace Museum. Who is his author? Presumably at that time, he was also a famous painter, right? But in fact, its author Wang Ximeng was only eighteen when he created this painting. You can think about it, what are we like at the age of eighteen? Youth is full of vigor.
Wang Ximeng is a student of the Royal Academy of Painting, but he was personally selected by Song Huizong. And the purpose of his painting, or just like when we were eighteen, is to show all his talents and let others see his best side.
So, what's so good about a thousand-mile map created by a boy of 18 years old? Is it magnificent to describe the mountains and rivers of the motherland? Does it make us feel the mountains, the vast waves, the small bridges, the fishing villages and the market of game? Maybe we can also feel these when we look at other landscape paintings in China. His characteristics, I think, still lie in Wang Ximeng, because he is only eighteen years old.
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First, the material cost is not considered.
This map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains is 1 1.9 1 meter long. It is twice as long as the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, and is made of mulberry silk canvas. At that time, even famous painters seldom used this kind of canvas. And Wang Ximeng must use the best painting materials. The pigment used is also a mineral pigment. Based on the line draft, it is colored twice with ochre and malachite, and finally with precious kyanite. The color has dropped several times, which is what we see now, only this kind of green.
The second is clever composition. The composition technique of Chinese painting is called "three distances", that is, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which is called "height". Looking at the back of the mountain from the front is profound. Looking far from the near mountain is called the plain. Out of reach, out of reach, it is great to reach one of the three distances, but to reach these three distances, it is a thousand miles away. Entering the picture, we stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up at the top of the mountain. The mountain is magnificent, and its beauty is just around the corner. This is sublime. Climbing the mountain, layer upon layer, continuous ups and downs, there are mountains behind the mountain, which is of great significance. Climbing to the top of the mountain, the mountains are far away, the bridges are flowing, and the people in the mountains also have a panoramic view. This is the plain.
The third is technique, emphasizing color. Most people use one technique to draw mountains, while Wang Ximeng uses a mixture of different techniques to draw tops, feet and mountain roads. And the most amazing thing is the lottery. As we know, the authors of Chinese paintings cherish their own pen and ink, pay attention to blank space, appropriate shades, more ink paintings and too few layers of heavy colors. And this turquoise, the kyanite pigment used, was also very precious at that time, and the pigment was even more precious than gold. Therefore, from the whole creative process of Wang Ximeng, we can see that this kind of painting, regardless of the cost, is quite enthusiastic in composition, brushwork and color, showing the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away, magnificent and endless twists and turns, which is amazing.
Let's take a look at the horizontal screen:
After seeing the painting, we went to the dance. It seems that we have an illusion. Is beauty in or out of the painting?
However, after watching the exquisite "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", enjoying the beautiful dance and knowing the story created by Wang Ximeng, we miss our18th birthday even more. 18-year-old Wang Ximeng died shortly after creating this painting. The cause of death has always been a mystery. It seems that his whole life has been devoted to this painting, and he will live forever at the age of eighteen. If he hadn't died so early, would he have created more and better works later? We don't know, but there are no ifs in life.
It was only in middle age that we discovered that at the age of eighteen, we spared no effort to show ourselves and pursue our love without scruple, being brave, enthusiastic, impulsive and fearless. At that time, we thought it would always be like this, and we would always go on passionately. But now, we, who have been abused for 3,000 times, are getting old day by day, and our expectations are disappearing day by day. We will never try our best to draw a picture of Rainbow Ximeng with the best pigments, the best canvases and the most techniques.
There is only one map of a thousand miles in the whole country, and our life is only once. It's good to try your best, but you should also save some strength to love yourself. Although 18 can't go back, we can keep our passion for life, and now we are very relaxed. Even after walking for half my life, I was still a teenager when I came back.
May each of us, in no hurry, spend our whole life slowly drawing a map of thousands of miles of our own.