The story of celebrity learning skills

Qi Baishi is a modern painter and seal engraver in China. But he used to be a woodcutter and only studied painting and seal cutting in his spare time. At the age of 27, his life took a major turning point.

1889 One day during the Spring Festival, the painter gave Qi Baishi a painting topic and asked him to draw a cross. After the work, Hu Qinyuan was very surprised and accepted Qi Baishi as a disciple. He taught Qi Baishi to read Tang poetry and Song poetry, and guided him to read novels. Qi Baishi cherishes this opportunity very much and often studies late into the night.

After several months of hard study, Qi Baishi recited 300 Tang poems, studied many ancient Wen Tao and browsed many classic works. His poems are also very unique, with the charm of Tang style and Song bone.

Hu Qinyuan began to teach Qi Baishi from the basic skills of "conception" and "using a pen", and also lent him his ancient and modern famous paintings. Qi Baishi opened his eyes wide. He pondered the works of "Eight Mountain Man", and he was impressed by the wonderful brushwork. He learned from hundreds of schools of thought and his painting skills advanced by leaps and bounds. In less than a year, he mastered the basic painting methods and skills of mountains, water, people, things and flowers and birds.

Under the teacher's demonstration, he practiced calligraphy and seal cutting hard. In just a few years, Qi Baishi has made amazing progress in painting, seal cutting, poetry, calligraphy and mounting, and has become a world-famous painter and calligrapher.

I am not afraid of storms, because I have learned how to sail.