Sentence reading of traditional Chinese characters and classical Chinese

"Mustard Seed Garden" from traditional classical Chinese to simplified vernacular, with explanation and phonetic notation (prologue)

As all friends who study Chinese painting know, Mustard Seed Garden is a masterpiece of China painters, which has inspired and nurtured many famous painters. Those who study Chinese painting must do it in order to understand the essence of Chinese painting and go up a storey still higher. About this set of books, there are many tutorials, introductions, illustrations and paintings on the Internet. As long as you want to learn, you can always find a big piece through a powerful search engine, so I won't go into details.

Here, I just want to add some contents, which I consulted when I was studying Mustard Garden. Because I have only a little knowledge and made a lot of notes when I was reading, I found that a short classical Chinese in the book contains quite rich information, which is as much as four pages of A4 paper. If it weren't for my word-by-word digestion, many words would be incomprehensible, and many hidden information would be fleeting. For example, when a painter is included in a book, he often writes his word, number or world name instead of his name. Sometimes the previous page is called by the painter's word, and the next page is replaced by his name without giving his surname. Modern people who don't understand it are likely to get confused when they first see it, thinking it is two people. For example, the painters mentioned in the book, which dynasty they belong to, which genre they belong to, what is the relationship between them, and what are their painting characteristics ... these are not introduced in detail in the original work of "Painting Spectrum".

Perhaps the ancients were familiar with these contents when they learned to draw music. After all, they lived in a different age and received different education from our modern people. At least, they are not confused about traditional Chinese characters (PS: even in ancient times, the same word was sometimes written in different ways, which is different from the traditional Chinese characters with different meanings corresponding to the same simplified Chinese characters). Maybe someone will say, "Hey, I just need to draw a gourd according to the picture or video, no matter what he writes." It is true that it is important to learn painting and techniques, but the theory helps us to better master the techniques, and the cultural context behind it helps us to better understand Chinese painting.

In the process of copying Huapu, I also found that if you don't have the corresponding famous high-definition pictures for reference, you can find the corresponding famous pictures in this book to learn. For example, when you study the "meson point" of the "point leaf method" in the tree spectrum, you may not feel the small cluster of meson-shaped leaves, so you can look at it by drawing the spectrum at this time to see what is behind. Don't pick complicated pictures at first, just keep them simple. After all, when you started to learn to draw trees, you didn't learn to draw stones, but if you learn trees and stones at the same time, you have to have a gradual accumulation process. Some people may say, "Why draw the whole picture in the first place? Just copy some parts. " This is absolutely right, there is nothing wrong with it. It's just that I personally feel that if I can draw a complete picture every once in a while during my study, I will have a great sense of accomplishment, even if I draw it.