Why is Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains the top ten famous paintings in China?

Because it is the masterpiece of Huang Gongwang, the patriarch of Yuan Dynasty painting and the head of the "Four Families of the Yuan Dynasty", it is also the pinnacle of ancient Chinese ink and water landscape painting, and the artistic achievement in traditional Chinese landscape painting can be said to be unprecedented, and there is no one else who can compare with it in all the generations.

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is a painting on paper created by Huang Gongwang, a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, one of the ten most famous heirloom paintings in China.

Dwelling in the Fuchun mountains, with the fuchun river in zhejiang province as the background, the picture with ink and elegant, mountain and water arrangement of sparse and dense, the ink is thick and light and wet and dry, very rich in change. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains painted about 80% in Tonglu territory of the Fuchun River scenery, 20% for the scenery of Fuyang.

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is known as the "painting of the Lanting", is a national treasure.

In June 2011, before and after the two sections of the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first time on display together.

Landscape painting is not a simple depiction of natural scenery, but the painter's spiritual aspirations and outpouring, is the expression of the painter's attitude towards life, is the embodiment of the painter's pursuit of life. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is a painting of a long river, flowing through shallows, rapids, and peaks over a thousand years of history.

The first section is the feeling of summer, and in the latter section, there is an autumn scene, the leaves of the trees are partially faded out, and all of them are vertically chapped, as if the prosperity has fallen.

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is not just a painting, it is a philosophy, an attitude of life, something that enables the creator to turn the pain of the death of the country, which has been pent up for ninety years, into something else, to be open-minded, to get rid of the pain of the foreign domination, and to restore it to the landscape, regardless of the rise and fall of the dynasty, but just to come back to be himself, to be a simple himself.

At that time, Zhang Shicheng was fighting for the world, Zhu Yuanzhang was also fighting for the world, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was already in danger, and the author was in his eighties and was traveling on the Fuchun River, he also felt that the rise and fall of the dynasty was not the most important thing, but whether there could be "long distant mountains, chaotic cloudy mountains, and green and bright mountains". There are also images of fishermen, woodcutters, and scholars in the paintings, living in seclusion in the mountains and forgetting about the rivers and lakes.

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Background of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang, the author of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," only began to put pen to paper to paint the seasonal changes in the stacked peaks and mountains of the Fuchun River at the age of eighty. The painting is a masterpiece of the changing seasons of the mountains and peaks of the Fuchun River.

Unlike Van Gogh, the genius painter of the West, Huang Gongwang never wanted to be a painter until he was seventy. Like all Chinese literati of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, Huang Gongwang was well read in his early years, and his only ambition was to take the imperial examinations and become an official. Before the age of 40, he sought status, and this remarkable giant was once placed in an unimaginably dull position, as a petty official in Hangzhou, specializing in the collection of grain and taxes.

What changed his life situation is not any big time cultural trends, but was implicated by the governor in prison, jailed for ten years, the crime is not as sympathetic as Su Dongpo, but rather the crime of corruption is not noble. At the age of fifty Huang Gongwang was released from prison and turned into a Taoist priest.

Hidden folk for more than thirty years. On the banks of the Songhua River, a great painter known only to future generations set up a stall day after day, doing a not at all decent occupation, selling divination for a living.

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, from the moment it was completed, Huang Gongwang, who was well versed in fortune-telling, predicted that the future fate of the painting would be "taken by trickery". Huang Gongwang for the completion of this work, in the Fuchun River stayed for about five to six years; eighty-year-old Huang Gongwang has realized that even though there are ebbs and flows in life, but do not be obsessive; from the beginning to the end of the death of a period of karma.

When Huang Gongwang was nearing the end of his painting, he gave it to his younger brother, No Use, who called himself the "Great Idiot". The master brother useless can not see through life, anxious to take the historical masterpiece. He obtained the Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains without paying a dime, and his descendants sold it after his death.

"Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" went into the Ming Dynasty, the fame is getting bigger and bigger; through a number of great painters collection, but also from now on to open the world of painting history rare and bumpy saga of the collection story.

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