One of the Four Gentlemen of Bamboo

"The Four Gentlemen" is a traditional theme of Chinese painting, with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum called the Four Gentlemen. It is a traditional allegorical pattern. Ming dynasty Huang Fengchi series of "plum, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum four spectrum", from now on, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum is known as the "four gentlemen". Painters use the "four gentlemen" to label the noble character of the gentleman. "Jiya Cai plum, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum four spectrum of small citation": "the literary room for, alone take plum, bamboo, orchid, chrysanthemum four gentleman, no other, to its fragrance and escape, bias can wash people's dirty intestines and clarify the God Ying bone." Literati, often borrowed plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum to show their own noble and uncommon interest, or as a warning of their own character, such as the contemporary poet Zhou Tianhou's "Ode to the Bamboo": the bitter section of by self-precious, the rain is more dust-free. The cold years on the gentleman, green weaving new spring. Its origin dates back to the late Tang Dynasty, and it became more popular in the Song Dynasty. It expresses the author's broad-mindedness as a manifestation of his own spiritual feelings. Ming Wanli years Huang Fengchi also edited the "plum, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum four spectrum", generally borrowed "four gentleman" to show integrity, modesty, purity and temperament of thought and feeling. Various forms of the four gentleman pattern pattern, has been handed down to the present. Bamboo painting, roughly equivalent to orchids, began in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Tang Xuanzong, painter Wang Wei, Wu Daozi, etc. all like to paint bamboo. It is said that in the Five Dynasties, Mrs. Li also created the ink bamboo method, legend has it that she often sat in bed at night, saw the bamboo shadows reflected in the window paper, and then follow the window paper to copy and create this method. To the Song Dynasty, Su Shi developed the method of painting bamboo, giving up the previous painters of the double hook coloring method, and the branches, leaves are painted with ink, dark ink for the leaf surface, light ink for the back of the leaf. Later in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, bamboo painting masters, as long as the landscape or bird and flower painters, there is no bamboo painting, and began to emphasize the overall momentum of the bamboo. However, among the many painters, Zheng Banqiao's painting bamboo can also be called a absolute in painting bamboo, Zheng Banqiao had written down his own experience: "Jiangkuan Qingqiu, get up in the morning and look at the bamboo, smoky sunshine and dewy air, are floating in the sparse branches and dense leaves. Chest vigorously then have a painting. In fact, the bamboo in my heart is not the bamboo in my eyes. Therefore, when the ink is ground and the paper is spread, the pen is swiftly changed, and the bamboo in the hand is not the bamboo in the chest. In short, the intention of the pen first, the rules; interesting outside the law, the machine. The only painting cloud is!" Therefore, from the bamboo in a variety of natural scenery to get inspiration, stimulate emotions, after the "bamboo in the eyes", into "the bamboo in the chest", with the help of pen and ink, waved into the "hands of the bamboo "With the help of ink and brush, the painting becomes the "bamboo in the hand". Zheng Banqiao's works, more surviving, widely circulated, since the Qing Dynasty, by the world of connoisseurs sigh of eye, become "people fight treasure" treasures.

The four gentlemen of flowers, four gentlemen is not a name, indeed, each has its own characteristics

Plum, cut the snow cut ice, a proud bone

Orchid, the valley of the ghostly scent, the fragrance of self-appreciation

Bamboo, sieve the wind and the moon, the life of the dashing

Chrysanthemum, the frost on their own, do not tend to the inflammation of the situation

The bamboo, the wind and the moon, the dashing life

Ju, the frost on their own, do not tend to the inflammation of the trend