On the journey, I never slowed down my footsteps. I was still on the road, a tailless, a lot of places, a lot of scenery, the scene I saw, the story I heard. There are eighteen strange things in Yunnan, eight odd in Yangzhou, but the eight queer pioneered is far from eighteen odd.
"Yangzhou eight strange" is a group of calligraphers and calligraphers who are active in the Yangzhou area during the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the last years of Qianlong. It is often called the "Yangzhou painting school" in the history of art. They have different opinions in the history of Chinese painting. They are generally recognized as Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Li Shan, Li Fangying, Wang Shishen, Luo Bin and Gao Xiang. Most of them came from poor families, living hard and plain, and calligraphy and painting often became the medium to express their ambition and express true feelings.
The "Yangzhou eight monster" has a long history. But the name of a man is different from each other. The eight wonders of Yangzhou are bold and innovative, which are constantly inherited by the painters of later ages, sometimes with derogatory meanings.
The thought of Qi, Vinci, painting and calligraphy group. His poetry and calligraphy and painting not only want to see Gao Zhi, but also contain sorrow and wonder, especially ancient and modern genius. In Yangzhou, there is a popular saying: "the eight weird of Yangzhou" refers to the "ugly eight monster" in Yangzhou area. Because the artistic style of the eight Yangzhou monster is not recognized by the so-called orthodox school of painting at that time, and what they pursue is nature, reality and reality, they move some living and civilian to their painting and calligraphy works, even expose the dark side of society.
There are different versions of "eight weird" in Yangzhou. Some people think they are weird, but actually they are not. Eight blame themselves, through ups and downs, they have a rough gas, there are infinite anger, sympathy for the poor. They attacked and attacked ugly people and people with the keen insight and compassion of intellectuals, or in poetry or calligraphy or painting. Such things are not uncommon in Chinese history, but they are not common.
Yangzhou eight strange flower at the outset, money, blatantly. How much is Zheng Banqiao's money from the book? How much is the small money? How much a single fan, this is probably Chinese painting world a watershed from human painting to commercial painting. It not only created new paintings, but also pushed Chinese commercial paintings to an unprecedented height.
To travel to Hangzhou, in addition to knowing to go to Slender West Lake, we should take time to visit the eight monument in Yangzhou. The unremitting efforts of these predecessors have not only changed the life of our generations, but also left a lot of history in the monument.
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