Mi Youren Xiaoxiang Wonder Scroll

[Mi Youren’s Xiaoxiang Wonders Volume]

The Xiaoxiang Wonders Volume, Song Dynasty, Mi Youren’s work, cocoon paper, ink pen, 19.8 cm in length and 289 cm in width
This picture has no print, A paragraph on the back paper: “The first public lived in Zhenjiang for 40 years, and built an nunnery on the high hill in the east of the city. It was named after the sea and the mountain. At that time, all the scholars wrote poems, which can’t be fully recorded. The Hanlin inherited the order of Zhai Gong’s poem: ‘The immortals of Chu Mi lived in a good house, and the plants of Wu Chonggang built a fine house. Looking down at the Toad birds in Chixian County, the east and the west leaped into the sky and drove away. There were thousands of rolls of chests and beards hidden in the abdomen, and discussed how to resolve the nine channels. Lift the beard to send the eyes to the eight areas, and wanted to call Yu Shun float on the Cangwu.’ The clouds, I can’t remember. This volume is seen on the nunnery The water wonders, with thousands of abnormal layers, are mostly seen in the clear and rainy morning, which is rarely known by the world. For the rest of my life, I have been familiar with the wonders of Xiaoxiang. When I go to a good place, I often copy its true and interesting growth volume to make it pleasing to the eyes. If I don’t drive it, it will not please other people. This paper seeps into ink, which can not be used for writing. Zhong Qiqin cannot refuse, so it is a play. Shaoxing Yimao Mengchun Jiankang □ □ official house, Youren topic. Sheep hair is used for writing. It is just like this paper for drawing ears. ” Yimao was the fifth year of Shaoxing (1135), and Mi Youren was 50 years old. There are also 14 postscripts in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, such as Xue Xi, Ge Yuanzhe, Wu Paoshuo, Gong Shitai, Deng Yuzhi and Dong Qichang
Mi Youren is the eldest son of Mi Fu, a famous calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. The father and son jointly created the “Mi Family Landscape”. This picture depicts the beautiful scenery of Xiaoxiang, which Mi Youren is very familiar with. It has won the “true interest” of its “abnormal layers”. At the beginning of the book, the thick clouds rolled, revealing the foot of the distant mountain slope. With the fluctuation of the clouds, the mountain shape gradually emerged, and the overlapping peaks and peaks were dimly displayed in the clouds. The mountains and rivers in the middle of the mountain show their clear and true features. The main mountain stands tall, with towering peaks, trees and numerous sandbars. It is very lofty and far-reaching. At the end, the mountain color is fading away, but the forest shore and the hut are clear. From the beginning to the end, the misty, clear and bright, as well as the far and near, the dark and the dark have changed several times, and the mystery is unpredictable
He is sometimes invisible, sometimes bright and sometimes obscure, obscure and full of changes, so people called him “good at drawing rootless trees, and able to describe dim clouds.” (Tang Jian’s “Painting Guide”) At the same time, he also pays attention to the brushwork, and splashes the ink with the strong brushwork of large strokes, and the ink goes with the brush. There are many vertical points, horizontal points, eggplant points and irregular broken brushwork points in the large painted block surface, as well as lines with scratches. The organic combination of pen and ink makes Michi Yunshan both moist and gloomy
Yu Fengqing of the Qing Dynasty, “Notes on Paintings and Calligraphy”, Bian Yongyu, “Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy in Shigutang”, Wu Sheng, “Grand View Record”, Gu Wenbin, “Calligraphy and Painting in the Cloud Tower” and other books.