Chapter 24 Dai Kui / Broken Qin is not an actor of the Hou family

Dai Kui (? -396), pianist and artist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The word Andao.A native of Qiaojun (now Bo County, Anhui), living in Huiji Shan County (near Shaoxing, Zhejiang). In the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Huizhi, the son of the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi, who was self-willed, abandoned his official position and returned to the east, living in Shanyin.One night, when he woke up from sleep, he opened the window and saw that the heavy snow had stopped, a bright moon was in the sky, and the earth was completely white.He didn't feel sleepy anymore, so he asked his family to prepare wine and drink it by himself.He chanted Zuo Si's "Zhaoyin" poem: "Sticks recruit hermits, and the barren road traverses the past and the present. There is no structure in the cave, and there is a qin in the hill. The white snow rests on the yin hill, and the red flower continues to the Yang forest." Suddenly he wanted to see a person who lived Friends of Shan County.So he immediately asked his family to prepare a boat, and rowed happily to Shan County.At dawn, he came to the door of his friend's house. At this time, the interest of seeing his friend last night was gone, so he asked his family to row the boat back.His family asked him, "Why didn't you go in when you got to someone's door?" He replied, "I came here when I was happy, and I came back when I was full. Why do we have to meet each other?"

The friend Wang Huizhi wanted to visit was Dai Kui. According to the "Book of Jin": "Kui can play the qin, do calligraphy and painting, and other skillful arts are endless." Dai Kui is a famous painter. He painted figures and landscapes very well. When he was in his teens, he painted for the most famous temple at that time, the Wat Coffin Temple. However, his greatest achievements and contributions were sculptures. . In the middle period of Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty, Lingbao Temple in Shanyin, Kuaiji, begged Dai Kui to carve a wooden statue of the Buddha of Infinite Life with a height of one foot and six feet.After the carving of the Buddha statue is completed, all the viewers are full of praise.But when Dai Kui looked left and right, he always felt that the expression of this statue was too rigid, and the expression of emotion was not sufficient enough, lacking a kind of impact and shock.He asked everyone for advice one by one, but everyone said compliments and did not mention specific amendments.Dai Kui thought, it seems that people are afraid that I will lose face and are unwilling to tell the truth, so he hid behind the screen and recorded all kinds of comments from visitors about the Buddha statue.Some say that the forehead of this Buddha statue is too narrow; Dai Kui memorized all of them in his heart, pondered over and over again, and then revised them repeatedly. After three years, he finally molded a perfect Buddha statue that conforms to the teachings of Buddhist scriptures, embodies the national style, and is praised by the audience.As soon as the image of Dai Kui came out, the world rushed to imitate it, and modified the shape of foreign Buddha statues into the recognized image of wide forehead, thick eyebrows, long eyes, hanging ears, smiling face, and big belly. This can be said to be Dai Kui's appreciation of Buddhism in China. A major contribution to dissemination.

Dai Kui was also a famous pianist at that time.Sima Xi, the king of Wuling, heard that Dai Kui was good at playing the qin. Once, he invited him to play in the palace. Dai Kui always hated Sima Xi's character and didn't want to go. Sima Xi sent a friend of Dai Kui to invite him again with a generous gift. Dai Kui felt insulted, took out his beloved Qin, smashed it to pieces in front of his friend, and said loudly: "I am not a royal artist, don't bother me again." away. Under his education, his sons Dai Bo and Dai Yong have become famous painters, and they are both famous for their pianos.