Chapter 122 Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty made a painting examination officer

Although Song Huizong Zhao Ji was a fatuous emperor, he was also an outstanding painter.With the honor of Wancheng, he personally supervises the painting academy, writes questions and marks papers for the painters, and even teaches in person.Moreover, due to his profound literary foundation, the examination questions he gave are also full of interest, and he is still praised by people today.Among them, "Selling restaurants by the bamboo lock bridge" is one of the famous test questions. At that time, many candidates drew a hotel, and set it off with small streams, small bridges, and bamboo forests. Only one painter named Li Tang painted a stream with a small bridge lying on the side of the bridge. A bamboo forest, only among the lush green bamboos hangs a curtain of "wine" fluttering in the wind.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed after seeing it. He thought that the restaurant did not appear, and the artistic conception of the word "lock" highlighted by the wine curtain was just the expression of the three flavors in the painting. He personally circled Li Tang as the first place.Li Tang also lived up to him. After entering the painting academy, he continued to paint diligently, and finally became a famous painter in the Song Dynasty. During the Zhenghe period, Zhao Ji used the title of "Crossing the wilderness without a boat to cross itself" to examine the painter. This sentence comes from the famous poem "Chuzhou West Stream" by Wei Yingwu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.Most of the candidates draw an empty boat tied to the side of the stream, or a egret standing on the boat, or a bird falling on the pole of the boat.But the painting appreciated by Zhao Ji is a man in a boat. He is lying on the stern of the boat, holding a flute... It turns out that the author's intention is not that there is no one in the boat, but that there is no one in the wild water. Even when people are bored playing the flute, they also doze off.

There is also an ingenious and well-known test question of "Treading Flowers and Returning to Horseshoe Fragrance".Candidates are almost all painting horses and flowers, dignitaries, literati and ladies, shuttling among the flowers.There is only one painting: a horse is walking slowly, and a few small bees are chasing the hoof of the horse.The screen not only expresses "Treading Flowers to Return", but also expresses "Scent of Horseshoe".This is the author's ingenious idea, so it is of course rated as the first place. Another well-known title is "Ancient Temples Hidden in the Deep Mountains".Some of the candidates painted the top of the temple among the bushes; some painted half of the ancient temple on the mountainside;Only one painting with a strange conception was selected as the first place by Zhao Ji.There are only mountains and rivers and a narrow path in the picture, and an old monk carrying water by the stream.The brilliance of this painting is that it vividly expresses the word "Tibetan" in the examination question.