The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Lei Yue did not look at the speaker, but still looked at the blue sky outside the door and said, "Why not?"

"The Lei Family Climbing Dragon Stone is a gift from the Dragon Clan to my Lei family. It is Lei Zu's protection. How can I lose to someone with a different surname? Why don't you go to the Dragon Palace and ask for an ordinary Climbing Dragon Stone to give to Fang Yun? , I don’t think he dares to say anything. If he dares to argue, he will use Lei Zu’s relics to let the Dragon Clan ban him from entering the Dragon Platform.”

One person said displeasedly: "Although the relationship between the Dragon Clan and Lei Zu is so deep that we don't even know how deep it is, using Lei Zu's relics for a mere Dragon Climbing Stone is too disrespectful of Lei Zu."

"Yes, Lei Zu's relics must not be used casually. No matter how deep the love is, there will be a time when it will be used up."

"What's more, if Lei Zu's relics are moved, even half-saints can be killed. My Lei family has only used it twice in hundreds of years, so don't touch it for this matter!"

The man said: "I don't really want to use Lei Ancestor's relics, I just let the news out. I think the Dragon Clan will sell this face."

"Fang Yun also has an imperial poem published, which is of great help to the Dragon Clan. The Dragon Clan may not sell face. After Chinese Valentine's Day, I went to the Dragon Palace to ask the Dragon Clan about Fang Yun's attitude. The princess firmly refused. This shows that the Dragon Clan does not think that the Whale King helped him kill him. The children of my Lei family deserve punishment."

Everyone was silent.

Lei Yue said: "I don't agree with you asking the great scholar Nangong Lengwen to suppress Fang Yun's fortune, but if you want to restore the honor of the Lei family, I won't stop you. In the end, I bet that the Lei family can climb the dragon's stone. The Lei family is already riding a tiger and can't get off. And it seems that the odds of winning are high, so I have to gamble, but God’s will is inevitable and the Lei family will be humiliated. Now, who can solve the problem of my Lei family’s reputation?”

Everyone in the Lei family looked at each other, but no one spoke.

"If you lose, you lose. It's not shameful. It's shameful if you can't afford to lose. Let's end this matter. The Climbing Dragon Stone already belongs to Fang Yun. I will get another one."

Some Lei family members looked at each other with gloomy eyes.

After a long time, the Lei family walked out of the meeting hall one after another, and the four old people walked forward slowly together.

"My grandson died tragically because of Fang Yun. We can't afford to offend the Whale King, and I don't want to do anything to Fang Yun, but he must go to the grave to confess his sins!"

"Although the situation was complicated at the time, the deceased was the most important and Fang Yun should plead guilty."

"Fang Yun is in the limelight, but we can't take action openly. What should we do?"

"Soon after, it will be the Ten Kingdoms Competition between the Ten Kingdoms and the Confucian Academy. If he decides to leave Shangshe, I can't do anything to him. But since he has entered Shangshe, he must participate in the Ten Kingdoms Competition. Instead, he is my Opportunity! I will personally go to Jingguo and promise benefits to Liushan, the left minister of Jingguo. I don’t ask for anything else. As long as Fang Yun dares to participate in the Ten Kingdoms Competition, I will definitely have a way to pin the blame for Jingguo’s defeat on him. !”

"Jingguo has been defeated year after year, and the Ten-Nation Competition tests the strength of many people in a country. Fang Yun may be able to survive on his own in the beginning, but in the end he will definitely not be able to enter the top three, or even the top five. If you use this to slightly attack Fang Yun's name, it is a safe method."

"That's right. I don't ask for serious damage to Fang Yun. I just want to ruin his literary reputation to comfort my grandson's soul in heaven! As for whoever uses this matter to pursue and fight fiercely in the future, it has nothing to do with my Lei family. Moreover, we can At the beginning, it added fuel to the flames and lifted Fang Yun high, but in the end, once he fell hard, the effect was even better. "

"Wonderful!"

"After the matter is completed, he'd better know how to advance and retreat, and return my Lei Family Climbing Dragon Stone. Then my Lei Family can give him an ordinary Climbing Dragon Stone. If he doesn't know how to advance or retreat, don't blame us."

"Except for the dragon clan, among the three clans of humans and monsters, my Lei family knows the Dragon Climb the best. It won't hurt to give him a small punishment in the Dragon Clan."

Everyone laughed and walked away.

Lingyan Pavilion, in front of the seventh pavilion.

The surroundings are still surrounded by white mist, and there is still a wooden pavilion in front, with the same three words written on the plaque on the wooden pavilion.

Colorful Poetry Pavilion.

Two golden wood pieces are suspended on one side of the Colorful Poetry Pavilion.

Fang Yun: Ten steps to move mountains, ten steps to ink sword.

Fang Yun smiled slightly and continued to focus on the three words "Caishi Pavilion".

The first of the five realms of painting is "poetry and painting", and painting has many aliases. Because the main colors of painting are red and cyan, it is also called "painting". Some poets and painters once said that "painting is a poem of color. Poems are black and white paintings", so "color poems" became another name for paintings.

After being guided by Zhao Hongzhuang, Fang Yun's Painting Dao has touched the edge of the first realm of Painting Dao. Although he has not yet entered the first realm of Painting Dao, it is not far away.

Fang Yun was also fully prepared for this Colorful Poetry Pavilion.

Fang Yun slowly stepped into the seventh pavilion.

When Fang Yun opened his eyes, he felt that the world was spinning, and all kinds of scenery flashed crazily in front of him: mountains, hills, fields, wilderness, deserts, grasslands, snow-capped mountains, streams, long rivers, sunrises, peacocks, parrots, leopards, markets, flower streets, old women, Girls...anything that can be drawn appears quickly.

Fang Yun immediately closed his eyes. After a while, he opened his eyes and looked around.

To the north is a plateau covered with heavy snow, with no grass growing and eagles flying across the sky.

Directly to the west is a bustling street with numerous shops, pedestrians, and all kinds of people.

To the east there are many mountains, towering and tall, with green trees covering the mountains and fields.

To the south are hilly pine forests, rocky streams, reed boats, and tranquility.

Fang Yun carefully observed his surroundings. The scenery in all directions was the test question for Caishi Pavilion.

The main reason why Caishi Pavilion is ranked the seventh pavilion is that it not only tests painting, but also poetry. Only when poetry and painting are equally important can one get ten points. Even Gu Kaizhi, the first painter of the year, did not get ten points. Instead, Tao Yuanming got ten points because Tao Yuanming was good at both poetry and painting.

Before entering Lingyan Pavilion, Fang Yun saw the three words "Caishi Pavilion" and naturally thought of the evaluation of Wang Wei by the sage Su Shi.

There is painting in poetry and poetry in painting.

Before obtaining Qishu Tiandi, Fang Yun only knew that Wang Wei was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, but after obtaining Qishu Tiandi, Fang Yun knew that Wang Wei played a pivotal role in the painting of the ancient Chinese country. Wang Wei was even regarded as the "ancestor of Southern School Painting" by Dong Qichang, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty.

If we only talk about the importance of poetry and painting, in the entire Chinese history, only Su Shi's poems and paintings can be compared with Wang Wei's poems and paintings. So when Fang Yun saw the three words "Cai Shi Ting", he thought of Wang Wei at the first time. Before entering Lingyan Pavilion, he made up his mind to learn Wang Wei's paintings, not to mention that Wang Wei also had the famous "Landscape Theory" and "Landscape Secrets" as well as the famous "Broken Ink Landscape".

In order to learn Wang Wei's poems and paintings well, Fang Yun deeply understood Wang Wei's deeds and found an interesting thing, that is, the relationship between Wang Wei and Li Bai.

The two were born in the same year and died in the next year. They both appeared in Chang'an at the same time. There were many poets who were good friends with them, but they had almost no intersection. It was incredible in the Tang Dynasty with that kind of atmosphere.

The two had intersections with Meng Haoran, Wang Changling and Du Fu, and also had contacts with Princess Yuzhen. Li Bai was best at writing poems to send friends. Meng Haoran, Wang Changling, Du Fu, Gao Shi and many other poets had appeared in Li Bai's poems, but the famous Wang Wei did not.

Why the two had such a relationship is still unknown, but some people speculate that it was because of Princess Yuzhen, and some people speculate that it was an unrecorded personal grudge.

In terms of the height of ancient poetry, Li Bai is above Wang Wei, and in terms of both poetry and painting, Wang Wei is even better.

Fang Yun did not choose what to paint immediately, but silently recited Wang Wei's "On Landscapes" and "Landscape Secrets" in his mind, and recalled Wang Wei's poems, and finally looked at the scenery in all directions again.

Fang Yun observed the snowfield, the downtown, the mountains and the streams one by one, thought for a long time, and finally chose the stream.

The scenery in the other three directions disappeared, and then the table, pen, ink, paint and other tools for painting and poetry appeared in front of Fang Yun.

Fang Yun closed his eyes and recalled the landscape masterpieces of past dynasties, then chose a piece of white drawing paper of appropriate size and spread it on the table, and soon began to paint the landscape.

Before entering the three realms, the way of painting emphasizes fine brushwork and despises freehand brushwork, because fine brushwork can be more effective in war paintings, and after entering the three realms, freehand brushwork and fine brushwork are equally important.

Although Fang Yun pays more attention to fine brushwork, he has not abandoned the art of freehand brushwork. These days, he mainly asks Zhao Hongzhuang for advice on freehand landscape painting.

The reason why Wang Wei was praised by Dong Qichang as the "ancestor of Southern School painting" is that his "broken ink landscape" is a link between the past and the future, inheriting the rendering method before the Tang Dynasty, and later had a major impact on literati painting, and the Southern School of Cunfa was even more deeply influenced by it.

Cunfa originally refers to the skin being dry and cracked due to cold or wind. In landscape painting, Cunfa is a painting technique that expresses the surface of mountains, rocks, peaks and bark. Cunfa is a sign of the maturity of landscape painting.

Landscape paintings before the Sui and Tang Dynasties were "empty outlines without Cunfa", while landscape paintings after the Tang Dynasty were "complete with Cunfa and dyeing". It can even be said that the development and standardization of Cunfa contributed to the development and peak of ancient landscape painting.

Landscape paintings without Cunfa are incomplete.

After Fang Yun saw the stream in front of him, he knew that this painting should focus on "stone", "pine" and "water", and the other parts can be simplified. The painting methods of these three are different. If any one of them is painted well, he can be included in the ranks of masters.

Fang Yun initially followed the mainstream painting method of Shengyuan Continent at the moment, but when he painted the hills and stones in the water, his brushwork suddenly changed. He used the painting method of the Southern School of Landscape Painting created by Wang Wei, the hemp-fiber texture method and the raindrop texture method invented by Mi Fu.

Under the influence of talent, the stones in the painting are vivid, as if they broke through the paper, and are extremely heavy.

After using various systematic mountain and stone texture methods that are not available in Shengyuan Continent, Fang Yun's painting realm increased at an unstoppable speed.

Before he finished painting the mountains and rocks, Fang Yun heard a strange sound of paper tearing in the Wen Palace, as if he had pierced a layer of paper. Then the scenery in front of him and the painting under his pen became different, and he had a deeper understanding of the scenery and the painting.

The first level of painting is to create poetic and picturesque scenes.

Fang Yun smiled slightly. Although his painting skills were mediocre, just a few special brushstrokes were enough to enter the eighth level, but to reach the ninth level, he was still a little short.

So, when painting the stream, Fang Yun couldn't help but use some of the painting methods in "A Thousand Miles of Yangtze River" by Xia Gui, a famous artist in the Southern Song Dynasty. This painting has an important position in the history of painting, because the "water" in this painting has a qualitative leap from the "water" in previous landscape paintings, and the posture of the water in the painting is fuller.

In the painting, the rocks move lightly, the water shimmers, and the flowing water even has a tendency to rush out of the paper.