Chapter 1739 The old pavilion in the small bamboo forest
Fei Qian sat on the horseback, staggering forward, still calculating and calculating in his mind, just like a landlord and a wealthy man calculating the crops of his own land.
It's not easy for anyone these days.
Even though Fei Qian doesn't have to go to the front line in person now, he actually has quite a few things to worry about.
Take the sentence reading as an example. As early as Pingyang, Fei Qian tried to promote it, but like many new things, in the early stages of growth, the rain of criticism always watered it more.
Some people say that reading a sentence means taking off your pants and farting. Well, although it is not so vulgar, the meaning is similar. Reading a sentence means that you understand it. It is the foundation of a scholar. Does it need to be specially marked in the book?
Some people say that reading without marking sentences is to allow readers to study more and recite more. If everything is simple, what is it called studying? What is easy to get will not be cherished. Only what is gained through hard study can be remembered for a lifetime.
Are these statements wrong?
It sounds somewhat reasonable, but it cannot be said to be completely wrong.
Is it just...
Qin Tongwen, but only the shape of the characters was the same. Once the sentences were read, the meaning of the words was truly unified. In the earliest sentence readings, the teacher would point out where a sentence was broken.
Yes, so in Han Yu's time, there was still a saying that "you don't know how to read a sentence, and you don't understand when you are confused".
In the beginning, sentence readings were marked with symbols similar to ticks or with pauses. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that solid dots appeared. Until the Republic of China, many people still did not use sentence readings.
Even some newspapers have no punctuation marks throughout.
Why is this happening?
Fei Qian feels that every profession has a threshold, and the first threshold for Confucian classics is sentence reading. Those literati who grew up after being tortured by sentence reading in their childhood are accustomed to no sentence reading on the one hand.
Article, on the other hand, it may not be without the suffering I suffered back then. Shouldn’t the next generation of young people have a taste of it...
Fortunately, we are still in the Han Dynasty.
"The Master of Heaven and Earth", or in other words, "The Master of Heaven and Earth" has not been around for too long, and has not yet grown into an unshakable behemoth...
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in "Guoyu", the explanation and concept of "jun", "qin" and "teacher" first appeared. Later Xunzi added "heaven" and "earth" and added "heaven" and "earth" to
The five "Heaven, Earth, Lord, Prince, Master" were elaborated and officially appeared in the "Taiping Jing" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then continued for thousands of years.
Perhaps many people have not noticed that sentence reading is a very important link in the Chinese "Heaven and Earth, Lord, Prince, Master", and it is also a very important authority for the master to control the right to speak. Without the master's teaching, even if you can learn to read by yourself, you will not be able to read.
I can’t stop sentences and I can’t understand the article!
To break the prophecy, you also need to read it clearly.
As the horse was riding freely, Fei Qian suddenly saw that the mansion in front of him seemed familiar. When he looked up, he saw two big words "Cai Mansion" written on the plaque on the front door of the mansion...
Hey, how did you get here?
Fei Qian looked at the closed door of Cai Mansion, scratched his head, swung his saddle and dismounted, raised his head slightly, "Go, let me know, and say that so-and-so is here..."
The guards around him took the order and quickly stepped forward to knock on the door.
Fei Qian suddenly felt a little guilty. Although he returned to Chang'an, he almost immediately fell into the endless government affairs, especially the Qinglong Temple lecture during this period, which occupied most of Fei Qian's energy.
Forgot Cai Yan...
well!
Just when he was feeling a little emotional, Fei Qian suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He looked around and saw nothing special except for the pedestrians passing by in the distance.
After a while, the guard came back with an indescribable expression, and said: "Qi... Qi, Lord Cai, Dr. Cai said it is inconvenient to meet..."
Fei Qian (⊙□⊙)? Why is this so fat?
Huang Xu quickly turned his head to the side, saying that he heard nothing and knew nothing.
Fei Qian touched the back of his neck, coughed, and said, "If you go again, just say you have something serious to do!"
The guard responded, then ran back with lowered brows and eyes. The cowhide boots stepped on the stone steps and made a "pop" sound. Fei Qian couldn't help but shake the cloak on his body and coughed again...
When Fei Qian sent someone to report, Cai Yan was painting.
According to the standards of later generations, Cai Yan is basically the kind of complete homebody who can stay home for ten days and a half as long as she has a book to read. So Fei Qian did not appear during this period, and neither did Cai Yan.
What will you feel? Read a book, draw some pictures, play the piano, and the years will be peaceful.
So when she suddenly heard that Fei Qian was coming, Cai Yan's first reaction was not joy, but shock. She subconsciously refused to meet him, just like a homegirl who always wants to go out, no matter what the reason is.
There is some resistance.
It wasn't until Fei Qian asked someone to send a message for the second time that Cai Yan finally came to his senses. When he heard that there was something "serious", his face suddenly felt slightly hot...
(????) "Then... then please come in..."
Suddenly he lowered his head and saw that he was dressed in casual clothes, with disheveled hair, and his hands were stained with some ink paint. Cai Yan was immediately startled, "Wait a minute... No, you can't come in... No, I'm here to serve you! Follow me quickly.
I’m going to change!”
Feng Shu also reacted and quickly helped hold up Cai Yan's skirt and ran into the backyard in a hurry.
"call……"
Fei Qian looked at the lintel above the gate of the mansion, slightly lost in thought. This was assigned to Cai Yong when he was in Chang'an. Although it was not big, it was still exquisite. He had been here several times that year.
And now...
After opening the door, the old housekeeper of the Cai Mansion quickly lay down on the ground and apologized to Fei Qian. Although he obeyed Cai Yan's order and could not open the door, he could still be considered to have disobeyed the wishes of the Hussar General. His guilt could be large or small.
Fei Qian stepped forward, helped him up, and asked, "No need to be polite, old housekeeper, where is Dr. Cai?"
The old housekeeper smiled and said: "I am painting in the courtyard...waiting for the old man to lead the way for the general..."
Entering the front yard, passing the study room, walking slowly through the two curved corridors, and then passing through a small bamboo forest, on the side of the bamboo forest, I saw the corner of the Hexagonal Pavilion.
Fei Qian's heart suddenly jumped.
Everything in front of me seems to overlap with a certain scene in my memory. However, although the current single-story hexagonal pavilion still looks like a painted pillar with carved beams and high corners, the colors on the red tiles are a little different.
Colorful, with little change in form, the colors are a little less bright and a little more aged.
Cai Yan was not in the pavilion.
The old housekeeper was a little panicked. Fortunately, the maid beside him said she was going to change clothes, so she exhaled. Then she felt rude and wanted to apologize to Fei Qian...
Fei Qian said it was okay and didn't care too much. After all, he came suddenly. If Cai Yan followed the etiquette among nobles and clans, it wouldn't be a big mistake if Cai Yan turned him away.
On the table placed in the pavilion, a piece of half-drawn paper was weighted with jade. Next to the drawing paper, there was an inkstone carved into the shape of a flying bird, with several tail feathers separated.
Ink pond. In addition to ink, there seems to be some cinnabar and indigo in the ink pond.
Next to the inkstone is a pen holder and a water urn. Several wolf-hair, rabbit-hair, and rat-hair pens are either in the pen holder or immersed in the water urn. It must be because Cai Yan was halfway through the painting when he heard Fei Qian coming and hurriedly ran to change clothes without cleaning up.
Just threw it here.
What did Cai Yan draw?
Fei Qian came closer with great interest.
At this stage, due to the large supply of bamboo in Sichuan and Sichuan, paper production has increased a lot. Projects such as painting that were originally performed on silk can also be transferred to paper, but due to changes in materials
Due to some reasons, some inks and pigments are not very compatible, and it may take a period of time before a variety of pigments suitable for paper will appear.
For example, the cinnabar and indigo that Cai Yan is using now are good when used on silk, but when used on paper, on the one hand, the paint is too thick, and on the other hand, the paper is more permeable, so it looks a bit weird, but not very good.
nice.
Is this...
It looks like they are some cavalry?
The color of this horse seems a bit like my own green gelding.
If it comes to writing, Fei Qian still has two or three skills, but if it comes to painting...
Most of the paintings in the Han Dynasty pursued the pursuit of both gods and forms, and if I had to choose between gods and forms, I would still prefer "gods" with some exaggerated techniques, just like these cavalrymen painted by Cai Yan.
Those horses, if there really are such horses, they have such a fat belly and such short and thin legs, let alone running, I am afraid it will be difficult to walk...
Okay, art, that’s understandable.
Look at this painting, are these cavalry going out to fight, or are they preparing for an outing? The flag is raised so high, and they use such a big flag. Are they afraid that the wind will blow it off? Even if the flag doesn't blow off, they still carry it.
I guess my hand is also dislocated...
When the cavalry charges, because the horses are so fast, if the wind is strong, they cannot raise the big flag at all. Basically, they change to a smaller cavalry flag, and they even rely on the small flag behind the cavalry to identify and command.
Fei Qian blinked and pinched his beard.
Well, art is understandable...
Fei Qian twisted his left side and looked at his right side. After waiting for a long time, he felt that Cai Yan's paintings seemed to be like this, so could he try painting them twice?
How about adding two little birds on top of these cavalry?
Forget it, I just drew birds on these fat-bellied horses. Fei Qian felt that he couldn't draw the elegant and agile feeling of birds. At most, he could draw a few embarrassing fat crows.
Why don't you add a few strokes and draw some flowers and plants to make it more interesting?
Or maybe add a few dots next to the horseshoes and write the word "horseshoe fragrance"? It doesn't seem to go well with the cavalry...
Just when Fei Qian was about to pick up his pen and show off his pitiful painting talent, he suddenly heard some soft sounds coming from the corridor...
A figure came forward, with cloud-like hair, coiled up high, and some black silk hanging down playfully, falling on the side of the face and falling on the chest, jumping with joy. She was wearing a light green tunic with an elegant color.
, only the red and green embellishments on the side of the slender waist make the whole figure more elegant.
It seemed that the originally dim hexagonal pavilion suddenly became brighter.
"you……"
Then the two people looked at each other and said almost at the same time, "I..."
"Pfft..." Cai Yan smiled, bowed his head slightly and curtsied, "I've seen the general..."
Fei Qian frowned slightly. This title seemed to bring out some resentment...
Cai Yan raised his head and saw Fei Qian staring at him intently. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. The tips of his thin ears turned red. His eyes moved and he changed the topic: "General, is he also going to paint?"
"Ah, ah?" Fei Qian then realized that he was holding the pen in mid-air, neither up nor down, and felt a little embarrassed.
After pondering for a moment, Fei Qian chuckled twice, put the pen back, and said, "Forget it, I won't show off my embarrassment..."
Cai Yan covered his mouth and smiled, his eyes swept across the table, and then he glanced at Fei Qian quickly as if he had been burned, brushed a few stray strands of black hair behind his ears, turned around and ordered:
"I also drew them at random... I'll accept the book and collect them all..."
"What...ahem, the painting is very good, very good..." Fei Qian's mind was a little short-circuited for a moment, and he didn't know what to say, so he complimented casually.
But Fei Qian's compliment did not open up the topic. For some reason, it made Cai Yan lower his head, his small and delicate ears turning redder, and trembling slightly in the wind.
Um?
What did I say wrong?
Didn't I say anything?
Do you want to say that the painting is not very good?
Fei Qian was a little confused for a while, and the situation was a bit embarrassing. After Feng Shu led the people to remove the paintings and put up tea stoves, incense burners and other things, Cai Yan seemed to feel better.
Fei Qian saw the fallen leaves piled up in the bamboo forest nearby, and it seemed that they were not being swept. He frowned and said, "Why aren't these fallen leaves being swept away? Is it because there are not enough manpower?"
Cai Yan took a look and whispered: "No, I asked people to keep it..."
There was another moment of embarrassment.
"Hi!" Fei Qian decided not to ramble and let's get down to business, so he said bluntly, "Have you heard anything about the big talk at Qinglong Temple these days?"
Cai Yan was stunned, raised his head, looked at Fei Qian, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Could it be...could this be the reason why you came to me?"
"Uh..." Fei Qian looked at Cai Yan's shining eyes, suddenly realized, and quickly stared to remedy the situation, "Of course not! I came... because I missed you..."
Cai Yan's eyes flashed, he turned his head slightly and said softly: "Let's talk about Qinglong Temple..."
this……
Well, as long as you are happy.
Fei Qian coughed twice and continued: "In a few days, I wonder... if you... can..."
Cai Yan's head lowered lower and lower.
"Lecture on Sentence Reading at Qinglong Temple..."
(??v?v??) Cai Yan raised his head and stared at Fei Qian with bright eyes.
