Luo pin

Luo pin

Luo pin (1733-1799), a painter of Qing Dynasty, is one of the "eight monsters of Yangzhou". It is also called "tunfu" and "Liangfeng". It is also called "Yiyun", a monk of Huazhi temple, a native of Jinniu Mountain and an old man of Shilian. His ancestral home is Shexian County, Anhui Province, and his ancestors moved to Yangzhou. For Jinnong's disciples, cloth clothes, good travel.

Characters, Buddha statues, landscapes, flowers and fruits, plum, orchid, bamboo and so on, all work, unique style, unconventional. He is good at drawing "ghost interesting pictures" and drawing ghost state, so as to satirize the world. Also good at engraving. After Jinnong's death, he collected his manuscripts and contributed to the engraving, which made Jinnong's works passed on to later generations. His wife, Fang Wanyi, was also good at painting plum, orchid, bamboo, and stone. Ziyunshao and yunzan were both good at plum painting, and they were called "luojiamei school".

According to the draft of the history of the Qing Dynasty, Luo pin was known as "a painter".

His representative works include: the picture of wind signs outside things (Album), the picture of rainbows on two peaks, the picture of Dangui in autumn, the picture of Chengyin barrier in the sun, the picture of Gu Qingyin, the picture of bamboo painting with sound, etc. He is the author of Xiangye thatched cottage collection.

Brief introduction of Luo pin's life

Luo pin is the youngest of the "Yangzhou Eight monsters".

His father, Luo Yuxi, was a minor official in the mid-term examination during the reign of Kangxi. Luoyu river has five sons, and luopin ranks fourth. When Luo pin was one year old, his father died. Luo pin is smart and diligent. He never forgets what he has read.

Because of his poor family, he did not study for the imperial examination. He only made a living by selling calligraphy and painting.

At the age of 21, Luo pin married Fang Wanyi. Fang Wanyi has been an official for generations, and her grandfather and father have both become officials, but her father's official position is not big, and her family is not very rich, and Luo pin's family is even worse. After they got married, they shared the same interest, talking about calligraphy and painting, touring mountains and rivers, writing poems and harmonizing music.

When he was twenty-four years old, he worshipped Jinnong as a teacher, studied poetry and painting, and often wrote for Jinnong.

Yangzhou Salt official Luya language, rich family, good with painting and calligraphy celebrities outing, painting and calligraphy celebrities are proud of the outing. Luo pin is his guest. Zheng Banqiao and other celebrities all look at Luo pin with new eyes.

In 1763, Jinnong died in Yangzhou at the age of 77. During his illness, Luo pin served around; after his death, Luo pin did his best to attend funerals and escort Jinnong's coffin to Linping, Zhejiang Province.

In the 36th year of Qianlong reign (1771), Luo pin brought his paintings to the capital to pay homage to celebrities, and his eight pictures of ghost interest were the most popular.

The next year, he returned to the South and was hindered by heavy snow in Tianjin.

At the age of 47, he went to Beijing for the second time. In the meantime, he painted centipede, Guanyin, Du Fu and Han Yu, and also fingered them. After wandering outside for nearly 10 years, he returned home because he was short of money. After returning home, he still made a living selling paintings and calligraphy. In 1784, at the request of the local government, a large-scale mural was made for Chongning temple. The figures of the immortal Buddha in the mural are lifelike. It is said that it is a famous scenic spot, but it no longer exists. In the 55th year of Qianlong (1790), Luo pin went to the capital with his young son yunzan. His paintings and calligraphy are not only sought by high-ranking officials, but also bought by Korean people in Beijing. At that time, his income was quite high, but he had to go back to his hometown eight years later because of his generosity and profligacy.

After returning to his hometown, he wrote the picture of plum blossom.

He died in 1799 at the age of 67.

Three up to the capital

After Jinnong's death, Luo pin came to Beijing to sell his paintings. During this period, he created the ghost interest painting, which made him famous. Cheng JinFang, a fellow townsman and big salt merchant, advised Luo pin: "stu is strange. Don't try to wash your hands lightly."

In the autumn of that year, he went back to his hometown and still sold paintings. During this time, I traveled far to the Central Plains, and I didn't care about my family. At the beginning of may in 1779, Fang Wanyi was sick and bedridden. However, Luo pin went to Beijing for the second time and played all the way until August. Fang Wanyi died in Yangzhou on May 19.

Luo pin lives in an ancient temple and has no money to return. However, he transcribed a poem written by his wife and sent it to the dignitaries, hoping to win alms. However, he was still unable to get money and suffered for several months before returning to Yangzhou.

From then on, Luo pin no longer painted ghosts, but Buddha statues.

Another ten years, nearly a year old, three on the capital. At that time, it was well-known in the world of painting. In the capital, many literati came to the door to ask for paintings, and some Korean people in Beijing also bought paintings with a lot of money. Eight years later, when he returned home with his little son, he had no travel expenses! Some people knew that he was going back to his hometown, so they came to collect the debt. Luo pin had to sell all his clothes, but he still couldn't pay off!

In the third year of Jiaqing period (1798), a friend who was a salt transportation envoy heard of the news and supported Luo pin's eldest son to arrive in the capital. Only then did he take his father and younger brother back to Yangzhou.

The next year, the painter, who lived a hard life with a high reputation, died.

Fang Wanyi

Fang Wanyi was able to write poetry when she was a teenager. He studied painting with his father and aunt. He was famous in Yangzhou and was called "little talented girl".

Fang Wanyi died in 1779 at the age of 44.

Fang Wanyi and Luo pin have three children. They are both good at painting and calligraphy. They are especially good at painting plum. Later generations call them "luojiamei school".

Fang Wanyi's birthday poem

Flat mat sparse curtain, small pavilion clear, Chaolai pool is the most important.

I was born on the same day as lotus.

Ghost Map

GUI Qu Tu Juan is Luo pin's masterpiece. There are eight pieces in total. The painter describes strange and strange ghost world by exaggeration, which is an excellent satirical cartoon in ancient times.

In the first picture, you can see some strange faces and limbs in the smog, which seems to be real and illusory. That ethereal image is "ghost".

In the second picture, there are two ghosts: one in front of the other and the other behind. The ghost with tassel, or a pair of master and servant, is very thin.

The third picture shows a gorgeous and disgusting "Kuo GUI", holding orchids and whispering close to a female ghost, with a ghost listening.

The fourth picture shows a dwarf, leaning on crutches, and a kid in red holding a wine bowl for him.

The fifth is a green haired ghost, with long feet and arms, making a capture.

In the sixth picture, a big headed ghost is chasing the two little ghosts running in front of him. The two kids looked back in a panic as they ran.

In the seventh picture, there are four ghosts. A ghost with an umbrella in the wind and rain, closely following in front of a ghost. There are two kids, head appeared in the umbrella, no body.

The eighth picture shows two white skeletons, a man and a woman, talking beside an ancient tomb in the trees.

With the publication of GUI Qu Tu, Luo pin gained a great reputation in Beijing.

Selected paintings by Luo pin

Wu Xiqi, a friend of Luo pin, wrote a preface to the poem of xiangyecaotang by Luo pin, commenting: "plum blossoms live under the wrist, bamboo trees grow in the chest. The mountains are light in spring and bright in autumn. The new ghosts are big but the old ones are small. The change of the extreme clouds and smoke, the imitation of the powder and ink. " Selected works in Luo pin's collection

Qin zuyong, a painter and painting theorist in the late Qing Dynasty, regarded Luo pin's paintings as "miraculous products" in his "Tong Yin Lun Hua": "Luo Liangfeng's paintings are ancient and elegant, deep in Dongxin Weng Shensui, ink, plum, orchid and bamboo. They are both extremely wonderful and full of ancient interest. The figures and Buddha statues are unique but not weird. They are really elegant and elegant. They are not ordinary people in the history of painting

There are many imitations of the works of Yangzhou Eight strange painters, and Luo pin is no exception. Therefore, there is no orderly record, so it can not be easily identified as the original.

Former residence of Luo pin

His former residence is No.46, Mituo lane, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Luo pin is known as "the forest of Zhu Cao poetry". The house faces south, which is a traditional structure of Yangzhou's Sanheyuan. The east side of the house is separated from the flower hall by a long corridor, in which the original hexagonal door is connected. Now this door has been closed, and the east side of the house has been changed. Langxi is a well preserved garden. There are two study rooms at the north end of the garden, which are said to be the "fragrant leaf cottage" with the original pool in front of it. In front of the study, a half pavilion was built on the wall in the southwest. The pavilion was originally titled "tired bird's nest" by Wu rangzhi, a famous calligrapher and painter in the late Qing Dynasty. In the west of the half Pavilion, there are three small rooms facing the East, which are connected by a short corridor. Luo pin and his wife and children are good at plum painting. Meijia School of painting lived in this house for decades. Luo pin's former residence was designated as a municipal cultural relics protection unit in 1962 and restored in 1986.

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