"And find peace with pine and cypress"

I love pine and cypress.

Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Pine and Cypress":
"Cangsong Kuppe, Mei Qilao also. All flowers and bamboos are precious young people, and the three things of solitary pine, cypress and plum are old and lowly. Those who want to benefit from the three elders must buy an old house and live there. If you plant things, you can plan for your children and grandchildren, but you can't watch it happen. Asking for it to move and be able to be with me, even if it is great, it is also five more, not three old. To give a play is to say:" If you want to draw people in the picture, you must be old. Three or five teenagers, all slutty. "Later generations asked why. He said: "Those who do not see landscapes and landscapes, every person must be in the form of a rod, that is, sitting and looking at the mountains and the water, is also the shape of an old man. There has never been a handsome teenager in between. There are also teenagers, who are not carrying a piano and holding a painting, that is, those who hold bottles in a box, are also slaves in the painting." Future generations want to testify against the prophecy, there is no evidence. To use this as a metaphor for pine and cypress, it can be described as holon. Like a garden pavilion, the owner is always a weak flower. There are no more than a dozen old adult trees ruling the place. It is a place where he practices with his sons and daughters all day, so he can't learn from his friends. Celebrity paintings, Ken? Xi, to hold on to this for a lifetime, never to become friends with the elderly, but this year has been painted, Yuu Yi sitting in the bush of children. Most of them are flowers and trees for me, and I'm a cypress? "

It is true that the beauty of pine and cypress in its "old", in its time carved ancient and mulberry, in the text "for children and grandchildren to plan, the body can not see its success" is really sad. But Li Yu did not have the regret of being late in the spring and sad autumn, but instead let people see the secret pride of "finally living like they once wanted". It can be seen that the pine and cypress stirs the heart.

Zi said, "The year is cold, and after knowing the pine and cypress, it withers." Pine and cypress infected me, but in addition to making people sink into the wind frost, that is, wind bones and muscle veins. The pandemic left me at home, mostly because of the inexplicable relationship with this pine and cypress, so I took a lot of time to appreciate, taste, and sketch, which is really honest "and find peace with the pine and cypress". In the early days of sketching, the pen hangs in the air. Pine and cypress's Gengzhi is not only difficult for flowers and trees, but also difficult for me. Although the cold wind has never penetrated what "Gengzhi" is, it does not delay it pulling its trumpet to shuttle between the pine and cypress. Looking at painting for more than ten years, today, it seems that the core of a silk is touched only shallowly: to express a thing, the technique is only representational, and the means are ultimately to taste the inner spiritual quality of this thing.

"My teacher is not an ancient teacher", Shi Tao once pursued "mountains and rivers born in Yuya, born in Yuya". It seems that I also want to come to the spiritual journey of the honest boss "pine cypress born in Yuya, born in Yuya".
With books and paintings, in recent years, my painstaking adherence to calligraphy has never stopped, and I respectfully appreciate the benefits of calligraphy on painting. Perhaps it is the silent insistence and change of this moisture that made me face the pine and cypress, and I actually gradually entered the good territory, and my heart and hands were smooth. This awe, this state of writing to spread the picture, with the heart to feel the friction and passing of ink on the paper, from the pen tip to the pen root, from wet to dry, to observe, to express. Ordinary and subtle things are often the microcosm of the vast world. Any kind of life is worthy of praise, "as subtle as possible, to the vast".
Recently, he has been communicating with Chico. He said that he must sort out these drawings, which is a phased summary. Chico has been working hard for a long time, and it is difficult to imagine the hard work of revising the map, coupled with his uninterrupted spiritual encouragement, to complete this article.

Write pine and cypress evergreen, may you and I be at peace. In this plain land of gratitude, good nature, good life, my family, close friends. Everything is fine. I think that's what I'm drawing right now.

Pine and cypress are my masters, and I am Pine and cypress friends.

Sketching Sense ——— Yin Xiaoyao November 15, 2022 night