Zheng Banqiao's "strangeness" is rather like a living Buddha. There are always sincere, humorous and sour things in Strange. Whenever he sees corrupt officials and traitors parading in the street, he draws a piece of Meilan bamboo stone and hangs it on the prisoner as a screen to attract the audience and awaken the people.

This is a shame.

Zheng Banqiao returned to Yangzhou to sell calligraphy and painting, and his social status was very different from before. He has a large number of people asking for help, and his income is considerable. But he hates those upstarts who are attached to elegance, just like some fat salt merchants in Yangzhou, who don't care about high prices.

Write immediately if you are happy, and curse if you are unhappy. His eccentric temper is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Once when painting for a friend, he specially wrote an inscription and made a frank confession:

"Drawing all day, without rest, will call names. I haven't written for three days, and it's also my shame to think of a piece of paper to relieve boredom. If you ask me to draw, if you don't draw, if you don't ask me to draw, it is painting, which is extremely inseparable. I understand the people here, but listen with a smile. "

3. Personal embellishment

Zheng Banqiao sells paintings. Unlike traditional literati painters, she still hides half her face behind the guitar from us. Now that we have entered the market, we should be generous. He formulated Banqiao Runge, becoming the first painter in China to sell his paintings at a clear price. "Big 6 Liang, medium 4 Liang, small 2 Liang, banner couplet 1 Liang, fans fight 5 yuan.

It is better to send gifts and food than to send money; It's not necessarily what my brother likes from the government. Bring inner joy to cash, calligraphy and painting are good. Gifts are tangled and credit is particularly bad. Old and tired, I can't tell you useless words. "At the end, there is a poem attached:" Draw bamboo and buy more bamboo money. The paper is six feet high and costs three thousand yuan.

Let's talk about the handover of old words, only when the autumn wind passes by. "It's vulgar, but out of Zheng Banqiao, I think it's vulgar and lovely, because he is frank.

4. Delicious dog meat

Banqiao decided to embellish it, stipulating that anyone who wants him to paint and write must pay a deposit first, which is quite interesting. At that time, many rich and powerful gentry decorated halls and were often proud of getting Banqiao paintings and calligraphy. However, Banqiao did not crave fame and wealth, and was not afraid of power. He was the last person in his life to paint for those bureaucratic evil gentry, so it was inconvenient to declare in his old man's favor.

Once, a group of gentry used tricks and set a trap to get their paintings and calligraphy. They learned that Banqiao loved dog meat, and on the way he and his friends went out to make friends, they borrowed the villagers' hut and cooked a pot of delicious dog meat until Banqiao passed by. The host "smiled and treated each other with dog meat and wine."

Banqiao had no doubts, drank heartily, and even praised wine and food. After dinner, the host set out Four Treasures of the Study and asked the adults to leave a couplet as a souvenir. Banqiao deeply felt that he had a delicious meal today, and immediately agreed, got up and wrote, and asked the owner's name to pay the money in return for his kindness.

Read this book and enjoy it. Later, at a banquet, he accidentally found his calligraphy and painting hanging there, only to know that he had been cheated, and he regretted it very much and was insatiable.

5. Champion diplomat

Hong Jun, the top scholar in Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty for seven years, is a diplomatic legend and a well-known scholar. He spent most of his political career dealing with foreigners, and his private life was related to the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua at that time. So its fame is intertwined with diplomacy, foreigners, talent and romance. Hong Jun used to be an assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

After Guangxu ascended the throne, he attached great importance to his talents and was promoted to a bachelor's degree in cabinet. During this period, his mother died and went home to mourn for three years. But due to the urgent need of diplomacy, she returned to North Korea in March and was appointed as the special envoy of Germany, Russia, Austria and the Netherlands. During the mourning period, Hong met Sai Jinhua, a famous prostitute who was popular in Suzhou. When they first met, they planned ahead and got married soon.

Hong's new wife went to her post after receiving the order from the emissary. Hong is proficient in German and Russian. She is very talented. Coupled with the noble and elegant Sai Jinhua as an ornament, almost all veteran diplomats are amazed and impressed. Although Sai Jinhua is 32 years younger than Hong, they have a good relationship, but the good times don't last long. In the third year after Hong returned to China, she was seriously ill and left Sai Jinhua, who was only 24 years old, in the world.

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