What does the bullfighting picture show?

Art comes from life, artistic beauty should be based on life, and literary and art workers must respect life in their creation. We should carefully collect opinions and observe life, otherwise great painters will make jokes.

Story: The Bullfighting Picture by Dai Song, a famous painter in the mid-Tang Dynasty, was treasured at the Ma Su Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty. When you are free, take it out and spread it out in front of the hall to bask in the sun. At this time, a farmer who came to pay the rent saw the painting and laughed while watching it.

Confused, Ma Zhijie asked the farmers why they laughed at the painting. The farmer replied, "I am a farmer who doesn't know how to draw, but I know what a real cow looks like." When a cow fights, it will put its tail between its thighs. Even a strong man can't find it with all his strength. This picture shows the cow's tail sticking up, which doesn't look like it. "Ma Zhijie admired the farmer's knowledge.

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The background of bullfighting picture creation

China's totem worship of cattle can be traced back to Dayu's water control period 4,000 years ago. Legend has it that every time Dayu treated a flood, he would throw an iron cow into the bottom of the water to show his repression. In the Tang dynasty, the iron cow that saved the town water was relocated to the shore. In the eyes of ordinary people in China, the more virtues of cattle are the quality of working hard and never complaining, which is a symbol of hard work.

However, the fierce and aggressive nature of bison is also well known. Many nationalities in the world have the traditional custom of bullfighting, and the custom of bullfighting in China can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in 200 BC. According to Shui Jing Zhu, Qin Libing ruled Shu, and in order to eradicate floods and benefit the people of Shu, he built Dujiangyan, which angered Jiang Shen. The two men became two bulls and fought fiercely. Bing assassinated Jiang Shen with the help of his subordinates. Since then, there has been no flood in Shu.

Shu people admire Li Bing's brave determination, so they call strong young people "Binger". Bullfighting has also become a long-standing custom of Shu people: Taiping Guangji, compiled in the early Song Dynasty, records that bullfighting has become popular in Shu since the Han and Jin Dynasties.