Hefei people were originally Li Shuxiang's family. When Li paints, he is always invited to wait on him. After a long time (Zhao Guang) is good at drawing, especially horses. Almost neck and neck with Li's paintings. He fell into the hands of nomads from the Song Dynasty. The enemy heard that he was good at painting, so he was asked to paint the plundered woman.
Zhao Yongguang resolutely refused because he could not draw. The enemy threatened him with a shiny knife. (Zhao Guang) refused. (The enemy) cut off his right thumb and sent him away. Zhao Guang usually paints with his left hand. After the turmoil, Zhao Guang only painted Guanyin Bodhisattva. A few years later, after his death, most of the Guanyin Bodhisattva statues painted by Li were treasured by the literati and were written by them.
Original text:
Zhao Guang, a native of Hefei, was once a petty official of Li Boshi. When he paints, he waits around every time, and he is also good at painting for a long time, especially the working horse, which can hardly be confused. When a thief catches inflammation, a thief smells his good painting, so that the painting catches the woman. Guang resolutely refused to draw, rejected it with a white blade, and broke his right thumb and sent it away. Use your left hand all your life. It's just a painting of Guanyin. A few years later, he died. Today, all the literati collections are Guanyin, which is quite extensive.
This article comes from Lu You's Notes on Old Learning Temple in Song Dynasty.
Extended data writing background:
The writing time of Notes of Old Xuegong is from the last years of Xichun in Song Xiaozong to the early years of Zongshaoxi in Song Guang.
Volume one said, "I went to the countryside (Lin 'an) for 27 years. Volume 6 also said: "When I reached the pole at the beginning of this year, Premier Yi made notes and called it the' new emperor', which made it a literary masterpiece. According to Zhou Bida, the prime minister of Zhou Dynasty, both his late and early days were left prime ministers, and "Shanxi merchants" and "new emperors" both refer to Guangzong.
Lu You was recommended by Zhou Bida. He returned to the court at the end of Xichun, just 26 or 7 years after he left Lin 'an in the first year of Longxing. He was a 39-year-old dutiful son. This is a strong evidence of the writing time of Notes of Old Xuegong.
Lu Zilong, the second son of Lu You, also said when compiling Lu You's Anthology: Notes on the Old Learning Temple: "What the former Taishi (Lu You) did between Xi Chun and Shao Xi."
Content introduction:
This paper is named after the "Old Learning Temple" on the bank of Jinghu Lake, and the study is called "Taking the Language of' Shi Kuang's Old Learning as a Candle at Night'".
This book is the work of Weng Fang in his later years. It recorded a large number of relics, customs, strange people and animals, and inspected many poems, laws, places, objects and so on. Its outstanding features are: first, most of the recorded stories belong to themselves or their relatives and friends; Secondly, it paid special attention to the people at that time; Third, there are many comments and criticisms about personnel.
Li Ciming, a litterateur in the Qing Dynasty, thought the book was "a masterpiece" because it described anecdotes in detail, occasionally studied old articles and talked about current events.