It was almost noon when the car arrived in Dunhuang.

This place is anciently named Longxi, which reminds Zhong Yue of the years he was working hard. In a daze, the car stopped at a shopping site in the city.

"Everyone get off the car and have a rest first, and we will have dinner later." Although the young tour guide said that, the toilets and restaurants are basically inside the mall, so they all seem to imply consumption inside and outside.

Zhong Yue was naturally not going to spend time here. He was about to leave the group and walk alone, but was stopped by Tam Yongzhi.

"What are you doing?"

"Go to Thousand Buddha Cave, otherwise you will really think I'm traveling with a group."

When Tan Yongzhi saw Zhong Yue who had taken the free ride, she quickly greeted the two elders and chased after him with her bag, "What we talked about at the beginning, I plan to join this East China Youth Artists Alliance, have you forgotten?"

"Well, when the alliance is established, just fill out the form to register."

"Hey, don't be so ruthless. After all, we are also comrades who have fought side by side."

Zhong Yue picked up the bag strap, stopped, and said, "Now, according to what you said, the situation is very complicated, and I can't be sure if I am the leader of this alliance, so I can't promise you anything. I can only say that there is a chance in the future and may let you try it."

"When your "Zhong Family Letter" was just a fuss, it was actually the best time. Many older generations in the book world recognized it. After all, you were a little famous before, but in the past two years, you have never heard of it. Changbing and I thought you were kidnapped and murdered by Gushan and others. We originally wanted to call the police, but later we were stopped by your friend named Ouyang Ming, and it was left alone."

"If you go so far, aren't you afraid that your parents won't find you later?"

Tam Yongzhi said: "I have agreed to them that I will be moving alone with you."

"Your parents are really relieved."

Tam Yongzhi blushed and said, "I...I all say that I'm a college classmate, what's wrong with them?"

Zhong Yue turned around, which made Tan Yongzhi a little unable to stop the car and almost ran into Zhong Yue.

"The problem is that we are not college classmates."

Tan Yongzhi was a little angry at the answer of a straight man like Zhong Yue. She followed her like this. Doesn’t this person understand? She has to use words to squeeze him out?

"That, Huang Youwei said, is she your sister?"

"Yeah." Zhong Yue looked at the Feitian Building in the city center. The city in Longxi is really small, so small that it is difficult to get lost here. The cities built along the river are more like a gathering of several small towns. The main canal, Hexi and Hedong have buildings, but overall, Hedong is more developed.

Zhong Yue looked at the map and it took about half an hour to drive from here to the southeast. He prepared to have dinner in the city and then to the Qianfo Cave. The climate in the northwest is really dry. This was once the origin of the Silk Road. After this city, it was the boundless Gobi Desert with scorching sun. In such an environment, it was more like an oven, and it had to be cooked.

"What did you do when you go to Mogao Grottoes?"

Zhong Yue ate local noodles, which is Lanzhou ramen that is popular all over the country. However, the Lanzhou ramen here should be called beef ramen. He swept some chili sauce with chopsticks and said, "What can I do? Just collect the field."

"Are you going to copy the Wei stele? Then you should come to the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, where there are many fine Wei stele relics. How can you come to the Mogao Grottoes?"

Zhong Yue was eating noodles, looking at the few slices of beef that were thinner than paper on the soup, and said, "Waiter, give me another plate of cumin beef."

He knocked on the edge of the bowl and said, "Where do I go, there is my reason for it."

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After dinner, the two drove to Mogao Grottoes. There was a special small van in the city to take the scenic spots alive. Along the way, besides a cement road, there was a real Gobi Desert around, without any vitality. This desolate and vast style of the northern border made this trip more meaningful. Zhong Yue was born and raised in Jiangnan, and his eyes were full of green Jiangnan scenery, so his painting style was soft. Painters from both the north and the south did have great characteristics with the region. The northern school was rough and bold, and the southern school was beautiful and dignified. This was not only people and paintings, but also lifestyles and customs were similar.

On the rugged wilderness, Zhong Yue looked at the seven-story pagoda with red pillars and flying eaves, and was also moved that in such a windy and sandy desert, there are so many cave Buddha sculptures hidden in it. These Chinese treasures have been passed down for thousands of years. Perhaps he dedicated them through paintings, which is a cultural heritage and development.

"I want to collect folk songs and paint. If you want to follow me, don't bother me, otherwise you don't follow me."

“…”

Tam Yongzhi was also a little depressed when she was rejected by Zhong Yue so directly and said, "Who wants to follow you!"

"That's best." Zhong Yue held a fir board in his hand, and the board was fixed with felt. Zhong Yue specially designed such a painting board to facilitate the difficulty of fielding when drawing small Chinese paintings. After all, in ancient times, Chinese paintings rarely used the word fielding. When ancient people painted, many of them painted rivers and seas without going out, and paid attention to an image rather than an object. Of course, today, fielding is nothing wrong, especially when Zhong Yue took the Buddha statues as the theme, showing the style of fine-brush figure paintings for thousands of years, and it is even more impossible to build a car behind closed doors.

Zhong Yue stood in front of the Buddha's cave, using his pen and eyes to outline it here. It was just a small hair on a mouse, and it was just a brush and ink to draw lines. Such a single painting method is the single and the most primitive painting method before there were any techniques such as smudge and ink splashing.

Zhong Yue's paintings inherited Zhang Sengyou, which is even more different from the style of "Wu Ding Dangfeng" and "Cao Yi comes out of the water", but is the famous "Zhang Family Style" among the four major Chinese painting styles.

With the use of the eight methods of painting bones, Zhang Sengyou himself is the originator of painting Buddhas. Zhong Yue's paintings are blooming, dots, chopping and brushing, and the brushwork is agile, expressing the lines to the fullest.

In this era when Chinese painting is no longer determined by lines, what Zhong Yue is doing is to reshape the charm of Chinese painting, trace the origin, and restore the most primitive and most essential essence of figure painting!

In this era when the masters were hiding, in the era when the painting world was still chasing and missing the masters of the 20th century painting world, Zhong Yue took this step, inheriting the ancient style of the Wei, Jin, North and South!

When shaping Buddha, Zhong Yue is shaping his own painting style.

Using calligraphy into painting, Zhong Yue’s technique is not just so simple as hiding some calligraphy brushes in the painting, but the eight methods of painting bones are completely integrated into the painting!

Three thousand Buddha sculpting, Zhong Yue only takes one method!
Chapter completed!