读郑为先生的《中国绘画史》,读到唐代大画家阎立本的一则轶事。某日,散朝之后,唐太宗李世民在御花园中游玩,见荷花池中有对鸳鸯嬉戏,觉得有趣,立马宣阎立本进宫,支起画架,为他画那对鸳鸯。不用说,阎立本当然照办了,可画完之后,心里却有气。回家之后,召儿子来撒气,告诉儿子,我学的是 Reading Zheng Wei’s “History of Chinese Painting,” reads an anecdote of Yan Liben, a great painter of the Tang Dynasty. One day, after the dynasty, the Taizong Li Shimin play in the Imperial Garden, see the lotus pond play with the mandarin duck, find it interesting, immediately declared Yan Liben into the palace, supporters easel, for him to draw that pair of mandarin ducks. Needless to say, of course, Yan Liben according to do, but after painting, my heart is gas. After returning home, I called my son to spit, tell my son, I learned