易元吉是宋代著名画家,善画猿猴、禽鸟。为了画好猿猴,他经常进入深山,借住在山民的家中,一住就是一个多月。他每天认真地去观察猿猴们的“天性野逸之姿”、“动静游息之态”,记在心中,画在纸上。由于有这样深厚的观察功底,所以,他画出的猿猴,在山间水边,树上岩下,嬉戏跳跃,神情愉悦,天然活泼。人们看了他画的猿都非常喜欢,称易元吉为第一画猿高手。 Yi Yuanji is a famous painter of the Song Dynasty, good painting apes, birds. In order to paint a good ape, he often enters the mountains, living in the homes of the mountain people, living is more than a month. He carefully every day to observe the apes are “natural Ye style”, “movement of the state of mind”, in mind, painted on paper. Because of such a profound observation foundation, so he painted the apes, in the mountain water, tree rocks, playful jumping, look good, natural and lively. People have read the apes he painted very much, saying Yi Yuanji as the first ape master.