The 28-year-old Dr. Song Hua penetrated the body of a 23-year-old female painter.
When she woke up, her father was dead on the mule cart, holding a scroll of paintings in his hand.
She walked into Xuanhe Painting Academy and drew an eagle's skeleton in the examination room.
Mi Youren approved four words: Reason comes first.
Later, she allowed Wang Ximeng to live past the age of twenty.
Let Zhang Zeduan dare to paint "Along the River During Qingming Festival".
He told Cai Jing in the court: What I painted was not admonishment, but investigation of things.
In the second year of Jingkang, a fire broke out in Bianjing——
Holding a scroll in her arms, she walked out of the city gate.
A thousand years later, someone found a line of small words in the framed interlayer of the unknown ancient painting:
"Hua Jin, the second year of Jingkang."
The name "Jiang Kun" cannot be found. But the painting is still there.
Concept: Knowledge is another form of fire. What one can take away is not the painting itself, but the method of "how to see the painting". Jiang Kun did not change the Jingkang incident - the dynasty was irreversible. But she changed the micro history: Wang Ximeng lived past twenty years old, Zhang Zeduan painted the second painting, Xuanheng's painting was preserved, and Du Haier was recorded. What she saves is not the "painting", but the "possibility of painting" - so that the painting can still be painted, seen and understood after the fire. The most precious thing she left to future generations is not a few paintings, but the four words "Principle comes first". In an era where "aesthetics is monopolized by power", one person's vision can become another kind of power. The "realism" of Huizong Painting Academy is a kind of aesthetic hegemony, but Jiang Kun used the methodology of "investigating things to gain knowledge" to pry open the cracks from within. She proved that in the art academy system, it is not necessary to "look like the ancients", but also "to look like the object itself". This is a roundabout form of intellectual resistance: not resisting the system, but redefining the standards of "correctness."