Paint Her

Forbidden City restorer Chen Mian received the "Picture of a Thousand Years of Ladies". In the painting, a woman plays a harp without strings, and there is a 300-year-old fingerprint on the end of the harp. Her name is A Wan, and she is one of the characters in the manuscripts left by the Ming Dynasty painter Gu Yunzhang. Because of her obsession, her soul is attached to the ink. Three hundred years ago, the painter Zhou Huaisu completed three strings for her. Before leaving the city to deliver food, he hid the painting in an abandoned temple and said, "Wait for me when I come back." However, he died in the snow that year when the city was destroyed. Ah Wan waited three hundred years for Chen Mian. He used pine smoke ink to mend the broken strings, and used ink to nourish her faded soul. She slowly said Zhou Huaisu's name. He silently searched the ruins of the capital, found Mr. Gu's manuscripts, erected a monument by the Xiling Bridge, and signed the inscription for the person who had not been accounted for for three hundred years: The string has been mended. In September at West Lake, she pressed the string she had waited for three hundred and eighty years. There is finally a sound in the painting. His ink-polishing hand was exactly the same as the one she was waiting for - it didn't take three hundred years to recognize it, it only needed someone to recognize the silence that had never changed in thirty-six thousand revolutions.