專家說 The expert says
本作故事典出唐代裴鉶《傳奇·文簫》一 篇。唐大和末年書生文簫偶遇仙姝吳彩鸞， 後者由於泄露天機，被謪為凡人，並與文簫 成親。婚後文簫窮困而不能自贍，彩鸞便抄 寫《唐韻》一書維持家計。夫妻二人又搬至江 西越王山側的一個村落，在此「共訓童子數 十人」。十年後兩人同時跨虎升仙。作品中彩 鸞持書，身旁有虎與童子，應即反映這些記 載。 The scene came from a tale written by the Tang dynasty writer Pei Xing, which tells how the scholar Wen Xiao met and married the fairy Wu Cailuan, who was ripped of her immortality as a punishment for leaking an ethereal secret. It ends with the couple both achieving immortality ten years after they got married and disappeared into the mountains, each riding a tiger. But before the happy ending, it was said that Wen Xiao was financially unable after the marriage and Cailuan had to copy the book Tang Yun ( The Rhymes of Tang ) for a living. The couple later moved to a village in Jiangxi, where they “taught dozens of children”. In this painting, Cailuan is holding a book with a child and a tiger at her sides, which matches the descriptions in the tale.
19
Made with FlippingBook Ebook Creator