The origin of this painting is from Zen Buddhism.
The famous case of the "Nanquan Cat Chopper".
Their language:
There's a beautiful cat at the Pujin Zen Temple.
The monks ate in the east hall during the day and slept in the west hall at night, and the two halls had a great deal of trouble over this cat.
Zen Master Nanquan grabbed the cat and said to the two monks, "If any one of you can realize the way of liberation from life and death, you can save the cat, or else you will have to cut it down".
All the monks were silent.
Nanquan cuts the cat in two.
The two churches will each share half of it.
Later that day, Zhao came back from abroad.
Zen Master Nanquan told Zhaozhou what had happened earlier, and without saying a word, Zhaozhou put his "shoes on top of his head" and left.
This is the so-called "detachment from the head of An Tou".
The Nanquan cat-slicing incident is so old that no matter whether it is true or not, it goes against the general impression that monks are compassionate.
"Get out of On Tau."
In the painting, a graceful and slender woman faces the temptation of a "red-topped merchant" with a long tail and lustful eyes and a belly full of money. Faced with the dilemma of "wealth and love", the woman finally chooses wealth.
On the right, there is a big-nosed saint with his head turned upside down and a big nose and a shoe on top of his head, and the "broken bouquet" is like his abandoned love.
A person who is born with a beautiful body can hardly give up her beauty, a fair lady, a gentleman and a martyred man, a pretty face, a pretty body, but still a person who was born to parents who received it from their parents, as the saying goes, "A man is not guilty of a crime, but of a crime of harboring a jade tablet", and how innocent is that pretty cat in the Zen koan?
Behind the woman, a bloated spirit appeared.
There's a little gateway to heaven in the upper left-hand corner.
It means that as the desire for material power grows, the tempted soul becomes more and more bloated, and is unable to squeeze through the gates of heaven as it pleases.
What this painting is about:
Everyone must be empathetic.
Put yourself in the other person's shoes.