作为一个诗书画印俱佳的名士,不少官场中人都以和齐白石结交为荣。如果齐白石能够抓住时机,在晚清官场谋得一官半职根本不成问题,但是,他宁愿卖画为生,也不愿意去捧那些官老爷的臭脚,成天说些言不由衷的违心话。1902年腊月,齐白石应朋友邀请到西安游历,见到了陕西臬台(管司法、监察和邮驿,正三 As a poetry, calligraphy and painting are superb celebrities, many officials in the people and Qi Baishi proud. If Qi Baishi was able to seize the opportunity, it would not be a problem at all in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty. However, he would rather sell paintings for his own living than reluctant to hold the smelly feet of those officials and officials and say unremarkingly all the time. On the twelfth lunar month of 1902, Qi Baishi invited friends to travel to Xi’an and met Shaanxi Tantai (administration of justice, supervision and post station, three