四十年来画竹枝,日间挥写夜间思。冗繁削尽留清瘦,画到生时是熟时。【注释】①冗(rǒng)繁:繁杂,琐碎。【赏析】四十年来画竹子,白天画竹,晚上思索。直到懂得删去所有的繁杂,只留下清秀劲健的气骨,画出的作品如同第一次画的一样带有青涩新鲜的活力而不落窠臼,这才是绘画技巧真正成熟的时候。郑板桥 Painting bamboo stick for forty years, night time night thinking. Redundantly cut everything, painted when the time is cooked. 【Notes】 ① redundant (rǒng) Fan: complicated, trivial. Appreciation】 【Forty years to draw bamboo, painted bamboo during the day, thinking at night. Until you know how to cut out all the complexity, leaving only the delicate and sturdy tone, painting the same as the first painting with the same fresh green vitality without losing the mortal, this is the real maturing skills of painting . Zheng Banqiao