Since the influx of hard pen calligraphy into China, this convenient and fast writing instrument is extremely popular with the Chinese people, and soon replaced the brush as the main tool for people to write and paint.
And the brush as a native of the Chinese writing tools, after thousands of years of precipitation, on the achievement and connotation of naturally hard pen calligraphy is much higher, hard pen calligraphy can be said to be taken from the brush calligraphy, to its flesh and tendons to save bone, practicality greatly improved, but the artistry is much lower.
"Jiang Dongshu Xiaokai Calligraphy Collection"
However, the study group of hard pen calligraphy is huge, and if we want to learn hard pen calligraphy well, we must first have a good Fa Ti to guide.
Just like learning brush calligraphy, pay great attention to introductory textbooks, a good introductory textbook determines your future style, pen use, and the orientation of writing, which can make you more effective in the process of learning calligraphy in the future.
The same is true for the study of hard pen calligraphy.
Here is a contemporary calligrapher recommended for everyone - Jiang Dongshu.
Teacher Jiang Dongshu has made great achievements in culture and art, and has been engaged in calligraphy activities for more than 60 years, which can be described as the essence of all kinds of seals and true grasses. He combined the feminine and rounded posture in the brush with the medium majesty and boldness of the hard pen calligraphy, and sought to spread throughout the ancient famous stele Fa Ti's seal li zhengxing grass body, and his clever heart was uniquely cast to cast the seal lixing grass and the Wei stele body in one furnace, creating a unique calligraphy - "Jiang's Broken Body", also known as "Jiang Body", which is a must in China's book world.
Teacher Jiang has also gone to Japan many times to hold book fairs to explain calligraphy, and his words are also shocking the Japanese book world, which is really the crown of Chinese and Japanese books!
Jiang Dongshu is Zhang Zongxiang's closed disciple and proud protégé, and the acquaintance of the two is quite interesting, and the sentence "Gold will always shine" when he applied for the bid.
In 1958, the frustrated Jiang Dongshu found a temporary job in the Zhejiang Library, responsible for the health of the library and miscellaneous work, because of its outstanding writing, the library management staff let Jiang Dongshu be responsible for writing notices, signs, slogans and other work.
One day, Zhang Zongxiang was presiding over the anniversary of the library, and when he saw a slogan, he couldn't move, the slogan read, "Please don't spit on the ground", Zhang Zongxiang asked who the word came from, so Zhang Zongxiang and Jiang Dongshu met.
It seems like an inconspicuous slogan "Please don't spit on the ground", but the words have flesh and blood, plates and eyes, condensing Jiang Dongshu's painstaking efforts, how can people who understand calligraphy not be moved?
Jiang Dongshu's calligraphy is different from modern calligraphers, not the kind of uniform pursuit of horizontal and vertical, but quite a sense of "Lingfei Jing", the style is elegant, the spirit is flying, the composition is strange and ingenious, the elegance does not lose stability, the elegance does not lose strength, it is the first model of today's Xiaokai.
Today, through many efforts, we have compiled and summarized Jiang Dongshu's calligraphy works and compiled a "Collection of Jiang Dongshu Xiaokai Calligraphy" for calligraphy lovers.
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——Edited by Qian Yuan