Xue Yuanming | calligraphy, as brilliant as a summer flower
2021 (Xin Ugly) Summer Time: May 5, 2021 14:47
LiXia Jizi Tang Yan Zhenqing's "Oriental Shuo Painting Praise"
Summer is here in the blink of an eye.
The four seasons of Gangnam are usually clearly distinguished. If you're lucky, autumn is particularly long, so you can enjoy the rare autumn high. If you break the norm and it's too hot, the "autumn tiger" will arrive, or the feeling of summer. Cool down quickly, autumn ends early, winter comes, not to mention how lost. But no matter what, the mentality of Chinese is made of special materials, and you can find steps at any time, spring, summer, autumn and winter, each has its own benefits, and finally can successfully comfort yourself.
Lixia heralds the imminent farewell to spring. In the summer season, the ancestors already have a sense of cherishing spring, and will prepare thin wine, and they will send flowers to farewell for spring, which is the meaning of "spring". Lixia is the time when willows are the most. Whenever I see Liu Shu, I will think of the Liu Shu words written by Bao Chao in "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Thousands of threads will not change in the end, let him gather and divide with him." "You can read her open-mindedness. Dai Yu was different, looking at Liu Shu thinking about her own life, feeling extremely sad, so she wrote the sentence "The grass and trees are also worried, and Zhaohua is white-headed". Words are the voice of the heart, words are the painting of the heart, a person's words or poems, the essence is the spiritual appearance.
When it comes to calligraphers, this is even more obvious. In the winter, it is busy trying ink, and in the summer, it will sweat like rain. "Summer practice three volts, winter practice three nine", used in calligraphers is more suitable.
Winter engraving is especially sinful, hot air spews out from the mouth and nose, the printed handwriting is wet, blurred, many times can not see the place where the knife is, it is better to simply blacken the printing surface, a wave. Then again, today's bookkeepers are much happier than the older generations. There is heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, all kinds of good inscriptions, there is no time, if you can't do anything, there is no way to blame this and that. The fundamental reason is that kung fu is not home, and it is not fully dedicated.
Despite the rapid development of modern science and technology and the increasing popularity of computer information technology, writing and engraving still has to maintain the state of "manual work", which is somewhat "backward". As everyone knows, it is this kind of "conservatism" that makes calligraphy seal engraving "eternal youth". Many people are worried about the fate of calligraphy and the future is uncertain. Not necessarily. Calligraphy is extremely inclusive, and for thousands of years it can constantly adapt to different times and different groups of people. Once upon a time, robots wrote calligraphy and appeared on stage with a big swing, looking alive, but in the end they could only be short-lived. Because of the individuality, immediacy, and suddenness that booksellers generally demand, machines can never cope. Another example is engraving. I don't know who "invented" such a method: first print out the printed manuscript, and then coat the printing surface with lipstick, at this time, the large printed black and white prints will be covered with the printing surface, using the chemical reaction of the two, the ink fans can be fixed on the stone surface without bad. The print that comes out is almost exactly the same. However, the pleasures of meticulous comparison after printing, looking for personal gaps, etc. have disappeared. This is actually forcing yourself into a dead end.
Calligraphy and seal engraving is certainly not a kind of craftsmanship, but a kind of creation. Forgetting this is the opposite. Technical conditions are limited and can make us more comfortable and creative, but they are too easy to get over. Just like staying in an air-conditioned room, the summer is cold and the winter is of course comfortable, but the body function will also degenerate. This is the same as the anti-seasonal fruit. People should do the right things at the right age, and the calligrapher tries his best to keep the calligraphy tempering and life experience in sync, so that he can gradually get better.
Summer is here, and the calligrapher is alone in the study, can go shirtless, can sweat. Sometimes you may wish to turn off the air conditioner and experience the taste of the fan better. There is a way that the mind is calm and naturally cool.
Ren Bonian 'Palm Shade Na Liang Map》
Once seen Ren Bonian's "Brown Shade Cool Map", Wu Changshuo opened his belly and opened his chest, shaking a fan under a banana leaf tree. We often say we want to have fun. That's fun. There are many pleasures in life that only you can experience. Just like desperately reading, in addition to mastering knowledge and academic research, a very important point is where the fun lies, others can not appreciate, can not take away. The same is true of Linchi. Writing a fine work is joyful, a certain work has a failure, will be grumpy, thrown into the wastepaper basket after the extreme of frustration, if the next day unintentionally "revived from the dead", it will be a sigh. This "tossing" process is where the fun lies, and the reason for the pleasure. Engraving is also the case, when it is almost finished, one of the seals is broken, it will be particularly annoying, as for cutting fingers, it is commonplace. What should I do if I encounter these unpleasant things? I can only adjust it once and start again. Who made you choose the path of practicing calligraphy and engraving? Having good can be tired in this life.
Writing and engraving is not the same as other "trades", not necessarily "a point of hard work, a point of harvest", it may be a hard half life, nothing, or even exhaust the family wealth, not to mention the idea of fame and fortune, or even a satisfactory work. But who's going to pay attention to you? Comforting you? At the end of the day, the key is the personal mindset. For people who write and engrave, the best positioning is to entertain themselves. Without undivided thoughts, there is no senseless disaster.
People have a strong adaptability to the natural environment. Having lived in one place for decades, all the relevant elements have cooperated with each other, even the bacteria and dust in the air, and can "coexist peacefully". In an unfamiliar environment, there may be a sense of freshness, but it must also lose the sense of nostalgia. Everything has its gains and losses, and its advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, Wang Yangming said that peace of mind is strong, and this peace of mind is my hometown. Living in Jiangnan, where there are four distinct seasons throughout the year, summer should be hot, winter should be cold, hot and cold. In fact, it contains the experience of the mood of the world, the taste of life, cold and warm self-knowledge. Different human feelings are tempered, let yourself be refined into steel, you can be spoiled and not alarmed, a mind to focus on writing and engraving, spring to autumn, cold to summer, year after year, in the study to spend time, every day can find a real fun of their own.
Li Ruiqing Couplet, B Wei Lixia
Feng Han couplet, Xin Wei Lixia
Yi Bingshou couplet, NongShen Lixia
Those calligraphic seal engraving works that belong to the day of "Lixia", when read carefully, are actually different. Some are coincidences, because the ancients basically wrote every day, and when they encountered a certain solar term, it was just right. If something happens to happen that day, or there is no satisfactory work, then give up. The couplet of Li Ruiqing and Feng Han may be a kind of coupling. Yi Bingshou is a kind of specialty, because he likes to write in the summer. Many of the works of Yi Bingshou that have been found now are in the summer.
Ding Foyan pro "Heng Fang Stele", B ugly LiXia
Ding Foyan's "HengFang Stele" works are close to two hundred words, and his skills are extraordinary. It is written in the paragraph that it is winter at the invitation of friends to complete the tasks assigned in the summer of the following year, which is really cold and hot!
Lv Haihuan, Chengchen Lixia
Lu Haihuanlin's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is the most interesting. After the "beginning of late spring", it is the beginning of summer. It seems that this work does correspond specifically to the solar terms. Speaking of this, not only did I think that Wang Xizhi wrote the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" in the late spring, is it more comfortable because of this? Maybe it's true. "The unity of heaven and man" is sometimes very mysterious, sometimes not mysterious, the human body is a small universe, the most obvious, there is a premonition of the weather, every rainy day, joint soreness, more than the weather forecast. If Wang Xizhi wrote "Orchid Pavilion Preface" in summer or winter, it may not be "Orchid Pavilion Preface", and even if there is, it may be another style, which may be similar to the feeling of Zhang Dai's "Huxin Pavilion Watching Snow".
Wang Fu'an Pro "Jizi White Plate", PengZi Lixia
Wang Fu'an has created works in Lixia, as well as works of "White Disk". His daily habits are extremely strong. To put it another way, he's already really addicted! Because I am extremely diligent in writing and engraving, the frequency of meeting with a certain festival is very high.
Wu Changshuo is thick and thick, and Gengshu Lixia
Wu Changshuo is also very typical, and there are works in almost every solar term. It can be simply calculated that the old man's "poetry, calligraphy and painting" are four masterpieces, the size of the calligraphy and painting works in a lifetime is difficult to count, the engraving is more than 3,000 squares, the poetry is about 2,000 in existence, and the life is 84 years old, and the results are so abundant. Comprehensive measurement, diligence can be measured indicators.
Hu Xiaoshi, Xin Ugly Lixia
This year is the year of the ugly. When I read Hu Xiaoshi's works, the payment was "Xin Ugly Lixia", and another sixty years ago, that is, the "Xin Ugly Treaty". Hu Xiaoshi's inscription commented on Zhang Rui's book method: "There are two kinds of books: one is softer with one, the other is bent and pure and strong", and "The two water books can be rigid but people are soft, and the book is defeated."
Zhu Yun's "Memoirs of the Eastern Slope Residents You Lushan", Gengchen Lixia
The content of Zhu Yun's book is "The Record of the Eastern Slope Residents You Lushan": "When the servant first entered lushan, the valley was strange and beautiful, and he had never seen it in his life, and he was overwhelmed, so he did not want to write poetry." ......”。 At that time, he was in "Gengchen Lixia", at this time, he was 74 years old, and everyone was old. At this time, the spatial sense of the eight calligraphies has been uniquely handled. The four sides are empty, and the handwriting is dense, especially the "He Yuan" seal, which is several times larger than the glyph. The Eight Greats are not limited by many laws, and only by doing their own thing can we achieve individuality.
Yuan Mingzhi Xiya Codex wrote in Lixia
Yuan Ming's poem "What You See" is very famous: "The shepherd boy rides a yellow bull, and the song vibrates Lin Fan." Intending to catch cicadas, he suddenly closed his mouth. "The poems of the ancients will always have several artistic conceptions, which will give birth to many imaginations. Yuan Ming wrote a letter to the old man of Xiya on a certain "Li Xia Day", but it is not known in which year. If you want to know, you have to go through some trouble and have to do some evidence. The great talent of the sound dog horse, leaving a "suspense case".
Cai Xiang "Si Yong Ti" 1051 Paper Length 29.7 cm Width 39.7 cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei Early summer
Some works do not explicitly say that it is Li Xia. Such a post reads more meaningfully. For example, Cai Xiang's "Private Chant", "In the early summer, Jing Qinghe, may the prince live a good life". In November of the second year of the Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang set out from Xianyou, Fujian Province, and at the call of the imperial court, went to take up the posts of Right Zhengyan and Tongxiu Qiju. Passing through Hangzhou, after about two months of stay, he continued north to Beijing in the early summer of the following year. Before leaving, he left a codex for his friend Feng Jing, who met Qiantang, which is "Si Yong Ti", also known as "Early Summer Ti".
Zhao Tuo's "Summer" poem post
Reading Zhao Tuo's "Summer Poems", I can't help but sigh, I can't imagine that the emperor Lao Er will also look for poetry in the summer: "After the Qinghe Festival, the green branches are thick, the lonely yellow plum rain is harvested", "the pond lotus is idle and leaning on each other, and the grass is softer". This emperor who "loves Danqing and does not love Jiangshan" has been criticized for future generations. If you put "the red sun is like a fire, the noda rice is half scorched." The farmer's heart is like a soup boiling, and the prince and grandson shake the fan. "Reading it together with the poem "Summer", the contrast is too great! Zhao Was an excellent calligrapher, but not a good emperor. The emperor may also "not do the right thing"!
For most ordinary people, who prefer early summer in May, the weather is not so hot. The monsoon, which came from the south, carried dampness, carried rain, and carried vigorous vitality. May is the season when gardenias bloom. The lotus leaves are blue, and the lotus flowers are different red. In the distance, there are layers of mountains and dense greenery. Since the beginning of the summer, the darkness of locust incense, loquat full of trees, new wheat fragrance, green plum boiled wine, can do a lot of things. I thought that Li Qingzhao met Zhao Mingcheng, it must be on the day of the first ripening of Qingmei, so he wrote down the sentence "And shyly walked, leaned on the door to look back, but sniffed Qingmei". Technology has brought air conditioning, but there is no cooling and pulling home, no fireflies, only lights and wine. The main thing is that I can no longer write such poetry, such wonderful calligraphy.
The Shuowen explains: "Xia, Chinese also. "China has the greatness of etiquette, so it is called Xia; there is the beauty of the clothing chapter, which is called Hua." In Chinese culture, Dashui is also called Xia. The Hanshui in the ancient city was once called Xiashui, and Hankou was called Xiakou. Chinese culture has a long history, like a river. Tagore's "Birds" has the sentence "Born like a summer flower". Life in the summer is rich and colorful, and each life has its own way of surviving. Speaking of essence, everyone's life is to try to find their own position, to do the right thing at the right time, to find the right friend. The most important thing to mention is that the sound of cicadas in summer, sometimes particularly urgent, often stops abruptly at the highest rising notes, throwing like the sound of golden stones. When you are young, you can't hear anything, and when you are middle-aged, you can understand. It is nostalgia and lamentation for the shortness of life. Fabre's Insect Chronicle records the life of a cicada, four years of darkness, and singing. This is not a song of life, but also a song of life.
Every year there is summer, and now there is summer. May everyone's income be free of words "summer", friends can be all over the sky "summer", talk about a love, think of things, spend the month before the "summer". Happy summer, good luck summer!
In the summer of a calligrapher, if he wants to achieve something, he is destined to build a car behind closed doors and sweat like rain.