The picture shows the "Traces of the Poetry Road - Zhao Yanjun", a collection of calligraphy in the "Road of Poetry of Eastern Zhejiang and Tang Dynasties", courtesy of Zhao Yanjun
Hangzhou, December 12 (Zhang Yuhuan, Liu Hui) Recently, Zhao Yanjun, vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Calligraphers Association, officially published his latest work "Traces of Poetry Roads - Zhao Yanjun's "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road" Calligraphy Collection", which involves four major themes such as poetry and painting, landscape, Buddhist Taoism, and celebrities.
For thousands of years, many literati and inkers have set out from the Qiantang River, passed through shaoxing, the ancient capital of Zhejiang, crossed the Cao'e River from Jinghu Lake to the south, traced the source upwards, entered the Xixi, walked through Wozhou and Tianmu in Xinchang, Shaoxing, crossed the Tiantai Mountain, and walked out of a 500-kilometer-long "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road", leaving a large number of popular poems. Among the more than 2,200 authors of Quan Tang Poems, a total of 451 wrote more than 1,500 famous works around the "Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang".
The picture shows Zhao Yanjun's calligraphy works. Courtesy of Zhao Yanjun
This "Road of Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang" with poetry as a link had an important impact on Zhao Yanjun. He introduced that this collection of calligraphy is divided into 8 sections, such as "Qingshan Line Is Not Exhausted, Green Water, How Long, General Article, Zhejiang East Chapter", "Always Leading the End of the Heavens Where Qingshan is Yuezhong Yuezhou Chapter", "Xiling Encounters wind since ancient times is Tongjin Xiaoshan Chapter", and the creation lasted more than two years.
In Zhao Yanjun's view, in the hearts of Chinese poets, landscapes and landscapes are important emotional sustenance, and the literary spirit of landscapes can be observed from poetry. It is necessary to follow the footsteps of the poet to find the original heart, so that the rich and diverse natural customs and cultural resources can blend with the current situation in history and the present situation, reflecting his emotions, ideals, perceptions and the fashion of the times in which he lives.
Write about zhejiang landscapes and re-take the road of Tang poetry. Combing through the humanistic Zhejiang is also a re-understanding and sublimation of Zhao Yanjun's self. Between 2014 and 2019, Zhao Yanjun's large-scale theme creation "Landscape and Water Traces - Zhao Yanjun Calligraphy Collection" also brought together nearly 350 calligraphy works he created in the past five years. These two collections of works are led by "Ode to Zhejiang", with the tang poetry road that has flowed through the ages, the famous mountains and rivers of Zhejiang as the context, the famous sentences and famous celebrities as the base point, and the creation of a variety of calligraphy styles such as li, kai, xing, and cursive, connecting the classics with the folk and realizing the integration of stele and posters.
"In fact, the meaning of the calligrapher does not lie in an identity or a profession, but in the understanding of inspiration and the freedom of spiritual release in the practice of calligraphy." Zhao Yanjun said that in a sense, it is not the calligrapher who creates the calligraphy, but the calligraphy that completes the calligrapher.
In his view, calligraphy is one of the most national and penetrating Chinese excellent traditional cultures. Zhejiang's calligraphy cultural phenomena, calligraphy masters, calligraphy classics are unique, and rich historical and cultural resources also provide an extremely important carrier and development dimension for the shaping of The brand of calligraphy activities in Zhejiang.
"The influence of cultural geography on culture and art is deeply rooted." Zhao Yanjun analyzed that the unique and profound cultural accumulation of Zhejiang region for a long time has directly formed a relatively stable and orderly calligraphy inheritance and calligraphy brand characteristics in Zhejiang, and has also bred a large number of calligraphers such as Wang Xizhi, Yu Shinan, Zhao Mengfu, Wu Changshuo, Ma Yifu, Sha Menghai and so on.
Zhao Yanjun said that in the future, by continuing to excavate and utilize Zhejiang calligraphy cultural resources, integrating and optimizing modern calligraphy cultural resources, focusing on creating a number of calligraphy cultural brands with Zhejiang characteristics, and periodically and normalizing the continuous launch of calligraphy brand activities, Zhejiang calligraphy cultural resources will be revitalized and revitalized in modern society, highlighting the charm of cultural Zhejiang and calligraphy Zhejiang. (End)