Forest of Steles in Xi'an
Small Dictionary of Calligraphy (continued)
——Xie Deping, Sun Dunxiu, Yang Zengquan
Northwest Han Jian is also known as "Han Jian", named after its appearance in the northwest frontier. For details, see the "Han Jane" article.
Xi'an Forest of Steles Was formerly known as "Ink Cave" or "Stele Cave". In the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1090 AD), it was built in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to preserve the Tang Kaicheng Stone Classic. In the future, there have been inscriptions added in successive dynasties, which is the place with the largest number of preserved stele stones in China, and a total of more than 2,300 stele stones of han, Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have been collected. The house measures 2,880 square metres and includes six large showrooms, seven verandas and a monumental pavilion. Famous monuments and divine products; all kinds of wonders, thousands of forms, can be called the treasure house of China's calligraphy art. The forest of steles plays an extremely important role in the study of China's ancient culture and art.
The Eight Schools of Sileng is one of the famous schools of seal engraving. It began in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and was founded by Ding Jing, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang. His artistic style swept through the time, and it was later fashionable for his teachers to imitate Ding Jing. The more famous and individual ones are Jiang Ren (seal method refining), Huang Yi (pen strength and vigor), Xi Gang (handwriting Qingjun), Chen Yuzhong (neat layout), Chen Hongshou (indulgent and smooth), Zhao Zhichen (skillful and charming), and Qian Song (ancient clumsy and reckless). They take the Fadin and change it, not as one, but with their own characteristics. In the art of seal engraving, it is also famous, because its eight people are all from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, so it is called "Xiling Eight Families".
Xiling Printing Society was originally a self-organized non-governmental academic group. Founded in the 30th year of the Qing Dynasty (1904 AD) by Ding Ren, Wang Qi, Wu Yin and Ye Weiming, it was named "Xiling Printing Society" because it was founded on the banks of Xizi Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and was named "Xiling Printing Society". The purpose of the printing society was to "preserve the golden stone and study the study of printing", which had become the center of the study of printing at that time. After the liberation, the Printing Society turned to the profession, academic research went to the right track, sorted out the imprint legacy left by the ancients, cultivated and gathered a team of printing scholars with artistic achievements, played a great role in promoting Cultural Exchanges between China and foreign countries, and made important contributions to the art of seal engraving in China.
Pressure gauge A tool used to suppress paper when writing and painting. Also known as "paperweight" or "Wenzhen". Made of copper, iron, porcelain or jade, it is a long strip with various patterns or poems and sayings carved on it.
Pressing scrolls Are the works that are rated as the best works of calligraphy and painting, and the artistry exceeds that of other calligraphy and painting works, and are called the works of pressed scrolls.
The corner stamp is a seal stamped slightly higher or lower in the lower right corner of the work, also known as the "corner seal" or "foot seal". When stamping, choose a significant blank space or the corner of the paper, and avoid the same word. Its content is often the author's favorite poems, aphorisms and aphorisms and chronology, and one side of the pressed chapter can play a role in echoing and decorating the paper.
One of the common stroke forms of cursive writing refers to the zigzag pen, which is divided into left and right roundabouts. Mostly semi-encircled, fully enclosed, and the sketches of the strokes are connected.
Passing the pen refers to the pen action of running and moving when writing the main pen, the pen edge falls to the paper and then begins to run and move, chen Xuan in the Yuan Dynasty once said in the "Hanlin Tips": "Over, very sick," when writing this stroke, it should not be condensed, it must not be re-changed, it should be fast and powerful, and the penmanship should be smooth.
Gui pen Refers to a brush that is smaller than a small brush.
Ji Jinwen The old name of "Jinwen". For details, see the "Golden Text" article.
Bai ti shu is a collective name for a variety of miscellaneous books that change due to events on the basis of ancient texts, large seals, small seals, lishu, calligraphy, calligraphy, cursive script. Liang Chaoyu Yuanwei wrote an article entitled "On the Book", claiming that "the ten screens of the book are made of hundreds of bodies, and the ink is collected intermittently." The "hundred" of "hundred bodies" is an approximate number, not a real number, but a variety of book styles, color (color) ink (color) combined use, the so-called "body", also does not refer to the general history of calligraphy as the truth, grass, li, seal and other asanas, but includes the miscellaneous books that change on this basis, which are similar to today's decorative art characters. For example, the "Book of the Head of the Crane" is to say that the body of the book resembles the "head of the swan"; the "Book of The Tiger's Claw" mostly refers to the "tiger claw shape" at the beginning or end of the pen; the "Book of Wind" and the "Book of Clouds" are all imitations of the dynamics of animals or other objects.
Dynamic beauty is an element of calligraphy beauty, although the body of the book is different, but it all presents different dynamics, Su Dongpo said: "True as standing, walking as walking, grass as walking." "That is to say, different book styles have a moving momentum. The composition of each word stroke also has dynamic beauty, similar to "points like peaks falling stones", "horizontal like a thousand miles of clouds" and so on. People also understand the "principle" of the rhythm of movement from the concrete image of objective things. For example, Huai Su realized the meaning of cursive writing from "flying birds out of the forest and frightening snakes into the grass"; Zhang Xu realized the cursive gesture from the gongsun lady's sword dance. A whole work from dots, knots to chapters and other images with a sense of movement can give people a dynamic beauty.