Firmly believe that the "body" will not relax, so that Chinese culture will flourish for a long time

The academic seminar on "Inheriting Excellent Culture and Shaping China's Image" and the "Ancient Golden Sentences" book launch jointly sponsored by the University of International Business and Economics, foreign language publishing houses and New Channel International Education Group were successfully held at the University of International Business and Economics. As the editor of the book "Ancient Golden Sentences" and the inscription of the title, the famous calligrapher Mao Guangsong attended the seminar, and combined with his own experience in inheriting and innovating the calligraphy of the ancient language, borrowed three golden sentences from the book and expressed his views. The following is the speech of teacher Mao Guangsong:

Dear leaders, teachers and students,

Golden autumn is the season of harvest, and on this beautiful day, we are full of excitement and have harvested the excellent work of "Ancient Sayings and Golden Sentences". The Chinese nation has a long history and Chinese culture has a long history. The profound spirit of Sinology and the ancient wisdom of the East have enabled the Chinese nation to stand at the forefront of world civilization for thousands of years, and it has had an extremely far-reaching impact on the development of China and even the world. After the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, with the transformation of society, material wealth has increased sharply, while some people's spiritual world has become more and more scarce. Traditional moral norms are being lost, traditional Chinese culture is being faulted, and various negative ideological trends such as weak human feelings, crisis of integrity, materialism, consumerism, and hedonism are rising, and the healthy development of contemporary adolescents has been seriously affected.

"Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great cause of all-round development and progress, and without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there will be no socialist modernization." "To cultivate and carry forward the core socialist values, we must base ourselves on the values of the times in which China's excellent traditional culture emphasizes benevolence, attaches importance to the people, keeps good faith, advocates justice, upholds harmony, and seeks great unity, so that China's outstanding traditional culture can become an important source for cultivating the core values of socialism." The compilation and publication of the book "Ancient Sayings and Golden Sentences" is a concrete action to implement the spirit of the instructions, and we are determined to promote the vitality of China's excellent traditional culture and bear fruitful results.

The book "Ancient Golden Sentences", its innovation has formed the "four beauty in one", that is, the beauty of ancient poetry, the beauty of modern interpretation, the beauty of everyone's calligraphy, and the beauty of pure English. As far as calligraphy is concerned, we have selected the outstanding works of 21 famous calligraphers and screened them on the basis of the activity of "Idiom Golden Sentences, Hundred Schools and Thousand Words - Contemporary Calligraphy Masters Entering Colleges and Universities hanmo tour exhibition". The body of the book involves a wide range of texts, including oracle bones, gold scripts, lishu, calligraphy, cursive writing, calligraphy, calligraphy and calligraphy, etc., colorful, exquisite and flexible, or sonorous and majestic, or gentle and tender, or into the rhythm, or gathered and scattered twists and turns, or the solemnity of the temple, or such as the wonders of the mountains, fine tasting, it is completely the condensed and rhythmic pictures and movements of the gods.

Today, as a calligraphy researcher and practice for nearly 40 years, as an innovative explorer of calligraphy with a thousand-year history, and as the author of the title of "Ancient Golden Sentences", I want to use the three "golden sentences" in the book to express three meanings and share them with you.

The first is inheritance. There is an old saying recorded in this book: "Cultivate one's heart and rule one's body, and then one can govern the world." The ancients explained a truth, only by cultivating the inner, improving moral character, and managing their speech, behavior, and behavior habits can they govern the world. I understand that the inner, moral, and behavioral habits mentioned here all come from the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation that has been passed down from generation to generation, and the cultivation of the mind and the self are first and foremost the cultivation of our profound and profound excellent culture of the Chinese nation. The university is big in the master; The greatness of a master lies in virtue. As teachers and predecessors, it is necessary to be responsible and responsible, inject the essence of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation into the genes of young students, and let contemporary young people deeply cultivate their hearts, govern themselves well, and become the pillars of the country.

The second is innovation. There is a well-known golden sentence recorded in the book: "Qing, taken from blue and blue from blue." Cyan is extracted from the bluegrass, but the color is better than blue, implying that the younger generation is stronger than the predecessor, and the new things are stronger than the past. The young generation has a high starting point and a strong ability to innovate. In this special historical period, when China is increasingly moving towards the center of the world stage, which has not seen the great changes in the millennium, our young people should have stronger self-confidence in the road, theory, system and culture than their predecessors. This kind of self-confidence cannot be blind self-confidence, but must be organically combined with the innovation of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, so that young people as a new force can take root in the source of China's excellent traditional culture, let Chinese culture spread to the world, and let the world be closer, understand and tolerate our great Chinese culture.

The third is persistence. There is a saying in the book: "There is no difficulty in working hard in the world." It is said that as long as you are diligent, there is nothing in the world that will be difficult for people. Calligraphy is the carrier of China's excellent traditional culture and the national essence of our contemporary China. As far as my harvest and experience of inheriting innovative calligraphy is concerned, only by adhering to it can I achieve success. The calligraphy has been lost for more than a thousand years, and all I have to do is to continue to write about the vanished civilization. As the book says, "Although millions of people are looking forward to it."

In the 1960s, Mr. Guo Moruo, a famous modern Jinshi in China, believed that in the Wei and Jin dynasties more than 1,600 years ago, a transitional calligraphy between Lishu and Kaishu, the Cui style, may have been the mainstream script of the society at that time, and may have been mysteriously lost from history due to the "ban on monuments" of Cao Cao and later Sima Yan. It was not until more than a thousand years later, in the seventh year of Daoguang (1827) and the second year of Xianfeng (1852) of the Qing Dynasty, that two tombstones, the "Cuan Long Yan Stele" and the "Cui Bao Zi Stele" (historically known as the "Er Cuan Stele" in the Qujing region of Yunnan Province, were excavated one after another, which unveiled a brilliant and mysterious page in the history of the development of Chinese characters and the history of calligraphy, and aroused the attention of the full scholars, historical researchers and calligraphers at that time and afterwards to this sealed thousand-year-old calligraphy body. However, due to the backward means of communication at that time and other factors, the understanding, research and dissemination of this calligraphy, which is known as a major discovery in the history of Chinese calligraphy, has always stayed between the upper class and some researchers. To this day, only a few people in the local and domestic calligraphy circles in Qujing, Yunnan Province, really understand and study this body that was originally regarded as a noble and majestic and Chia Tai weather. The body has always been regarded as a niche calligrapher and not valued.

Over the years, with a high sense of responsibility and mission, I have insisted on studying and studying calligraphy and achieved some results. Since my calligraphy has the three characteristics of "inheritance, innovation and uniqueness", in June 2015, after review by the China Copyright Protection Center and the approval of the National Copyright Protection Administration of the People's Republic of China, the copyright of "Mao Guangsong Gong Body Calligraphy" named after an individual was registered and protected according to law (Guozuo Dengzi -2015-F-00198353). In addition, the Peking University Founder Font Library, which produces the "Founder Mao Guangsong Gong Body Calligraphy" computer font library, has been fully launched in November 2020, and the "Mao Font" has become a new member of the commonly used fonts in the contemporary Chinese computer font library. In the process of inheritance and innovation for many years, I have always insisted on achieving the "three noes", that is, not changing the original intention, and insisting that Qingshan will not relax; Tirelessly, the belt gradually widened and there was no regret; Do not hesitate to deny yourself, delete the complicated three autumn trees, and lead the new February flowers. This is an inevitable requirement and the only way to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.

Finally, to borrow the first sentence of the book's preface: Through the smoke and rain of the millennium, we are gathered here. We hope that our "Golden Sentences of Ancient Languages" will build a bridge between the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and the contemporary youth, so that Chinese culture can be passed on from generation to generation and will flourish for a long time.

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