Tianshui Yellow River
The combination of birds and words reflects the psychological principles of the perfection of the personality of the ancients and the concept of nature taken from heaven and earth. The symbolic world depicted in the bird and insect seal characters constitutes the archetypal structure of the psychological principles for the perfection of the personality of the ancient Chinese people, which is a cultural structure produced by the Chinese nation from its historical development in the process of formation, the foundation of the emergence of aesthetic concepts, the relationship between man and the universe, and the product of human social exchanges with each other. The world and the human society are combined with each other, the human body and the human spirit confirm each other, and the interaction between the two forms a network structure of psychological symbolic meaning. Expressed in bird and insect seal text, it is the presentation of this network form that interacts with each other. Although the shape of the bird and insect seal is ever-changing and used to express different imagery, the connotation of the image of communicating heaven and earth is consistent.
"On Sentences"
As an ancient Chinese script, the Bird and Bug Seal is the expression of traditional Chinese culture and the carrier of traditional Chinese culture. Chinese national culture is the event expressed by the bird and insect seal, which constitutes the deep structure of Chinese national culture and has a certain impact on Chinese culture. The figurative thinking, poetic wisdom, symbolic culture, conscious expression, Zen epiphany, quasi-consciousness, and aesthetic conception of Chinese culture are all inseparable from the cultural transmission, cultural carrier and written thinking of the bird and insect seal.
"Chu Kingdom Bird and Insect Seal Characters"
The poetic tradition of the Chinese nation takes meaning as the first, the painting shape is mainly based on the line, the architectural shape is shaped by the square, and the line is the core of the calligraphy and painting, and its roots can be found in the expression of the bird and insect seal. It is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, which is flesh-and-blood connection and inseparable from Chinese culture. Together with other cultures, the bird and insect seals form the backbone of Chinese culture. Mutual integration, mutual promotion and common development have made the Chinese civilization endless and enduring. As a traditional origin cultural form inherent in the local area, it has historically continued as an elegant court culture until the Qing Dynasty. The use of a vast area, splendid cultural forms, in the development of Chinese culture for thousands of years, has always been an important participant, inheritor and contributor.
(Text/Lin)
Artist Bio:
Liu Changhua, male, born in 1967, Wenshang, Shandong, Ziyuanzhang, president of the Confucius Hometown Calligraphy and Painting Institute in Qufu City, honorary chairman of the Jining National High-tech Zone Calligraphers Association, vice president of the Bird and Insect Seal Art Research Institute.