Scrolls of the Buddhist Relics Sutra, Song, Book of Zhang Jizhi, on paper, in italics, 29 cm in length and 867.9 cm in width.
The Sutra of the Buddha's Testament is a record of Shakyamuni's last discourse before Nirvana, translated by Yao Qin Sanzang Master KumaRashi, and is an important Buddhist scripture.
This volume was written in the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1255), and was signed "Zhang Jizhi was written at the age of seventy, and Baoyou was three years old in the summer solstice", which is one of the fine works of Zhang's later years. His pen is solid and strong, and he uses the pen to move and echo gu pan's trend, dot painting Gu Pan's feelings, known as "doing what he does". Under the cloak, it is full of fun, and the knots are handsome and the bones are strong. In a word, the strokes are thick and clear, the stretching and stretching are made randomly, the bones are clear and strange without losing the law, good at changing and reasonable, both the Tang Dynasty relics and their own style. Originally folded, it was later changed to a long scroll.
Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy was deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty, and the beginners Ouyang Qing, Chu Suiliang and Yan Zhenqing, as well as Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, and Mi Fu in the Northern Song Dynasty, were also the objects of his dharma. Later references to the Han Li and Jin and Tang classics, coupled with the influence of Zen philosophical thought, formed a unique style of calligraphy art. And can "pass on the family learning alone", with Zhang Xiaoxiang's book as the main tone, and become a system of its own. This system was formed on the basis of inheriting the traditional techniques of the ancients, absorbing a lot of nutrients and then boldly innovating.
Zhang Jizhi is good at calligraphy and list books, and especially xi is a big character. He was erudite and knowledgeable, "sexually pure, fond of school books, and hand-written books of scripture and history." Zhang Jizhi was the leading figure in the Southern Song Dynasty's calligraphy circle, the History of the Development of Chinese Calligraphy, the Song Six, including Zhang Jizhi, and the other five were the Northern Song Dynasty Four Families and Zhao Tuo. Zhang Jizhi was an innovator who turned the tide in the late Southern Song Dynasty, revitalized the art of calligraphy, and spent his life changing the declining style of calligraphy, and he was famous for a while, and had the reputation of "Song Shudian Army". The "History of Song" said that it "smelled the world with noh books" and "the big characters were elegant and vigorous, and the fine books were extraordinary".
The next stroke is simple and condensed, the pen is solid and strong, the dot painting gu pansheng, the knot is handsome and the bone is strong, so that the character knot is vivid and bright, refreshing and not conventional. His book "Big Character Du Fu Poetry Volume" was rated by predecessors as "there is a long wind and breaking waves". Although the Jurchens were far in the north and were in a hostile position with the Southern Song Dynasty regime, they did not hesitate to buy Zhang Jizhi's Hanmo works with heavy money.
His works include the Book of The Relics of the Buddha, the Vajrapani Prajnaparamita Sutra, the Taishang Dong Xuan LingBao Wuwei Ren Shang Pin Miao Sutra, the Xingshu "Song of Shuangsong Tu", the "Record of the To Be Leaked", "The Book of Du Shi", "The Record of the Wang's Baoben Nunnery" and so on.
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