"Fengshu Ti" is a Song Dynasty ink collection of Song dynasty engravings, compiled by the Southern Song Dynasty Zeng Hong's father, the character Youqing, Jiangxi Luling people.
According to Zeng Hongfu's self-description of the "Stone Carvings", the Fengshu Thesis is divided into pre-post, continuation post, painting post, and appendix, a total of 44 volumes, inscribed in the years of Song Jiaxi (1237-1240) and Chun You (1241-1252). Because the stone pieces were placed in Fengshan Academy after being carved, it was called "Fengshu Ti".
However, the entire manuscript of this inscription has long been lost, and the only thing that can be seen now is the remnants of the Song Tuoben, counting the eleventh, fifteenth, and eighteenth volumes of the previous post, and the continuation of the poster volumes three, four, ten to sixteen, a total of twelve volumes, which are treasured by the Shanghai Library and belong to the only one in the sea.
Although the entire collection of "Fengshu Thesis" does not exist, only from the titles of the existing volumes, it can be known that this collection of posts is engraved with the inkblots of well-known figures in the political, cultural, and academic fields of the Song Dynasty, especially the inkblots of important figures before and after the Song Dynasty, from the emperor's Kuizhang Yuhan to the public and private letters of famous courtiers, scholars, and scribes, articles and poems, Hanyuan manuscripts, etc. Many of them are named in the "History of Song" and are also calligraphers.
What is particularly valuable is that this inscription is the ink of the Song dynasty, most of which are originally stoned by the Zeng family based on their own collection and borrowed authenticities, and the carving is exquisite, and its credibility is by no means comparable to those engraved posts that have been repeatedly engraved and distorted.
The remnants of these twelve volumes of Song Tuo's Fengshu Ti were successively collected by Liang Baolin, Ye Zhiyi, Yao Xiaoyuan and Zhang Boying of the Republic of China in the Qing Dynasty, and are now in the Shanghai Library.
Below, we appreciate a few of the pages of the inscription:
Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), also spelled Lu Zhi, was a self-styled valley Daoist and a late Fu Weng. Northern Song Dynasty poet, lyricist, calligrapher, and founder of the Jiangxi poetry school. In the fourth year (1067) of Emperor Yingzong's reign, he entered the priesthood. Liguan Yexian Lieutenant, Beijing Guozijian Professor, School Scrivener, Shushu Lang, Secretary Cheng, Fuzhou Beichai, Qianzhou Placement, etc.
Huang Tingjian's calligraphy was originally taught by Zhou Yue in the Song Dynasty, and later under the influence of Yan Zhenqing, Huai Su, Yang Ningshi and others, and inspired by the style of Jiao Shan's "Crane Ming", cursive writing formed his own style. Huang Tingjian's large character writing is condensed and powerful, the structure is peculiar, almost every word has some exaggerated long paintings, and try to send them out, forming a new method of knotting in the middle palace and diverging from the four edges, which has a great impact on future generations. Structurally, it is obviously influenced by Huaisu, but the twists and turns of the pen are completely different from the rhythm of Huaisu. Before him, roundness and fluency were the tone of cursive writing, while Huang Tingjian's cursive single word structure was dangerous, the chapter method was creative, and he often used the method of displacement to break the boundaries between words, so that the lines formed a new combination, the rhythm changed strongly, so it had a special charm, becoming an outstanding representative of the Northern Song Dynasty book world, and Su Shi became a pioneer of a generation of calligraphy styles. The so-called Song Dynasty calligraphy Shangyi of later generations is aimed at their more ancient methods in terms of pen movement and structure, and the pursuit of calligraphy's artistic conception and taste. Huang Tingjian, along with Su Shi, Mi Fu, cai xiang, etc., is known as the Song Sijia.