Yu Youren is a famous modern politician, educator and calligrapher, whose ancestral home is Sanyuan, Shaanxi. In his time, there were also many people who were learning calligraphy, especially some people around him who liked to write cursive. Some people are obsessed with cursive writing and write all day long, which can be said to have reached the point of waste paper and three cars. But can writing like this work? Can I become a calligrapher?
There's an interesting story here. Some people take the well-written works to Yu Ren for advice and ask how they are written? Yu Yi saw that it was written in cursive, so let the person who wrote it read it in person, what was written? But that person couldn't read it for a long time, and Yu Youren said, Isn't this your own writing? The other party said, yes, this was written yesterday, but he can't read it now, and some of the grass methods have not been memorized, all of which are blindly pondered by himself.
Therefore, Yu Youren said that the words you wrote yourself did not know the next day, which shows that you still have no introduction to the study of cursive. Cursive is difficult to read, but it has cursive methods, and these cursive methods must be memorized. Later, Yu Youren also set up a standard cursive society for this purpose, specially organized relevant personnel to summarize the standard writing method of cursive, and he personally completed the writing of the "Standard Cursive" poster.
Considering some of today's cursive works, although we cannot say that some cursive methods are wrong, there is a phenomenon that should be worth thinking about and studying. This phenomenon is that in order to pay attention to the sense of form of the work, many famous artists have exaggerated, interspersed, etc. a certain word, so that cursive writing will be difficult to identify, which does not meet the fundamental requirements of cursive calligraphy.
Yu Youren once said that no matter what kind of book style, word transmission and information transmission are the most important, even if it is cursive, it has its own laws to speak of. A person who does not know cursive, through the study of cursive cursive, can also identify what is written.
Now some netizens also say on the Internet, master so-and-so, you wrote the work to us to read it, maybe you can't recognize it yourself. Some calligraphy enthusiasts also say that it is precisely because these so-called masters have left traditional calligraphy aside, engaged in the so-called art of calligraphy, and used their fame, position and platform to take calligraphy lovers astray, which really should not be!
There is also a story here, that is, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, many people in the hometown of Caosheng Zhang Zhi began to learn cursive calligraphy under his influence, and some people wrote day and night, making their bodies full of black ink, ink on their faces, mouths, and teeth, and they only knew how to write every day, and did nothing else. In response to this phenomenon, Zhao Yi advised people not to focus on learning cursive writing, how many grass saints like Zhang Zhi can have? Everyone must complete the "self-cultivation and rule the country and the world" is the greatest thing.
Nowadays, many calligraphers are a good phenomenon, because there are so many people inheriting traditional calligraphy and promoting classic culture, but it is a pity that famous artists have embarked on the road of calligraphy artistry, and some people carry brushes to scribble, which is considered by some people to be masters, they perform the so-called calligraphy in front of everyone, teach brushwork and form in front of students, and advocate "innovation", which is really undeserved.
Whether it is cursive or calligraphy, contemporary masters should use their right to speak and carry up the banner of promoting classics, instead of fiddling with brushes all day and promoting the so-called innovative practice of "personal speech", if they are divorced from tradition, they are nothing! What do you think?
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