The golden key that opens the door to calligraphy, the Book Notation is truly so magical

Wen also

Sun Guoting was a cattle man, he did not position himself as a calligrapher at all, but a postdoctoral tutor with calligraphy, so he desperately studied the calligraphy of Zhong Zhang Erwang, and wrote a "Book Notation" in the form of calligraphy, and his text was sprinkled with more than 3,000 words, which became the crowning work of Chinese calligraphy theory.

In the 1970s, the American Iris made a "Positioning Theory". As everyone knows, China's literati knew how to position themselves, how to create blue oceans, how to build their own tracks, and how to reduce dimensions and strike more than 2,000 years ago. Sun Guoting is such a master.

Sun Guoting's achievements were not as good as Ouyang Qing's, his status was not as good as Chu Suiliang's, and among the four major calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty, it was difficult to stand out without his position. What he did not expect was that behind him, the Tang Dynasty produced a calligrapher with a bull fork, Yan Lugong, and in terms of calligraphy status alone, it was very difficult for Sun Guoting to enter the top five. Even if Linchi exhausted his ink and had the art of entering the wood, he could not earn a top position in the Tang Dynasty's book world. The Ten Great Books in the History of Calligraphy, without His Share; The four cursive masters and the four masters of the cursive script are also not in their places.

There is no historical data to show what kind of suffering and choice Sun Guoting has experienced, and its results show that he is a very wise calligraphy sage, according to modern language expressions, he is good at planning, dislocation competition, positioning himself as a calligraphy theorist and educator, simply compiling the calligraphy secrets of his lifelong learning and the calligraphy masters, especially the erwang, into a system, building a bridge between the master and the master, the master and the future generations, for the saints to continue to learn, but also become an insurmountable peak in the field of calligraphy theory.

A "Book Score" turned out to be, which established his immortal status throughout the ages. It seems that the master game, the competition is not technology, but the way!

The beauty of "Book Notation" I briefly summarize into three points: the "History of Calligraphy", the model of learning, and the aesthetics of creation.

The Book Notation is a calligraphic "historical record"

The Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the era of the awakening of Chinese art. As a sign of the awakening of calligraphy art, Cui Yao's "Cursive Writing Posture", Cai Yong's "Seal Posture", "Pen Theory" and "Nine Trends" expound the artistic characteristics and values of grass, seal and li. Cai Yong proposed that "the book of husbands originates from nature, nature is established, and yin and yang are born; The view that yin and yang are born and the situation is out of the ordinary" raises calligraphy to the height of ontology, revealing the inherent laws and characteristics of calligraphy art. Cai Yong was deeply influenced by the teachings of Huang Lao, and such a discourse on calligraphy laid the foundation for the relationship between calligraphy and Chinese philosophy in one fell swoop.

From ancient times to the Tang Dynasty, the "Book Genealogy" has greatly sorted out the previous calligraphy evaluations, calligraphy works, and calligraphy theories, and summarized the values of its characters, theories, and works according to its own theoretical system, burning the essence and discarding the dross. Huanghuang three thousand words, the size of the handwriting, Shuo ancient and shocking the present. There are both historical records and theoretical anatomy, and the literary style is vigorous, the idea is novel, the layers are clear, and the front and back care can be described as deeply rooted in the brushwork of the "History". And Sun Guoting's positioning of "spectrum" shows his artistic pursuit. It should be noted that "notation" is a musical term, and in the form of musical rhythm, it is blessed with calligraphy, indicating the difference between Sun Guoting's "Book Notation" and all other "book theories".

The Book Notation is a model for the study of calligraphy

The Book Notation provides a comprehensive discussion of calligraphy's study, pen movement, book teaching, and book evaluation. First of all, when Sun Guoting explained the different characteristics of writing from mastering the seals, subordinates, grasses, and chapters, and then rising to the art of writing, he said: "Then the wind god is Rin, and the wen is Yanrun; Drums are dry, and they are idle. Therefore, it can reach its sensuality and form its mourning. The special festival of dryness and wetness, which has remained through the ages; When the body is old and strong, The Ballantine is Russian. "It's full of dialectics, and it's a clever use of methodology. The reasoning is thorough, the metaphors are incisive, the words are full of words, and they are full of fun.

Second, the Book Of Books summarizes the technical principles of calligraphy. Such as clarifying the way of "clinging, making, transferring, and using"; The "late speed" approach of dialectical analysis of writing expresses Sun Guoting's aesthetic pursuit of inheriting Cai Yong's "book creation nature", and establishes the highest technical norms for future generations of scholars. He put forward the general principles of "violating without committing, harmony but difference", revealing the general principles of "change" and "coordination" as the premise of each other and mutual integration, pointing out that "poor pervert" and "reasonable tone" should be "infernal and forget the rules", and change autonomously under the legal premise of knowing and mastering calligraphy, rather than the obsession of the dead law of seeking fish from the wood. Only in this way, "you can carry your back and sacrifice without loss, and you can still work against the clock." ”

The essence of the "Book Spectrum", the compliance of the moment, and the number of words, can be regarded as the law of cursive writing in later generations. Mr. Yu Youren is committed to the standardization and standardization of cursive writing, and most of the word extraction methods are derived from the "Book Spectrum". The initial stage of learning calligraphy is basically a technical work, or craftsmanship, "only hand skilled". In calligraphy writing, a series of technical requirements such as press and retract, push and pull, lead up and down, sudden setback paving, smooth twisting and reverse twisting, vertical pen changing, etc., the combination of orthography, the arrangement of chapters, the thickness of pen and ink, etc., are derived from the Chinese character itself and Chinese philosophical thinking. These secrets that are not transmitted or passed on by heart or mouth are uniquely expressed by Sun Guoting in language and presented in calligraphy. Therefore, as long as the latecomers who want to learn calligraphy, no one can bypass Sun Guoting.

The Book Notation laid the foundation for the aesthetics of calligraphy creation

The creative ideas put forward in the "Book Genealogy" of "when the ancient times were not obedient, the present is not the same as the disadvantages", "why should it be easy to carve the palace in the cave, and the anti-jade is in the vertebral chakra", which has both static benchmarks and dynamic development. It has guiding significance for the inheritance and development of calligraphy creation in previous generations.

Not only that, the author also pays attention to the state of calligraphy creation, and there is a specific narrative: "Shen Yi is idle, yiheye; Grateful for the knowledge, the two in a row; When the harmony is moist, the triad is also; Paper and ink, tetragrammaton; Occasional desire for books, five in a row. The heart is left behind, and the one is also obedient; Intention to go against the trend, two obedient also; Wind dry day inflammation, three well also; Paper and ink are not weighed, and the four are also; Love slack hands, five obedient also. When it comes to alignment, the good and the bad are different. It is better to get the time than to get the instrument, and it is better to get the instrument than to get the will. This passage expresses the spirit and emotions of calligraphy creators, and the subjective and objective states experienced, "reaching their emotional nature and forming their mourning." This is the spiritual temperament created by the ancient Chinese, and only such a spiritual temperament is the basic guarantee for artistic creation.

The "Book Genealogy" has a wonderful description of the aesthetic of calligraphy creation: "The difference between the hanging needles of the GuanFu, the strangeness of the rushing thunder and falling stones, the frightening assets of the Hongfei beasts, the frightening state of the snake dancing snakes, the trend of the desperate shore, and the shape of the dangerous hammer." Or as heavy as a cloud, or as light as a cicada wing. The guide is the spring note, and the dun is the mountain. It is like the beginning of the first moon, falling into the river of the stars. "This passage is beautiful and elegant, and the momentum is magnificent. It reflects Sun Guoting's artistic pursuit of calligraphy aesthetics.

In the Book Of Genealogy, it is said: "To the distribution of beginners, but to seek peace and integrity; Knowing that it is safe and upright, it is necessary to pursue danger, and it is possible to eliminate danger and return to peace and righteousness. It is the book of the Right Army, the last year is more wonderful, when the fate is thoughtful and deliberate, the ambition is peaceful, not agitated, and the wind rules are far away. This is an aesthetic expression of Sun Guoting's Taoist thought. Emphasize the contradictory relationship between movement and stillness in calligraphy creation, static is balanced, and movement is to break the balance. The expression of calligraphy is to create contradictions and resolve contradictions, and in the process, to express the author's creative ability and degree of enlightenment. The reason why Wang Xizhi's "Holy Order" is regarded as a treasure book by the scholars is because every word in the "Holy Order" is brilliant in creating contradictions and resolving contradictions in this way. At the same time, it is also the embodiment of the "beauty of neutralization" in our aesthetic values.

Sun Guoting's aesthetic concept of calligraphy appreciation and creation summarized the "calligraphy" of his predecessors and inspired the creation of future generations. The Qing Dynasty calligrapher Liang Wei said in the "Treatise on Learning Books": "The Jin people are still yun, the Tang people are still law, and the Song people are still yi." The so-called Jinren Shangyun is actually the yearning and pursuit of the ethereal realm outside the transcendent objects of Lao Tzu, especially Zhuangzi. The Tang Dynasty Shangfa refers to the development of calligraphy into a mature calligraphy font during the Tang Dynasty, and a number of calligraphy masters who are good at calligraphy such as Ou, Yu, Chu, Xue, Yan, and Liu have appeared, and at the same time, they have their own style of calligraphy masters, forming their own Fadu. Song Ren Shangyi covers the importance of philosophical rationality, heavy bookishness, heavy stylization, and heavy artistic expression, especially the individualization and originality in calligraphy creation. All of these are the artistic reproductions of Sun Guoting's "ancient times were not obedient, and the present is not good", and also reflect the enduring renewal of his aesthetic value.