The picture shows the "Traces of The Poetry Road - Zhao Yanjun", a collection of calligraphy of the "Road of Poetry of Eastern Zhejiang and Tang Dynasties", courtesy of Zhao Yanjun
Hangzhou, January 14 (Zhang Yuhuan) For thousands of years, many literati and inkers have set out from the Qiantang River, passed through the ancient capital of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, from jinghu lake to the south across the Cao'e River, traced up the source, into the Xixi River, across the Tiantai Mountain... Out of a 500-kilometer-long "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road", leaving a large number of popular poems. At present, there is such a calligrapher, after several years of re-walking the "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road", using calligraphy as the carrier to show the weather of Eastern Zhejiang Tang poetry, present the excellence of Zhejiang's landscapes, and lay out the profound knowledge of Zhejiang's humanities.
This calligrapher is Zhao Yanjun, vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature and chairman of the Zhejiang Calligraphers Association. His latest work, "Shilu Yan traces - Zhao Yanjun's "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road" Calligraphy Collection" (hereinafter referred to as "Poetry Road Yan Traces"), was recently published, covering four major themes such as poetry and painting, landscape, Buddhist Taoism, and celebrities.
The picture shows Zhao Yanjun's calligraphy works. Courtesy of Zhao Yanjun
In 2019, Zhejiang issued the "Zhejiang Poetry Road Cultural Belt Development Plan", with poems (poetry and songs) stringing texts, with roads (water system ancient roads) stringing belts, to build Zhejiang East Tang Poetry Road, Grand Canal Poetry Road, Qiantang River Poetry Road, Oujiang Mountain Water Poetry Road and other "four poetry roads" construction. These "four poetic roads" are the context of Zhejiang, embodying the endless cultural creativity, as well as the historical vein of Zhejiang, and the precious cultural heritage left behind by green mountains and rivers.
Zhao Yanjun said that the construction of the Shilu Cultural Belt can be described as a collection of resources that reflect the contemporary and the historical, and a unique whole that integrates nature and humanities. This practical theme of the times gave birth to his creative concept of writing the sequel to "Traces of Landscapes and Wild Geese". Therefore, the "Road of Poetry of Eastern Zhejiang and Tang Dynasties" was created as the theme of the first poem and was included in its creative plan. Among the more than 2,200 authors of Quan Tang Poems, a total of 451 wrote more than 1,500 famous works around the "Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang".
"A poetry trail like the 'Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang' not only nurtures cultural genes for the construction of contemporary 'beautiful Zhejiang', but also provides a text carrier for artists to create themes." Zhao Yanjun said that for a long time after that, he repeatedly read the "Poetry of the Eastern Tang Dynasty of Zhejiang" and tried to find and feel the poetic freedom of the Literati of the Tang Dynasty through poetry.
"I also went out of the bookstore to trace the poems, set off from xiling ancient ferry on the bank of the Qiantang River, passed through JingHu Lake, crossed the Cao'e River, traced the river, went up to the heavens, ascended to the rooftop, walked along the footsteps of the poets, walked through the trunk line of the poetry road, and intuitively realized the Tang People's painting of 'the green mountains are endless, and the green water is long'." Zhao Yanjun said that during this period, history, nature and poetry were intertwined with each other, and the times, humanities and art were all integrated, and he brewed the passion and imagination of writing thousand-year-old Tang poems in one touch and sigh after another.
The publication of "Traces of The Wild Goose on the Road of Poetry" has also triggered discussions in the industry. Yang Yong, deputy editor of "Calligraphy" magazine, was also infected by the humanistic spirit behind this thousand-year-old poetry road when he read "Traces of The Wild Goose on the Poetry Road".
"The writing content of the "Traces of the Wild Goose on the Poetry Road" revolves around the 'Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang', and the abundance of eastern Zhejiang not only feeds the descendants of eastern Zhejiang, but also the place where the great literati of all generations have admired and retreated. More than a thousand years ago, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Yuan Shu and other poets who had great influence on future generations once stayed in this land, chanted, or mourned, or excited, all of which made the land of eastern Zhejiang full of connotation. Yang Yong said.
In his view, the reason why classical poetry can haunt and move people from time to time is that it contains the most authentic life scene and attitude of people, "poetry often triggers us to think, that is, how people experience life and walk through life calmly and warmly." ”
Yang Yong believes that the poetry of eastern Zhejiang has comprehensively recorded the local people's feelings, customs, scenery and changes over the past thousand years, and a large number of poems look like nothing more than lyrical, scenic, singing, farewell, yongshi, etc., in fact, covering all aspects of the humanities of heaven and earth, telling and retaining the "moment" in the thousand autumns of the people of eastern Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang.
"These continuous images of eastern Zhejiang have been unfolded into a continuous picture scroll in the "Traces of the Wild Goose on the Poetic Road", and at the same time combined with the author's or strict calligraphy, or the wanton line of grass, or the large character couplet to show the majestic atmosphere, or the small character line grass to show a graceful posture, the combination of 'book' and 'text' is always so harmonious and natural." Yang Yong commented that this kind of creative state of people following poems and writing with poems is desirable.
Wang Jiakui, vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Book Association, also sighed after reading "Traces of The Wild Goose on the Road of Poetry", "After reading it again, the poetry is inky, enough to carve stones to pass on the immortals." ”
"When art is contemporary, its purpose is to require artists to search for the unique peaks and maintain their independent pursuits; it also requires artists to conform to the natural sounds of the times and seek commonality in the race of thousands of horses. This kind of creative ecology in which personality and commonality are compatible are the avenues of artistic creation. Zhao Yanjun summed it up.
Between 2014 and 2019, Zhao Yanjun's large-scale theme creation "Landscape and Water Traces - Zhao Yanjun Calligraphy Collection" also brought together nearly 350 calligraphy works he created in the past five years. These two collections of works are led by "Ode to Zhejiang", with the tang poetry road that has flowed through the ages, the famous mountains and rivers of Zhejiang as the context, the famous sentences and famous celebrities as the base point, and the creation of a variety of calligraphy styles such as li, kai, xing, and cursive, connecting the classics with the folk and realizing the integration of stele and posters. Zhao Yanjun said that he hopes to respond to major themes of the times with his own creative concepts and pen and ink language, and depict the map of the spirit of the times. (End)