Yao Chong, a famous tang dynasty minister and famous politician, once set up a metaphor for the gentleman's product: "Inner with ice and pure, outer with jade, this gentleman's curling virtue is also!" Xie Shaocheng, director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association and final judge of the National Art Fund of the Ministry of Culture, has been practicing internal skills and cultivating virtue for decades, advocating the life of the two Jinshi people without restraint and without stumbling clouds. Many of his peers in the industry praised him for being a tall man who had no intention of being spoiled.
Xie Shaocheng, born in July 1963 in Baoyingwangzhigang, Jiangsu Province, graduated from high school and worked as a rural substitute teacher. However, his dream is to put on his favorite olive green, walk into the barracks as a PLA soldier, and be trained in the melting pot of the troops. He started from the grassroots level, step by step, step by step, step by step. It is the gold placed there will shine, Xie Shaocheng because of his willingness to bear hardships and stand hard work, the quality of all aspects is hard, and he was quickly promoted and reused. In 1988, he entered the Nanjing Academy of the Arts of the People's Liberation Army for further study with excellent college entrance examination results. He studied hard, and under the teachings and guidance of famous teachers, he stood out, and many articles and works appeared frequently in the media. When his deeds appeared in many newspapers and periodicals, the comrades who were soldiers with him suddenly realized. They sighed with excitement, how many years of accumulation, finally made Xie Shaocheng's artistic life "iron pestle grinding into a needle".
Comrade-in-arms recalled that after reading the newspaper of the Political Department at that time, he was taken by Xiao Xie to practice writing. After being transferred to the film group, Xiao Xie was a non-stop pendulum clock. It is necessary to put on movies and draw slides, but also to arrange the publicity windows in the regiment and the transcription of monograms, slogans and related documents. But no matter how busy his work was, every day he had to squeeze out time to practice calligraphy. In the summer, he was sweaty, and he insisted on practicing; in the winter, the cold wind was cold, and his hands were frostbitten and yellow, and he insisted on practicing. Not only did I practice writing in old newspapers, but I also practiced with a brush dipped in clear water on the terrazzo floor of the auditorium hall.
Everyone knows that the beginning of practicing calligraphy begins with copying. If you mechanically and passively follow others, there will generally be no good results. According to their own potential, we must choose a good direction of efforts, in the repeated copying, to understand, to find gaps and deficiencies, continuous practice, continuous improvement, to promote the leap of understanding, and gradually form their own things and strengths.
When Xie Shaocheng gave a lecture, he told the students in a simple and simple way with the metaphor of the image that copying is as important as calligraphy and painting sketching, and it is a shortcut for calligraphy creation to enter the kingdom of freedom from the kingdom of necessity. As an abstract art, calligraphy does not rely on natural objects to provide creative materials like painting, but a black-and-white art with aesthetic functions that is illusioned with dots and lines as the basic elements. Therefore, the calligraphy art elements for our reference and enlightenment can only be found in the works of predecessors, and new understanding can be obtained from copying ancient handwriting. The ultimate goal of copying is to finally jump out of the mold and form your own style. There are many ancients and today's book masters, copying the pre-selection post is very important, can not be led by others to the nose, others say what post is pro, but according to their own study plan and preferences, choose their own interest and easy to understand the stele, so that they can come in, can achieve the effect of half the effort.
Confucius said that it is necessary to be sensitive to words and sensitive to deeds. This means that you should speak carefully and act quickly. Xie Shaocheng's artistic life can be said to be a person who combines knowledge and action to say less and do more.
Once, when nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, collected the Spring Festival Couplet, most calligraphers wrote couplets written by others, and Xie Shaocheng wrote long couplets that he repeatedly polished:
Swallow cut year end, Xinhua Garden Spring Shu sleeves;
The pig houses six animals first, and the jianghai Taotou people make the tide.
Xu Xu, former president of the Xinhua Daily newspaper of the judging group, commented with deep emotion that Xie Shaocheng's Spring Festival Is not only good in calligraphy but also in content; it is a rare song of spring festivals that is not only good at fighting and relevant to the topic, but also has complete literary style!
The internal skills of calligraphers also include the familiarity and study of ancient culture, especially ancient poetry. Wang Wei's poem is a wonderful landscape painting with artistic conception, and his painting is also a poem with elegant style and timeless meaning. Xie Shaocheng is not only a calligrapher, but also a very accomplished poet. On November 29, 2021, the fifth "Poetry China. The "Beautiful New Journey" competition was awarded in Beijing, and Xie Shaocheng's "Tianwen-1" Mars Probe Liftoff Sense Endowment won the second prize.
A famous calligrapher spoke highly of Xie Shaocheng's works, saying that his works had the wind and bones of the two kings of the Jin Dynasty and the two kings, and they were ethereal and free. The comment said: "Whether it is the details between the beginning and closing of the pen, or the rhythm of the writing process, he let the fun slip between the fingers and wrists, floating on the paper, becoming a clear stream, a school of fun, a kind of elegance, melodious and wonderful." In particular, his cursive writing was derived from the ease of Wei Jin's heart, which became a way of expression that was not reserved and forced the Song people. Xie Shaocheng advocates passing on the imitation, taking the ancient as the new, taking its own strengths from each family, immersing himself in the ancient inscriptions, cutting the lamp and cooking tea, and enjoying it tirelessly. Guan Xie Shaocheng's works are both "ancient" and "new", and there are more "new" and "surprising", which are unexpected in the law. On the occasion of taste, there is a unique wind god.
In this way, xie Shaocheng has achieved impressive results in learning without tiring people's tireless artistic life.
He graduated from Nanjing Academy of arts in 1990 and was awarded the "Liu Haisu Scholarship".
His works were included in the exhibition sponsored by the Chinese Calligraphers Association: the first and second Chinese calligraphy "Lanting Award";
The first exhibition of outstanding works of members of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, more than 70 national authoritative exhibitions;
Invited to participate in the Palace Museum's "Exhibition of Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Masterpieces";
Beijing International Calligraphy Biennale "Exhibition of Works of Young and Middle-Aged Chinese Award-Winning Calligraphers";
"Walking Horse Lingnan" National Award-Winning Military Calligraphers Ten-Person Exhibition;
Various influential exhibitions such as "Xin Jiao Shangmi Quyang Ya Collection", "Sino-Japanese Self-Yong Calligraphy Exhibition", "Sino-Korean Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition" and so on.
The 8th National Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Exhibition won the first place in the overall score of the National Comprehensive Quality Examination; the 5th Chinese Calligraphy Lanting Award and The First National Youth Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Exhibition was rated as the highest award for the winning works; the third prize of the 2nd National Cursive Works Exhibition; and the first national "Three Projects (Famous Works, Famous Artists) Calligraphers", etc.
Let's talk about the national "three projects". In 2008, the Chinese Calligraphers Association organized a thousand works and held a thousand people's exhibition at the National Art Museum of China; in 2010, at the Anyang Literature Museum, another 500 people were selected for the exhibition; in 2012, among the 120 finalists, in 4 years, after strict selection by the jury, 50 famous artists were eliminated one by one. It can be said that the "three projects" of the contemporary book world are the selection activities of calligraphy masters with the most gold content since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The three high-quality projects in the contemporary book world are an important professional work identified by the six national book congresses. It aims to call on the calligraphy of the times and create a number of fine works with strong artistic charm and distinctive characteristics of the times
At present, Xie Shaocheng's social part-time positions include directors of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, members of the Professional Committee of Calligraphy, vice chairman of the Jiangsu Calligraphers Association, and chairman of the Nanjing Calligraphers Association. Judge of senior titles in the art category of the whole army, vice president and secretary general of the Eastern Theater Army Academy of Fine Arts and Calligraphy.
Xie Shaocheng is a township sage of Baoying, a generation of talents who went out from the black land of Wangzhigang. One year during the Spring Festival, he returned to his hometown and, with the affection of his family, wrote "Spring Dawn in the Village Residence"
The first traces of the residual snow disappeared,
The law turns around to see the thunder rushing.
Amorous South Strange Red Thousand Trees,
Focus on the east wind green a village.
Butterfly dream at dawn on the edge of the fence,
Moon Beckoning Forest Watch Soul.
Mountains and rivers are idle,
What a fear of falling into the wine bottle.
One year, Xie Shaocheng went to Tibet, which was closest to heaven, to collect wind. Using the auspicious flower as a catharsis of feelings, Yongwu lyrically wrote a song "Yong Auspicious Flower"
Snowy auspicious flowers,
Slim and brilliant.
Slightly biased,
Fang is far from boastful.
Rambling wilderness,
Auspicious to the collector.
Jiangdong Passing Road,
Mercy is at the end of the world.
Note: The above two poems are selected from the August 2021 Poetry Journal's 74-page "Focus on this issue" column