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【Luoyang, Henan】Chinese calligraphy has been broad and profound since ancient times, and Chinese character calligraphy, as an original expressive art of the Han people, carries China's five-thousand-year development and civilization. As one of many books, Xiao Kai is difficult to control and control because of its small size, which is difficult to write, and it is the most important thing in many books. On February 15, the reporter visited the famous Zen calligrapher and painter Miaosheng. And through the detailed explanation of Mr. Miaosheng, I further appreciated the essence and artistic charm of the small script.
Chinese Zen calligrapher miaosheng teacher
Miaosheng teacher, formerly known as Zhang Xiaosheng, was born in 1962 in Luoyang, Henan. He is currently a director of the China Book Association, a national first-class artist, and the deputy secretary-general of the Buddhist Association of China. Born in a family of scholars, Miaosheng teacher loved calligraphy since childhood under the influence of his father Zhang Guangjun, and began to practice calligraphy and write Spring League at the age of 4, and Linti at the age of 12. From 2003 to 2005, he studied in the Department of Chinese Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, under the tutelage of Professor Ai Xinjue Luo Hongjun. For decades, the director of many famous calligraphy has devoted himself to the study of calligraphy, copied the scriptures all over the world, and is especially good at Zen calligraphy. His main representative works of calligraphy and painting include Xiao Kai's "Heart Sutra", "Diamond Sutra", "Tao Te Ching", "Lingfei Jing", "Disciple Rules", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Thirty-Six Plans", "Longmen Twenty Pins", as well as "Wei Stele" and the Chinese painting "Four Screens peony figure" and so on.
Miaosheng's small calligraphy is known for its delicate and delicate style. The small letters he wrote, the Heart Sutra, are well-shaped and delicate, like a breeze out of the sleeves, and the moon is in the heart. A silent sound, an invisible phase. His style of writing is ethereal and simple, graceful and far-reaching, and the words are faintly revealing a strong Zen meaning, which can be called the best work in calligraphy. Another of his calligraphy works, the Disciple Rules, is a longitudinal and wide-ranging, open-minded, and the size, weight, righteousness, width, and narrowness of each line of characters are staggered, in a straight line, and are extremely natural. It embodies a simple and elegant, calm and ancient artistic style.
"Teacher Miaosheng, how can I write a good little letter?" What aspects should I pay attention to for beginners? The reporter asked.
"It's important to write well about the posture of the pen. Secondly, we must also pay attention to four elements: that is, the pen should not be too high, should not hang the wrist high, should not lean on the table, the pen should not be too tight or too loose, and the spirit should not be nervous. Because the fingertips feel sensitive. Too tight is easy to stiffen with the pen, too loose is easy to draw weak, so the management should be used soft and hard, to be tight and not dead, loose but not off, not wide and not fierce, there is a neutral way is the best. Teacher Miaosheng replied.
"Teacher Miaosheng, what are the characteristics of the small script?" Why is it more important to write small letters? The reporter asked.
Because the small script advocates peace and simplicity, and the natural atmosphere is scattered, the beginning, line and closing of each stroke are particularly important. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Guoting said in his "Book Genealogy": True uses dot painting as the form to transform into emotion. "True" is the italic, with dot painting as the basic form, requiring the starting, line and receipt of each stroke to be in place and clean and neat. For example, Wang Xizhi's brushwork is calm and full, rich in changes, and the overall style is relatively strong and thick and three-dimensional. And Zhao Mengfu advocates a retro style of writing, his characters are tactful and tactful, the glyphs are dignified and straight, relatively speaking, his penmanship is relatively simple. Teacher Miaosheng's detailed answer.
In his artistic creation, Mr. Miaosheng felt the Dharma and the mysteries of calligraphy, and had a very strong understanding. It can be said that Buddhism has achieved a kind of perseverance and deep cognitive ability in his calligraphy. Characters like character, use a poem to describe Miaosheng's calligraphy and painting works in the appropriate: "Full of paper across tens of millions of words, Lan Tingxin pen near the ink pool." Myoguchi frankly said that he was open-minded and raised to know from afar. "Mr. Miaosheng's painting skills are as brilliant as his achievements in calligraphy. His "Four Screen Peony Drawings" is graceful and luxurious, sparse and colorful, and the shades are suitable. The brushwork is flexible and vivid, full of branches. The overall style is ancient, quiet, quiet and elegant, giving people a visual impact and beauty, and has a high appreciation value and collection value.
Miaosheng teacher Dun Hou is elegant and inclusive of all sentient beings. His calligraphy incorporates the Confucian perseverance, courage and enterprising, but also contains the old Zhuang's emptiness, scattered distance and calm leisure, and often with a kind of not seeking rich changes, in the pen to omit the worldly glitz to seek the true taste of emptiness. His feelings of home and country are destined to make him a loyal practitioner on the road of charity and public welfare. Since 2005, he has volunteered to hold dozens of PEN clubs and calligraphy and painting activities for many monasteries, donating works, donating money and materials. He has long sponsored Xue Laishun, a poor and mentally disabled person in Song County, helped the laid-off unemployed for a long time, and organized caring people to donate more than 100,000 materials to the disaster area during the flood disaster in Xinxiang. In 2021, he was responsible for building a road for Luoyang Yuquan Temple, not only personally donating money and materials, but also calling on more caring people to add tiles and raise salaries to charity and public welfare undertakings.
Mr. Miaosheng's personal profile and artistic achievements:
Teacher Miaosheng: Formerly known as Zhang Xiaosheng, a native of Luoyang, Henan. He is a director of the China Book Association, a national first-class artist, a senior researcher of the China Academy of Sinology, the head of the art department and doctoral supervisor of the International Buddhist Business School, the president of buddhist art magazine, the professor and honorary dean of the China Calligraphy Academy, and the chief expert of oriental culture of the United Nations Federation of Artists. President of Zhongyuan Charity Calligraphy and Painting Institute.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Mr. Miao Sheng was named one of the top ten Buddhist calligraphers and painters in China for three consecutive years, and in October 2008, he was awarded the Chinese Charity Art Master. In September 2009, he participated in the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China World Chinese Artists Calligraphy and Painting Competition and won the first prize and won the honorary title of The Top 60 Chinese Artists in the World.
His main deeds have been included in the Dictionary of Chinese Talents, Who's Who in the World, the Art Dictionary of Senior Monks and Masters on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait, the Buddhist Art Dictionary, the title of Charity Ambassador by the United Nations Humanitarian Aid Association in September 2013, and the Chief Expert of Oriental Culture by the United Nations Federation of Artists in May 2014. He has held many exhibitions of Myo Sheng Zen Sutras in Southeast Asian countries.