From the analysis of the subjective intention of creation, people engaged in the cause of calligraphy can be divided into two categories: one is the general intuition of calligraphy, with their unremitting efforts can eventually become a master; the other is from the heart of the calligraphy is very fond of calligraphy, with their own efforts can touch the bypass, to achieve both good... The author of this article, who undoubtedly belongs to the second category, is a "born master of calligraphy".
The protagonist of this article is named Xu Zhiqian, born in 1903, due to poor family, only three years of schooling. At the age of 17, he was introduced by a friend to beijing as an apprentice at the Wenkai Zhai Engraving Office. Because he was born with a love for words, he copied the "Jiucheng Gong Liquan Ming" and achieved something in one year. The manager discovered his talents and promoted him from engraver to writing, specializing in the writing of stamps, seal stamps, and various scripts.
Because the more he wrote, the better he wrote, in 1927, Xu Zhiqian was transferred to the old book department of the editorial office of the Commercial Press, and wrote missing pages and missing words for the history of the Song Dynasty, the history of the Yuan, the history of the Ming Dynasty, the "Guyi Series" and the "Four Series".
During his time at the Commercial Press, he came into contact with various calligraphy and printing notations, and successively got acquainted with Huang Binhong and Huang Yinong, two golden stone calligraphers, and often studied their skills together, which made his calligraphy and seal engraving skills have made new progress. Later, due to the war, he lost his job for several years.
In the summer of 1937, Xu Zhiqian went to Nanjing Rongbaozhai to resume his old business. Soon, due to the turmoil of the times, he could not work, so he returned to his hometown and spent his time farming.
During his stay in the countryside, Xu Zhiqian never put down the brush and carving knife in his hand after hard work. In April 1951, Wen learned from Shen Meng that the manager of Rongbaozhai in Beijing heard that Xu Zhiqian was working as a farmer in his native country, so he asked him to return to Rongbaozhai again and arranged to engage in calligraphy and seal engraving in the editing department. Since then, Xu Zhiqian's hero has come into play.
For more than 30 years, Xu Zhiqian's calligraphy works often participated in various calligraphy and painting exhibitions, and were included in the "Selected Works of Modern Chinese Calligraphy", "The First National Calligraphy seal engraving exhibition collection", "Modern Calligraphy Selection" and other books. In line with the requirements of the objective environment at that time, Xu Zhiqian successively published most of the digital posts such as "Lei Feng's Diary Posters" (imitating the Jiucheng Palace Style), "Mao's Quotations" (Liu Body Character Posts), "Mao Poems Thirty-Seven Poems" (Cursive Writing Posts) and "Mao Poems Thirty-Nine Poems" (Cursive Writing Posts), which influenced a group of young people who studied characters...
Xu Zhiqian's influence on the Chinese calligraphy circle at that time was extensive, and his achievements and status were very high, so many important buildings in many countries left his ink treasures, including the title text of the ten reliefs on the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the inscriptions of the tombstone of Zhan Tianyou, which was newly built at the Qinglong Bridge...
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