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Calligraphy is the national essence of national culture
The national essence of calligraphy is passed down from thousands of years of national culture to this day. Five thousand years of excellent civilization originated from the Cangjie era of character creation, with writing, the achievements of the nation's excellent civilization can be recorded, and future generations have continuously explored and advanced with the experience of their predecessors, and Chinese civilization has a long history.
Turning over the history of writing, Cangjie has gone through hardships, and on the basis of summarizing the achievements of its predecessors, it has created and sorted out a set of hieroglyphs that can record examples and experiences and are worth inheriting. Words originate from the pictograms of objects, in a high degree of abstraction to visualize the form or performance or meaning of an object. On the basis of the Cangjie script, later generations continued to meet the needs of use with the development of Cangjie script, and constantly created new texts that extended to adapt according to needs.
After more than a thousand years of development and change, to the Shang Dynasty (the text that can be seen at present), the prototype of the text can basically be used to record major historical events and predict the laws of the development and change of things, because the contract is engraved on the turtle shell or ox oracle bone, it is historically called the oracle bone. The emergence of oracle bones has found a basis for the development of written records. On the basis of the oracle bones, the Zhou Dynasty then developed its own dynasty's more practical, concise and elegant Jin script, because most of the found writings were poured on bronze vessels, and were given as Jin wen by later generations. Until the appearance of the Golden Text, the prototype of the text was basically fixed and perfected. From the beginning of Cangjie's character creation to the perfection of the Jin script, the development of writing has gone through three stages of creation, shaping and perfection in the past two thousand years. The golden script is an important turning stage in the achievements of the literary civilization, with the golden script, you can trace the oracle bone script, if you lose the golden script, the oracle bone script is very difficult to read and understand.
The Qin Dynasty unified the world and also unified the writing, and the script underwent an important normative unification, and also carried out the first great simplification of the text. Han and Tang Dynasties is the stage of the perfection of character stereotyping and the establishment of the law, this period, the development of the script to the historical height, a variety of font glyphs appeared in ink, the Han Dynasty is the main period of great prosperity of the text, the Tang Dynasty belongs to the establishment period of the law of the text, with the prosperity and the establishment of the law, for more than a thousand years, the text in the law, each doing its best. With the strict legality, the binding of the shape of the text, and the standardization of development and change, only today's national culture has been born.
Throughout the history of the development of writing, from the object to the concrete, from the stereotype to the development, from the change to the standardization and unification, the text has experienced its own development needs and the development needs of the times. If there is no unification of the Qin script and no writing standard, there will be no Chinese nation today. Whether from a historical point of view or from the perspective of development to analyze, the unified standardization of writing is the main symbol of national prosperity. Without the establishment of law, it is difficult to establish the norms of writing. Therefore, the "law" of calligraphy is the main sign and standard that ensures the standardization of writing and calligraphy.
Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed
Calligraphy from stereotyping to development, from legislation to the application of law, leisurely like the water of the Yellow River, flowing in the long river of national culture. The development of history in the continuous throwing and falling in the cycle of running, calligraphy overnight, as if encountered the Hukou waterfall, instantly fell down, the sediment flooded, splashed water mist to form a layer of halo, the method of calligraphy was abandoned and discarded, some people shirtless, swinging on the stage, original, developed, self-performing many new bodies, and arrogant without self-knowledge, dare to claim that they have already surpassed the ancients! At the same time, some theorists, critics, and connoisseurs shouted together how to be amazing and remarkable, and the vision of many scholars and the public was ignorant, which made people with lofty ideals in the book industry laugh.
Just imagine, from Cangjie's calligraphy to Cai Yong's calligraphy of "teaching gods and people to be different", to Wang Xizhi's summary of the eight methods of the "Yong" character, Yan, Liu, Ou, and Zhao have brought the dakai and xiaokai to the extreme, forming a penmanship gui, which has been passed down for thousands of years and is like a lighthouse illuminating the calligraphy journey, Zhao Mengfu issued a cry and admonition that "it is not easy to use the pen for thousands of years, and the knot body is based on people". I would like to ask today's Dajia, what have you inherited and what have you created? How dare you make such an unashamed noise!
Calligraphy is the art of law, whether it is the cursive seal of the calligraphy, it is based on their own brushwork, as a specific element of learning to use the pen, once the penmanship is lost, the writing can only be Chinese characters and can not become calligraphy. This is the specific requirement of calligraphy itself, and it is also the basic element that distinguishes between writing and calligraphy. If the basic elements are abandoned, how dare you call it the art of calligraphy. The dregs shine with the worldly vision for a while, the bubble will not last long, it will eventually fall and go away, the method of calligraphy will surely stand back on its own stage, and glorify art and glorify art.
The source of sediment - fame and fortune
The proliferation of strange bodies and ugly books is to find its roots and be tainted by fame and fortune. In the 1980s, after constantly solving the problem of food and clothing, coupled with the impact of foreign cultures, foreign forces instigated some people with unhealthy thinking and weak moral bottom lines, taking the vilification of national culture as a capable thing, trampling on excellent culture as a standard, elevating their own psychology, worshiping under fame and fortune, using prices as a pretext, fooling the public's thinking, confusing the public, reversing black and white, and even creating absurd jokes, advocating that modern people surpass the ideological concepts of the ancients, and taking indiscriminate graffiti as the standard, "Do not hate the law of the king, Only hate the two kings without subject law. "Reversing right and wrong, in addition to the status of Ming and Qing calligraphy, there is no thesis of high modern price standards, and its economic value is even more incomparable." Even so that many modern people do not know the truth and few people ask, modern people as long as they take pictures with the bookmakers that is the absurd theory of authenticity is filled in the world of painting and calligraphy, and is constantly magnified, in 2009 a famous family can not mention the brush painting died in 2019, each era of brush painting sweat cattle, often millions of dollars worth, connoisseurs see photos with calligraphers and painters, that is, recognized as "authentic". The absurdity is extreme, and the paintings that Qi Baishi has been auctioned off have been nearly ten times that of the original, all of which are profit-driven.
The development of calligraphy and painting art cannot be closed to itself, and there is nothing wrong with drawing on the direction of world cultural and artistic exchanges and absorption, there is a problem with human ethics and morality, and the balance in the heart is deviated. Learning calligraphy is no longer to improve their own ability and cultivation, but to make money, no matter what conditions are used, bragging, kidnapping and selling cuteness, in a word, as long as they can fool the public's attention, can earn money, any method is shown. The purpose of many calligraphers is not pure, not to cultivate virtue through calligraphy, but to simply understand it as a skill of making money, which is very absurd. Calligraphy, the national essence on which we are proud, has been demonized by modern people with ulterior motives to follow the wind by future generations, imitating them, and the masters pretend to be advanced, in a vain attempt to create some novel brushwork to replace the ancients. Abandon the authentic penmanship and do not learn, and specialize in opportunistically taking advantage of some unpopular doors to cater to the appetite of the judges, or to learn "judge calligraphy".
Calligraphy is a kind of culture, a kind of cultivation, a kind of inner cultivation of humanistic feelings, and a sacred paradise that is preserved in the depths of the soul.
If you give up the inheritance, the roots of the culture will be broken, and I don't know what a tree without roots will look like? (Yang Shupeng)
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About the Author
Yang Shupeng, born in 1956 in Quyang, Hebei Province, graduated from high school in 1975 and joined his father in Shaanxi to work. In 1985, he was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Enterprise, graduated from the Correspondence College of the Central Party School in 1993 with a major in Party and Government Management, and graduated from the China University of Calligraphy and Painting in 2005 with a major in calligraphy.
He is currently a calligraphy researcher at Northwest University; the initiator of the study of root vein culture; the deputy director of the Chinese Yang's Root Pulse Culture Research Association; the author of "Instructions for Calligraphy Practice", (The first volume of the calligraphy part has been published by Shaanxi Education Publishing House, the second volume is the cursive part, the manuscript has been completed, included in the publication plan.) Formed his own theoretical study of calligraphy. There is a study of Sui Dynasty culture. He has published more than 50 literary and journalistic works in publications at or above the provincial and municipal levels. Has won good news, good headlines and other awards.
His calligraphy works: cursive works reveal vitality in the flow; list works show strength in thickness; variant calligraphy, flexible and strict in abiding by the law.
The Fa originated from antiquity and means from the heart.
He has won many national and provincial gold, silver, second and third prizes and collections.
Yang Shupeng, formerly known as Yang Shupeng, was renamed Yang Shupeng due to the large number of people with the same name.
Editor: Zhou Fengchuan