Wen Zhengming is famous in the history of calligraphy for his good deeds, especially for his calligraphy and xiaokai. But he said: Today's comments on calligraphy compare me with Mr. Feng, but the environment in which we are two is different, he is in a "poor sea and remote land", I live in the "capital of Tong Province"; if I change places, how can my reputation match his? Coincidentally, Xing Tong, one of the "Four Great Masters of the Late Ming Dynasty", also said: "Feng Taishi is straight forward, the waves are actually Wei Jin, and Wen Zhengzhong is not enough." "Mr. Feng" and "Feng Taishi" here both refer to the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Fengfang.
▲ Fengfang Bao Zhang Xu "Four Ancient Cursive Poems", Liaoning Provincial Museum Collection of Fengfang (1492-1563), the original name of Fang, zi Cunli, later renamed Daosheng, Ming Zhejiang Yinren. Chief of the Official Zhi Ceremonial Department, Feng Daosheng erudite Gongwen, especially fine calligraphy. Wen Zhengming was thirty years older than Fengfang and was the most prestigious calligrapher of his time. Wen Zhengming has read a lot of Fa Ti famous books, and his understanding is also very deep, it can be said that no one at that time reached it, but Wen Zhengming said with emotion: "Mr. Feng writes, and every bit and painting comes from the ancients", which means that Fengfang's calligraphy is based on the foundation of the previous generation of Fa Shu famous posts, and there is an excellent innovation.
The Feng family is a large household in Yin County, and there are many people who have been officials in the past, and the family is well-off. Fengfang's home had a library building named "Ten Thousand Volumes Building", which contained tens of thousands of volumes, which was a famous private library in the southeast at that time. Fengfang has been far ahead of others since he was a child, and later in order to purchase the famous posters of the Fa Shu, he actually sold more than 1,000 acres of good land in the suburbs, and who can be more obsessed with calligraphy than him, and have more deeply enjoyed the famous posters of the Chinese Fa Shu? Obviously, what Wen Zhengming said should be the big truth of the insider.
Compared with Fengfang, the great calligrapher Zhu Zhishan also lost. It is said that Zhu Zhishan once wrote "Taibai Song poem", and he liked it very much, but as time went on, he seemed to feel inadequate. Later, his friend Wang Zhi saw that Fengfang copied it: "Close to Nanyu ("Taibai Song Poem"), open and horizontal, flying vigorously, it is said that Youmeng zuo Chu Uncle is aware of it, and its gods are also za." Unfortunately, the branches of the mountain are removed from the invisible ears. Wang Zhi felt that Fengfang's calligraphy had almost reached the realm of deification, far beyond the original. He said with certainty: If Zhu Zhishan is still alive, he will be very happy after seeing Fengfang's work.
In the Qing Dynasty, the calligraphy circle set off a Fengfang fever. Bian Yongyu, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting during the Kangxi Dynasty, wrote in the "Examination of The Ancient Hall of Writings and Sayings": "(Fengfang) Miao's fourth finger is powerful, pitching forward and backward, retracting and retracting, just curving and straightening, running vertically and horizontally, all unsatisfactory, then the pen is in the painting and there is no disease left and right." It means that an important reason for the strength of Fengfang's calligraphy and painting is that the pen is held, and the fourth finger is strong, so that the pitch is free to retreat, and the contraction is satisfactory, just right, straight, vertical and horizontal operation are all satisfactory. He said in the "Inscription of Hai Ri Lou" that Feng's Xiao Kai: "The calligraphy is rigorous, the carving is particularly exquisite, and the Most Precious Of the Ming Dynasty Xiao Kai." ”
Qing Yangbin's "Big Scoop Puppet Pen": "Wenzheng Zhongshu should be small and not large, and it should be true." And Zhu Xizhe and Wang Luji are really big and small. There are still discrepancies in the writing of the three gentlemen, and it seems that they are not as pure as the Feng kao Gong, and they must not think of others. "He praised Fengfang for his most skilled writing, no wonder he was higher than everyone else.
In modern times, the evaluation of Fengfang has increased unabated, in addition to the collection of Tianyi Pavilion, his calligraphy is collected in the Beijing Palace Museum, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the Shanghai Museum, the Guangdong Museum, and the Tianjin Art Museum, the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House "Shanghai Library Collection of Ming and Qing Famous Artists Manuscripts" includes his "Nanyu Calligraphy and Painting Catalogue", and the Kyoto MiaozhiYuan in Japan has the Collection of Fengfang Xingshu "Qianzhai Ji", and so on.
Fengfang "Getaway" volume (partial) 27× 477cm Guangdong Provincial Museum collection
Fengfang "Zishu Poetry Volume" 33.4cm vertical 772.5cm collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing