Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy inherits the Two Kings, round and beautiful, thick and elegant, and radiant. The style is also changeable, or stretching and relaxing, or dignified and solemn, or majestic and strong. Today Shusi shares with you Zhao Mengfu's copy of the "Holy Order", which not only has the strength and rhyme of the Holy Order, but also loses my own roundness and vigor, which can provide you with a reference for the post. Worth sharing.
While admiring the copied works, we will talk to you about Zhao Mengfu's life experience.
In fact, Zhao Mengfu's father died when he was eleven years old, and the family's situation deteriorated and it was difficult to live. After the fall of the Song Dynasty, he returned to his hometown to live idly. In the 23rd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), Xingtai Gong Yushi Cheng Jufu recommended Zhao Mengfu to Kublai Khan. When he first arrived in the capital, Kublai Khan praised his talent, exclaimed as a "god among the gods", gave various courtesies, and was appointed as a soldier from the rank of Wupin official, after which Zhao Mengfu stepped into the political arena of the Yuan Dynasty.
Zhao Mengfu lived idly in Jiangnan for four years, without officialhood and lightness, leisure and leisure, xian Yushu, Qiu Yuan, Dai Biaoyuan, Deng Wenyuan and other four parties gathered on the shore of Xizi Lake, talking about art and taoism, exerting all kinds of fun, and living a quiet life without dispute with the world. By the third year of his reign (1310), Zhao Mengfu's fate had changed. Crown Prince Aiyu Li Bali Bada became interested in him, and after ascending the throne, he promoted Zhao Mengfu to the rank of Jixian Attendant and Zhongfeng Dafu from Erpin.
In the third year of Yanhu (1316), Emperor Yuanrenzong promoted Zhao Mengfu to the rank of Hanlin scholar Chengzhi and Ronglu Dafu, and the official residence was from Yipin. At this point, Zhao's political status reached the peak of his life. Due to the favor of Emperor Renzong and the excellence of Zhao's art, Zhao Mengfu was famous in his later years, "an official residence with a product, famous all over the world".
Zhao Mengfu is a generation of calligraphers and painters, experienced a life of complex contradictions and glorious embarrassment, he as a relic of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, for which there are many controversies in the history books. "Thin people thin their books", belittle Zhao Mengfu's style of writing, the fundamental reason is out of the contempt for Zhao Mengfu's personality. Although many people criticize Zhao Mengfu's painting art because of his Shiyuan, it is unfair to use non-artistic factors as a way to evaluate the artistic level of painters.
In recognition of Zhao's achievements in the history of art and culture, in 1987, the International Astronomical Society named The Crater of Mercury after Zhao Mengfu in honor of his contribution to the history of human culture. The inkblots of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy and paintings scattered in Japan, the United States and other places are regarded as treasures and properly preserved.
Zhao Mengfu is erudite and versatile, can write poetry, understands economics, works calligraphy, fine painting art, is good at gold stones, tonglulu, and appreciates. In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements, creating a new style of painting in the Yuan Dynasty, known as the "Crown of yuan people". In painting, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo stones, and kurama are omnipotent; brushwork, freehand, green, and ink are also all exquisite. He has occupied an important place in the history of mainland calligraphy.
Born into an aristocratic family, Zhao Mengfu began to study books from the age of five, almost every few days, until his death, juggling calligraphy, which can be described as a love for calligraphy to the point of love. He is good at seals, affiliations, truths, lines, and cursive writing, especially in Kai and Xingshu, and the "History of the Yuan" says, "Meng Fu seals are divided into true grasses, and all of them are crowned with ancient and modern times, so they are named after the world."
Yuan Xian Yu Shu's "Sleepy Learning Collection" said: "Zi Ang Seal, Li, Zhen, Xing, and Qiang Cao are the first in the contemporary era, and Xiao Kai is the first in the Zi Ang Books." "His writing style is charming and elegant, with a strict and neat body, a mature penmanship, and is known as the "Zhao Body". Together with Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, and Ouyang Qing, he was known as the "Four Greats" of Kaishu.
Zhao Mengfu has many handwriting, and his representative works include "Thousand Character Text", "LuoshenFu", "Bile Tablet", "Return to Xi Ci", "Lanting Thirteen Treks", "Chibi Fu", "Tao Te Ching", "Qiu Yi Tombstone" and so on. He is the author of "Notes on Shang Shu" and "Song Xuezhai Anthology" in 12 volumes.
Character Introduction Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), Zi Ang, Song Xue, Song Xue Dao, Huzhou (present-day Wuxing, Zhejiang) people. The eleventh grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, after Defang the King of Qin. Zhao Mengfu's life has gone through the changes of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, both shi and yin, although he is a nobleman, but he was not born at the right time, the Southern Song Dynasty in his youth has fallen like a building, and he has spent it in ups and downs. His father Zhao and the official Tohubu Shilang and Zhi Lin'an Province Zhejiang West Pacification Envoy, good poetry, rich collection, to Zhao Mengfu with a good cultural influence.