Sun Guoting's cursive handwritten "Thousand Character Text"
This volume was composed by Sun Guoting when he was thirty-eight years old, and the whole text is written in cursive, with a pen that is implicit, the skill is intrinsic, calm and ethereal, vigorous and graceful, full of attention, and the pen is all there, which is a model of cursive learning.
Sun Guoting was a native of Chenliu (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), a native of Wu Commandery (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu), or a native of Fuyang (present-day Zhejiang). Li Right Wei Cao (冑曹), an official who led the government to record the army, was framed in middle age and died in Luoyang. He was friendly with the scholar Wang Shaozong and the poet Chen Ziang. After Sun Guoting's death, Chen Ziang wrote the "Records of Sun Chronicles of the Sacrifice Of the Imperial Household" to mourn him, which included: "Woohoo! When you are poor and sick, when you are good, nourish your heart and don't get tired. The sole examination of the principle of life, the occasion of a few days of people. "But he was sick and lived in the jianghu after being wronged, although he was interested in Lao Zhuang, but in the end it was inevitable that he would die in a foreign land." Sun Guoting's calligraphy, the scribe Zhang Huaicui in the Kaiyuan period, had a very high evaluation of him: "Boya has articles, cursive charter two kings, work in the pen, Junba just broke, still curious, but the so-called less function, there is talent." The book of truth and deeds, less than the grass... Affiliation, row, grass into the energy product. "Xuanhe Book Genealogy also Deng?" Good ancient boya, gongwen resigned from the name of Han Mojian. It is especially good at using a pen to make cursive writing aggressively. Junba just broke, out of talent, not functional accumulation. Good copying, often true and false can not be discerned. It can be seen that Sun Shi not only has a profound literary background, but also has the law of the two kings, coupled with extraordinary talent, thus forming his own unique calligraphy system. The characteristics of Sun Guoting's calligraphy pen, Tang Lu always said that he "Danya Absolute Valley" can be described as a word to express the essence, his calligraphy gesture is strong, can combine the different artistic characteristics of flowing and calm grace and rigidity, and achieve the unity of quality and beauty. Sun's brush is characterized by the intuitive impression of plump circles, light and heavy reflections, and endless changes within the dot painting. As he himself said: "Between a painting, it rises and falls in the sharp edge; within a point, it is particularly frustrated by the millimeter." His representative works include the self-written calligraphy theory "Book Genealogy" and the cursive "Thousand Character Text". The "Book Score" is rich and rounded, and has the potential to swim in the dragon. In this, he put forward the famous view of calligraphy: "When the ancient times were not obedient, the present is not the same". Since the two Han Dynasties, there have been many works on books, and this one is meticulous in thought, concise and concise, and at the time of "persistence, transfer, and use", it is an epoch-making calligraphy treatise in the history of Chinese calligraphy.