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Walking between paper and ink with your fingers dipped in ink, you can create a series of calligraphy works, which is the unique feature of the city's municipal intangible cultural heritage finger book.
"Finger book, as the name suggests, is a kind of calligraphy written directly on rice paper with your fingers dipped in ink, which belongs to classical calligraphy. From the history of the development of human civilization, the first finger book has been verified, and the Pei Ligang pottery unearthed in Xinzheng, Henan Province, has a fingernail text from 8,000 years ago, and the finger book is the source of calligraphy, which can be called the ancestor of ten thousand pens! Ji Qianlin, president of the Shandong Hezelin Silent Finger Book Art Research Institute and representative inheritor of the municipal intangible cultural heritage project, said.
The 64-year-old Ji Qianlin has loved calligraphy since childhood, and has also learned calligraphy and finger calligraphy from his father and finger calligraphy artists since he was a child, and for a long time, he has taken many famous calligraphers as models and taken the strengths of each family to form his own unique artistic style. In 1990, under the deployment of the superior department, Ji Qianlin came to Heze to work, and since then, he has also let his finger book take root in Heze, the hometown of calligraphy and painting.
Ji Qianlin said that the emphasis on writing books is to be done in one go, and it is necessary to condense the hands, eyes, and qi into one, and fall onto the rice paper quickly and accurately. In order to achieve the effect of writing in the clouds and flowing water, Ji Qianlin practiced the basic skills assiduously, because he dipped his fingers in ink for many years, and there were always traces of ink staining black in the gaps of his fingernails and fingerprints of his hands. "Since finger books are more difficult to write than brush and hard pen calligraphy in the writing process, you must have a higher foundation of brush and hard pen calligraphy in order to learn to write finger books." And the fingers are no better than the brush can absorb ink, how to let the dipped ink stay on the hand is a very deep learning, dipping ink, ink is more exquisite practice. ”
Ji Qianlin once had an Olympic dream. After the success of Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, he spent four years to create the finger book "The Long Scroll of the Thousand Meters Olympic Games", which some people once bid 2.8 million yuan to buy, and after he declined, he donated it to the state free of charge, and was permanently collected by the China Sports Museum as a cultural relic. In 2012, he created a 70-metre scroll for the London Olympics, which was in the permanent collection of the United Kingdom. His fingerbook works have also been collected by 136 countries and regions.
The world refers to books to look at China, and China refers to books to look at Heze. In order to inherit and carry forward the finger book culture, When Ji Qianlin had just retired, he and a school in Xiaoliu Town, Mudan District jointly opened a finger book course in the school, but later stopped teaching because of a serious illness. After the initial recovery from a serious illness, he did not cultivate a little, and he became immersed in creation and inheritance. In today's epidemic prevention and control situation, Ji Qianlin also teaches students to practice finger books through voice and video in addition to creation, and plans to recruit 100 students in the future to carry forward the finger book culture.
Heze Newspaper all-media reporter Shi Sujian