Speaking of the king's favor, we have to lament his untimely death, and he died at the age of forty, which made everyone sigh a pity. If he had not died early, with his talent, he would have left a more brilliant scene in the history of calligraphy.
King's favorite
Wang Pet (1494-1533), Ming Dynasty calligrapher, characters Lu Ren, Lu Ji, Yayishan people, Wu County (Suzhou, Jiangsu) people. Yi Zhusheng, Gong into Taixue. Erudite and versatile, craftsmanship, good at landscapes, flowers and birds. The reputation of poetry is very high, especially the title of the book, the book is good and small, and the grass is particularly exquisite.
His calligraphy began to learn Cai Yu, later standardized the Jin and Tang Dynasties, the calligraphers Yu Shinan and Zhiyong, the xingshu scholar Wang Xianzhi, who integrated and penetrated, Xiao Kai Youqing, Jian Yuan ethereal, and his name was called Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming.
The "South China True Classic" is a fine work of Wang Pet, small kai, paper, each opening size 19.1cm * width 12.5cm, Rongbao Zhai collection. At the back of the book, there are Liang Qichao and Zhang Jianbao. This volume has small characters in small letters, a lot of words, but the writing is not scrupulous, Ya has the atmosphere of a book, and the horizontal drawing of the tip of the pen is exposed, slightly resembling Wen Zhengming, but it is more subtle, just like Liang Qichao's Chinese language: "I often say that the Yayishan people's books have a Taoist qi, far away from the Wen Zhi Zhao. Zi Chuan Yuan Yi Jing Mu, Rare Treasure Also".
▲Wang Pet's "South China True Classic"
The most prominent point of the "South China True Classic" is its "small to precise", generally speaking, the letter within two centimeters of the square can be called a small kai, and if it is larger, it becomes a middle kai, if the single word is as large as seven or eight centimeters, it can be called a large kai. And Wang Pet's "South China True Classic" actually wrote more than 200 words in just a dozen centimeters, which is amazing!
▲Wang Pet's "South China True Classic"
Looking closely at this work, all the strokes stretched out to the left are contracted as much as possible, and all the strokes that are extended to the right are processed and stretched. This kind of processing method of receiving and releasing makes wang pet's calligraphy look loose and ethereal as a whole, flowing smoothly, giving the viewer unlimited imagination space.
"South China True Classic" Xiao Kai appreciation
Have you ever seen a smaller work than the South China True Scripture? Let me know in the comments section!