Let's first see how Huang Tingjian "offended" Shao Yushu.
Huang Tingjian's book "Cold Food Post"
Huang Tingjian's cursive "Theravada Theosophy"
Huang Tingjian's cursive book "Lian Po Lin Xiang Ru Lie Biography"
Su Shi once commented on Huang Tingjian's calligraphy as "dead snake hanging from a tree", which was sharp, but sincere and reasonable. The Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Xian Yushu was even sharper, directly scolding Huang Tingjian for writing badly and ugly, and was not saved.
Sharp-eyed calligraphers commented that it is difficult for today's calligraphers, especially beginners, to understand. Behind Huang Tingjian is the departure and creation of the traditional cursive aesthetic established by the Erwang. Let's take a look at what Xianyushu said:
Xian Yushu "On Cursive Writing"
First of all, we must know the cursive writing that is rare in the shu, for example, the "On Cursive Writing" in this article is indeed wonderful, taking the traditional road, mainly taking the "Seventeen Theses" of the Fa Wang Xizhi, but the writing momentum is more heroic, and this kind of exploration of ups and downs is still impartial to the tradition. Because he is good at returning to his wrist, he makes the flow of beauty, the pen and ink are smooth, and he rarely wins the second king cursive wind god.
However, the content is very sharp.
We look at the interpretation: Zhang Changshi, Huai Su, and Gao Xian are all known as good cursives. The long history is turbulent, and the time is out of the law. Wai Su shou fa te do ancient meaning. Gao Xian is thick with a pen, and he has six or seven ears out of ten, and to the valley is a great evil and cannot be understood."
▲ Rarely in the shu "On Cursive Writing" part
Through the interpretation, we can see that Xian Yushu believes that Zhang Xu is "out of the law at the time", which is an almost "neutral" attitude, that is, "IT's OKAY". Commenting on Huaisu's "Tedoguyi", this evaluation is very high. The evaluation of Gao Xian as "thick with a pen, six or seven out of ten", that is to say, he passed 60 points.
For Huang Tingjian, Xian Yushu's evaluation is very sharp: "Great bad, irreparable" (as shown in the figure below), no longer eye-catching, unreasonable, not saved. This evaluation is equivalent to the concept of "ugly books" as people today call it.
▲ Rarely in the shu "On Cursive Writing" part
Xian Yushu's ranking of several cursive writers is: Huai Su first, Zhang Xu second, Gao Xian third, and as for Huang Tingjian, it is badly written. XianYushu's standard is "ancient law", or "law of the two kings" and "law of the Jin and Tang dynasties".
The different angles of taking the law, the evaluation standards, and the aesthetic vision can explain the poor level of Huang Tingjian?
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