Throughout Chinese history, the emperors who have made achievements mainly include Qin Shi Huang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong, Song Taizu, Genghis Khan, these five emperors, their names will be forever in history, glorious for a thousand years!
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an emperor who was politically inactive, and when the Southern Song Dynasty fell, he became a prisoner of the Jin Kingdom, the most humiliated generation of emperors in history. However, in modern times, he has won a considerable number of fans, why?
It turned out that this incompetent emperor, in the art of calligraphy and painting, was a generation of accomplished calligraphy and painting masters, talented, and a talented emperor! This person is the Southern Song Emperor Zhao You, who created the "thin gold body", which was not only recognized by later generations, but also highly respected, forming a group of "thin gold body" army, the influence is not small!
Let's first get to know this politically incompetent, but artistically talented emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty!
This emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, named Zhao You, historically known as Emperor Huizong of Song, was born in 1082, and Lu died in 1135 at the age of 53! The owner of Xuanhe is the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, a famous calligrapher and painter. Painting is his best art, followed by the thin gold body he created. Due to his outstanding contribution to the thin gold body, the title of the painting was finally concealed by the title of the book.
The painting of the Song Dynasty and the promotion of thin gold bodies also benefited from Zhao You's control of imperial power. Therefore, although the Southern Song Dynasty was politically corrupt and mediocre, the art of calligraphy and painting was consolidated and developed, which is also the greatest contribution of Song Huizong to future generations!
Why is the calligraphy of Song Huizong called thin gold body?
In fact, the calligraphy of Song Huizong is essentially a kind of line calligraphy, just because of the special shape of the characters, the handwriting is thin and vigorous, and the pen is flexible and fast. Because it is very different from Jin Kai and Tang Kai, and has an extremely strong personality, it is an original creation in the history of calligraphy, so it is called "thin gold body".
The thin gold body does have its unique charm, although it is thin and does not lose its flesh, even if it is large, you can also find its style and style, and the pen edge has obvious exposed characteristics, so this font is sharp, perhaps, this is Song Huizong in the helpless turbulent Southern Song Dynasty, through the sharp edge of the thin gold body, to vent his spiritual humiliation!
The titles of Song Huizong's paintings use his original font - thin gold body! Therefore, the thin gold body has become a code to test the authenticity of his paintings.
Any culture has its origins. Emperor Huizong of Song is the perfector and named of the thin gold body, and the first creation, or originality, of the real thin gold body has to be traced back to Xue Yao (yao) of the Tang Dynasty, and later generations called Xue Yao the "ancestor of the thin gold body".
It can be seen from this that each type of calligraphy is the result of the unremitting exploration of calligraphers of all generations, rather than whimsy, overnight. Every accomplished bookseller stands on the shoulders of those who came before him.
All art borrows from each other! Xue Yao also studied Chu Suiliang, and we can see that Chu Suiliang's calligraphy has the rudiments of a thin gold body.
This is the typical thin gold body of Song Huizong.
Thin gold body, formerly known as thin tendon body, which is named according to the characteristics and form of this font, vividly reflects the characteristics of thin gold body is "known for tendons". However, ancient emperors, there are many taboos, obviously, the emperor his originality, if named thin tendon body, is very inappropriate, there is a loss of elegance, according to its homonym, named thin gold body, and the word "gold" also just reflects the gold content of the emperor's calligraphy art!
The calligraphy of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty has been imitated by many generations, but none of them can come out on top. It is said that Jin Zhangzong once imitated the handwriting of Song Huizong to inscribe Ming Changnei Fu, but people found that his imitation penmanship was weak and of poor shape!
From the falling model, we see the imperial pen of Song Huizong, looking at its strokes, the strength is incomparable, and the strength is transparent to the back of the paper!
Skinny gold body, perfect for writing with a hard pen. Although the strokes are slender, they can still show the contrast of thickness and thickness, which requires considerable skill!
Song Huizong, the legacy left to future generations, is also reflected in his thin gold book, he has many works handed down, the most famous are "Kaishu Thousand Character Wen", "Strange Stone Poems", "Peony", "Qifang Poems" and so on.
Generally, a scholar who learns thin gold can only write small characters, and Song Huizong is not only powerful in small characters, but also very good at large characters! "Qifang Poem" is a large-character work, with a pen free, sharp, full of arrogance, like breaking gold and cutting jade, with a unique flavor, can be called a masterpiece of thin gold books. The picture above shows a part of "Qifang Poem".
Some people evaluate Zhao You as "mediocre", this evaluation is too rough! (If you say that you are dull, you can only target his political inaction), too hasty! Zhao You, only faint! Dumb, referring to his political weakness and incompetence, chaotic actions! The reason why he is not mediocre is because of his thin gold body, which has a huge impact on future generations! No emperor, in art, can compete with Emperor Huizong of Song! Thin gold books have become a clear stream in today's book world!
To evaluate a character, we should use historical materialism to make an objective evaluation divided into two! For Song Huizong, the reputation can be half open!
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