Li Yong (678-747) was a Tang Dynasty writer and famous calligrapher. Zi Taihe, a native of Guangling Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu), was an official in Beihai (present-day Weifang, Shandong) taishou, so it was also known as "Li Beihai". Because of their ancestral home in Jiangxia (present-day Wuchang, Hubei), they are also known as Jiangxia people.
Li Yongsheng is frank and honest, informal, dare to speak out, this kind of character is very unfavorable in the official field of ancient Chinese feudal society, the Old Book of Tang records that Li Yong, who just became the right picker, made a generous statement in front of Wu Zetian, perhaps art is born with a certain marriage with disasters, and many outstanding people in art history have tragic encounters in life and superhuman artistic accomplishment. Looking at the masters of song and poetry such as Du Fu, Li Bai, and Gao Shi in his circle of contacts, we can also know his literary works.
"Li Sixun Monument", also known as "Yunmo General Li Sixun Monument", "Yunmo General Monument", the book of the eighth year of the New Century (720), now in Pucheng County, Shaanxi, 30 lines, 70 characters. This stele is a representative stele of the Xingshu Stele. The inscriptions include tombstones, merit tablets, chronicles, statues, etc., and their texts are mostly completed in the form of seals, li, and kai, and the real "calligraphy and stele with the writing of the book began with Tang Taizong's "Jinci Inscription", followed by Li Beihai" (Qing Qianyong's "Calligraphy"). Li Yongxing's book is characterized by thick, stable, strong and powerful, and in terms of the overall artistic style, the "Li Sixun Monument" has a clear relationship with the "Jiwang Sacred Order" in terms of pen, structure, and chapter.
One use of the pen: win with thickness. The so-called thick and heavy brushwork has two meanings, one of which is that it is mainly based on pressing and supplemented by mention in the control of strength, which is Li Yong's transformation of Wang Xizhi's brushwork. According to more mentions and less, the dot painting is thick, the glyph is stable, and the overall atmosphere is full of thick and solid aesthetic imagery, and Dong Qichang's "North Sea Elephant" is about from this. Second, the fading of the brushwork of the strings. Wang Xizhi or the "Lanting" and "Sacred Sect" two orders, especially the first two, have seen the use of the silk, reflecting delicacy and refinement, while the connections of the strokes in the "Li Sixun Monument" are mostly thick solid lines (of course, compared with the "Lushan Temple Stele", "Lu" seems to be thicker), so some scholars think that this is the missing side of Li Yongxue Wang, that is, thick and stable, and the slender changes are insufficient.
Second, the structure: more center of gravity shifted downwards, which is different from the "Jiwang Saint Order". In addition to the difference between Yanmei's brushwork and the simplicity of Wei Jin, the cleverness of his posture (often caused by the shift of the center of gravity) is also an important component. While Li Yong inherited Wang Xizhi's structural center of gravity moving upwards, he pressed the center of gravity down more, thus showing the characteristics of thick, stable and dense structure. In terms of glyphs, the "Li Sixun Monument" is correct, the left is low and the right is high, and the strong dislocation characteristics far exceed the "Jiwang Saint Order".
Third, the rules: a smooth and calm image. The single character shapes in the "Li Sixun Stele" are mostly in an independent style, the characters are not connected, and the calm, steady, plain, and simple are its appearance characteristics, which is the same as the "Jiwang Sacred Order".
Wang Xi's calligraphy has played a guiding and guiding role in the development of later generations of calligraphy, especially the series of small calligraphy, later generations of scholars have their own selection, Li Yong in the inheritance of the Wang style at the same time, in the line thickness of the treatment and center of gravity downward shift out of the way, which gives us more enlightenment in inheriting tradition and pioneering innovation. Itself Li Yong's calligraphy also had a great influence on later generations, and since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, many people have been born in the North Sea, such as Tang Zhizhang Congshen and Su Lingzhi; Song Zhi Su Shi, Mi Fu; Yuan Zhi Zhao Ziang, Zhang Yu; Ming Zhi Zhu Yunming, Dong Qichang, Qing Wang Wenzhi, He Shaoji, etc.
It is precisely because of the thickness and strength of the "Li Sixun Monument" that it is often an excellent medicine for the weak strength of the correction pen. In order to achieve the purpose of training, when studying Li Yong's calligraphy, we should pay attention to several aspects: First, about tools. The lines of "Li Sixun Monument" are straight and decisive, and this kind of linearity is mostly expressed by hard millimeters or concurrent millimeters, and it is obviously thankless to choose soft millimeters.
Second, about the use of pens, structure and rules. Every painting of "Li Sixun Monument" is like throwing bricks to the ground, that is, we must pay attention to the strength and shape of the pointillist painting, and we must resolutely write the pen, and the stroke is in place, and we must not hesitate. The line is mainly real, and there is a proper virtual pen to reconcile, which is extremely easy to ignore. In terms of structure, the interspersed avoidance of "Li Sixun Monument" is extremely capable of doing things, and it falls into a generous style. Therefore, when the inscription is written, the right shoulder has a clear intention of lifting, so it is not possible to blindly inertial oblique shoulder.
Therefore, just like the lack of breath caused by the collection of characters in the chapter law of the "Jiwang Sacred Order", training according to the inherent chapter mode of the "Li Sixun Tablet" will also form the result of stagnation and lack of vitality, in order to correct this deficiency, it is also necessary to take indirect practice of his handwriting ink and seek its smooth writing, which will be of certain help to you in writing!