Qi Gong Treatise Sentence 14:
A thousand texts are being written in the draft, and Wen Fuyi is in the old city.
Song Xian's case marked the new Shang, which is a typical example of the old Tang Dynasty.
This poem Qi Lao is talking about the famous calligraphers of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Sheng and Zhang Jizhi. Wang Shengshan wrote a lot of cursive "Thousand Character Text", Zhang Jizhi's Shan Kai Shu, and many works written in jinghua were handed down to the world. These two are considered to be representatives of southern Song calligraphy and pioneered their own style of calligraphy. Mr. Qi Gong believes that the calligraphy of the two is indeed very good, although they have their own style, but they have not lost the inheritance of Tang calligraphy.
Wang Sheng Codex
This poem was also composed by Qi Gong when he was young, and later wrote a self-annotation to this poem, detailing it:
Wang Sheng, Zhang Zhizhi.
Sheng is also sung, the word Yi lao, the number lamb old man. The writing is like a rice yuanzhang, the cursive is round like Huaisu, and the essence is too much. A volume of a thousand texts has been circulated, which was once engraved in the Nanxue Zhai Ti and Yue Xue Lou Ti, and the original traces are now unknown to how to survive.
That is, the zigzag Wenfu, the trumpet 樗liao. The calligraphy is dangerous, the knots are rigorous, and the Tang Dynasty's legacy still exists. There are many scriptures circulating, and there are several photocopies today. He is also good at writing large characters, and there are several long volumes of two words on each line. The books contained and called their lists are no longer extant.
Wang Sheng is also known as Wang Sheng ,字逸老,Trumpet Lamb Old Man. Wang Sheng's style is close to that of the Song Sijia's rice cursing, and the roundness of cursive is very similar to Huai Su's style. Mr. Qi Gong said that there was once a volume of the "Thousand Character Text" written by him, and both the Nanxue Zhai Ti and yue Xue Lou Ti had been inscribed, but the original traces are no longer known today.
Wang Sheng's cursive writing was very famous during the Southern Song Dynasty, and The Song Huizong Xuan and Zhengjian (1111-1125), because of the "Grass Saint Qiwei", were enshrined as the Right Lord. Zhu Dunru inscribed his volume: "Yi Shao (Wang Xizhi) wrote a book, Yi Lao is a cursive character, the home has a flavor, and outsiders know about it." "It may be a slight exaggeration to compare Wang Sheng's cursive writing to Wang Xi's travel book, but it does show the strength of its cursive writing."
Yu Ji, a famous scholar of the Yuan Dynasty, said that his book resembled "Zhang Xu's turning pen". Zhao Xihu, in his "Commentary on the Book of Famous Sages of the Song Dynasty", said that Wang Sheng's cursive writing could be "comparable to the ancients, and he wanted to bully Huai Su".
Above is Wang Sheng's calligraphy work, which Mr. Qi Gong said was "the peerless Rice Yuanzhang", which seems to be true. Both the pen and the knot have the meaning of rice.
Zhang is the big word
Zhang is the zigzag Wenfu, the number of the tree liao. Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy is sinister and rigorous, and it has the legacy of Tang Dynasty calligraphy. Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy has been circulated more frequently. Moreover, Zhang Jizhi is good at writing large characters, and there are several long scrolls that only write two words per line. There are also records that he is good at writing list books, but unfortunately he can no longer see it.
Zhang Jizhi was the nephew of the patriotic poet Zhang Xiaoxiang of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he effectively turned the tide of calligraphy in the late Southern Song Dynasty and devoted his life to changing the declining style of calligraphy. According to the "History of The Song Dynasty", Zhang Jizhi "smelled the world with Nengshu". Although the Jurchens were far in the north and were in a hostile position with the Southern Song Dynasty regime, they did not hesitate to buy Zhang Jizhi's Hanmo works with heavy money.
Zhang Jizhi's List of Japanese Zen Temples
Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy has even spread to Japan, and now there is a Japanese Zen Temple's large character list book, each word size is more than 40 centimeters, as shown above. Mr. Qi Gong should not have seen it, otherwise he would not have regretted that Zhang Jizhi's list book did not survive.
Zhang Jizhi's writings
Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy was deeply influenced by Zen thought, so on the basis of the Jin and Tang classics, he integrated Buddhist thought, boldly innovated, and became a family of his own. However, some people in later generations thought that Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy was "strange" and did not conform to the rules. An Shifeng of the Ming Dynasty also had Yun in "Merlin Quick Affair":
"The Book of Liliao, which was denounced by the people of the past as evil. Commenting on his writing now, it is not strange to have a heart, but like his bosom, the original is contrary to the customs, and he does not know that there is a pleasing circle, and the steepness can be frightening. Since the opening of the heavens, there are all kinds of strange things, why can't the monogram method be left to chance!?"
Zhang Jizhi large character calligraphy
Mr. Qi Gong also believes that although Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy was innovative at the time, his calligraphy still has the legacy of Tang calligraphy and is "the old model of the pre-Tang Dynasty".
Qi Gong self-note:
Yi Lao Shu Qi entered the ancient world, and the world's forgery became an ancient law book, and every time he cut off the words with his book, he risked Tang Xian. For example, the grandson of Yu Qingzhai Ti has passed through the court thousands of texts, and the grandson of Mo Miaoxuan Thesis has passed through the court thousand texts, all of which are the pens of Yi Lao. Yu Qing's bottom book, suspected of being copied through the volume, was added later. Mo Miaodi cut off the king's money and added the word "passing the court", not knowing that the seal of wang sheng was still there.
Wang Sheng's "Thousand Words"
At the end of the self-annotation, Mr. Qi talked about the means by which the ancients made forged calligraphy works. Because Wang Sheng's cursive writing is very ancient, many counterfeiters at that time cut off the fall of Wang Sheng's cursive works, and then replaced them with the fall of Sun Guoting of the Tang Dynasty, pretending to be the calligraphy works of Sun Guoting of the Tang Dynasty. Mr. Qi Gong's grandson Guoting Qianwen of Yu Qingzhai Ti and Mo Miaoxuan's grandson Guoting Qianwen are all works of Wang Sheng.
What is even more ridiculous is that although Mo Miaoben cut off Wang Sheng's money and added the word "court", he did not notice that Wang Sheng's seal was still on the work.
Read Qi Gong's "On the Hundred Poems of the Book" with Han Mo Jinxiang, and follow Mr. Qi Gong's perspective to understand the history of calligraphy. If you like it, remember to pay attention to it.