Mi Fu is most praised for cursive, he is also good at small Kai.
There is a story that Mi Fu demonstrated penmanship in front of people, sitting cross-legged on the ground, hanging elbows to make small characters. It's a thrilling scene to think about.
Mi Fu handed down the small Kai more often seen in the inscription, complete small Kai works, which is considered the only and best piece.
Can't see clearly, let's zoom in on it a little bit.
This is Mi Fu's book "Elegy to the Queen Mother", two copies of paper size, now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
In the first month of 1101, the Empress Dowager Xiang died. At the age of 51, Mi Fu, who was an official in Jiangsu, presented this elegy.
Its knot is between the lines, the penmanship is refined, as the predecessor said: "The pen is like iron, and the beautiful air is like a line, the god of the great order (Wang Xianzhi) is the proud pen of Nangong." Mi Fu such a delicate small Kai is extremely rare. Ye Gong's "Song Mi Yuanzhang (Elegy to the Queen Mother)" contains: "Mi Yuan Zhang's calligraphy, with small Kai as the best, but there is only one extant, that is, "Elegy to the Queen Mother". In fact, it is also a line. This thing, has not been in the Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty three dynasties before, to the elegy of the taboo also. "This "Elegy" was originally hidden by Duan Fang, and then returned to Jing Pusun, and then to Yuan Juesheng. After Yuan's death, he was transferred to the hands of Zhou Xiangyun, a Yinren. Wen and Yelu Chucai's poetry scrolls are all included in the Palace Museum".
Commentary:
The Empress Dowager of Daxing elegated the truth of Yu Qingyuan and sought the virtue of Yuling. Knowing a few rolls of foil early, the dragon is rising. Jingde is evil, and the heart is pure. Great kindness knows that it is repaid, and the holy filial piety has exceeded the past. Right one. Gentleness and light dedication, incorruptibility and benevolence. Support the music and push the saint, and take care of the public deception. The Southern Era returns to the loyal soul, and the Eastern Dynasty has a foot rule. Renming preserves the old, often like mending the sky.
Empress Dowager Xiang is the queen of Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the empress dowager of Zhezong, Zhezong died, had no children, and the Empress Dowager Xiang overrode public opinion and established King Zhao Ji as the emperor. The queen mother wants to establish the king of Duan, and the biggest obstacle is the prime minister Zhang Dun, who is the Zihou mentioned in Su Shi's "Gui'an Qiu Garden Post".
Zhang Dian was listed as a traitor in history, but I have to say that he had a vision to prevent Duan Wang Zhao Ji from ascending to the throne. He may have already seen that Zhao Ji is not the material for governing the country, but he has not screwed the queen mother.
The establishment of Zhao Ji as the emperor was the proud work of the Empress Dowager, but because of later events, some historians commented that it was the Empress Dowager's move that destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty with her own hands.
Mi Fu's small Kai look forward to smart, some people say, he is not called Xiaokai, called Xiaoxingkai.
The predecessors commented on this work, saying that "the pen is like iron, and the beautiful air is vigorous, and the god of elegance is the god of the great order, which is the proud pen of Nangong".
However, Mi Fu this proud work, after the death of the Song Dynasty has been circulating among the people, the Ming Dynasty by Xiang Yuanbian, Chen Jiru collection, in the Qing Dynasty fell more hands.
However, although this work is good, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties refused to accept it. It is said that the main reason is that elegy is taboo.
At first, I didn't understand that Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript for the Sacrifice of Nephews" is a sacrifice text, and the inner government will not accept it correctly?
Thinking about it later, it was different. "Manuscript for the Sacrifice of Nephews" is for the subjects, and "Elegy for the Queen Mother" is for the Queen Mother, probably because I am afraid that the emperor will think of his mother when he sees this post!
In the Qing Dynasty, this work was handed over by Duan Fang and many others, and after the Qing Dynasty, it finally entered the Palace Museum - at this time it was already the territory of the people, and it was not afraid of taboos.
Mi Fu this work, we are used to seeing the rice book is quite different.
The biggest difference is that the layout is broken and staggered. At first glance, I can't see that the content of this post is a five-word poem, because the broken lines are completely irregular, less than two words in a line, more than eleven words in a line, and the words at the top after the broken line are not all honorific titles such as kings and saints.
This style is very common in Su Dongpo's codex, and it is also Po Weng's customary method.
I don't know if Mi Fu is writing this elegy, is he also using calligraphy, to pay tribute to the big brother who is returning from Hainan at this time?
Five months after writing this work, Mi Fu ushered in Su Dongpo in Yizheng, Jiangsu.
The two met very happily, talked all night, and drank a lot of cold drinks in the hot weather. When Su Dongpo came here, he was already suffering from bacillary dysentery, but the joy of his bosom friend's reunion made him completely forget about the moderation of his diet.
Su Dongpo stayed here for ten days, and his condition became more and more serious. Mi Fu has sent decoction many times, still to no avail.
More than a month later, Su Dongpo passed away in Changzhou.
Today's people are nostalgic for the past and often like to make some assumptions about crossing.
If I can cross, I am willing to take a box of dysentery Trane, fly to Jiangsu in 1101, and hand it over to Mi Fu and Su Dongpo.