The essence of calligraphy - Dong Qichang Xiaokai's "A Treatise on the Five Classics" HD
Dong Qichang (February 10, 1555 - October 26, 1636), the name Xuanzai, the name Sibai, Xiangguang Jushi, Songjiang Huating (now Shanghai) native. He was a minister, calligrapher and painter in the late Ming Dynasty.
Dong Qichang is good at landscape painting, and studied under Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Huang Gongwang, and Ni Zhan. With ink bright and clean, Wendun light; The green color is simple and elegant. With the Buddhist Zen Buddhism metaphor painting, advocating the theory of "North and South Sects", he is an outstanding representative of the "Huating Painting School", and has the beauty of "Yan Gu Zhao Zi". The surviving works include "Rock Dwelling Map", "Eight Scenes of Autumn Xing", "Dayjin Hall Map", "Bai Juyi Pipa Xing", "Cursive Poetry Book", "Yanjiang Stacked Peaks" and so on. Painting and painting theory had a great influence on the painting world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Calligraphy in and out of the Jin and Tang dynasties, its own style. The work "Xihongtang Post" (carved post). He is quite capable of poetry and writing, and is the author of "Essays on Painting Zen Room" and "Rongtai Anthology". Dong Qichang Xiaokai, A Treatise on the Five Classics, 18.3×9.5 cm on paper, collection of Shanghai Museum.
This volume of the small block book "Le Zhi Theory" is a paragraph, and "Yin Fu", "Xisheng", "Duren", "Interior", and "Purity" each paragraph of the Five Classics. The book "Le Zhi Lun" was written in the 46th year of Wanli (1618), and the rest of the books were written in 1620, when Dong was 64 and 66 years old respectively. Because it is related to the imperial examination and official career, Dong Qichang attaches great importance to Xiaokai, from Zhong and Wang Xiaokai, to everyone in the Tang Dynasty, and even Xiaokai, a native of the Song and Yuan dynasties. The five scriptures written in this volume have been collected by the Dong family in ancient times, among which the "Inner Scene Sutra" has also been engraved on the frontispiece of the "Xihongtang Post".
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