After Sun Xiaoyun took office, ugly books have been curtailed, and the calligraphy circle has been calm for a while. Not wanting this kind of calm, one day after half a year, he was ruthlessly crushed by Zeng Xiang's sentence "Ertian is always low-level".
And Zeng Xiang's loss move also attracted public opinion to spit on him overwhelmingly, and for a while, the same kind of people who shared the same fate as Zeng Xiang felt a crisis of destruction. So he began to hug the group, and Shao Yan also echoed it in a high-profile tone: the standard is neat, that is not art.
The most eye-catching thing is that Hong Houtian, director of the China Book Association, stepped forward, and he not only clearly supported Zeng Xiang, but also regarded Zeng Xiang as China's first calligrapher who integrated people and books, and it was Zeng Xiang and the older generation of calligraphers who supported Beijing calligraphy. The picture below is Hong Houtian with his calligraphy.
Unexpectedly, Beijing Satellite TV also cooperated, inviting Zeng Xiang to perform the "Roar Book" on the TV station. After this series of operations, Roaring Book not only did not drown in saliva, but realized the turning of salted fish, and even for a while, tian Kai had no power to fight back. The picture below is the scene of Zeng Xiang's "roar book" shining on Beijing Satellite TV.
However, unexpectedly, at the critical moment, the big man of the China Book Association who was more senior than Hong Houtian stood up, and he was Yang Zaichun, one of the founders of the China Book Association and a famous contemporary calligrapher. On the level of status theory, all crush Hong Hou sweet. He came forward to stand guard for Tian Kai, saying that Ertian had a very high level and that there was no problem in studying Tian Kai, and criticized the ugly book even including his own students. In one fell swoop, he denied Zeng Xiang's argument.
Shortly thereafter, Sun Xiaoyun followed suit with his first warning since taking office:
I am opposed to the Westernization of Chinese calligraphy, and I do not allow myself or others to use pure Western art to tarnish Chinese characters. Without inheritance, you can't talk about innovation, calligraphy is the essence of culture cultivated for thousands of years, inheriting it is not conservative, but respect. Calligraphy or writing, the words we are still using, we must have a sense of respect.
Sun Xiaoyun's words shook the calligraphy community, after all, Sun Xiaoyun was the latest head. Her inauguration originally carried the mission of cleaning up the dirty book industry. Her speech also seems to make people feel the atmosphere of the mountain rain in the field of calligraphy. Mr. Su Shishu, the chairman of the last China Book Association, also openly shouted, and his words were considered by the industry to be not only a support for traditional calligraphy, but also a solidarity with Sun Xiaoyun and even an affirmation of Tian Kai. Facing reporters, Su Shishu clearly stated:
"Calligraphy should be able to make people know", "Calligraphy should have a well-written training process", "Confusion is not calligraphy".
Behind him hangs a large-sized calligraphy similar to Tian Kai.com. Mr. Su Shishu has always been gentle and elegant, and this time he was able to express his views unequivocally from words to deeds. As a retired founder, this responsible attitude is undoubtedly worthy of praise.
Although it is rumored that he did not look at Tian Kai much before, between the ugly book and Tian Kai, he clearly opposed the ugly book.
The famous calligrapher Chen Zhongkang also said in his teaching: The ancients all had respect for words, calligraphy is what they wrote with respect, and now people are transforming and smearing words like toys. This is disrespectful to the words. This is the same as Sun Xiaoyun's "respect for words".
The dispute between Roaring Book and Tian Kai once again ignited the debate between traditional calligraphy and innovative calligraphy, and how to unify the attitude or what measures the China Book Association came up with obviously affected the hearts of every book lover. Sun Xiaoyun, the current head of calligraphy, as an individual, has always stood on the side of traditional calligraphy, which is well known to the world, but how much she can lead the Chinese Calligraphy Association to achieve remains to be seen, why? Because Shen Peng is the ancestor of innovative calligraphy, in the face of the chaotic situation in the field of calligraphy, he has not yet said a word. He has always acquiesced to the existence of various kinds of ugly books, and even said that it is not surprising that calligraphy innovation will continue to increase. The master of the "Roaring Book" Zeng Xiang ran the book development, and Shen Peng also brought a group of disciples such as Hu Kangmei to the scene. It can be said that Zeng Xiang's today is inextricably linked to Shen Peng's care.
Therefore, it seems that the game between Tian Kai and "Roar Book" is actually a contest between the two forces behind them, and their victory or defeat is the key to determining the direction of calligraphy. It can be seen that Sun Xiaoyun's work of rectifying the chaos of calligraphy has entered the deep water area, and whether he can achieve results depends on this one-foot in the door, and how well he plays it depends on Sun Xiaoyun's next wisdom and courage. However, the support of such an authoritative big man as Su Shishu is undoubtedly very, very important to Sun Xiaoyun.