Famous Stories: What are the stories of the famous calligrapher Wang Weiping?

Teacher Wang Weiping is a famous calligrapher in contemporary China, one of the most powerful calligraphers in the maritime book world, and a famous calligrapher on the sea.

The happiest thing, he said that he likes a lot of things, interests are very extensive, so he is most happy is that he likes to buy things, this is the happiest, buy a qianlong ink is very happy. The most regrettable thing he said was that when he was young, he did not worship Mr. Bai Banana as a teacher, and he did not have a chance. The saddest things, the death of his husband, including the death of his parents, are the most uncomfortable things for him. So it's good to live and be healthy.

Wang Weiping, a famous contemporary calligrapher, was the secretary general of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, and as one of the most powerful calligraphers in the maritime book world, he is well known at home and abroad for his proficiency in small letters and cursive writing. Wang Weiping was born in a family of scholars and learned calligraphy from an early age under the influence of his uncle. He (uncle) asked them to write, he himself liked calligraphy, liked calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, and he had to draw circles for you every time, and if he was good, he would give you prizes, and his uncle never gave anything else, but to stationery, to give you a pencil knife, which is not unusual now, it used to be the kind of German pencil knife that shook. He gives you exercise books, and German pencils, so they're pretty motivated. The sixties were like this, Wang Weiping he grew up playing table tennis, he and Zhang Xielin are classmates to play table tennis together, on this he is really not as talented as him, he is playing to the national team, he did not play in the Shanghai team. Later, because Wang Weiping was relatively tall, his height of one meter and eighty-six meters was relatively tall at their age, so the basketball team in the south city of their district took a fancy to him, and he entered the district team because he had also played basketball in school. He was playing ball almost every night, and when he came back from playing, he came back at ten o'clock to eat something and start writing, and he had to write until two or three o'clock every day, and this habit, how come you old man still have to go to bed at twelve o'clock, as if this was how he used to come. In the dead of night, he writes alone, and that's it.

Although Wang Weiping is famous for his cursive writing, his square shape and straight strokes have cultivated his solid foundation. At the beginning of his study of calligraphy, he copied Liu Gongquan's famous work "Divine Strategy Military Monument", which was also a solid first step on his calligraphy road. In the early sixties, he went through an old painter named Deng Huainong, he introduced them, you worship a teacher, at that time with his brother to worship a teacher, Deng Huainong he picked a lot of teachers for them at that time, Tang Yun had everything, because Deng Huainong and them have a very good relationship, but he recommended them to follow Shan Xiaotian, he said he was young, he was born in 1922, he was young, he could speak, and the things he inherited, the things of the Second King, were quite good, so he went to worship Shan Xiaotian.

This, is his teacher Shan Xiaotian, it is also a pity to say that this is also a pity, because Wang Weiping and he in the early sixties to the eighties they are very poor, unlike later he bought a lot of cameras, Laika or Hasselblad, Wang Weiping he bought, at that time there were really no conditions, so Wang Weiping and he did not take photos, Wang Weiping he could not find the photos he took when he was married, this is his (Shan Xiaotian) after his death, his master and mother gave Wang Weiping a few photos of him.

Shan Xiaotianshi inherited the calligraphy of Deng Sanmu, the calligraphy is mainly Based on Tang Kai, and he is very much advocating Ouyang Qian's famous post "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", for his own students, Shan Xiaotian also requires to copy this post to get started. They were right to get started now, he recommended them, guided them to write posts, and the way they used the pen were all very correct, and now it seems that he is a very normative thing. Later Wang Weiping he felt that he liked Mr. Bai Banana's words very much, because his eldest sister, sixteen years older than him, when she was in college, Bai Banana was her Chinese language teacher, they knew, and Bai Banana wrote to their family, wrote fans or whatever, all wrote, from childhood to see his word Wang Weiping he liked very much, then he told his teacher, I also like the words of White Banana, he said that we students do not write the same words, if you write White Banana, White Banana is also half of my teacher, you learn his words is also quite good. Bai Shuo is good at cursive writing, and his calligraphy is quiet and elegant, loose and free, and he has deeply grasped the essence of Jingtang calligraphy. Mr. Bai Shuo's character Wang Weiping also read him write, but at that time he had already worshiped Teacher Shan Xiaotian, he did not dare to open his mouth to worship any teacher, and Bai Shuo died during the Cultural Revolution, and after being persecuted, he was unhappy, and he died in 1969, so he did not have the opportunity to go with him, and when he died, he was only sixty-three years old, very young. However, Wang Weiping learned the erwang's calligraphy from the perspective of learning calligraphy, and among the modern living calligraphers at that time, he learned the white banana teacher. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, in this fierce movement, Wang Weiping did not slack off on calligraphy in the slightest, and he began to search for a vast sea of masterpieces of past generations.

There was another person who helped Wang Weiping a lot, that is, in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, there was a man named Pan Jingcheng in the Shanghai Library, when the Cultural Revolution they were all sidelined, at that time he was in charge of ancient books, rare books, good editions, because he knew the librarian gu Yanlong at that time, he was also a big person, he introduced Wang Weiping to know Teacher Pan Jingcheng, and then he consulted him, and he said you will come to me to see the good inscriptions. At that time, the old gentlemen were very good, Wang Weiping went in the morning, he put a hot water bottle there, of course you have to drink the tea leaves to bring yourself, a hot water bottle a cup put there, hot water soaked well, and then put three stacks of stele, now the museum does not show you at all, like Wu Hufan's Si Ou Tang, those good rare book inscriptions, Song Dynasty versions, Ming Dynasty Tuoben, now it is impossible to see things, so he is quite lucky, is to touch such a good teacher, the old man is very protective of you young people to learn calligraphy He is also very supportive and helpful to you, and he is also very happy that there are still such people pursuing calligraphy during the Cultural Revolution. After reading a large number of famous posters and academies, Wang Weiping began to slowly turn to practicing cursive writing, and also began to concentrate on calligraphy theory after reading the post. When he was learning cursive calligraphy, there was a Tang Dynasty "Book Genealogy" called Sun Guoting, that text was called Piao Tiwen, he couldn't understand it, he didn't understand it, his wife's uncle, his uncle, her family, her grandfather was also a calligrapher, just look for him, once a week. At that time, Wang Weiping only had one day off a week, and his uncle lived in Suzhou, and under the traffic conditions at that time, the drive from Shanghai to Suzhou took most of the day. Take the train there in the morning to eat lunch, at noon he does not sleep, the old-fashioned, when it is cold, the cuff is shrunk and sits there, and then Wang Weiping he goes, his home is hung up, the calligraphy and paintings are hung up, after hanging up, let you see, what is this person, good or bad, after talking about it, I will talk about the "Book Spectrum". He was also a rightist, his family was driven out, and the house he lived in was also very small and very long, an eight-immortal table, a small lamp on it, he and Wang Weiping sat facing each other, two posts, he said one sentence at a time. The Book Genealogy is the handed down work of the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Sun Guoting, which is not only a beautiful calligraphy theory, but also an ideal model for cursive art. Sun Guoting is also a great calligrapher, and the "Book Genealogy" is also a must for those who study cursive calligraphy, and many of the theories he talks about are very instructive and helpful to himself, so his wife's uncle also helped him a lot in writing in the seventies. In the 1970s, Wang Weiping gradually brewed his own unique style of peace and simplicity by reading a large number of famous classics, accumulating master's aesthetics, and visiting the cursive and calligraphy of famous masters of all generations, becoming the leader of the young calligraphers in Shanghai at that time.

Wang Weiping's students often hold small exhibitions of works to exchange calligraphy experiences, and Wang Weiping will also comment on each work. He said that calligraphy focuses on inheritance, and what he teaches his students is his own accumulation over the years, and he learns bits and pieces from his predecessors. In 1989, Wang Weiping, who was secretary general of the Shanghai Book Association, said that during this time he had the privilege of meeting Xie Zhiliu, a person who had a profound influence on him. The chairman at that time was Xie Zhiliu, so he was the chairman for almost nine years, because he often went to his house because of the convenience of his job, so he asked him for advice. Xie Zhiliu is an accomplished artistic and academic master in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese painting, and his poetry and painting are all exquisite, and his ability to appreciate calligraphy and painting is unmatched. Wang Weiping asked him how to write well, he said writing, then your eyes are high and low, your eyes must lead the hand to go, the vision is high, your hand will go up, and later he said that this is not to let you be a person with high eyes and low hands, artistically, calligraphy should be low in the eyes, that is, your eyes should be able to understand, first the eyes must see good things, and you know where this is good, you yourself look at your own words, where you are not enough, you know, know to improve, to improve, to take the Fa. Mr. Xie's speech is very simple, so you must understand, it may be a word or two, as if he went to ask him, his study is called Zhuang Huitang, that word is Mr. Wang Yichang wrote cursive, he asked Xie Lao, you said Wang Yunlao's word is good, he is a word, strange. Calligraphy is not strange, and Wang Weiping passed on this concept to his students after a deep understanding. Then after waiting a little while, he said, writing can be strange, but it can't be blamed, and it is not possible to write strangely, and you can understand this yourself. Why should he write this word, he has always stressed that this is a poem by Xie Zhiliu, standing upright and leaning against the trend, the center forward wants to go against the trend, and he knows that the new grid has a negative strange name, and has always said that he wants a strange name, not a strange name, which is the truth. Mr. Xie has a poem, and he has a sentence in it that reads, "I know the new name of the new character," so it must be new, it must be its own things, and it must be innovative. But innovation, what is innovation, innovation is not a novelty, there is development on the basis of inheritance, but on the basis of inheritance and people are not the same, all at once, there is no law, no line, chaos, that is not called innovation. You see this "net" word, clean and clean, is there a bit of a problem, like more out of the right, in fact, more does not matter, that is, after arriving here to come this way, here to come and go down, the angle of the problem. Every time we participate in the exhibition now, the most important point, especially cursive writing, is not to be wrong, this is the most important thing, do not make typos. Although it is quite loose now, it does not matter if the wrong point is wrong, but (Wang Weiping) himself feels that we go out to participate in the exhibition, first of all, let people think that this study is wrong, especially cursive writing. Wang Weiping said that for students, he asked that when learning calligraphy, they should first choose a good post, study it carefully, and pay attention to the rules of calligraphy, rather than being disorderly. Therefore, he can only teach others to learn the rules of things, learn the rules, no rules are not square. Innovation is your own, I can't teach you to innovate, innovation is talent. Gifted people naturally form their own style. So start writing without me, without myself, it's all the stuff on the post, whether you think it's right or not, learn it all according to it, and then learn to have my own things, and then take a little bit of other people's things in and merge them into my things, and finally, without him, without other people's things, it's my stuff, this is your family. But we must go through the first two processes, there must be a process of selflessness, a scholar; To have a process of having me, a little bit of your own, and then become completely in your own style.

Wang Weiping said that choosing to learn calligraphy is a very hard thing, in addition to being diligent in practicing calligraphy and posting, it is also necessary to continuously improve his self-cultivation, have skillful calligraphy skills, but also have a deep cultural heritage, and more importantly, deal with people, in this regard, Mr. Xie Zhiliu is a model.