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Yan Zhenqing and Xu Hao
This is the beginning of Yan Zhenqing's "Many Pagoda Tablets", pay attention to it, here is a sentence:
Asasa Dafu inspected the Shang Shu Du Guan Lang Zhongdonghai Xu Hao inscription
That is to say, this inscription called Xu Hao has a stele, and some of the inscriptions on this stele will be received, but more posters choose not to receive them.
After all, people buy "Duo Pagoda Stele" to learn Yan Zhenqing, who cares about Xu Hao?
But back to the Tang Dynasty, back to the era when Xu Hao and Yan Zhenqing lived,
As a calligrapher, Xu Hao is more famous than Yan Zhenqing.
It is likely that Qianfu Temple could not afford to ask Xu Hao to write the inscription, so he asked him to write only the inscription, and then let Yan Zhenqing write the inscription.
In the Old Book of Tang, Xu Hao and Yan Zhenqing have biographies.
The Old Book of Tang wrote about Xu Hao, and he was very sure of his calligraphy ability, saying that he wrote the edict of Tang Xuanzong's succession, and tang Suzong always had to let Xu Hao write any edict.
Writing about Yan Zhenqing is mainly about his political career, and when it comes to his calligraphy, there are only three words, "YougongShu".
What is even more embarrassing is that the Tang Dynasty calligraphy theorist Dou Zhen counted 45 Tang Dynasty calligraphers in the "Shushu Fu", including Xu Hao but no Yan Zhenqing.
In the Song Dynasty, Song Taizong organized the printing of a large collection of posts "Chunhua Ge Ti", including 103 people such as emperors, courtiers and famous calligraphers, and there was no Yan Zhenqing in it, but this time Xu Hao did not.
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Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo
Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrifice Nephew Manuscript"
In fact, Yan Zhenqing can have such a high status in the future generations, a large part of the reason is that he has two big-name fans.
These two fans are, Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo.
Ouyang Xiu wrote in "The Pen Says the World Makes Fat Characters":
The ancients can write books, the sages who are alone, passed on far away, and then the world does not push this, but the book, do not know the previous day's work book, with the paper and ink mud abandoned, innumerable also.
Although the Yan Gongshu is not good, those who see it in later generations will also be treasured; Yang Ningshi advises his father with blunt words, and his verses are seen in hardships; Li Jianzhong is cautious and gentle, and those who love his books also take him as a person.
Is there a truth, and then it exists for a long time? If it is not from ancient times, the sages will be able to write books, and the only sages will be able to survive, and the rest will not be seen again.
In Ouyang Xiu's view, there were more people who wrote well in ancient times, and if they wanted to be remembered by future generations, this person must be very good in himself.
Like Yan Zhenqing, even if he writes badly, it will be passed on to future generations, and people will take it as a treasure.
Today, when we look back at the history of calligraphy, we can find that most calligraphers are sages, which does not mean that the ancient sages were very good at calligraphy, but that only the calligraphy of the sages can be passed down, and the inheritance of others is gone.
If Ouyang Xiu is from the perspective of communication, then Su Dongpo is commenting as a calligrapher.
In the "Dongpo Inscription", there are two articles:
● As for Du Zimei in poetry, as for Han Huizhi in literature, as for Yan Lugong in books, as for Wu Daozi in painting, and the ability to change the world in ancient and modern times is complete.
● Yan Lu Gongshu, Xiong Xiu is unique, a change of ancient law, such as Du Zimei poems, Gree Tianzhong, There are Wei, Han, Jin, Song since the wind, the author of the later, it is difficult to recover!
Su Dongpo is a staunch Yan Chui, saying that Yan Zhenqing's position in the history of calligraphy is like Du Fu's position in the history of poetry.
Yes, at first glance, Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy and Wang Xizhi are not the same way, but this change is worth affirming, don't you think there is a kind of "xiongxiu" in Yan's body?
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Zhao Mengfu and Yang Shen
Works by Zhao Mengfu
With the affirmation of Ouyang Xiu, Su Dongpo and other big figures, Yan Zhenqing's status in the history of calligraphy has continued to rise.
But in this uphill road, there are occasional downward trends.
For example, Zhao Mengfu, the first person in the Yuan Dynasty book world, said in a letter to his friend Wang Zhi:
In recent times, and with the customs are good Yan Shu, Yan Shu is a great change of scholars, children are accustomed to it, until the white head often can not be transformed, so it becomes a bloated and fleshy disease, there is no medicine to be bad, it is all admired and not realistic. Shang makes the second king of calligraphy, loyal to the face, but also what hurts?
Zhao Mengfu did not say that Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was good or bad in this passage, he only said that Yan Zhenqing was "a great change in calligraphers".
Learning Yan Zhenqing is not good, it is easy to "bloated and meaty", this problem is still difficult to change.
Therefore, Zhao Mengfu suggested that he should learn calligraphy from Erwang and learn loyalty from Yan Zhenqing.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen, the author of "Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River", said even more fiercely in the "Ink Pond Trivia":
The badness of calligraphy, starting from Yan Zhenqing, from Yan to the end of the Tang Dynasty.
To the fifth generation of Li Hou Lord, who knew the disease, said that the Yan Shu had a kaifa but no good point, just like the forked hands and feet like Tian Shelang Weng'er.
As soon as Li Zhi's theory came out, it was said that the Yan Shu pen was like a steamed cake, and it was ugly and disgusting. It is also known that Yan Xingshu is considerable, and it is really a vulgar product.
Although Mi's words are close to the wind, they are not unreasonable, but they can not be caught in words and deeds. Until Zhao Zi came out, once he washed his face and Liu's illness, he took the Jin people as a teacher, and after the right army, he was only one person.
Yang Shen first found two predecessors:
Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, complained that yan body was not good at all, just like a cropper with forked hands and feet.
In the Song Dynasty, Mi Fu also complained that Yan Body's pen was the same as the steamed bun, big and ugly, Yan Zhenqing's writing was not bad, and the calligraphy was garbage.
Later, Yang Shen said that although Mi Fu was almost crazy, his evaluation was still reasonable.
Yang Shen recognized Zhao Mengfu's practice and felt that he took Jin as his teacher, and wang Xizhi was him.
However, although there are voices such as Zhao Mengfu and Yang Shen,
But today, Yan Zhenqing is basically the second person in the history of calligraphy, and the first number is of course Wang Xizhi.
So, how did you know Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy?
Text | Xiong Xiu is a salted fish decoction
Typography | A change of ancient law bright moon moon