Before creating, you must copy first, at least eat through the home or two, copy, creation must be carefully written, not just by hand. Penmanship, ink, and chapters are very important, and I think what is particularly important is the penmanship. The penmanship is not in place ("bit" is the pen is formed), no matter how clever you are outside the words, no matter how high the knowledge, you will not write a flawless masterpiece. Calligraphy has no fixed standards, no scales. But good things are good after all. I have two sentences, "Leisurely heart meeting, difficult to say with the king", which is the words of laymen. There is a process of articulation from copying to creation. There must be no separation between copying and creation. And I did not copy it before the establishment, but after the establishment of the creation, it is inappropriate. Everyone must not leave the copy, must not leave the general knowledge, can also be said to copy while creating. Especially for young people, I suggest: more copying, less creation; Absorb more, recreate with emotion.
The sublimation of this creation is a conscious pursuit and self-expression. Don't create for the sake of creating, often the more you want to write well, the more you can't write well. Today Bought more than sixty pieces of Zhang'er rice paper, want to write well to participate in the "big exhibition", must be selected, this rice paper you have to be worthy of me, it will be trouble, you have to write badly! First of all, there is a problem with your mentality, and it is not adjusted well. Exhibiting is not our goal, not the ultimate goal pursued by artists, but to test ourselves. Creation should be accumulated from the usual days, but also require writing their own articles, poems, I think this is not the intention to express their literary talent, because only by knowing its nature, can you achieve its feelings. To write the content of the ancients, before writing, we must read more about the content of the poem and know what kind of feelings it is. For example, "Chu Yue Ti" Why is it called "Chu Yue Ti", the author's own situation at that time, and what is his mentality? After understanding and understanding, your emotions can be integrated into his feelings; "Leek Flower Thesis" looks so strict, in fact, it is a very broad masterpiece, Yang Ning-style dream woke up, feeling very good. Just a good friend sent leeks to come, and for a moment he was happy to write an immortal masterpiece; Yan Zhenqing wrote the "Sacrifice nephew draft" in the face of national hatred and family hatred.
What kind of works the ancients wrote in what mood, we should at least learn from it. What the content of this poem is after writing, if you don't know, it is lacking. I hope that everyone will work harder, read widely and learn erudition, and travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books. Strengthen the cultivation of external skills, especially in philosophy and aesthetics, including foreign masterpieces, can be read more. Even if one or two sentences impress you, they are also used by me. At the same time, it takes the law vertically and horizontally, respecting the ancients and not superstitiously believing in the ancients. Whether the things of the ancients are good or not, I think not always, we take the famous stele, in this way. Small statues, small epitaphs, and bricks for prisoners, so that bamboo and wood cannot be practiced, only intentional. The fellow practitioners who write about Han Li must not use Han Jian as a method and write Han Jian so charmingly, this is putting the cart before the horse and is futile. This is my opinion, and you can give me more comments. In addition to reading more aesthetic and philosophical books, he took the meaning horizontally and drew nourishment from sister arts such as painting, opera, architecture, and sports.
Artistic creation, one must provoke contradictions, and the other must have the ability to balance contradictions. We do not write for the sake of writing, and when we copy, the form is the first, and the temperament must be above the form when creating, it is conceived on the form. Since the temperament in creation is the first, and the form must be the last, then this temperament can only achieve a good state through the form. Therefore, I would like to reiterate to the assembly that Sun Guoting's "Han is not vain, there must be a reason for the next", which is sent by feeling, and Liu Xizai's "ancient gods are changed by my gods", first into the ancient gods, and then out of the ancient gods is also not published, go in and out, you will become ancient: from the ancient, from the senses, is our own. This journey is quite long, it is a lifelong pursuit, I hope you will work harder. Reflect on it, Yang Xiong has long said that "books are painting for the heart", and Confucius said "swimming in art", saying that it is love. Zheng Banqiao said very homely, one said "firmly believe that Qingshan does not relax", you can chew slowly. He also said, "Ten times learn seven to throw three", how I hope that today's theorists can write such a golden bean-like language, even if it is a little. It is useless to be completely like the impossible, completely muddy, very learn seven to throw three, the sages have told us that we need to think, to think, to extract.
Sun Boxiang
Born in 1934 in Wuqing County, Tianjin.
Late name "Shi Shu".
All his life, he based his life on the current book world in the style of Wei stele,
In 2013, he won the 11th Plastic Arts Achievement Award of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
In 2015, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 5th Lanting Awards.
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About the mindset when creating calligraphy
Learn calligraphy, do not seek fame and fortune, the purpose of learning calligraphy is not to think about becoming a great calligrapher one day, so that you will be tired of it and get nothing. As calligraphers, we must put the right position, calligraphy is the treasure of traditional Chinese culture, passed down for thousands of years, in our hands to have innovation in the inheritance, do not stick to the rules. To inherit also to change, because change is absolute, invariance is relative. As the saying goes: everything is dotted and linear, everywhere is square.
The highest state of calligraphy is "truth, goodness and beauty". It is not easy to do with experts nodding and the masses applauding. You must know that there are people outside the sky, and this is the way forward.
About how to write good calligraphy
Calligraphy should first start from the horizontal and vertical, artistry is the last word, first from the imitation of the ancients, learn from the ancient, a mention of a meal is reasonable, to every stroke and every painting, are regarded as alive, they are all alive, just like the magnificent Qiantang River tide is actually written by nature "one horizontal", Changbai Mountain hundred years of cang pine is nature's "one vertical".
About "Inheritance" and "Innovation"
To learn calligraphy, we must take our own path, and we must inherit and innovate in parallel. Only inheritance, the circle can not come out of it; only innovation, will be the water of no source. Take my own path of study, I used to write About Tang Kai, and later I wrote about Wei Bei, and now I have absorbed some of the things I have posted. In this calligraphy and painting exhibition, I wrote the orchid pavilion preface and the holy religious order, which is to deliberately try to fit the inscription.
I have a couplet: "The tasting is very different, and the study of books and tablets is not a town." Now I tend to write more harmoniously and coolly, and finally pursue a cool state. The so-called cool state is to make people more comfortable the more they look, the more they look, the cooler they are, which is my goal.
Opinions on "Theology" and "Epigraphy"
Everyone has a preference, preference is nature, prejudice is a great mistake, misleading others and mistaking themselves, calligraphers should have a tolerant and broad feeling. I learn wei bei, love the body of his general, the body of a strong general, male but not fierce, mighty but not fierce, and do not be crazy. A long journey, turn to many teachers, both happy monument and happy post, "clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve" is my life's ideal. For any kind of inscription, as long as you "hold on to the green mountains and do not relax", chase them to the bottom, you will become a family, and there will naturally be changes.
Now there are many people who write monuments and posts, and just writing posts will lack strength and thickness, and just writing tablets will lack charm and subtlety. The person who writes the monument and the person who writes the post cannot belittle each other, and the stele and the post should love it sincerely, they have no sharp boundaries, and the key is that the "take-ism" is used by me. In other words, the stele has the advantages of the stele, the post has the advantages of the post, and the combination of the stele and the post is the complementary integration of the advantages, so that the form of the calligraphy changes more, the connotation is richer, and the sense of beauty is stronger.