What is the standard by which the calligraphy is sophisticated? Although there is a unified text expression in the calligraphy community for this definition, because of the emergence of various calligraphy pens, netizens seem to have slightly different expressions of this expression. We generally think that the old way of calligraphy is mostly able to highlight the maturity of calligraphy ink, as well as the proficiency of calligraphy lines, that is to say, in the use of ink pens, the basic line texture of calligraphy is impeccable, it has the tightness of ink, as well as the sophistication of brushwork, so it is called "old way".
In his later years, Song Ren was poor
Song Ren poor calligraphy
The calligraphy creator that Xiaobian wants to enjoy with you today is quite famous, he is a well-known founding general, and he is also evaluated by Chairman Mao as "Wen also comes, Wu also comes" -- Song Renqian, who is both literate and martial. Song Ren is so poor that he is "martial", and we will only talk about his "literature" today- calligraphy. Song Renqian had not experienced systematic calligraphy practice. Generally learning calligraphy, is bound to go through the stage of copying, scavenging some good posts, printing to copy and learn, replacing other people's skills with their own, in order to learn and write calligraphy well.
Group photo of Song Renqian
It was only later that Song Renqian relied on his own efforts, starting from observation, and practicing over and over again to write today's inkblot. Some netizens think that although Song Renqian's education level is not very high, but the ability to learn and understand is strong, and the calligraphy is also a little bit of understanding, so his calligraphy is by no means like a naïve font with no foundation, but it seems to be very sophisticated, thick and thick, condensed and clumsy, these signs add a kind of dry vine flavor to his calligraphy, so some people say that Song Renqian's calligraphy is similar to "dry vine body".
Xiaobian thought that if you look at the impression of the font, Song Renqian's calligraphy does have a kind of pale taste, very large stroke of the kind of arrogance, which is also one of the reasons for the popularity. However, we should also see that Song Renqian's calligraphy still lacks some places worth pondering, such as in some ink uses, his mastery of ink spitting is not too skilled, and in some brushwork, it is still a little stiff, unnatural, and so on. Of course, Song Renqian is not a professional calligrapher, and we have to think about this in a different position.