The ink volume on paper of the Self-Narrative Thesis, a cursive calligraphy work created by Huai Sushu in the eleventh or twelfth year of the Tang Dynasty (776 or 777), with 126 lines and 698 characters, is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
▲ Tang _Huaisu_Self-narration post
The first six lines were damaged early and were supplemented by Su Shunqin in the Song Dynasty. "Self-Narration" is a huge production of Huaisu cursive, lively and flying, the pen is full of wind, "the heart and hand are strange, the strange shape is turned into a suitable", it is really a lyrical work of emotion rushing and stirring, "splashing ink and writing".
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Huai Su (737~799), known historically as "Cao Sheng", was an outstanding calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Zi Zangzhen, monk name Huai Su, since childhood as a monk, through the Zen time, sharp cursive, and Zhang Xu, collectively known as "upside down crazy su", forming a situation of tang dynasty calligraphy twin peaks side by side, is also the two peaks in the history of Chinese cursive.
Huaisu cursive, thin penmanship, flying natural, like a rain whirlwind, with a variety of changes. The calligraphy is full of twists and turns, ever-changing, and the law is possessed.
Li Zhimin, a professor at Peking University and the pioneer of the inscription into the grass, commented: "HuaiSu's cursive running has the god of Qingxiu, and there is the spirit of Chunmu in the wild."
The "Self-Narrative Post" is Huai Su's self-description of his life outline, and also records the poems given to him by Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Shu, Dai Shulun and others. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, it has been a popular Fa Ti in the field of cursive writing, and has a profound influence in the field of calligraphy art in the history of Chinese cursive. It is the longest surviving work of Huai Su, known as "the world's first cursive book".
The whole text is wild grass, the pen is in the center, such as the cone scratching the sand table, vertical and horizontal, straight, nowhere to collect; the whole volume emphasizes the continuous grass trend, the pen flips up and down, suddenly left and right, undulating and swinging, there are speeds and speeds, there are light and heavy, the width is in the rules and regulations, the strange trace changes, the spirit is turbulent, and it is the ultimate expression of cursive art.
In the wild cursive style, the characteristics of pen writing are the most obvious. In the processing of points and paintings, the changes of lines are mainly used, and the points are widely used in the wild cursive script, and the direction and position of the points affect the posture, chapter method and style characteristics of the font.
The frequency of the word "no" in the "Self-Narration Post" is very high, basically composed of four points, there are also horizontal and vertical strokes or the last two points of pen writing, no matter what kind of writing, the posture of the dot painting is different, the size, straightness, thickness, the silk belt and the trajectory of the dot painting are different postures.
The "Self-Narration" is more flexible in its structural handling of words, and the length and size and interspersing are very natural.
There are many postures within and between words, and the center of gravity, tightness, appearance space and inner space processing of words are mainly circles, and irregular spatial layout and division such as square, pointed and polyangular are used, and they are still flexible and changeable in terms of knot body posture.
Its lines are mostly rounded, smooth and smooth features, and are mainly flattened on the pen.
Common in the "Self-Narration Post" is the pen feature of flexible pen edge, four-sided or eight-sided front. However, in the line pen, the pen is fully pressed, there are more arcs and circles in the trend or against the trend, and the smooth pen method is used to convert the direction of the pen, and the way to convert the pen edge at the small bending angle and the ribbon is also turned and used, and the overall rounded posture is presented.
The "Self-Narrative Post" is mainly stable in the processing of character groups, and the achievement of stable characteristics is achieved by the change and balance of Chinese character components.
In addition, the line spacing in "Self-Narration Post" is basically the same, and there are also crossover coverage of interspersed or even a small number of Chinese character strokes, but this is after all a minority, and the overall style is rounded and the handwriting is mainly used to increase the change and agility.
The biggest feature of "Self-Narration" is that its freehand play has been maximized, so that it has reached the realm of the highest, purest, best, and most beautiful.
At that time, Huai Su, who was in an unguided year, with the shocking "Self-Narration", laid the foundation for his lofty status as a "grass saint" in the history of Chinese calligraphy.
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