His calligraphy is unique,
Rongbei Stele South Ti in a furnace,
Created the "Nangong Body" that influenced the late Qing Dynasty book world for a hundred years
He was also praised by Kang Youwei as a calligrapher who was "unparalleled in the millennium"
He is Zhang Yuzhao
Zhang Yuzhao (1823-1894), modern essayist and calligrapher. The word Lianqing. A native of Wuchang (present-day Ezhou), Hubei. In the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang (1846), he was awarded the Cabinet Secretary. Later, he entered the shogunate of Zeng Guofan and was one of the "four disciples of Zengmen", and was recommended by Zeng Guofan as "a person who can be expected to achieve success" ("Qing History Manuscript Zhang Yuzhao Biography"). Born plain in the eunuch, he said to himself that "he has no hobbies in the world, and he is young and happy with literature alone" ("Book of The Book of the Emperor and the Book of the Emperor"). He has taught in Jiangning, Hubei, Zhili, and Shaanxi academies, and has trained many students, including Fan Dangshi and Ma Qichang.
1 Born Shu Xiang Men Di, one of the "Four Bachelors of Zengmen"
Zhang Yuzhao was born in Zhangjiawan, Longtang Village, Donggou Town, Liangzi Lake, Ezhou City, into a family of scholars. Since childhood, he has been gifted with different talents, and in his adolescence, he has studied the ancient texts and history of the Tang and Song dynasties. In particular, he was familiar with the "Nanfeng Collection" of the song dynasty ancient writer Zeng Gong, and he had a lot of experience.
Daoguang 18 years, Zhang Yuzhao was 16 years old at the time, at the county exam to get Xiucai. Daoguang 26 years, in Hubei Township test. In the 30th year of Daoguang, Zhang entered the Beijing Association and failed the first, and then participated in the examination for the Guozi Supervision Xuezheng. After being elected, the official was awarded the cabinet secretary.
The main examiner selected this time was Zeng Guofan, who was surprised because Zhang Wen seemed to be a zengzigu. Zhang Shi later tended to swim in Zengmen, and together with Li Shuchang, Xue Fucheng, Wu Rulun and others, he was collectively known as the "Four Scholars of Zengmen".
2 Abandoning the official and returning to the south, peach and plum all over the world
Zhang Yuzhao served in Beijing for two years, and his official position was not obvious. Witnessing the corruption of the officialdom, he entertained himself with books and texts, and then abandoned the official and returned to the south.
In 1852, Zhang Yuzhao was hired to lecture at the Wuchang Spoon Court Academy. In 1854, Zeng Guofan entered Hubei, and Wen Yuzhao was in Hubei, so he was summoned to join the Rong curtain to participate in the copywriting. Since then, for more than ten years, colleagues have their own promotions, but Zhang Shi "does things alone in governing the literature" and is not enthusiastic about politics, so he has never obtained an official and a half post. Finally, he gave up his career and devoted himself to the study of education, literature and calligraphy.
Since 1871, Zhang has successively lectured at Fengchi Academy in Jiangning (present-day Nanjing), Lianchi Academy in Baoding, Jianghan Academy in Wuchang, and Lumen Academy in Xiangyang. It was not until the 18th year of Guangxu (1892) that the Zhang clan was 70 years old and was first raised from Xiangyang Lumen to Xi'an by his sons Hou Hu and Hou Huan. On the fourteenth day of the first month of 1894, he died in his xi'an apartment.
Zhang's life is full of peach and plum all over the world, and those who have a negative reputation from the apprentices include Fan Dangshi, Zhang Xiao, Yao Xuechen, Zhu Mingpan, and Many others. Many of his protégés later became scholars, poets, essayists, calligraphers, and industrialists, and became famous and accomplished in the political world. Among them, the Japanese disciple Miyajima Yongshi followed Mr. Yu Zhao for 8 years, and he learned a lot from calligraphy. After Zhang's death, Miyajima returned to China to establish the "Zenlin Academy" to spread the learning of Zhang' family, so that Zhang's calligraphy has evolved into a genre in Japan, which has not faded to this day.
3 Books created "Nangong Body", which has a far-reaching influence
Zhang Yuzhao's calligraphy ends up producing Hun Mu, taking the horizontal and horizontal of the Six Dynasties tablet version of the Fa, and blending tang Kai's steep and handsome show. The pen is solid and dignified, and the turning point is the trend of the outside and the inside, becoming a family of its own. In the twelfth year of Qing Guangxu, Hebei Nangong rebuilt county studies, and Zhang Yuzhao wrote a book "Rebuilding the Nangong County Academic Stele", also known as "Nanguan Stele". This stele is its representative work, so it is called "Nangong style". The inscription is beautiful and finely engraved, which had a great influence at that time.
The Nangong Stele was carved in the twelfth year of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1886), with a height of 2.4 meters, a width of 0.89 meters, and a thickness of 0.25 meters. The stele is carved with two dragon play beads, and the middle Yang carved seal book "Rebuilding the Monument of the Temple of Literature". The inscription is written in 13 lines, a total of 650 words, written by Gui Yue and Zhang Yuzhao. This is his 64-year-old work, the pen gesture is strong and old, and it is more skillful to reflect his unique artistic style. The content of the Nangong Monument is to propose the end of the decadent imperial examination system, advocating that "the rule of the world lies in talents; And talent must come from learning" thinking. In order to make the country rich and strong, he boldly put forward the idea of abolishing the "eight strands of literature", which was touching and exciting. The monument can be called an artistic treasure of "double beauty of words" and engraving and excellence.
4 Kang Youwei commented that it is "incomparable in the millennium"
Zeng Guofan said in the "Diary of Qiu Que Zhai": "Among the disciples, those who hope to have achieved it, push this person." His calligraphy art was highly praised by Kang Youwei and Zhang Taiyan.
Kang Youwei once commented in "Guangyi Zhou Shuangyi": "Hubei Zhang Yuzhao, whose books are high and ancient, and the dot paintings are turned, all of them are traced, and the mood is very steep. Its charm is all the triumph of the Jin and Song Dynasties. It is truly possible to build up Tao Wei, pregnant with Song Liang and breed Qi Sui, unparalleled in the past thousand years." "I have his book, and I will judge his pen, and the middle pen will be folded, and the outer ink will be connected, and the turn will be Teton, and the square will be round, and the fall will be implicit, and the circle will be square; therefore, it will be left for the sharp pen, and it will be clean for the increase of the pen, which is the great enlightenment of the pen."
Li Shuchang called it "Yuanya Chaoyi" and "On Alcohol and Rhetoric" ("Continuation of Ancient Literary Dictionaries").
Wu Rulun even admired that he could "change and then become bigger" and "uniquely derived from the strangeness of the "Records of History", although "the literary style is not as majestic as Zeng," and the meaning is witty, and the incorruptibility of the words can also become a family of its own" ("With Yao Zhongshi").
Appreciation of Zhang Yuzhao's works
Four screens of calligraphy
Couplets
The Book of Affixes is thought to be Ji Gu, and the Hook River picks Roco and Tan Tian
Suddenly, Tang Yu became male and deep, and wanted to mess up the rock valley