This is an album written by Wang Duo for a foreign missionary to China, John Tang.
John Tang arrived in China in 1622 , and later , at the request of Xu Guangqi , was recruited by the imperial court to participate in the revision of the calendar , beginning his thirty-eight-year career in the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. In the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), after eighteen years of supervising the affairs of the Qin Dynasty, Tang Ruowang was finally awarded the title of Guanglu Dafu, and was able to supplement the clothes with a pint of top belt and embroidered cranes, becoming one of the Europeans with the highest official rank in History in China, and was one of the very few distant ministers who were awarded the title of three generations and the special encounter of Enlu.
Wang Duo surrendered in Nanjing in the second year of Shunzhi (1645) and arrived in Beijing with the Qing general Duo Duo. Or because he heard that John Tang had taken over the qingqin tianjian in December of the previous year, he decided to give a handwritten scroll, and the content was selected to give tang john four poems of the seven sayings that he gave to Tang during the Chongzhen period (1628-1644). Although the purpose of his writing was never clearly stated in this album (a bound calligraphy work), because Wang Duo was poor and ill at the time, he obviously hoped that this old work would remind the new upstart Tang Shi of his previous friendship and help them.
The album of poems has two seals, "Yungu Ye Family Collection" and "South China Sea Ye Family Collection", which can be seen as having been collected by Ye Menglong (1775-1832), and Ye's friends Weng Fanggang (1733-1818) and Qian Tu (1744-1806) have a view. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, this volume belonged to Pei Jingfu (1854-1926), and in 1914, the Shanghai Civilization Book Company published "Inkblots of Wang Juesi's Poetry", which borrowed this work, and in 1936, it was originally obtained as Ye Gongqi, and the Tibetan seals such as "Panyu Yeshi" and "Gongqi Longevity" were added to the prints of the Erxuan Society. Later, Chen Yuan, tutor of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Studies of Peking University and director of the Beijing Normal Library, borrowed the original from Ye Gongqiu, drew the character frame with a fine pen, and then copied it in the form of thick ink extension, and changed the original album format to a banner for circulation.
Wang Duo's "Visiting Posts" (Interpretation)
During the visit, Mr. Dao WeiTang's pavilion was on the pavilion to see and hear about the overseas wonders.
The wind blows the flag tree shadow obliquely, and the lacquer book changes to the end. He is a mountain bird and beast waiting for the meeting, the home of the exotic Lin Qiu Emperor. Can be the Heavenly Hub through the eyes of the sea, the beginning of the sun road small melon. It takes time to explore the western pole with Er, and Hao Hao Kunlun has no end. Second, the special party has its own smoke, and the appearance of a leaf is worldly. The earth folds quicksand and miscellaneous things, and the people are poor and the stars are involved in waves. The medicinal color between the eyebrows is three-light, and the dragon (shaped ten thousand) in the box is cold. Good to orange officials extend to the end, know that the junding will not be ashamed of The Dan. Shape, ten thousand words fall. Third, among the eighty thousand Distant Cheng Yan Ji, Ru Yun disciple asked Hongmeng. Habitually practicing the boa constrictor wind, repeatedly binding the male loach miasma in the air. When the elixir is applied, the disease is returned to the body, and the descendants of YuHengqi are tiangong. There is a long life left in the room, and a bamboo smile meets the fan style. Fourth, the picture is filled with the kitchen, and the He Shu Layer Pavilion is really immortal. Drunken heart reflects the flowers, idle and nostalgic for the ancient prehistory. Solo in the middle and autumn of the qinse, and the double hanging of the night is strange. If you want to seek the spirit liquid from the dragon, you are only afraid of the smoke of the luan car. Words in the middle of the night: The vast seas are in peace, and the crying song of the country is at this time. Some guests looked for Xiao Temple, and the deceased also sent Caotang poems. In the old days, guan Yi fang knew the eunuchs, and today combing his hair is not evil. Why should the five Yues rise up in their chests, and who is the teacher of The Blind Trailing Tail? That is, the monks in my garden; half-loaded Longgang is like an old man, and the monkey park is our country. Autumn deep flowers know the creek late, after winter the partridge chirps and feels the noise of the trees. Life and death watched the mountain without being affected, and rongku idly read the Buddha without words. But he regretted his mistake, and the night god bell lazily closed the door. Drop the word. At the time of the book, the two children play in front of them, and the cries are chaotic, and the numbers are dropped, such as dragon, shape, wan, and gully, which can also be gimmicked. Calligraphy and painting must be deep in the mountains, and sprinkled in the shadows of the pine waves, but for pleasure, can be obtained? Wang Duo is long-sighted. It is advisable to talk about the stagecoach. Depression line color evening horse, sixteen states as a bitter. Also pity the old crane to know the autumn heart. The peak hanging moon road is broken, and the water floods the city root and the tree is deep. Approaching the hometown more worried, plum blossom stone cave drum sound. Friends Jiyuan landscape covenant, smell Dao Danshu in Shen Yu, XiJun allowed me to listen to the blowing Xiao, the five clouds do not disperse the balcony turn. Wan Gu Chang Ben Ji Du Dynasty, The White Ape of the Cave of the Cave of the Wild History, bamboo basket purple apricot love immortal tree. In the future, he will be born on earth, laughing and watching the tide of the sea. Mr. Dao Wei learned to pass through the heavens, cultivated many mysterious eyes, and was a dragon elephant among the people, and gave a volume of zengshu, which was stolen, so he re-wrote, and this order was re-enshrined to redeem the lost. Knowing that Weng Bi laughed also, The King of Henan had grass to seek righteousness, and he was sick and sick. Mian shu, shi jig, several books to sell, get five buckets of millet, buy ink, ink is not Jia'er, why not?
Wang Duo (1592-1652) character Juesi, Song Qiao (嵩樵), also known as Yi An (Idiot Temple), was also known as Yan Tan Yu Shu (陳谭渔叟). A native of Mengjin (present-day Mengjin, Henan). When he was young, his family was very poor and lived a life of "not being able to eat two porridges a day". In the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1622), he was promoted to Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. In 1644, Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, and the Ming Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself in Jingshan. Ma Shiying and others supported the Fu Wang in Nanjing, and stayed as a scholar of Dongge University. After entering the Qing Dynasty, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing dynasty awarded him the Libu Shangshu, the Official Hongwen Academy, and the Crown Prince Shaobao. Wang Duo changed from an old minister of the Ming Dynasty to a new upstart of the Qing court, and was despised in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty remnants who maintained their integrity, so he was always depressed and unhappy. After entering the Qing Dynasty, Wang Duo served as an official for 8 years, and died of illness in the ninth year of Shunzhi. During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, the imperial court used the opportunity to compile the Siku Quanshu (四庫全書), and destroyed all of Wang Duo's books and periodicals, and included Wang Duo in the Biography of the Second Minister.
Wang Duo is erudite and good at ancient times, and works poetry. Good ancient erudition, poetry and calligraphy have achievements, especially calligraphy is unique, known as "Divine Pen Wang Duo". His calligraphy is on a par with Dong Qichang, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was known as the "King of the South Dong and the North", and his calligraphy used pens, out of the rules, and was relaxed, but full of the power of flowing freely and with thousands of juns. Wang Duo is good at grass, the penmanship is atmospheric, vigorous and free, dripping with pain, Dai Minggao said in the "Wang Duo Cursive Poetry Scroll": "Yuan Zhang (Mi Fu) wild grass is especially teaching the Fa, Jue Si is full of power, Wei and Jin's wind track sweeps the ground, but the wind is fierce, the wind is extremely pleasant, and the boldness is great, which is beyond the reach of Zhao and Dong. "His inkblots have been passed down through the generations, and many of his Fa Ti, Ruler Mu, and inscriptions have carved stones, the most famous of which are "Quasi-Mountain Garden Thesis" and "LanghuaGuan Ti".
Wang Duo's cursive writing, especially long banner cursive, achieves a shocking artistic effect with amazing pen strength, strange physique, and thick and dripping pen and ink. His calligraphic line formation is highly personal. He is neither the same as the famous masters in history, nor is he different from the contemporaries. His domineering and majestic pen power to carry mountains and lift mountains is unrivaled for hundreds of years.
Influenced by Dong Qichang's calligraphy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the book world pursues the so-called jun bone yi rhyme. Wang Duo and others did the opposite, taking "sensitive and good old" as the banner, pursuing a strong, fierce style and a performance of turbulent inner life. Wang Duo has been constantly drawing from the works of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and later influenced by Mi Fu, making it a powerful fulcrum for creating personal style. Its pen strength is strong, old and vigorous, especially long in layout, and actually has the wind of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Wang Duo's life, in and out of the cardinal, the rank of honorable lord. The art of calligraphy is magnificent, and its name is contemporary, and it has the reputation of "Divine Pen Wang Duo". When people praised its words, there were the wonder of cone sand printing mud, the dragon leaping and the tiger lying down, the illusion of Songtao cloud shadow, and the wonder of creating into the gods. The unique four characteristics of vertical and vertical (shape and quality beauty), grass in the kai (temperament beauty), staggered (rhythm beauty), and modern and ancient (rhyme and taste beauty) not only inherit and carry forward the tradition of the Song and Jin dynasty, but also create a new style in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, leaving a glorious page in the history of Chinese calligraphy.
Wang Duo's calligraphy art has the following two characteristics: First, it pursues the spirit of classical calligraphy and constantly innovates the old. In terms of taking the Fa, Wang Duo honored Xi Xian, traced the Seal Di, and took the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the essence of calligraphy of each generation was all included in his teaching method. The second is the contribution to the improvement of Chinese calligraphy techniques and style innovation. Wang Duo's calligraphy techniques are from the Erwang, Yan, Liu, Xu, Su, Mi, Huang zhujia techniques, and expand and enrich the calligraphy technique, its personalized style penetrates into the various styles of the predecessors, and at the same time, in the use of ink, it also breaks through the predecessors, and successfully uses the black method, which increases the brilliance of calligraphy works, and becomes a family of its own. After summarizing the stylistic characteristics of the calligraphers of past generations, Wang Duo created a powerful sense of calligraphy. Wang Duo has made great contributions to the continuous improvement of the Xiongqiang calligraphy genre and the diversification of calligraphy styles. He uses the structure and pen of calligraphy with bone power, flow and diversity, so that calligraphy works produce strong movement and action, and achieve the characteristics of calligraphy that have never been seen before.