Wang Heng: He only lived for 47 years, but calligraphy is the god in Dong Qichang's heart

Wang Heng was a famous lyricist and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, whose representative works include "Yulun Robe", "Wu Yu River", "Regeneration Edge", "True Puppet", etc., and he was also a representative figure of Ming Dynasty Southern Opera.

Wang Heng was intelligent at an early age, his academic performance was very outstanding, he took the exam very early, but gave up the entrance examination due to family reasons, and it was not until the age of 39 that he was awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing with the first rank and the first.

Wang Heng calligraphy

Wang Heng won the backbone of his predecessors, and also had the charm of Jinren, adding up the writing skills and rhymes to form a distinctive calligraphy style. His writing style is clear and vigorous, his penmanship is rigorous, in his early years, he studied Yan Zhenqing and Su Dongpo, and the calligraphy was based on the Yan body, which allowed him to be generous, while the xingshu took Su Dongpo as the object of the teacher's teaching and obtained his clean and clear atmosphere.

Ming Dynasty calligrapher Dong Qichangyun: "Although Chenyu does not stick to the book, Wang Heng's calligraphy is the white eye of the first, rarely allowed, his heavenly bones are both beautiful, and circling tang and Jin, both skill, or think that learning Su Zizhan, Zi Zhan shi can not complete Chen Yuye." ”

Lou Jian of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Introduction to Learning Ancients": "Heavenly teaching is excellent, the skill is deepening, the small finger is up from the top, the diameter can be two inches, all are extremely good, more sparing, and the large is four or five inches, or as large as the foot, all do not bother with the rope and overflow, more false years, can only trace the famous traces of the Northern Song Dynasty." ”

Although Wang Heng's calligraphy achievements are not very famous, he is superior in inheriting the technical ability of the Tang and Song Dynasties, as Lou Jian said, with the top of the finger can write two inches, this kind of writing is rare among the sages. Then there is the fact that he has a lot of self-discipline in terms of the relics of his predecessors, and the works he writes are very close to the jin rhymes and the northern Song dynasty, which is the wisdom and ability he has seen and heard in the study of calligraphy, otherwise it is difficult to do.

Unfortunately, he only lived to be 47 years old, otherwise the northern Song Dynasty calligraphy relics would have been interpreted in his hands.

Wang Heng calligraphy appreciation

Xingshu Tiger Hill Poetry Volume, collected by the Palace Museum.

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