As one of the six ancient arts, calligraphy itself is a very specialized and profound science. Since the Zhou Qin, every dynasty has attached great importance to the development of calligraphy, especially after experiencing the three dynasties of Han, Jin and Tang, calligraphy has embarked on the kangzhuang road, and each dynasty has its peak of calligraphy.
In the Ming Dynasty, advocating "calligraphy and still state", many people did not understand what "still state" meant. From a literal point of view, "state" is the meaning of posture and meaning, which refers to the structural shape of calligraphy and also refers to its wind mark rhyme. In a sense, the calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty is very much in line with the aesthetics of modern society, and it is also easier to master than other dynasties.
Zhu Yunming's "Journey to the Eastern Slope"
Xiao Kai is the most able to test the true level of a calligrapher's book style, practice Xiao Kai, and then practice other calligraphy, such as calligraphy, cursive, etc., will have a multiplier effect with half the effort.
Here we may wish to take a look at the Small Kai of zhu Yunming, a great talent of the Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of Zhu Yunming, you may feel strange, but when it comes to Zhu Zhishan, everyone will feel very familiar, very kind, and even feel inexplicable joy. In Zhou Xingchi's version of the movie "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Zhu Zhishan is a prodigal son who does not learn any skills and cheats on eating and drinking, but Zhu Zhishan in real life is a very strict person.
Let's take a look at Zhuzhi Mountain
Zhu Yunming (1461-1527), Xi Zhe, a native of Changzhou (present-day Wu County, Jiangsu), laughed at himself for his strange appearance, and because he had branches and fingers on his right hand, he called himself Zhishan, known to the world as "Zhu Jingzhao", a famous calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunming because he gave birth to an extra finger, that is, the legendary six-fingered person, he also laughed at himself as an "ugly eight monsters", but we must know that all people who are born with different faces are mostly accomplished, that is, the word "ugly eight monsters" has reached the "pyramid tip" of Ming Dynasty calligraphy.
Zhu Yunming is not as unlearned as in the film and television drama, he is good at poetry, proficient in calligraphy, civilization at home and abroad, he and Tang Bohu, Wen Zhengming, Xu Zhenqing and called "Wuzhong Four Talents" and "Jiangnan Four Talents"; he and Wen Zhengming, Wang Pet are also representatives of calligraphers in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Zhimin, a professor at Peking University, once commented on Zhuzhishan Cursive Writing: "The wild grass of Zhuzhishan is weaker than that of Xu and Su, but under the influence of the Song people, it has its own style."
Zhu Yunming cursive writing is a style of its own, and the calligraphy is even more exquisite, and his calligraphy in the early years of his calligraphy was taught by Zhao Ziang and Chu Suiliang, and after mastering the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, he directly pursued Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and his calligraphy can be said to have both the law of Tang Kai and the elegance of Wei and Jin, and at the same time there is no lack of the rounded atmosphere of Yuan Dynasty calligraphy.
In particular, his Xiao Kai masterpiece "Dongpo Ji Travel Volume", although this work is a small Kai, but between the lines of the words revealed a flowing wind, the clouds flowing water, giving people a sense of one breath, the sense of writing in the book, but not the line Kai, this is the height that is difficult to reach in later generations, so this work can be called the "pyramid tip" of the Ming Dynasty Xiao Kai, no less than Tang Bohu.
The style of this work is from Zhong Xuan, with a clear and healthy pen, different words, structural arrangements, rich changes, but the elderly do not show their length, the short do not feel its short, the whole volume of more than a thousand words, although it is a small kai, but the whole text is staggered natural, the divine form is possessed, giving people a sense of stability and dignity.
Today, we will make a 1:1 high-definition copy of Zhu Yunming's Xiaokai's "Journey on the Eastern Slope" to restore its original style and give it to all calligraphy lovers.
Zhu Yunming's book "Dongpo Ji Travel Volume" ¥49.8 Purchase
——Edited by Qian Yuan