Chinese characters are the record tools invented by the ancient ancestors of our country, Chinese characters are an important tool to record and promote the development of culture, from ancient traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese characters, Chinese characters have undergone a long and wonderful development path, all of which embody the essence of the Chinese nation. Mr. Deng Sanmu, who made great contributions to the popularization of Simplified Chinese Characters, co-authored and published "Pen Character Fan". This book is also one of Deng Sanmu's many works. This book comprehensively and meticulously introduces the pen holding method, the basic pen movement of the letter and the pen writing, the use of simplified script fine writing of the three types of calligraphy style of italics, lines and cursive, the calligraphy is timeless and upright, the line is free and flowing, and the cursive is indulgent, which can be described as the originator of hard pen calligraphy.
The Chinese nation has a glorious culture, and Chinese characters are an important tool for recording and promoting cultural development, so Chinese characters play a very important role in the long history of China. From Cangjie knotted rope to knife carved animal bones, from unified writing to true, grass, subordinate and seal, from brush writing to the use of hard pens, from ancient traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese characters, Chinese characters have undergone a long and wonderful development path. On this brilliant road, we can see the chanting of the literati and inkers in history, the great inventions, the unique regime and the long history, which all embody the essence of the Chinese nation.
With the rapid development of science and technology and people's pursuit of convenience and speed, Chinese characters have undergone tremendous changes. Today's people are using pens and ballpoint pens to write simplified Chinese characters, and the transition from brush to hard pen is a great change, which condenses the efforts of several generations, the most representative of which is Mr. Deng Sanmu, who has made great contributions to the conversion of soft pens and hard pens and the popularization of simplified Chinese characters.
Deng Sanmu, a native of Shanghai, formerly known as Tie (铁), was one of the most representative artists from the 1930s to the 1960s who collected poems, books, paintings and prints. Thirty years later, it was renamed "Dung Weng", and the name of the living room was "Toilet Jane Building", which was called "Toilet Jane". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, it was renamed "Scattered Wood", and after 1960, due to illness, it was intercepted and called "one foot" and "夔". Mr. Sanmu is erudite in ancient and modern times, integrating the great achievements of Chinese calligraphy, taking the strengths of many families, as early as the 1930s with his exquisite calligraphy and seal engraving art rose in the Shanghai art scene, and the world took pleasure in owning his works. At that time, calligraphy colleagues honored it as "Jiangnan Sacrifice Wine", and the seal carving was praised as "Northern Qi (Baishi) Southern Deng (Scattered Wood)". Mr. Deng Sanmu modestly summarized his art as "three long and two short", the three longs are poems, books, and prints, and the two shorts are paintings and filler words, and then the humorous study room is named "Three Long and Two Short Zhai". In this "three long and two short fasts", he unremittingly explored the essence of various calligraphy styles throughout his life, not only leaving a large number of calligraphy and seal engraving works, but also recording his experience and leaving a large number of works and manuscripts for future generations.
When people open the treatises left by Mr. Sanmu, we are not surprised, amazed, and amazed at the depth, essence, and thoroughness of the old man's understanding of the essence of Chinese calligraphy that has spanned thousands of years. The one that makes us feel worthy of our admiration is deeply rooted in the blood of the nation for a long time, and it is the perfect embodiment of humanistic emotions and cultural cultivation. The Tao of "Calligraphy with the Ming Dao" refers to the ethical norms of Confucian thought, and from this point of view, calligraphy not only reflects human character, but also embodies Chinese philosophical thought. Fu Shan, a famous thinker and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem to warn his descendants that "writing is the first to be a man, and the strange characters of people have been since ancient times." Gang often rebelled against Zhou Kong, and the pen and ink could not be repaired. Before learning the Lu Gongshu, first look at the Lu Gongju. The plain qi is in the middle, and Mao Ying's feet are swallowed. ”
However, when thousands of years of writing meet foreign pens, it can be described as a collision of Chinese and Western cultures, and the reason for this combination is based on the fact that both are line art.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when China was worried about internal and external troubles, a group of enthusiastic young people returned from studying abroad, hoping to change the status quo of the motherland through their own strength. As a result, Chinese culture has quietly undergone tremendous changes, such as: Wen yan and vernacular, Chinese literati painting and Western structural theory, Chinese medicine and Western medicine, long shirts and suits. Western culture violently impacted Chinese social life, and the fountain pen came to China with it. At that time, the pen was still just a writing instrument, with the popularity of this tool, people were not only satisfied with this, especially the writers hoped that the words written with the pen could still reach the artistic level and express their emotions, so the earliest Chinese "Pen Character Model" came into being.
Published in the 1940s by the famous calligraphers Deng Sanmu and Bai Shuo, the pen character fan was also one of Mr. Sanmu's many works. This book comprehensively and meticulously introduces the pen holding method, the basic pen movement of the letter and the pen writing, and the simplified script is written in three types of calligraphy, such as italics, lines and cursive, and the calligraphy is timeless and upright, the line is free and flowing, and the cursive is indulgent.
As soon as the book was launched, it aroused strong repercussions in society, became a model for copying, and was constantly reprinted. Xie Cryhong, a famous contemporary literary scholar, once commented that "there are two people who are good at pen calligraphy in maritime calligraphy, and they are all in good letters and grass, and they can be made in inches." One is the white banana between the clouds, and the other is the toilet Jane landlord Sanmu Nian brother also. "The skill of scattering wood is particularly amazing."
Mr. Sanmu has a deep writing background, his thoughts keep pace with the times, and he deeply hopes to pass on what he has learned and felt to more people. Mr. Sanki's pen characters are so refined that his pen characters are based on decades of calligraphy skills, based on a deep accumulation of words, and deeply appreciate the rhythm of the writing of the two to integrate the brush technique into the tip of the pen. Taking the essence of ancient famous monuments and posts as a reference, the twists, turns, mentions, presses, dunes, setbacks, and fully display the meaning of the pen. Although it is a pen character, it still does not lose the interest of the golden stone, maintaining a strong ancient meaning, a plump connotation, and a melodious momentum. This book is also the first comprehensive pen poster in three types of books, such as italics, lines and cursives, which can be described as the first foreword of hard pen calligraphy.
Half a century has passed, and now the fountain pen is a popular writing instrument. Many hard-pen calligraphy associations have been established throughout the country, and these associations are also following Mr. Deng Sanmu's ancient ideas for the present, based on the penmanship of ancient classic posters, writing the art of contemporary hard-pen calligraphy and extending the history of Chinese characters.
Text Source: Cultural Relics Appraisal and Appreciation
Original title: The Precedent of Hard Pen Calligraphy - Deng Sanmu's "Pen Character Fan" Author: Lu Yao