As one of the countries in the world that gave birth to civilization first, China has a history of nearly 5,000 years, and in this vast and profound history, China's 5,000 years of brilliant civilization and rich written records are the most amazing to the world.
Chinese dynastic changes and social changes have made Chinese calligraphy more varied and unpredictable, to a certain extent, the history of Chinese calligraphy is actually a clear profile of Chinese history, China's historical stage is complex and changeable, which also leads to the birth of different calligraphy habits and styles in different historical stages.
The art of calligraphy belongs to the treasures of Chinese culture and is also a valuable asset in the history of the progress of human civilization. There were many famous calligraphers in ancient China, each with its own style and charm. Among them, there are four more famous calligraphers, namely Ouyang Qing, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, and Zhao Meng, that is, the representatives of the European body, the Yan body, the willow body and the Zhao body.
The four calligraphers have had a profound influence on the history of calligraphy in later generations of China, and many calligraphers, whether ancient, modern or modern, have liked their works and imitated them.
But the calligrapher Wang Fangze does not like to imitate others, emphasizing that "individuality is the life of art." It may also be this pursuit of artistic principles that makes him popular on the Internet by relying on calligraphy, and resolutely refuses to buy out calligraphy works with an annual salary of 400,000.
Self-taught
Wang Fangze was born in 1975 in Shuangfeng, Hunan Province, and from an early age, Wang Fangze's family living conditions were average, and his parents were ordinary farmers.
Wang Fangze suffered a lot because of the poverty of his family in his childhood, but he always said, "The plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold, and the sword blade comes out of the grinding." "He was very well-behaved and sensible from an early age, and often helped his parents to work to reduce their burden.
Although the family conditions are very difficult, Wang Fangze has lofty and lofty ideals since childhood, and he hopes to be able to filial piety to his parents through his own efforts and let them live a high-quality life after a lifetime of hard work.
Unlike other children who cry and do not want to learn to write, Wang Fangze has had a great interest in calligraphy since childhood. Due to the poverty of his family and the lack of paper and ink, he often used branches to write and draw on the ground, and he had been attending classes in the village school, and he quickly understood the knowledge points taught by the teacher.
Wang Fangze, who loves to write with a pen, can even go to other people's homes to help write couplets when he is eight years old, which made him a little prodigy in the village for a time, and at the age of sixteen, Wang Fangze can chant and write.
Because of the conditions at home, the educational resources that Wang Fangze can access since childhood are very scarce, and he can write books and sixteen poems at the age of eight, relying on Wang Fangze's own self-taught talents.
Meet your people
However, without a cold bone, where the plum blossoms are fragrant, Wang Fangze's efforts and talents allowed him to find the first benefactor in his life, and also his first nobleman - Liu Yupu.
Liu Yupu has been teaching in Wang Fangze's county, he has always heard of Wang Fangze, but he has never seen it with his own eyes, and he also scorns the "prodigy" in the crowd, until he later came across Wang Fangze's written works and was sincerely willing to accept him as an apprentice.
Teacher Liu Yupu's earnest teachings benefited Wang Fangze a lot, at that time Wang Fangze was the bottleneck period, calligraphy in Chinese history everyone had their own calligraphy styles, Wang Fangze had seen too much but could not find his own style, it was Liu Yupu who broke the mystery for him, let him know that "personality is the life of art", thus laying the foundation for later fame.
Soon Wang Fangze in order to change the family's predicament as soon as possible, in a calligraphy and painting mounting shop as an apprentice, he can see a lot of works every day, some excellent calligraphy paintings will make him unable to praise when mounting, carefully ponder a lot before being willing to put down.
Wang Fangze would practice his works in his free time when he was an apprentice in the mounting shop, and the boss had seen Wang Fangze's obsession with calligraphy, and after examining Wang Fangze's works, he suddenly hung wang Fangze's works for sale.
Not long after, Wang Fangze's work was quickly bought by the guests at a high price, and for Wang Fangze, who later became a great calligrapher, the owner of the mounting shop was priceless in his acquaintance, and the boss's step had a very great impact on the second half of Wang Fangze's life.
After selling the first work, Wang Fangze's road to fame was slowly opened with the help of the second nobleman.
Wang Fangze's second nobleman was his regular customer, Zhang Liangyu, a calligraphy and painting merchant who bought his first work. Zhang Liangyu has his own business sensitivity as a calligraphy and painting businessman, and he is very good at Wang Fangze's talent and aura, not only helping Wang Fangze publish a collection of his works, but also taking Wang Fangze to participate in their respective calligraphy competitions.
It was also during the printing of Wang Fangze's collection of works that he won the first prize in his life in the Competition in Beijing - the International Science and Technology And Cultural Achievements Gold Award, which made Wang Fangze famous in one battle and famous in the calligraphy world.
Since then, the price of Wang Fangze's calligraphy works has become higher and higher, and in the 1990s, it could even be sold for a high price of 2,000 yuan.
Through such a struggle, Wang Fangze, nine years later, already owned 7 houses at the age of 27.
At this time, Wang Fangze's works are becoming more and more mature and have their own unique style, and they also have many fans, one of which is a rich fan who found him and wants to buy out Wang Fangze's works for a year with 400,000 yuan.
Wang Fangze did not hesitate to refuse, for him, he can use calligraphy works to make a living, but at the same time calligraphy is of great significance to him, which can be understood as his faith, his ideals, and his happiness. He doesn't want or want anyone to use money to buy out his happiness and faith.
After years of precipitation, it has finally become everyone
Wang Fangze became popular on the Internet at a young age and made a lot of money, which made many people who did not recognize him very unconvinced. They began to attack Wang Fangze's background, believing that Wang Fangze was just an ordinary peasant boy who could not understand the true connotation of calligraphy, and some even began to resist Wang Fangze's calligraphy works.
For these rights and wrongs on the Internet, Wang Fangze is not very concerned, he is more willing to spend time in improving his own calligraphy art, Wang Fangze is a completely sober person, he can deeply understand his own shortcomings, will not be because of excessive boasting and blindly lose themselves.
So in 2004-2006, Wang Fangze studied at the first master's class of calligraphy at Chinese Min University, and he demanded strictly of himself, and also asked Ouyang Zhongshi, Shen Peng, Liu Bingsen, Zhang Hai and other calligraphers.
In 2007, he studied at the China Academy of Art, and for 3 years, these years of quiet cultivation and qingyan made him pay more attention to style, and fully integrated his own style after visiting hundreds of homes, and his works showed distinct characteristics in the later period.
Today, Wang Fangze's works have been exhibited many times at the National Art Museum of China, the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution, the Museum of Chinese History and the Provincial Art Museum, and has won many awards, and his works have even been included in works such as "A Hundred Years of Classics - Complete Collections of Chinese Calligraphy".
brief summary:
Heaven will send down a great task to the Scythians, and they will first suffer their minds, strain their bones and bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and confuse their deeds, so that they will be patient with their hearts and minds, and they will benefit from what they cannot. Everyone who has achieved something is always going through some ordeal, always experiencing the darkness before the dawn.
Mr. Guo Moruo once said: "The full play of talent and the diligent practice of individuals are in direct proportion. "Everything Wang Fangze gets now is inseparable from his sweat and efforts, and in countless dark nights, he has been practicing hard and striving for excellence.
Karma is diligent and absurd; success is in thinking, destruction is in follow-up, and any person who is talented and intelligent but never works hard will not succeed, and the end will only be "hurting Zhongyong".
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