Take the beauty of three generations of Ji Jin - talk about the smooth and upright of Huang Mufu
Huang Shiling was a geek. In addition to his seal engraving, there are also his encounters. He was an authentic rural child, born in Huangcun, Yixian County, Anhui Province, and at the age of fourteen, when the Qing Army and the Taiping Army fought in their hometown, their homes were destroyed, they lost their schools, and they sadly and earnestly became "the last trick wanderers" for more than ten years. He opened a photo studio to make a living, but did not go through the school, and did not enter the imperial examination, and was able to enter the country's highest school, Guozijian. This is another strange also.
Longevity
Huang Shiling's area of activity is not Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, where printing studies are developed, but in Nanchang and Guangzhou, which originally made his seal engraving career lack a superior environment. However, I think that he entered Beijing to study in Guozijian, and then interacted with Sheng Yu, Wang Yirong, and Wu Daji, and then returned to The Cantonese Governor Zhang Zhidong and Guangdong Inspector Wu Daji to engage in the Guangya Bookstore Under the curtain, and also assisted Wu Daji in compiling jinshi books, such as the "Sixteen Golden Runes and Seals" and the re-engraving of "Liu Xiong's Monument", and then added the self-sufficiency of the Book of Mane, and in addition to opening his eyes, he also had many opportunities for practice, and his progress must be no less than that of the Su and Zhejiang printers. Later, the Governor of Hubei Governor huguang was also under the duanfang curtain of the Jinshi family, editing the "Tao Zhai Ji Jinlu", so he traveled around the door of the eunuch Jinshi, and did the work of Jinshi, which I think will not have no impact on his seal carving career, right?
It was the opportunity to engage in a large number of Jinshi editing jobs that made Huang Shiling have a special impression of the two weeks of Jinwen. If in the past, the seal carvers used gold and stone to study epigraphy, but Huang Shiling treated it as an artistic work. The colorful beauty of the golden stone rubbings, once it enters the seal carving, can lead to a new pattern, and the Ding Jingzhi Zhejiang school and the Deng Shi who are the supreme of the Han Seal are like the Deng Shi who entered the seal, and in the past, the Yin family only did it occasionally and did not have much weight. In this way, Huang Shiling's breakthrough was chosen very wisely. In addition to Miao Seal and Si Seal, he proposed Jin Wen; Outside the Chinese-Indian mode and the small seal-in-print mode. He presented the beauty of Gigkin. Although he lacked the breadth of Wu Changshuo and Zhao Zhiqian, he had a unique skill.
The beauty of Jijin does not equal the reproduction of the ancient seal If so, the role of Huang Shiling will be very limited. His merit lies in the fact that he introduced the beauty of Jijin as a new aesthetic pattern into seal engraving, thus creating a smooth, upright, and beautiful style, changing the habitual understanding that the Chinese seal mottled was authentic and mottled as simple and majestic. As he points out:
The Chinese seal is eroded, and the years are deep. Xizi's jaw, that is, its illness, why should it be effective? Therefore, he did not knock on the edges, did not go to the horns, and did not add embellishments, thinking that he was a true learner of Chinese seals. Although whether this erosion of beauty must not be learned can be discussed again, a "Huang Mufu seal style" caused by this understanding, by no means pretending to be a simple and mottled posture, has laid a solid foundation for the originality of his personal style, and he has not had such a bold development in his previous printers.
Huang Shiling claimed that his seal was engraved with Yi Bingshou, which is similar to that of calligraphy: "It is smooth and unruly without losing its ancient interest, so it is high and high, and the pastor is the master of his intentions." This is a clever metaphor. With Huang Shiling's solid and smooth requirements for lines and the beauty of the interspersed with the printing space, and Yi Bingshou is indeed the same as Yi Bingshou, Li Mingke further pointed out: "The learning of the Sorrowful Nunnery (Zhao Zhiqian) is in Zhenshi, and the learning of Yishan (Huang Shiling) is in Jijin; The merits of the Sorrowful Nunnery are below the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the merits of Yishan are more than three generations. This is even more a summary of the immortal theory of Huang Shiling's seal style, and since then, it has been invariably a famous saying.