Zhao Zhichen (1781-1852), also known as Xianfu, also known as Baoyueshanren, Zhejiang Qiantang, one of the eight families of Xiling. Meticulously addicted to the ancients, good at the study of gold and stone, gong li fa, good deeds, fine landscapes and flowers, can become a family of their own. In the early years of the seal carving, Chen Hongshou was taught by Chen Hongshou, and later chen Yuzhong was used as a teacher, which was passed down by his relatives, and the strengths of each family were taken as well, and they were pulled out in a neat and straight manner, especially famous for single knives. The engraved edges are extremely exquisite and meticulous, and the knife techniques and chapters of the Zhejiang School are vividly expressed.
The late Qing Dynasty scholar and calligrapher Guo Lu once said: "Qiu Tang (Chen Yu Zhong Zi Qiu Tang) is noble and dense, and it is respectful to the Fa. Man Sheng (Chen Hongshou character Man Sheng) was overjoyed, but did not cross the line. The second leisure is to serve the practitioner, and the pen is close to Mansheng, the heavenly opportunity is there, and the fun is full of fun, so it can pass through the two houses, and it is both beautiful. This remark has many praises for Zhao Zhichen's seal carving.
During the years of Jiaqing and Daoguang, the Zhejiang school seal carvings were most respected by Chen Hongshou and Zhao Zhichen, and they studied under them. Although Chen Hongshou's works are the same, they largely maintain the blunt and simple atmosphere of Ding Jing and Jiang Ren, while Zhao Zhichen's works are beautiful and win by ingenuity, and they usually have the most seals, and the handwriting is widely circulated. Earlier, when we mentioned that the famous calligrapher Mr. Sha Menghai quoted the ingenuity of the seal engraver Zhao Zhiqian at the end of the Qing Dynasty to judge the height of the Zhejiang School, he said that the magic of the Zhejiang School lies in the clumsiness, not in the coincidence, and as a measure, Zhao Zhichen's Zhejiang School art is divorced from the core value.
Wei Xi, who was known as one of Zhou Lianggong's successors, once said that "Emperor Zong of Zhejiang died first".
The work of blunt Ding, casting Qin, Han, Yuan, and Ming, ancient and modern, has no intention of distinguishing itself from Anhui. Huang, Jiang, Xi, and Chen Mansheng all meant more than the Fa, and they all had the eyes of the Zhejiang Emperor. Flow and idle, cross the rules, straight to the yuer. However, those who practiced idleness did not see Ding Pu, claimed to be the Zhejiang Emperor, and criticized them for Anhui. No wonder the Anhui people know that there are Chen and Zhao, and they don't know anything else. Yu Chang said that The Zhejiang Emperor rose up and died first.
Here we can see that there is a lot of denigration of Zhao Zhichen's seal carving, especially his identity of the Zhejiang sect. This statement still needs to be discussed, and it is inevitable that there will be some overstatements. However, in the Qing Dynasty, the printing notation was still not very popular, and it was more difficult to obtain than the poetry works. During the Qingjia and Dao dynasties, people rarely saw Ding Jing's true genealogy, and when they saw the works of Chen Hongshou and Zhao Zhichen, they thought that they were models of the Zhejiang school, which was also understandable. However, the level of its art is also possible for each person to have his own opinion. Ding Jing's era is nearly a hundred years away from the era of Chen Hongshou and Zhao Zhichen, and it is also appropriate that his aesthetics have changed. As far as the Zhejiang school of seal carving is concerned, many of Zhao Zhichen's xiugong works are more inclined to the ancient jade cutting knife method, which is different from the casting and chiseling style of the rest of the people. Therefore, Zhao Zhichen's prints are mainly beautiful and skillful, which is different from the ancient vicissitudes of the Zhejiang school.
Let's take a look at Zhao Zhichen's prints.
Seal: Father Zhen
Seeing this seal, everyone will definitely think of Chen Hongshou's "Xiaohu" seal, the arrangement of the characters is so similar, the word "Zhen" is two words, and the stretching and change of the word "father" is similar to the "tile" department. The two words are arranged in three words, and the zigzags on the left and right sides are similar and changeable. However, the feeling given by the line and the whole is very different, the seal is softer, the penmanship is more subordinate, and the turning point is more like the charm of the book. The thick border of this seal style, even very characteristic of the wadang seal, as well as the non-sticking of the upper and lower adhesions, is also very distinctive, and the inspiration for the late Qing seal engravers is also deep.
We mentioned that the white seal rarely uses edge grids, and this seal has no border, only the boundary of the cross. The style of the ancient seal shows Zhao Zhichen's love for the archaeology of the golden stone. This seal is more distinctive in the seal law and the seal book pen meaning, its style is more similar to the Han seal, we know that in the history of the seal book, the Qin seal, the Tang seal, the Qing seal is better, the Han seal because of the prosperity of the Han Dynasty lishu and the dim light, this seal used in the Han seal, one is in the text knot, and the line, the second is the beginning and end of the meaning, rather than the seal meaning of the head and tail.
Similar to the "Zhen Father" seal, the middle cross of this seal was also borrowed and developed by later seal engravers.
The "Chivalrous Zen Heart" seal and the "Smoke Cloud Offering" seal, the two seals are given at the same time, is to compare the difference between the two seals.
From the arrangement of the text, we can see the typical way of the Zhejiang school, and we have mentioned the advantages of this method many times, which is to increase the sense of staggered harmony. Above the knife method, the "Chivalrous Zen Heart" is more square and straight, and even the "Mouth" part has done a similar triangular graphical treatment to increase the strength of the lines, while the "Smoke Cloud Offering" is to "echo each other with various feminine circles, and to retain the flat and upright atmosphere with horizontal paintings; above the Chapter Law, the "Smoke Cloud Offering" is more moved to increase the beautiful posture, and the "Chi Bone Zen Heart" is angular to show the posture of the bone.
From the last printing surface, we also have a very different feeling, more masculine, simple and thick "chivalrous Zen heart", soft and peaceful, beautiful and colorful "smoke cloud offering". The former has more Zhejiang charm, and the latter is also a masterpiece. Big coincidence and hidden clumsiness You like that style
Myodhara Room
Supplemental Rocca Room
"Roga Room" Seal and "Myodhara Room"
As we mentioned earlier, Zhao Zhichen's calligraphy is very good at calligraphy, and we can appreciate the knowledge of this seal. The single-knife line book is also very dingjing taste. Starting from Ding Jing, the Zhejiang school attaches great importance to the side sections, especially when it comes to the last four, there are extremely outstanding side section masterpieces. The zhubai seal and the black and white extension complement each other, which is seen both in the sword and the pen. The seal spectrum of the Zhejiang school, only the printing surface, did not see the extension of the model, it felt that something was missing.
The stroke lines of the four characters above the printing surface also have straight edges and angles, especially the treatment of the word "room", which imitates Jiang Ren. But no matter from the line and the knot, the exquisite posture is even more, less simple and harmonious. For a long time, the distinction between the schools of seal engraving in the Ming and Qing dynasties has been very doubtful, because many genres do not have a fixed posture, but most of them are based on the region of origin or the name of the founder, but the people behind them also incorporate those who are born in the same region, or the seal of imitation by some parties of the descendants is classified into a certain sect. There is confusion in the way of classification and inheritance. It was only after the Qing Dynasty that some changes occurred, especially the Anhui school, the Zhejiang school, and the Deng school, all of which had their core aesthetic values and artistic tendencies. From this point of view, Zhao Zhichen's attitude of seeking change and seeking difference after inheriting the master in the Zhejiang School. However, he was also criticized for losing his enterprising posture of his heart, and some of his works in his later years had lost the charm of the Zhejiang school. It shows that inheritance and innovation are not easy, and the innovation after inheritance is even more difficult, we can see a lot of Zhao Zhichen's masterpieces, we can see a lot of Zhejiang school of quaint posture, and more work show works, but there are also a lot of "crane knee swallowtail" malpractices.
Thunder Creek Old House
Poetry day wine sea
Lake Village Flower Hidden
Oda Secret Pet
Auspicious room
There are many works handed down by Zhao Zhichen, and we try our best to choose his works with more Zhejiang school implications here, the simple vicissitudes of the big coincidence and the posture of the big clumsy craftsmanship, which is better, the preference of the viewer.