The calligraphy of Zheng Banqiao and Xu Wei, which has changed its traditional appearance, is, in today's parlance, a different kind. Zheng Banqiao calligraphy, calligraphy is mixed, the style is simple and natural, seemingly clumsy, and simple and ethereal. It is refreshing to watch and the spirit is solemn. Xu Wenchang, calligraphy heroic and dashing, a frenzy, like a storm. Such calligraphy has shocked countless people and bent their waists!
Such calligraphy, such personality, of course, must have such a bottom. Xu Wenchang and Zheng Banqiao, those two people have wind bones. Some of them are temperament, and some are personalities. This temperament and personality, of course, come from culture. That culture, of course, is the foundation of calligraphy, but also the soul of calligraphy.
(Part of Zheng Banqiao's "Monument to the Newly Repaired City God Temple")
Zheng Banqiao has a "Teaching Hall Poem", written lightly, in a simple and unpretentious style, and it is appropriate and touching:
The church hall was originally indecent, and the people spent the spring and autumn. Half hungry and half full idler, no shackles and no locks. The younger father and brother of the class are lazy, and the disciples have formed a grudge. And now fortunately, Qingyun stepped forward, covering half of the shame of that year.
On the style of poetry, this "Teaching Hall Poem" is the living Tao Yuanming, seemingly plain, thin, simple, without a little exaggeration and embellishment, and natural, let people reminisce endlessly. When the poem is written on this, it can be said that everyone is much higher than the seven sons before and after the Ming and Qing dynasties. Even if it is better than Bai Lotte, it may not be weak.
That Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, clumsy with ethereal, simple and strong, and how similar to the style of the "Jiaoguan Poem"! This is the spirit, and the foundation of this spirit is cultural cultivation, which is the result of a simple and generous personality that is accessible and enlightened. Without these, if anyone wants to be like Zheng Banqiao, create a new book style, become a family of its own, and circulate it for hundreds of generations, I am afraid that it will not be enough.
(Xu Wei Xingcao,"Ying Zhi Yong Ink Axis")
Xu Wei's poetry is heroic and relaxed, just as the public security poet Yuan Zhonglang said: "Libertine tillers, unrestrained landscapes, its mountains running and standing on the sea, sand rising and clouds, wind singing trees, valley capitals, characters fish and birds, everything can be shocked, all reach the poem."
There is also an indelible atmosphere in his chest, the sorrow of the hero losing his way and the lack of a door, so it is a poem, such as laughter, such as water singing gorge, such as planting unearthed, such as widows crying at night, and the cold rise of the prisoners. When it is relaxed, the plain domain is thousands of miles; occasionally it is steep, and the ghost language is angry. This is again the confidence, and it is also a wave of anger in the stomach, such a spirit, the achievement of an arrogant personality, such a personality, and the achievement of calligraphy, the achievement of a magnificent scroll that shows majesty, magnificence, arrogance, and arrogance.
This is culture, only such a cultural literacy, such a wind bone, like this spirit, there is a calligraphy of the artistic conception, there is a shocking power, can deduce the earth-shattering, weeping ghost god of the art of fine works! Of course, Xu Wei's cultural talent is also manifested in the twists and turns of the opera, and in the character image that makes people sigh.
The Mulan who served in the army for her father, the female ruler who ruled the country in Anbang, the you Heng who was a ghost and had to beat the drum and scold Cao, those were all xu Wei's opera characters, all classic, all loved by his father and fellow countrymen, that is also the cultural underpinning, that is also the cultural foundation of his calligraphy.
(Xu Wei's "Cursive Du Fu Huaixi Guo Maoshe Poetry Axis")
Culture, of course, depends on accumulation; personality, but also the accumulation of culture; calligraphy, only culture to do the bottom, that can accumulate years after year of skill, only straight wood and iron, only beautiful, can highlight the spirit, highlight the backbone, can have a magnificent temperament, can have a real colorful, can show personality, is the real art! In the face of the spirit of cultural achievement, any so-called skill, any so-called line, any racking of brains, any gushing, conclusive words, is pale and powerless.