In the history of calligraphy, there are many phenomena of discarding books because of people and discarding books because of events. For example, Zhao Mengfu, a famous calligrapher in the Yuan Dynasty, has been destroyed for more than 700 years after his death, and his calligraphy achievements have been degraded and ignored. His historical contributions were discounted. The reason for this is that Zhao Mengfu was born in the Yuan Dynasty and became a courtier.
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Compared with Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty and the Zodiac Zhou of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Zhao Mengfu's behavior naturally belongs to the "renegade enemy, obscene and boneless", and his calligraphy is naturally implicated, and the Ming Dynasty calligraphy theorist Xiang Mu commented on his book: Zhao Mengfu's book is gentle and elegant, like receiving the legend of the right army's right pulse, studying flattery and delicacy, and lacking the spirit of great festivals. Feng Ban of the Qing Dynasty also said: Zhao Shu Is seiko, directly approaching the right army, but the qi and bones are inferior to the Song people, and they are not able to look at it. Those who can evaluate Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy historically and developively, Fu Shan's comments in his later years are fair.
Fu Shan Cursive Pro "Ge Ti"
In his youth, Fu Shan had seriously studied Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy. However, after the death of Qing Shengming, Fu Shan's hatred for the destruction of the country could not be relieved, and he turned to extreme contempt for Zhao Mengfu, who was the enemy, and could not tolerate Zhao Mengfu's subordinate behavior. He admonished his descendants: "Yu Extremely dislikes Zhao Ziang, and the thin people hate his books, and hate his books as shallow as bones." This means that because of the contempt for its people, and thus despise its calligraphy. Such an evaluation also belongs to the view that books are discarded by people.
However, with the increasing consolidation of the Qing Dynasty's rule and the gradual formation of the prosperous era of Kangqian, witnessing the gradual stability and prosperity of society, compared with the chaos and decay of the late Ming Dynasty, Fu Shan could not help but rethink.
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Fu Shan wrote in the poem "Bingcang":
With a long sigh, his man wanted to break his intestines.
Zhao Wei is really strange, and the pipe maid is also very special.
Drunk and drunk, old and crazy is even more crazy.
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The words "sufficiently strange and extraordinary" are used in the poem to fully express the poet's admiration for Zhao Mengfu, and at this time, Fu Shan began to look at Zhao Mengfu rationally. The reason for this may be because of the gradual consolidation of Qing rule, the history of the Ming Dynasty has become an immutable reality; perhaps Fu Shan realized the difficulty of passing on the torch of culture by an intellectual-cultural person and its important historical significance.
Zhao Mengfu "Chibi Fu"
In any case, at this time, Fu Shan may have realized how precious it was for Zhao Mengfu to pin his ideals and ambitions on the pipe pen in his hand. In this poem, Fu Shan still fairly recognizes the superb artistic achievements of Zhao Mengfu and his wife, and also contains Fu Shan's recognition of the general trend of the Ming Dynasty, which is a profound understanding of the passing on of the Torch of Han culture. Compared with a crumbling and corrupt former dynasty, Guotai Min'an is more important to ordinary people.
Zhao Mengfu, although an official in the Yuan Dynasty to Yipin, was in a prominent position. However, his life is tragic. What accompanied his life's pain was not that he did not meet with talent, but in his inner self-blame and guilt. The boulder that squeezed into his heart all the time was nothing else, but precisely the Confucian moral code that he was too familiar with and too well understood. He knew very well that what he had done was in direct contradiction to this norm, and that his soul was constantly being whipped by this whip. The pain of the heart is the greatest pain, and who is to say this?
When Zhao Mengfu was 33 years old, in the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, received him, and the young Zhao Mengfu's blood boiled, and he could not help but flutter a little, so he said: "The soldiers are few and learn at home, and the cover also wants to come out and use it for the country." But, in the political environment of the time, he soon felt remorse. At the age of thirty-seven, after entering Beijing for four years, he wrote the verse "Mistakenly falling into the dust net, four degrees of Beijing Huachun". Later, he composed a poem "Sin Out", and the sadness in his heart was even more overflowing:
In the mountains is a distant zhi, out of the mountains is a small grass.
As the old saying goes, it is not too early to see things.
Wish alone in life, hills and valleys in the arms.
Self-amusement when the book is published, self-protection during the wild period.
Whoever makes the dust net, tactfully entangled.
Once a sea gull, it is now a caged bird.
Lamenting who cares again, Mao Yu Day urged.
In this poem, Zhao Mengfu's inner contradictions and pain are very obvious, and this painful feeling cannot be expressed to people, so he and his wife are promoted to devout Buddhist disciples, and he can only seek liberation from Buddhism.
Zhao Mengfu has no way to change reality, he can only sigh in the poem that the world is difficult. He also wrote a poem:
What is the name of the merit? Rich and noble.
Only a hundred years later, the written word will be passed on.
For example, the spring aquatic life of the creek must be fulfilled.
Idle yin yuanming poems, quietly learning right army characters.
At this time, Zhao Mengfu was able to calm down, read the poetry of the ancients, and was able to follow the Wei and Jin calligraphy style with his heart, and attached himself to the art of calligraphy, which has become the spiritual sustenance for Zhao Mengfu to get rid of his inner pain. In the first year of Yuan Zhen, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, died, and Zhao Mengfu finally returned to his hometown of Wuxing, which had been absent for many years, under the pretext of being ill. Zhao Mengfu lived idly in Jiangnan for four years, without an official, light, and feeling comfortable with the landscape. However, when looking back on his life, he could not help but feel sad and composed another poem:
The toothed child is sixty-three, and everything in his life is always ashamed.
Only the rest of the pen is still there, staying with the human world for jokes.
His teeth and hair had fallen out, and he was ashamed that he had achieved nothing but painting and calligraphy to masturbate in the course of his sixty-three years of life. His wife Pipe Sheng filled the words to persuade him:
Life is a prince, and fame and profit are not free.
Fight like a flat boat, chanting wind to make the moon return to rest.
In 1322, Zhao Mengfu died of illness at the age of 69. Its calligraphy is elegant and beautiful, and posterity calls its calligraphy: "Meat is not boneless, and the muscles are not penetrated." Although the posture is overflowing, and the waves are old. For example, the jade ring of abundant muscles, as a neon dance, but not intoxicated. "The Book of Zhao is a typical example of the beauty of Xiurun, just like the neutral beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and the beauty of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy, which is incomparable.
Zhao Mengfu erected a monument in the history of Chinese calligraphy. The Mongol army conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Mengfu conquered the descendants of the Great Khan with his excellent Han culture, so that the fire could not be extinguished and the ancient law was not lost. For such a person who has worked hard and exerted the meager power of a literati to the extreme, what else can people ask for?
Perhaps Fu Shan also understood the reason for Zhao Mengfu's psychological process in this way, or perhaps he knew more, and Fu Shan in his later years, combined with his own personal understanding, understood Zhao Mengfu. That's why he let out a heartfelt exclamation. Only then will they "hold the candle and sigh," and only then will they think that "their people" will want to get the point of "breaking the intestines." Only then will it be considered that Zhao Shu is "full of oddities", and even the pipe rise is "very".
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