Martial arts commentary.
Yao Guopei, a hundred-year-old calligrapher from Yongtai County, Zhao Yulin, has been carefully taught, and his works have won the gold medal of the provincial calligraphy and painting exhibition for many times. In recent years, with talent and diligence, he has created a number of works that carry forward the main theme and spread positive energy, which have been well received.
Yao Guopei's calligraphy as a whole gives people a sense of uprightness and vigor, sharp and sharp, long sword forward, and flamboyant and energetic.
Liu Xizai, a critic of the Qing Dynasty, once proposed that "the scholar is like a scholar." As it learns, as it learns, as it is talented, as it is ambitious, in short, it is just like its people", Yao Guopei's calligraphy shows the spirit of vigorous and resolute, daring to show the sword, and daring to take responsibility.
Yao Guopei's calligraphy, judging from the use of the pen, especially his large characters are thick and the ink is very full. The square is round, and there is a certain Wei monument interest. Judging from the conclusion, Mr. Yao should have Xi the Holy Order and the Li Sixun Monument. The holy order is the word of Wang Xizhi of Huairenji, this tablet is a very famous tablet in the book, and it is the first post of the person who learns the book of Xi. The words of the Holy Order, the knot is known for its oblique and changeable, and it is a representative style of writing in Wang Xi's book that integrates masculine beauty and smooth turning. Li Sixun's monument is also known for its thinness, hardness, and strength with a pen, and its oblique opening. Comparatively speaking, the contrast between the knots and oblique bodies of Li Sixun's monument is stronger, and it is larger than that of the holy order. This kind of knot, as a whole, gives people the feeling that the left is low and the right is high, and the center of gravity is unstable, creating a momentum that rises abruptly. In addition, the Zhang Menglong stele in the Wei stele is also a typical representative of this knot. Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty further developed this unique style of calligraphy, which is oblique and oblique, and has formed a font with a very strong contrast between opening and closing. The shadows of the above-mentioned people can be seen from Yao Guopei's characters, which shows that he has put a lot of effort into the traditional inscriptions and absorbed many characteristics. Compared with his small characters, it should be said that his big characters are better, more imposing, and more majestic. Yao Guopei's books are mainly in the form of couplets and aphorisms, four-character couplets, six-character and seven-character couplets. It should be said that Yao Guopei's characters will be very good if they create some works in the form of long forms, and the form will be richer and more varied, and it will also be more conducive to the multi-faceted layout and expression of the font.
In the context of the current popularity of ugly books in the book world, it is very commendable for a calligrapher like Yao Guopei to inherit the tradition and strive to pursue his own temperament and personal appearance.
In short, Yao Guopei's calligraphy works are not only eclectic to others, but also "self-contained", emphasizing both form and spirit, free and easy pen power, full of beauty in vigor and health, no lack of freshness in solemnity, and full of a sense of the times in simplicity, expressing the author's positive life and noble sentiments.
For example, his 2020 Chinese New Year calligraphy calendar, with novel design, exquisite production, elegant content, and unique style of works, is printed on coated paper, and each work is created and designed by Yao Guopei himself. The content of the writing includes the poems of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the past dynasties, as well as the famous sayings and aphorisms of the Confucian sages, and the works are full of wisdom and thought-provoking to read, from which they understand the profound principles and life philosophies that contain self-cultivation and self-cultivation, learning and life, which help to cultivate people's noble and healthy aesthetic emotions and concepts.
The art of calligraphy never ends. As a famous calligrapher in our province, Yao Guopei has worked hard and achieved good results, injecting new vitality into the development of calligraphy. We believe that Yao Guopei will go further and further on the road of art, never forget his original intention, forge ahead, and create more and better works.