In the Qing Dynasty, we all know that the study of gold and stone and stele was flourishing, and the Qing Dynasty was the rise of gold and stone, which book style was prosperous?The book of seals, the Qing Dynasty's gold and stone studies were so prosperous, and the things of the Northern Wei Dynasty were re-emphasized in the Qing Dynasty, at least before the Qing Dynasty, no one went to learn the "Twenty Products of Longmen" , A large number of epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty are buried in the ground, because of the construction of the railway to dig the North Mountain to unearth this epitaph, Yu Youren is to collect hundreds of epitaphs, Zhang Fang received thousands of epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty, only then there are Mandarin Duck Qizhi Zhai and Qiantang Zhizhai, that is to say, the previous people have not seen, occasionally seen this Northern Wei Dynasty, but a large number of famous monuments of this epitaph they have not seen, this is not what they care about, nor is it the object of their Xi. At that time, the people who learned were all Tang and Song Dynasty, and they all learned calligraphy by Yan Liu Ou Zhao, so what kind of cliff are these things, although in the wilderness, does anyone pay attention to it?No. Although the study of gold and stone began in the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Mingcheng were the originators of gold and stone science, you must know that they did not pay attention to gold and stone because of the study of calligraphy, they went to collect folk historical materials from the study of history, and collected historical materials from the inscription type to pay attention to gold and stone science, not from the perspective of calligraphy.
The Qing Dynasty forced the Qing Dynasty's academics to have this state, and the entire Qing Dynasty regular script was not prosperous at that timeDeng Shiru doesn't count, Deng Shiru may be the worst of all his book styles in regular script. Zhao Zhiqian's regular script is not good, Zhao Zhiqian is such a smart person, extremely smart, regular script is definitely not good. Wu Changshuo basically does not write regular scripts. Isn't it?So who are you going to tell me?There is only one, He Shaoji. He Shaoji wrote the big character is Yan Ti, He Shaoji wrote Zhong Kai Niu, he Zhong Kai is two things, Yan Ti is an element, and one is "Zhang Xuan's Tomb", "Zhang Xuan's Tomb" that lone book is in his hand, he Xi, and there is also a Tang Dynasty Ouyang Tong's "Dao Yin Master Stele". This is an important research object of He Shaoji's regular script, and some of these three things in He Shaoji's writing are particularly individual. Therefore, if the Qing Dynasty Kaishu wants to find a person, it must be him.
But He Shaoji definitely did not enter the history of calligraphy because of regular script, we now see that He Shaoji's line writing is good, in fact, Mr. Sha Menghai did not have him in "Nearly 300 Years of Calligraphy", what is he doing?Lishu, Mr. Sha Menghai attributed him to Lishu. Because He Shaoji's cursive writing belongs to the way of writing Li Beihai, he put a lot of energy into writing "Lushan Temple Tablet". Therefore, He Shaoji's characters are not coherent in the vertical potential, and all those who learn from Li Beihai are weakened in the vertical potential. Have you seen it, Zhao Mengfu, isn't it?Zhao Mengfu is the one who learned Li Beihai, He Shaoji is the one who studied Li Beihai, Qi Baishi is the one who learned Li Beihai, these are not longer than the vertical potential, Li Beihai all his words are horizontal, he weakened the vertical potential, who is Mr. Sha Menghai learning?Xue Ge Ti, Mr. Sha Menghai is a student of the Zodiac Zhou, because he is a student of Wu Changshuo, he has studied the Zodiac Zhou, he has studied these in the late Ming Dynasty, he emphasizes the vertical potential, he feels that the vertical potential is not enough for them to penetrate the way, he is not eye-catching, Mr. Sha Menghai has strengthened the vertical all his life, and weakened the horizontal, so he does not recognize the weakening of the vertical.
We should all be able to see the subtlety of He Shaoji, who is an elevation of the regular script of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty, there was only one Yu Youren, and the whole ** was only one Yu Youren, but Yu Youren definitely did not enter the history of Chinese calligraphy in regular script, what is he?Standard cursive, it is his achievements in cursive that have entered the history of Chinese calligraphy. Who has written regular script since the founding of the People's Republic of China?I haven't seen anyone yet, and it is estimated that we will not be able to keep it, although we are all working hard, whether we can keep it depends on what we do in the next 20 years from now, and we need to work together to try to retain a few people. Therefore, the side of regular script is very sad. I started learning calligraphy in the 80s, why did I start in the 80s?I didn't even write it myself, but I have been writing for 43 years since you started learning art from your teacher, and in the 90s, I basically made up my mind that academic research in regular script would be my academic destination and academic ideal in this life.
Why did I come up with this idea?Because in 95 they wanted to compile an intermediate calligraphy textbook, and asked me to undertake the compilation of this part of the regular script, compiled, I first had to describe the development of Chinese regular script, and thoroughly sorted out all the materials once, I saw that each dynasty wanted to find two regular script so difficult, I recognized that I seriously reflected on the academic situation of regular script, and really felt how deep the crisis of regular script in the history of Chinese calligraphy, although everyone was eating the milk of regular script, and entered the calligraphy and entered the writing, we did not regard the regular script as high, and few people regarded the artistic height of regular script as their own artistic pursuit。 What calligrapher doesn't know how to write a few regular scripts?But which regular script is really high and boundary? !Isn't it?If you look at our exhibitions in the 80s, as soon as you write regular script, it is either Yan Liu Ou Zhao, or at most you can write a little bit of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and you will be very good, and everyone will recognize it at that time. Now you only write a statue of Wei Bei, who recognizes it?!
(Wen Hong Houtian).
*: Jingtang Art Pool).
Brief introduction of the calligrapher
Hong Houtian, born in Shifang, Sichuan Province in 1963, No. Jingtang. Professional calligrapher. Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Culture, History and Xi Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference;At present, he is the secretary and deputy director of the Party branch of the Calligraphy and Seal Carving Institute of the China National Academy of Painting, the director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Regular Script Professional Committee, the vice president of the ** Academy of Fine Arts of the China Democratic League, a researcher of the Calligraphy Court of the Chinese Academy of Arts, a member of the Art Committee of the Calligraphy and Seal Carving Institute of the China Association for the Promotion of Cultural Affairs, and a vice chairman of the Sichuan Calligraphers Association.