Zhou Xianglin
The word Ruoxi, the number Qingtang, Caoqingtang.
Can calligraphy, painting, writing, directing.
Member of the National Committee of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Director of the Chinese Calligraphy Association.
Researcher of China National Academy of Painting.
Researcher of the Chinese Academy of Arts.
Visiting professor at Shanghai Film Academy.
He has published monographs such as "One Hundred Voices of Flower Notes", "One Hundred Voices Between Words", "Hurried March", "Zhou Xianglin's Painting Collection", "Fengya Ruoxi Series (Nine Volumes)", "Zhou Xianglin's Cursive Writing Will Enter the Wine Volume", "Zhou Xianglin's Seal Book Ancient Poetry Collection", "Zhou Xianglin Calligraphy Collection", "Zhou Xianglin Chinese Painting Collection", "Qingtang Landscape Sketches", "Cursive Ancient Poetry Volume", "Fengya Ruoxi Zhou Xianglin Calligraphy Exhibition Collection", "Hanmo Tang Rhyme - Zhou Xianglin Shu Li Baishi Calligraphy Collection", etc.
Director of the TV series "Out of the Blue Water River", "Blue Flower", "Book Sage Wang Xizhi" and so on.
The story of time
Interview with artist Zhou Xianglin.
The man who is the master of heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things;Those who have passed through time have passed by for a hundred generations". I liked Li Bai when I was young, so I remember these two sentences of Li Bai very clearly. Sometimes I wonder if there are any times in these 100 generations that are not passers-byIf so, how can we see it?They condensed in **?
One day, I put aside my pen and covered the scroll, looked up at the starry sky, and when my heart was swinging, I seemed to see Sima Qian, Wang Xizhi, Li Bai, Du Fu, as if I saw Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo, ......Thoughts suddenly came to me: Aren't all those lost time condensed on them?In this way, Han Xionghun, Jin Fantasy, Tang Zongheng, and Song Yayi ......
Eternity is imprinted in my heart.
When I was young, although I was materially scarce, I was spiritually rich and had great ambitions in my heart. People, with ambition, there will be screening and screening, if this "ambition" is still your own favorite, it is natural to stick to it.
When I was younger, the schedule was very simple, although I also wore bell bottoms, long hair, sang karaoke, and danced disco, but when I got home, I would still sit quietly at my desk. What's bad is that as I get older, I have a little name, and trouble comes, I will participate in a dinner party for a while, attend an event for a while, get together for three days, get together for five days, look at everyone's approving eyes, listen to the words of praise from others, and my heart will begin to revel in my heart. There was a time when I was used to this kind of life, and if no one invited me for a day or two, or if I couldn't hear praise, I was still a little disappointed in my heart. Until one time, when I came home late, but still habitually picked up the book, at this time, my lover said: "It's so late, let's rest early." I said, "Oh, no, I have to read." My lover couldn't help but laugh: "If you really wanted to read, you would have come back a long time ago." "The words are soft, but to me, they are like a slap in the face!It was this stick that made me determined to stop socializing.
Zhou Xianglin Choose one of the Codex notes
Learning is a very amazing process that sometimes you can't explain yourself. All year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter, sometimes I want to read, hungry and thirsty, in addition to my favorite literature, history, philosophy, there are some things that are not very relevant to me, such as agriculture, plants, science and technology. I also buy books from some online authors and read them. For example, Yu Xiuhua's poetry collection, her poem "I Love You", made me think about it for a long time.
Sometimes, I just want to write, so I simply don't do anything, every day is the post and read the post, all kinds of posts, even if I don't usually like it, I will take it out to read, at this time I seem to return to the situation of the ancients, intoxicated and enjoyed. Then, it is to uncontrollably sway itself, big characters, small characters, real calligraphy, cursive writing, let it be.
For a while, I will put reading and writing aside, and love to draw, and the method is the same as writing, first ancient and then modern, first micro and then put. Over the years, a large part of my income has been spent on books, catalogues and reproductions of masterpieces, which are the most expensive part of them. I have all kinds of albums on my bookcase, like Shi Tao, who began to publish in the fifties and sixties and seventies and eighties of the twentieth century.
I used to think that calligraphy and painting brushes were similar, but now I know that they are far from each other. Calligraphy pays attention to penmanship, pays attention to the crossbow wrapping, so can be clear and tightly knotted, it can be described as a law book, otherwise, just writing.
In addition, there is a period of time when I don't want to do anything, I just want to go out for a walk, so I invite three or five friends, far or near, dangerous or dangerous, to ask good teachers, visit good friends, explore subtleties, indulge in the mind, let the feelings be arbitrary, and see the wise and wise. After returning, it seems that I have another realm!
Tao Yuanming said: "There is no vulgar rhyme, and sex loves hills and mountains." "We can't live without being disturbed by mundane things, and it's impossible to be completely detached from the mundane. Jiang Xu still has three paths, Tao Yin is also known as the "prime minister", vulgar, sometimes it is the pervasiveness of fireworks in the world, the value is not vulgar, not vulgar, not vulgar, not kitsch.
Zhou Xianglin, cursive banners, Hu Er plays the flute, and the upstairs is depressed and the sea and the moon are idle. By asking where the plum blossoms fall, the wind blows all night in the mountains.
I believe that reading is the most important thing, and in order to become a calligrapher, you must develop the habit of reading consistently. We see that the great calligraphers of the past and present all have a profound cultural heritage, which is determined by the attributes of calligraphy itself.
Calligraphy is art, but its root is culture, and the depth of culture determines the level of art.
Reading is the same as writing, we must know the changes, but also trace the source, so that the ancient and modern, the literary quality, the elegance and vulgarity, and even the light and heavy can be gradually distinguished. When I was young, I liked Li Bai, and every time I recited "Will Enter the Wine", there would be a chivalrous image of a long sword and a trace of the end of the worldSlightly longer, fell in love with Su Dongpo, and then, fell in love with Wang Anshi, and then Bao joined the army, Tao Yuanming, Wang Zhongxuan, Ruan Infantry, Jia Yi, Sima Qian, and even "The Book of Songs", "Analects", "Zhuangzi", a series of shining names shined, only to slowly realize their ignorance, to appreciate the simplicity, thickness and wonder of Chinese characters.
Today, with the highly developed industrial civilization, people's experience seems to have become simpler, without the hardships and dangers of crossing the Shu Road, and there is no despair of breaking the thatched hut in the autumn wind. "The White Emperor of the Dynasty Says Between the Clouds" and "Flying Across the Mirror Lake and Moon in One Night", the miraculous imagination of the past is now ordinary. Many experiences have lost their processes, and are more like a monotonous, patterned, and mechanical cutscene.
In the Analects, it is said: "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will be lazy." "In an era of rapid development, thinking can be another presentation of experience. Seek the extraordinary in the ordinary, seek change in the unchanged, and seek the ...... in irrelevant thingsEven if there are no turbulent waves and no ups and downs in your life, as long as you are diligent in thinking, you can still have endless fantasy.
Zhou Xianglin's Codex Notes Choose 2
For a country with thousands of years of culture and civilization, historical nihilism is very terrible, but judging from some "high theories", it is obvious that they lack historical knowledge and can ignore him. Their intentions may not be malicious, but it is only because they are uneducated that they are "not afraid", "bold", and dare to say anything.
Mencius said, Born in sorrow, die in peace. The sense of distress is an excellent quality that the Chinese nation has adhered to for thousands of years, so that the Chinese nation can still stand majestically for thousands of years. Sorrow is not negativity, not fear, not to retreat, but foresight, wisdom, accumulation, and another kind of courage.
Carefully examined, a history of calligraphy is actually a history of trouble, Zhong Xuan can't get Cai Yong's penmanship;Wang Xizhi is inferior to Zhong and Zhang in nature and kung fu;Ouyang Xiu said, "Since Su Zimei's death, he has felt that his brushwork is absolutely perfect";Mi Fu angrily scolded Yan Liu for being picky, all of which contained worries. Interestingly, it is often these calligraphers who have a sense of distress who support a history of calligraphy. And those Zhang Rong who claim to "hate the two kings and have no ministers", who will remember their words?Speaking of which, I'm going to strike a chord for your worries!
In the first decade of the 20th century, Mr. Jin Jiancai of Zhejiang wrote an article in the magazine "Calligraphy", because he was deeply impressed, and I still remember the name: "The Awakening of Art and the Crisis of Foundation". More than ten years ago, on an autumn night, the bright moon was in the sky, the pine wind embraced, under the guidance of Brother Cai Shunong, I met Mr. Jin again in Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, and after a few greetings, Mr. Jin laughed and said: "It is still a crisis. ”
Now, another ten years have passed, and Mr. Jin's words still seem to be outdated, still loud and sound, and still golden and jade.
Nowadays, some phenomena are indeed difficult to understand, such as exhibitions, in addition to the works, we also have to examine the culture separately, in order to see the cultural level of the author. Calligraphy is the art of "encompassing all differences and cutting into one phase", which naturally includes culture, and Chinese have always paid attention to "words are like their people", if you can't see culture in the words, you can't call them good words
New book release
Compared with other art disciplines, calligraphy is relatively subtle in its literary nature.
After calligraphy arrived in the late Ming Dynasty, so-called visually impactful works created by people such as Zhu Yunming, Xu Qingteng, Wang Duo, Fu Shan, etc., appeared, and the literary nature of calligraphy was paid attention to. But strictly speaking, the visual impact of this kind of appearance should be relatively shallow in the literary nature of calligraphy, and the really deep is not easy to see, and the so-called still water is deep. For example, penmanship, the virtual reality in the pen is much more complex than the virtual reality in the blank space, but if you don't know how to use the pen, you may never be able to appreciate the literary nature. Zhong Xuan's Xiaokai and Wang Xizhi's "Seventeen Posts" are almost all literary, but how many contemporary people really have the ability to go deep into it and be careful?And if you can't go deep into these classics, how can you really appreciate the beauty of calligraphy and Chinese?Without an internal basis, it can only be an external eye-catcher. Compared with art, theater, and film, calligraphy is much deeper and deeper, so at some point, calligraphy can only be left alone, and so can calligraphers.
Self-esteem is a calligrapher's greatest asset. On the other hand, at present, the sacredness of calligraphy is almost exhausted, some people have dressed up calligraphy as street juggling, calligraphy is not sacred, what is the sacredness of people engaged in calligraphy?
The ancients either scattered their arms or sat silently and meditated before writing, in short, Han did not move, and the sacredness of calligraphy and calligraphers is self-evident. In the "Zhou Li", Confucius believes that the sacrifice is the most important, we today, of course, we have to go to its dross, but the sacredness of the ancestors should not be forgotten, calligraphy is the core of our Chinese national spiritual heritage, and reverence is the minimum.
Director's scene
Confucius said that "Shao" is perfect, "Wu" is perfect but not perfect, but it can be known that perfection is the original pursuit of art by Chinese, and how to achieve perfection, different people will have different wisdom. Essentially, the creator of art should be the embodiment of truth, goodness, and beauty, otherwise, how can people believe in your art?How can art move people, infect people, and baptize people?
The pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty requires not only epiphany and passion for one thing at a time, but also unremitting and renunciation for a lifetime. In life, whether truth, goodness and beauty are diminished and weakened because of it is the test of human nature, especially artists, who have passed this hurdle in order to border with art, and to stand up, stand and grow in the mundane world of turbid reality.
In fact, artists are not more intelligent than ordinary people, and if they do, they have kept the bottom line of truth, goodness, and beauty.
In the process of filming, many calligraphers and calligraphy lovers across the country and even around the world gave me a lot of encouragement, including some friends who have suspicions
It's a pity that it hasn't been broadcast yet, and we look forward to seeing you as soon as possible.
Of course, I dare not "talk" with the sage of the book, but the lessons I have gained from it are real. In the past, when I was on Wang Xizhi's post and read and studied Wang Xizhi's article, the mountains looked up, like clouds in the sky, and he was a god in my mind. This time, he stepped down from the altar, came to me, and integrated into my life.
Of course, TV dramas are different from academic research, but if the research is always clichés, it may not be as true as this way of TV dramas, a person who has experienced a lot of hardships may not be able to become an artist, but a successful artist must have experienced a lot of hardships. Through ten years of creation, I have gained a new understanding of the study of historical figures. In fact, at that time, there were thousands of wealthy scholars who moved south, and the center of culture naturally shifted from the north to the south, which was linked to the changes in the source of the real book and the official book, and of course, literature, history, politics, war, etc., as well as the fun and transformation between the southern and northern dynasties, all of which made a supplementary cushion for the later integration, if there were no these, even if Yang Jian unified the country, the culture would not have been rapidly southern.
These gains are difficult to experience in a normal state, nor can they be obtained in simple ** and books, let alone in a fixed dimension. Sometimes, I fantasize about traveling into that condensed time, how can it be like being in the world?
Composer Wang Liping wrote a theme song of "Life is Only a Hundred Years" for "Book Sage Wang Xizhi": "A piece of sky on your head, a field under your feet." Standing up to the sky and the earth, crisscrossing the heavens and the earth. Behind it was yesterday, and today is in front of you. Reciprocation is eternal, and life is only a hundred years. "When I recorded this song, I couldn't hold back my tears. Yes, life is only a hundred years, what can I do in these hundred years?I didn't seem to think much about it before, but after filming Wang Xizhi, I seemed to understand. It is no exaggeration to say that my life has changed because of "The Book Sage Wang Xizhi".
Accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Shen Peng to visit the "It's Not Too Late to Hear the Word" Shen Peng Poetry Book Fair
Every true calligrapher has his own unique artistic language, distinctive artistic personality, and extraordinary spiritual outlook, and it is difficult to have a unified image.
But at the same time, this is a very easy question to answer, because every true calligrapher is elegant and upright, morally noble, proficient in calligraphy ontology, and insists on reading and thinking. Books are like character, and words are like hearts.
On April 29 this year, the National Art Museum of China held a personal poetry and book exhibition for the 90-year-old Mr. Shen Peng, entitled "It's Not Too Late to Hear the Tao", which was set by Mr. Shen Peng. Standing in front of Mr. Wang's cursive strip screen, which is both shapeful and radiant, vertical and horizontal, rich in connotation, elegant and natural, I feel a lot of emotion: a calligrapher should be like this!
If Chinese characters carry Chinese civilization, calligraphy carries Chinese culture. Civilization cannot be broken, and culture cannot be broken.
The spiritual temperament of a society is essentially the temperament of culture and art, and any calligrapher will only merge into history when he enters the times. If you want to escape this era, you will not be able to become a calligrapher, even if you visit ancient posts, read ancient books, and write traditional Chinese characters every day, and lose the spirit of the times, your pen and ink will be worthless. Different dynasties and different generations, Li Zhao and Zhang Wang, different but connected, this is the charm of Chinese culture.
Three-foot life, a scholar", what position can it have?If there is, it is also in front of the bookcase, next to the inkstone, on the pen, between the volumes, in the vertical and horizontal mo, in the pine wind, ......
The distant tree contains smoke, such as the first cut of a new orange;When I climbed the stairs and looked at it, I forgot to return to ......I really don't know where I am
Throughout the ages, the real position was not found by oneself, just like the condensation of time.