Wall calendars are an integral part of traditional Chinese culture. Chinese have the custom of hanging the annual calendar for the New Year, every New Year, after New Year's Day, every household will hang the annual calendar indoors, one is the needs of life and work, and more importantly, the wall calendar can be used as a cultural point for indoor decoration, a ** and lush wall calendar, can be pleasing to the eye.
Most of the wall calendars are published and printed products, published with a regular national book number, and are also commonly produced by small folk workshops, with content or books or paintings, characters, landscapes, landscape photography and advertising products, etc., which can be hung when you buy them. In recent years, with the continuous development of science and technology, the printing industry has also undergone earth-shaking changes, and a kind of beautifully printed blank wall calendar for artists to create by themselves has quietly emerged in the market in recent years. This kind of wall calendar with a calendar printed and left blank space can only be hung after the calligrapher and painter can be hung after the secondary creation in the blank space, which is essentially different from the ordinary printed calendar.
The charm of this blank wall calendar is that it is handwritten and hand-painted by calligraphers and painters, and each one is limited and out of print. After completing the blank, the wall calendar is a wonderful work of art, which can be given as a gift to relatives and friends, or you can hang it for your own collection. Another feature of the handwritten wall calendar is that the work can also be framed or collected after the year. This kind of blank wall calendar is favored because of the trendiness, and is favored by calligraphers and painters and loved by the public.
At present, the blank wall calendar on the market is different in size, with a height of 69 cm, a width of about 36 cm, and a smaller sizeThere are single sheets and sets (a set of 6 or 12 sheets). Because the wall calendar is limited by the size, the white space is small and the paper is white hard paper, which is quite different from the traditional calligraphy and painting paper and rice paper in terms of material. Whiteboard paper has poor water absorption, and it is extremely difficult to create calligraphy and painting on it. At the same time, because the blank space is a fixed space, each creation is a test of the author's artistic skills. Not only does the creator need to have a certain artistic skill, but the pen must be "fast, accurate, and ruthless, and there can be no sloppy hesitation, a success can not be repeated, and a complete set of failures is invalidated, so most calligraphers and painters are discouraged.
Mr. Li Guiqiang, a military calligrapher and the inheritor of Zhao Puchu's calligraphy, dared to be the first and tried it on the blank wall calendar very early. His wall calendar calligraphy works, the content is fresh and elegant, close to life, or poems and aphorisms, or the big characters of the list, with the style of Pu Lao calligraphy, the pen and the Tao together, simple and quiet, the calligraphy of the rich Huazi to the extreme, people appreciate the eye.
On the occasion of the upcoming Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024, he carefully created on the blank wall calendar, and presented a set of calligraphy wall calendars that had just been completed for everyone
Yanling people) Appendix: 2024 Li Guiqiang's handwritten calligraphy wall calendar.
Calligraphy creation: Li Guiqiang.
*Provided by: Guangzhou Mengmo Studio.
Editor-in-charge: Wen Jun.