In 1972, the Japanese edition of People's China magazine launched the "Selected Works of Modern Chinese Calligraphy", and Lin Sanzhi's cursive banner "** Words - Qingping Le Huichang" was highly praised by Guo Moruo, Qi Gong and other celebrities, causing huge repercussions. This moment marked the great revival of Lin Sanzhi's fame, known as today's "grass saint". However, the artist's brilliance was not foreshadowed, but reached its peak at the age of 75, which is a model of "late bloomer".
Lin Sanzhi, Minglin, No. Sanzhi, alias San'er, old man on the river. He began to come into contact with calligraphy at an early age, and extensively dabbled in ancient classics such as Tang Kai, Han Li, and Wei Bei, laying a solid foundation. From the age of 60, he specialized in cursive writing, and eventually created cursive writing with a strong personal style in his later years, becoming a contemporary "grass saint".
However, while Lin Sanzhi's cursive script shines brightly, many people know little about his early regular script. Today, we will focus on Lin Sanzhi's regular script and get a glimpse of the charm of the early art of this "grass saint".
Lin Sanzhi's regular script won the charm of the ancients, he visited the ancient famous scriptures, from Han Li's "Ritual Tablet", "Zhang Qian Tablet" to Wei Bei's "Zhang Heinu", and then to the Tang and Song Dynasty Yan Zhenqing, Li Beihai, Mi Fu, Zhao Meng, Wang Duo, Dong Qichang, etc., each style has dabbled. Lin Sanzhi did not continue the style of a certain family, but integrated it on the basis of each family, forming his own unique style and charm.
In the early years, Lin Sanzhi's regular scripts, especially the small ones, showed the characteristics of lively and unpretentious. His works are natural and lawless, showing his profound skills in the field of regular script. When Lin Sanzhi studied regular script, he paid attention to the study of penmanship and ink method, and paid attention to pen holding, finger skills, wrist skills and elbow skills. He emphasized the technique of writing, to do the real palm empty, first hanging the wrist and then hanging the elbow, first like and then not like when posting, first without me and then with me. These guiding principles became the cornerstone of his later regular script writing.
To understand Lin Sanzhi's regular script, it is necessary to read his works in depth and understand the mystery of his brushwork from one stroke at a time. His regular script is full of artistic heritage, leaving traces of the times, showing the artistic quality of a late bloomer. Through the appreciation of Lin Sanzhi's early regular script, we can better understand the unique brilliance embodied in his later cursive writing.