In Chinese calligraphy, it reflects the Chinese's vision of the world, and a little painting is never a dead pen and ink trace, but a high outline of the lively business of the world. It is to show the freedom and liveliness in the universe, and the abundance and fulfillment of human and business interests. Calligraphy is not only writing, but also a pen with a tube, imitating the body of the void. Chinese calligraphers can understand the truth of calligraphy by observing objects other than calligraphy, and often seemingly unrelated things enter the calligrapher's eye.
Wang Xizhi saw the goose floating in the water, and watched its neck tactfully and tactfully, which was the method of using the pen to make the turn. Zhang Xu called himself "the princess and the husband fighting for the road, and understanding the grass method"; "I heard and preached, and got the meaning of the penmanship, and watched the Gongsun dance "Sword Weapon", and got its god." Watching Gongsun Lady dance "Sword Weapon", and understand the momentum of cursive writing. He also said: "The lonely canopy is self-vibrating, the sand is flying, and the rest of the thoughts are books, and it is strange." "The calligraphy is originally a static form, and in the stillness you can see vivid interest, like a lonely canopy and a frenzy of sand, all of which mean that things can be automatic in self-stillness.
Huaisu said: "I look at Xia Yunduoqi Peak, and I often learn from it. Its joy is like a bird flying out of the forest, startling a snake into the grass. "Watching the summer clouds change with the wind, I understand the changeability of cursive script. Huang Tingjian observed the oars and realized the brushwork, because when the oars were swinging, the oars should be sent between pushing out and retrieving, and matching with the people's forward and backward leaning, and the oars also showed the rhythm of swimming back and forth in the water, so Li Ruiqing said that "Lu Zhishu does not ripple in the air without a single stroke." Wen and Ke also said: "Yu learned cursive for ten years, and finally did not get the method passed down by the ancients with a pen. It is to know that each has its own understanding, and then as for this ear. "I rarely see people pulling cars in the muddy road, and I understand the reason and enter the book.
Xu Wei's cursive script pressed the flying, galloped with will, and the Vientiane business rushed to his wrist, and the block in his chest was exhausted.
There are so many such examples. Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty once made a summary:
Yu plays the ancients' books: There are eyes and snakes fighting, if dancing swords, if the bearer fights and wins. At first, I didn't understand it, and I watched Lei Taijianyun 'listen to the sound of the river and enter the penmanship', and then knew that Xiangyun 'snake fight', etc., not dotted glyphs, but the brush. Knowing this, there is no doubt that 'lonely canopy is self-vibrating', 'scaring the sand and flying', 'flying birds out of the forest', and 'frightening snakes into the grass'. However, 'wall road', 'house leakage', 'hairpin strands', 'printing mud', and 'cone painting sand' are dot paintings, but they are not wonderful in hand, nor can they be achieved. ”
Calligraphy should express the lively life of the world, so the vivid attitude of various natural objects has rushed to the pen of the calligrapher's wrist, giving the pen and ink lines infinite vitality, or Weng Fanggang's words are the best summary: "There is nothing in the world that is not cursive".
Enlightenment is a kind of sudden penetration of the inner world, and the triggering of traces is accidental and arbitrary, so enlightenment cannot simply be imitated and stereotyped. Taking Zhang Xu seeing the princess arguing with her husband as an example, Su Shi once said: "If you want to learn history books, you will ask for it every day, how can you get it!" Because each person's comprehension and life accumulation are different, the medium and timing of triggering will also be different, and what others can enlighten, may not be able to realize themselves, so even if you go to consult the bearer every day to see how he fights with others, you may not be able to gain anything. Enlightenment, when the gods will be the mainstay, enlightenment must be alive. Shen Kuo said: "The wonder of calligraphy and painting, when you know it with God, it is difficult to ask for it." "Enlightenment is not a simple imitation of external forms, in the heart is not in the hand, in the heart is not in the heart, the magic can not be knowledged, so "the rules can be spoken, and the magic must be realized by the understanding".
Enlightenment is to always maintain a mind that contemplates things, and to fit and appreciate all things in the world with your heart. Su Shi said: "Paying attention to things often becomes interesting. "Pay attention to the knowledge everywhere, a leaf of wall grass, a microflower, an action, a look, all contain the boundless business of the universe, calligraphy is to express this kind of business, interest and ecology. Li Yangbing said: "The ability to learn books is not in books. "It is necessary to understand the way of calligraphy from the many objects in the objective world, cultivate one's own living and transparent soul, accumulate for a long time, and turn a piece into a machine and leak into a trace, just like Zhu Changwen said, "Cover the accumulation in the middle, touch the object to feel it, then there is no way."
Enlightenment is a kind of perceptual and intuitive touch, and it is a psychological process that produces aesthetic taste under the direct feeling of external objects. Huaisu saw Qifeng in the change of summer clouds, which was his spiritual experience. But if you look directly at the peaks, you may not be able to trigger enlightenment. Liu Xizai said: "Huaisu self-described cursive writing, said to view the summer clouds and strange peaks, taste the teacher. However, the cursive learner is a strange master? He said, "No." Gage Peak is qualitative, not as good as Xia Yun's Qi Peak is not qualitative. If you directly observe the steepness of the strange peak, it will be too concrete, and the "strange peak" of Xia Yun is changing and ethereal, amorphous and fixed, and the changes in cursive script are not in line with the gods.
Enlightenment is a momentary perceptual trigger, not a derivation of rational logic, and it is not necessarily related to a person's academic ability. When the vividness of the world coincides with the calligrapher's inner experience, the various physical and dynamic beauty of all natural things become the objects of the calligrapher's attention, and the real social life and the wonderful state of nature also become the calligrapher's wordless master.