Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee of the Liaoning Old Professors Association (No. 11).
Live every day in a poetic way
Author: Zhao Chengjiang
"Calendar card" is a must-have for Chinese people every year when they say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. In the past few years, the various calendars have become a bit messy, and some of them are so vulgar that people don't think so. A few days ago, I received a copy of "2024 Chinese Inscription Poetry Calendar" adapted by Liu Jicai and Yuan Mei (published by Northeastern University Press). I understand that the original intention of compiling and printing this calendar is that cultural scholars and the publishing department want to change this status quo, let China's excellent culture nourish our spiritual home, and let the people live every day in poetry and picturesqueness.
The editors of this "2024 Chinese Inscription Poetry Calendar" bring 365 days of poetic and picturesque cultural feast to the Chinese people with profound Chinese culture literacy and modern thinking. A painting, a poem, a calligraphy, every season, festival has a picture of the time, summer has "summer summer painting", winter has "oven to avoid the cold". Poetry, calligraphy and painting are blended, and color, sound and image are intertwined. There is the infection of poetry and the enjoyment of painting.
Poetry is the quintessence of life experience and emotion, and it is the undefeated rose in the heart of people. The inscription poem is the pride of the poet and the darling of the painter, and should be read in particular. Charles Darwin once said, "If I could live again, I would make it a week for me to read poetry and listen to it."
This "Calendar" will not only allow you to enjoy paintings, but also allow you to read poems and listen to songs. An immersive experience that will keep you entertained every day!
Each calligraphy and painting in this "Calendar" is carefully selected from the works of the ancients, or it is made by famous artists, and it took nearly two years for the editor to complete. The publishing unit is beautifully bound, with exquisite paper, color printing, and luxuriant. The calendar is read and listened to every day, and after use, it can be used as desk information and treasured forever.
This calendar of pictorial poems undertakes the academic research results of "New Works with Illustrations in the Development History of Chinese Pictorial Poems" (three volumes). This masterpiece is a masterpiece made by Professor Liu Jicai, a famous scholar of Tang and Song poetry in China, after more than 60 years of research and conception, and is a fairly complete and systematic academic work on the study of inscription and painting poems. The contribution of this book lies in the study of the development history of pictorial poems, which explores the source, clarifies the context, reveals the development law of pictorial poems, broadens the scope of pictorial poems, and establishes an independent status for pictorial poems. This is an interdisciplinary and cross-field academic monograph that integrates poetry, painting, and calligraphy, and integrates literature, philosophy, and aesthetics.
Editor: Wang Hongwei(Wang Hongwei, art consultant of China Art Title Examination Center, visiting professor of CCTV Art Inheritance Column Group).