Today is the Lantern Festival, and I just returned from a trip to other places and received a New Year's gift from Liu Minghu, a friend of Yangcheng Bookstore, a new book he had just published, "Interpretation of Zhang Qianbei Techniques". Open the package, only to see that the book is untouched, the album is elegantly bound, the inner pages are luxuriant, and the thick one has a heavy feeling when you get started, which is quite weighty!
Brother Liu Minghu and I are old comrades-in-arms who work in the organs of the Guangzhou Military Region, he is in the headquarters, and I am in the armament department. Because they are good at calligraphy, they often have calligraphy exchanges after work. Brother Minghu left me with the impression that he was sincere, enthusiastic and approachable; Rigorous work, serious in life and work; Looking at him, his eyes were bright and bright; He was elegant, gentlemanly, and a man of great talent.
He is a bachelor's degree in Chinese language, ** party school law graduate student, due to long-term work in large institutions, writing and pen kung fu are quite good, especially in recent years, calligraphy is getting better, the reputation is getting bigger and bigger, but he has never forgotten me, often on WeChat and I like to communicate, it can be said that Brother Minghu is a veteran of the army that I admire very much, "old squad leader."
In the Lingnan Bookstore, Brother Minghu's calligraphy is second to none, and everyone knows it, and he is a veritable calligrapher. In calligraphy, he devoted himself to the seal for decades, the official book is based on the "Ritual Tablet", the "Zhang Qian Tablet" is the basis, and it is involved in other Han monuments, and gradually forms a simple and mellow, clumsy and spicy artistic style; His seal calligraphy, in addition to the study of "Yishan Tablet" and "Taishan Stone Carving", is more to absorb the essence of Wu Changshuo's "Stone Drum Text", with a round and refreshing pen, the knot is strange and symbiotic, and the chapter is ingenious.
Brother Minghu turned to many teachers, and once apprenticed to Mr. Zhang Ji, a contemporary official calligrapher, and won the essence of his official book. The creation of calligraphy has accumulated steadily, and the artistic personality has become more and more obvious, whether it is a seal or a cursive script, it has begun to take on its own face. At the end of 2019, he held a solo exhibition of calligraphy in Guangzhou, and I was fortunate to be invited to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition and browse through his masterpieces one by one. His teacher, Zhang Ji, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, wrote a congratulatory letter for the exhibition, commenting that his calligraphy "embodies the aesthetic spirit of the times on the basis of inheriting the tradition......
Liu Minghu's "Interpretation of Zhang Qianbei Techniques" is a unique introduction to the "Zhang Qian Tablet" writing techniques of the atlas, it not only makes a more comprehensive summary and combing of the techniques of "Zhang Qian Tablet", but more valuable is that he takes "Zhang Qian Tablet" as an example and "Xian Yu Huang Tablet" and "Cao Quan Tablet" and other Han monuments to compare with each other, so as to draw a more comprehensive conclusion, highlighting the book's "systematic, intuitive and pertinent three characteristics, for the beginner "Zhang Qian Tablet" or engaged in the "Zhang Qian Tablet" researchers, is a great gospel, Undoubtedly, it is a charcoal in the snow.
Zhang Qianbei Technique Interpretation" album, edited by Huang Min and Zhong Junfeng, inscribed by Mr. Zhang Ji, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, director of the Seal Script Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and a contemporary calligrapher, published by Southern Media Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, and distributed by Xinhua Bookstore nationwide. The first edition and the first printing of 2,000 copies in November 2023 will be priced at RMB 178.
It is understood that the book "Interpretation of Zhang Qianbei Techniques" is so far a more systematic and comprehensive introduction to the "Zhang Qianbei" techniques of the reference book, for calligraphy lovers, this is a book with super energy, is a good book with great value for money. If you like this book, you can't miss it! Interested parties can purchase at the local Xinhua bookstore, or contact the author and me. With a copy in hand, you'll be amazed!
A Niuge) 2024-02-24 in Guduanzhou.
Note: The author of this article, Brother Niu, whose real name is Li Guiqiang, is the master of Guangzhou Mengmo Zhai, a military calligrapher, the inheritor of Zhao Puchu's calligraphy, and the editor-in-chief and vice president of the Beijing "China Art Market News".
Appendix: Part of the inner page of "Interpretation of Zhang Qianbei Techniques".
*Provided by: Guangzhou Mengmo Studio.
Editor-in-charge: Wen Jun.