Yuan Zhao Mengfu Heart Sutra book full volume analysis and amplified word appreciation

Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu "Heart Sutra Book"

Era: Yuan Dynasty

Author: Zhao Mengfu

Name: Heart Sutra Book

Material: The booklet on paper (picture and text volume) has three verses

Dimensions: 288 cm in length per opening 108 cm in width

Tibet: Liaoning Provincial Museum

Commentary:

Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

When contemplating oneself as a bodhisattva and practicing deep Prajnaparamita, one sees that the five aggregates are empty and overcomes all suffering. The relic, the color is not different from the void, the void is not different from the color, the color is the empty, the emptiness is the color, the thought and the action, and so on. The relics are the void phases of the Dharma, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore, there is no color in the air, no thoughts and deeds, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, no color, sound, fragrance, touch, no vision, even the unconscious world, no ignorance, no ignorance, no old death, no old death. There is no suffering and no extinction, no wisdom and no gain, for the sake of having nothing to gain. Bodhidharma, according to Prajnaparamita, has no obstacles, no obstacles, no terror, far from upside-down dreams, and ultimate nirvana. The three Buddhas, according to Prajnaparamita, attained the three bodhisattvas of Ajanta. Therefore, it is known that Prajnaparamita is the Great God Mantra, the Great Ming Mantra, the Supreme Mantra, the None, and so on, which can remove all suffering and be true. Therefore, to say the Prajnaparamita mantra is to say the mantra: Revealing the Truth, Revealing the Truth, Polo Revealing the Truth, Polo Monk Revealing the Truth, Bodhidharma.

The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, the disciple Zhao Mengfu, is enshrined as the master Zhongfeng and Shangshu

Appreciation:

Heart Sutra album, 3 open. The first opening of the first opening is the white depiction of the statue of Guanyin Dashi. The 3rd open is followed by the 1st open. It is a white portrait of Wei Tuo, and the 2nd-3 opening behind it is the Ming Wang Zhideng, Qing Zhangying, Zhang Zhao, Li Zongwan and other people and the original Liang Qing title signature. Each opening is 288 cm in length and 108 cm in width. This volume was originally the old collection of Qingzhang Ruocai, and has the seals of "Refining Snow Identification" and "Qinglan Resident". When Qianlong entered the Qing Palace, there were Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Xuantong Inner House Tibetan Seals. The Heart Sutra was originally a hand scroll, but after entering the Qing Palace, it was changed to an album and equipped with sandalwood carved splints. The "Guanyin Statue" and "Vedic Statue" before and after the Heart Sutra were painted by the Qing Dynasty. It is written in the "Secret Temple Zhulin Continuation".

This volume of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra is a representative work of Zhao Mengfu. It is free to move, smooth and smooth, and has its own appearance, but when it is analyzed carefully, it feels that it has its own history. We know that the art of calligraphy and painting in the Song Dynasty has been in decline by the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. The painting styles of Ma Yuan and Xia Jue are mostly empty and rough, and have no charm at all. Calligraphy has also long lost the vivid charm of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the legendary Zhao Mengjian's "Self-written Poems" and Wen Tianxiang's "Wooden Chicken Collection" illustrate this situation. Zhao Mengfu, who lived in this era, tried to correct the shortcomings of the times and make a difference. Just like the common togu reform system in Chinese history, he also advocated "noble and ancient meaning" in calligraphy and painting to revitalize the decline. In calligraphy, he carefully copied the writings of Zhong Xuan, Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Zhiyong, and strived to draw nourishment from the works of the Wei and Jin people. However, at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there was no longer the charm of the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the Xuanfeng as the background. Zhao Mengfu's copied Tuoben characters are also far from the brilliance of Zhong, Wang, and Zhiyong's original writings. In this way, Zhao's calligraphy can only be the shadow of the ancients, and it cannot be a reproduction of the ancients. In addition, the Jin people sat on the ground and wrote in the air, which was completely different from the posture of the Yuan Dynasty sitting on a high chair and writing according to the case, and the writing effect was different. In this way, although Zhao Mengfu subjectively traced the ancients, he actually produced a new style of writing that looked like the ancients. Zhao Mengfu's single-minded respect for the ancients and the scale of the ancient people's pointing out the way of posting have had a great influence on calligraphy since the Ming and Qing dynasties. As for the flexible Zhao body kai book that he borrowed from the brushwork of the xingshu and the knot of xiao Kai to create a flexible Zhao body kai book that is different from the Rigid Kai of Ou, Liu, and Yan, because of its strong adaptability, it can be written plaques, and the small can be transcribed to try the large volume, the impact is even greater, try to see the Yuan Dynasty carved books all pass through the Zhao body, you can know the popularity of the Zhao characters.

Zhao Mengfu wrote not only one copy of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, but this volume was written for the monk Zhongfeng. Zhongfeng shimingming Mingben, zhongfeng, a high monk of the Yuan Dynasty, presided over the Wuxing Benshan Phantom Residence Temple. Emperor Yuanrenzong once gave the title of Buddha CiYuanZhao Zen Master. After the death of the Emperor Pu Ying Guoshi. Zhongfeng Xiaozhao Mengfu was nine years old, but Zhao was very respectful to Zhongfeng. Since the Northern Dynasty, Buddhist believers have often written their own sutras or hired people to write sutras as merit. But the scriptures written. All of them are written in letters, and Zhao Mengfu uses lines to write the Heart Sutra. It is a precedent in the history of scripture writing.

author:

Zhao Mengfu (赵孟頫) (20 October 1254 – 30 July 1322), courtesy name Ziang, also known as Zhao Mengqian, Zhao Wenmin, Zhao Songxue, Zhao Jixian, and Zhao Wuxing. Han Chinese, songxue Daoist, also known as Crystal Palace Daoist, Gull Wave, middle-aged mengqian. A native of Wuxing, Zhejiang (present-day Huzhou, Zhejiang). Famous calligraphers, painters and poets from the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the eleventh grandson of the Song Taizu and the descendant of the Zhao Defang faction of the Qin King.

In the 23rd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), Zhao Mengfu was recommended by the Xingtai attendant Yushi Cheng Jufu, and was honored by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, and successively held the positions of Jixian Zhi bachelor, Jinan Road Governor's Office, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Confucianism, and Hanlin Waiter Bachelor. Li Guan Hanlin Bachelor Chengzhi, Rong Lu Doctor. In his later years, he gradually retired, and then begged for his illness. In the second year of his reign (1322), Zhao Mengfu died at the age of sixty-nine. He was given the title of Pingzhang Political Affairs and Duke of Wei in Zhongshu Province, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and his courtesy name was Wenmin, so he was called Zhao Wenmin. He is the author of "SongXuezhai Anthology" and so on.

Zhao Mengfu is erudite and versatile, can write poetry, understands economics, works calligraphy, fine painting art, is good at gold stones, tonglulu, and appreciates. In particular, he has the highest achievements in calligraphy and painting. In painting, he created a new style of painting in the Yuan Dynasty, known as the "Crown of Yuanren"; Zhao Mengfu was also good at seals, li, true, xing, cursive, especially known for kai and xingshu. His style of writing is charming and elegant, his body is strict and neat, and his penmanship is mature, and he created the "Zhao Body" book, which together with Ouyang Zhenqing, Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan is called the "Four Great Masters of KaiShu".

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