Today we come to read Master Ding Jing's Masterpiece of Hanbai Wenyin "Lord of Baiyun Peak", which is the party seal of Master Ding Jing at the age of 60, at this age, Master Ding Jing has reached the realm of "people are old", so this seal is particularly intriguing to read.
Let's take a look at this seal first:
(Ding Jing "Baiyun Peak Lord" and its side section)
This seal was engraved in 1754, that is, in the 19th year of Qianlong, according to Ding Jing's life (Ding Jing died in 1765), at this time Ding Jing was mature and unique in seal art, and had reached the realm of profound knowledge in terms of academic cultivation, but physically he was relatively energetic, which was the age of good works.
Let's look at the long side of his seal:
Baiyun Peak was in the north of the present-day Faxi Temple, that is, the former Shangtianzhu Temple, which contained the Baiyun Hall, which was built by Song Shou Shen Wentong for the senior monks. Yu Fang's foreign friend Zen master came to the main Fa Xi seat, begging Yu to carve the four-character stone seal of the Main White Cloud Peak as a leisure play, and Gai wanted to invite the debate to be the same as the same ginseng, and the Cangshi was the language. Its far-sighted high rhyme and is the peak of the peak cool! Yu Yinxin responded to his request, instantly made, without false fate, quite a friend of my friend to live in the mountains of the clouds. Jia Shu Ding honored himself, when he was sixty years old. The Zen master of the Void is a wild mushroom, and the flavor is clear and soft. The name of the cloud nest shoots, it is like a mound can nest evil. The Four Crosses are inscribed here. Where the wild dove comes from, the high Zen vision is divided. Cui suspicious idle picking, roubi a nest of clouds. Bitterness is a life exercise, and the capital is known in the world. Many teachers cherish their intentions, and He Yin kenru meat. Respect the body. ("Xiling Four Family Seal Genealogy" Volume 1, I added a revision of individual words)
The side section conveys these messages: 1, this square seal was engraved by Ding Jing for the Zen master of the Void; 2, the Master of the Void was the abbot under the Baiyun Peak; 3, this Square Seal Ding Jing was carved very quickly, and did not make embellishments, "carved in an instant, not false edge decoration"; 4, the sub-paragraph is a later record of the rank of the wild cockroach.
(Seated statue of Ding Jing in the Xiling Printing Society)
This is an improvisational work, but it is sufficiently refined, which shows the proficiency of Master Ding Jing's imitation of Han techniques. But the masters are not easy to come by -
In fact, we know that in the history of Chinese seal engraving, Master Ding Jing was a figure who reached the peak of the creation mode of "Seeking Printing in India" (Wen Wu is the first, so there is no way to say "first"), let's talk carefully about the meaning contained in this seal, but to clarify this seal, we have to go back to history, starting from the Ming Dynasty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > negative effects of Indochina</h1>
Ding Jing was a figure in the early Qing Dynasty, and history could not be separated, so he was bound to be influenced by the Ming Dynasty's printing style, and the biggest influence was, of course, the set of seals of "Yin Xue".
Originally, "Yin Xue" was not called "Yin Xue", but "Gu Shi Ji Ancient Seal Spectrum", it is the original rubbing seal recorded in the form of the original seal of the original seal of The Ancient Seal of the Yuan People's Collection in the sixth year of Ming Longqing (1572) by Gu Congde of Shanghai Gu Congde and some of his friends Tibetan Seal Invite Huizhou Luo Wang chang (also known as Nandou) to collect the original seal Tuotuo, imitating the Yuan people's collection of ancient seals, including a total of 1760 ancient seals.
(Later edition of the Collected Ancient Seals)
Because the Gu's Collection of Ancient Seals is the original Tuo, of course, the number of prints is limited, and it is said that only 20 copies have been expanded. So it became the "Yinlin Treasure", breaking the "seal famine", which of course exceeded demand, so, three years later, in the third year of the Wanli Calendar (1575), Gu Shi renamed this seal score "Yin Xue", increased the number of seals to 3400 square meters (basically doubled), printed the world in the form of woodcuts, and then reprinted several times, gradually spread widely, and finally it can be said to be popular in the world. At that time, the calligrapher Zhao Miguang said that "when every household to hand a compilation", everyone has a book, high popularity.
The direct impact of the Gu's Collection of Ancient Seals on the altar of printing is greater than that of any other seal in history, because most of the books it contains are Han seals, so the later generations of imitation of the ancient Han Dynasty originated from the "Gu's Collection of Ancient Seals". Zhu Jian said in the preface to the "Prints":
When Gu Ruxiu's "Collection of Ancient Seals" was published, the Shang Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties and Song Yuan came out, and for a while they suddenly went to the wind, and celebrities came out.
Obviously, the "Yin Xue" played a positive role in restoring the orthodoxy of the Han and Indians, and it can be said that the establishment of the "Yinzong Qin and Han" is also justified, but its negative impact also comes.
Because it is woodcut, the metallic texture of the ancient seal of the Qin and Han Dynasties (that is, "golden stone qi") has been eliminated in the printing, and it is replaced by a smooth and sluggish "jujube pear qi" (because the woodcut is mostly made of wood solid jujube or pear wood, so it is a jujube pear).
The negative impact of this breath on the atmosphere of the Indian altar is also very huge. For example, Lin Gao, a seal engraver who preceded Ding Jing, more or less showed a sluggish jujube pear atmosphere in his prints (we generally say that Lin Gao inherited Wang Guan, in fact, he did not become a generation of masters in the end, which is largely worse than this "jujube pear qi"). For example, the following side is "rich as a floating cloud":
(Lin Gao: Rich and noble to me like a floating cloud)
Smooth is really smooth, fine is really fine, but the golden stone breath is almost gone, it seems that a look, you can feel that this is a woodcut print.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Ding Jing's character and innovative thinking</h1>
Fortunately, there is Ding Jing, fortunately there is Ding Jing.
We now say that Ding Jing is the Master of the Zhejiang Sect Kai Sect, which is already common knowledge of seal carving, but in fact, this Sect Master did not come easily.
He was born in a liquor store, studious, good but poor, because of his profound knowledge, he was recommended to enter the "Erudite Hongzhi" subject, but he resolutely refused, willing to live his own self-sufficient life, while insisting on his hobbies, while maintaining a plain life. In fact, it is not easy, not to be knocked down in the face of material scarcity, to resist the temptation before fame and fortune, in fact, is the only way for the life of the master, they are loyal to their love, fame and fortune is only a by-product of love.
(Original seated image of Ding Jing)
Ding Jing, who is willing to be poor and lonely, also has a different character from others, that is, he does not "follow the current", and in written language, he has a strong spirit of "innovation". This is mainly reflected in his two representative "On Printing Poems" (these two poems are too important to be mentioned countless times).
First: The seal of the "Shuowen" is carved from its own division, and it is known by the trivialities. When the Han people were dissolved, they were not selfish.
Ding Jing observed a large number of Han seals, and he found that one of the "golden rules" practiced by the Indians at that time, Wu Qiuyan's emphasis in the "Thirty-Five Moves" should be based on the standard of the "Shuowen" (the sixteenth move: the ancient law of the Han seal. Xu Shi's "Sayings" to save his loss) is incorrect. He believes that the seal book seal law in the "Shuowen" is of an academic nature, which is completely different from the seal book seal law in the Han seal, the latter is artistic, and the two are two cars running on the road, so the "Shuowen" that the world is bustling and discussing is the basis of the seal book, and even the "Shuowen" corrects the mistakes of the Hanyin Han seal is completely wrong.
(Miao Seal collected in the "Chinese Seal Signs")
Now we already know that the seal book in the Han seal is a seal book specially used for seals developed by the Qin Seal Seal, which is the result of the small seal subordination, and the glyph is between the seals, which is most suitable for the square printing surface. In order to facilitate retrieval, later generations even collected and sorted out dictionaries such as "Chinese Indian Character Signs".
No matter from which point of view, Ding Jing's cognition is ahead of its time, clear, and unique. Gui Fu's compilation of the "Miao Seal Rhyme" was already decades later, and Yuan Ri's "Han Seal Rhyme" was even later.
Second: the ancients carved the seal and thought out of the crowd, Shu Roll Hun and the mountains on the clouds. Seeing the Tang and Song Miao of the Six Dynasties, He Zeng kept the Han family text.
Ding Jing's innovative thinking is dialectical, his last poem said that the seal book in the Han seal and the small seal are two different things, this poem began to "negate the negation of negation", the text in the Han seal is not suitable for all seal carving occasions (Indian style), the six dynasties Tang and Song Dynasty seal in the gentle and smooth and smooth also has its magic (in fact, this article later indirectly developed the Yuan Zhu wen). Therefore, we can also see the works of Yuan Zhuwen in Ding Jing's works.
For example, the Zhu Wenyin "White Cloud on the Ridge" that he carved for Shen Xin (Fang Zhong) when he was 64 years old was actually a "Yuan Zhu Wen" with Ding Jing's taste.
(Ding Jing: "White Clouds on the Ridge")
Now, we have been able to systematically sort out the differences between the seal, the miao seal, and the small seal in the calligraphy, and we can also list in detail the specific differences between the Hanyin indian style and the Yuan Zhuwen indian style, but hundreds of years ago, Ding Jing's innovative understanding was obviously from a lofty height and a deafening and deafening, which is also the ideological basis for the master of seal carving in the liquor store.
It can be said that Ding Jing became a generation of masters under the guidance of this innovative thinking.
Back to the seal we're going to talk about today:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the imitation of "Baiyun Peak Lord"</h1>
We say that the Zhejiang school of printing style is actually a "han seal with personality", so when looking at the printing of the Zhejiang school, we must start from its imitation Of Han characteristics. Needless to say, this square seal uses a typical miao seal, square block, upright, but the stroke characteristics of the Han seal are also divided into two kinds: the circle is the characteristic of the Western Han Dynasty, and the square is the characteristic of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
(Baiyun Peak Lord)
In terms of rules and regulations, the Chinese seal also has two major characteristics: 1, the printing surface is evenly divided; 2, Ren Shu Ren is dense. On these two points, Master Ding Jing has carried out "reinforcement", and his imitation han is the "enhanced version" of the imitation Han:
First, the strengthening of the "equally divided printing surface" and the strengthening of the characteristics of calligraphy and painting
We see, the four characters in this square seal, due to the difference in glyphs, "white" and "main" glyphs are naturally sparse, while "cloud" and "peak" glyphs are naturally dense, so under the premise of "equally divided printing surface", Master Ding reduced the area occupied by the two words "white" and "main", and the space given out to two glyphs of dense characters, which is actually very common in Chinese seals, as shown in the following figure of "Gongsun Xianyin":
(Imitation of calligraphy and painting and chapter law "complicated")
But it is not like the stroke form of "Gongsun Xianyin", "Gongsun Xianyin" is a circular condensation feature of the casting style, and it is more square, a bit like the "Guangling Wang Seal" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as shown in the lower right corner of the above figure. But note that the square and circle of the Baiyun Peak Lord are opposite, you see, the "white" word on the head of a stroke is round, the "main" word on the head of a stroke is square, not monotonous, Master Ding rubbed a lot of things into this square seal, is said to "miscellaneous prints, synthesize a party seal", but this side seal is so harmonious and appropriate, there is no slightest "sandwich", this point, without deep golden stone cultivation can not be done.
Second, the echo of the adjustment of "ren shu ren secret"
The most striking place of this square seal is the three prominent "red ground", that is, one place on the upper left of the "white" character and the two places in the upper part of the "main" character, which is also a very common processing method in the Chinese seal, as shown in the following figure:
(Dense and echoing "complication" imitation)
Master Ding is not a simple imitation of Han, he consciously caused a dense diagonal echo, but also consciously created three pieces of "red land" (because the head of the white character can either curl to eliminate the "red ground" or not a short horizontal on the right and create two pieces of "red ground" at the "white"), so as to avoid the rigidity and sluggishness brought about by the possible "two-to-two", and the printing surface is more "lively".
In fact, most of the strokes in India have a sense of "writing", and Master Ding Jing "copied" the homework from the Western Han Dynasty. I won't mark it here.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > creative knife technique</h1>
Now it is said that Master Ding Jing's cutting knife method was inherited from Zhu Jian, but if you think deeply, you will find that the point in time where Ding Jing is located, coupled with his innovative spirit, the reason why he used the "broken and cut Xu Jin" knife method to simulate the Canggu Qi of Hanyin was actually to break through the "Jujube Pear Qi" and find the path that "Golden Stone Qi" had to take, because in addition, he seemed to have no way to go.
How to shock (snow fishing sect) like rush bar, although fierce, but with the blade of the exposed, such as a new sword, the breath is painful but lack of thickness; if you rush all the way down according to the "jujube pear" breath, although the sawtooth and swallowtail are avoided, the "golden stone gas" cannot be retained.
Special era, coupled with special personality, profound golden stone cultivation, so that Master Ding Jing encountered Zhu Jian's cutting knife method, before that, the cutting knife was a minority, soon, Master Ding Jing was happy to find that this knife method is not too sharp and too exposed, but also can retain sufficient golden stone breath, it is too appropriate to use it to break the "jujube pear breath"!
(Comparison of punching knives)
Note that the difference between the knife method of punching knife and cutting knife makes us get different methods when obtaining the "golden stone feeling" of the printing surface, the punching knife can use the swinging blade or rely on the physical characteristics of the stone, while the cutting knife "artificially" finds the feeling of stone collapse, and also "artificially" finds the vicissitudes of the stone through the years (because the direction of the previous knife and the next knife of the cutting knife is basically inconsistent, and the mottled and burring feeling of the stone is born in response).
In short, the short knife stroke of the knife and the frequently changing direction of the cutting stone will inevitably make the edge of the line of the text show the taste of ancient gold and stone, so that the newly carved seals are also like coming through thousands of years, full of ancient meaning; this ancient meaning, coupled with Ding Jing's ingenious conception, makes these seals contain sufficient literati elegance.
The accumulation of predecessors, personal cultivation, and the opportunities of the times, it is no accident that Master Ding Jing founded the sect, he needs too many factors of karma! What can we grasp? Learn from your predecessors, accumulate your own, and wait for the opportunities of the times with joy.
([Pudding Reading] No. 60, some pictures quoted from the Internet, copyright belongs to the original author)