There was a scribe in China's modern history, Mr. Qi Gong once commented that he had "no such a big stroke in three hundred years, and there has been no second since Dong Qichang"; Zhang Boju praised him: "The wind of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, the contemporary giant"; the painter Li Kuchan said: "The writing is excellent, it is really a thousand-year-old immortal cultural relic, and it is a treasure of great importance." He was Wu Yuru, who was known as "Southern Shen and Northern Wu" with Shen Yinmo.
Contemporary Chinese scholar and calligrapher
Wu Yuru
Wu Yuru (1898 – August 8, 1982), courtesy name Jiaxuan, later in character lines. In his early years, he was called a Maolin resident, and in his later years, he signed himself as a pedantic. Chinese modern and contemporary scholar and calligrapher.
Wu Yuru studied at Nankai Middle School in Tianjin, was in the same class as Premier Zhou, and was appreciated by principal Zhang Boling for his proficiency in ancient Chinese.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Yuru taught at Zhida Middle School, Daren College, School of Technology and Business, etc. After the school of business was changed to Jingu University, he served as the head of the department of Chinese until the liberation of Tianjin. Before the Cultural Revolution, he always made a living in Beijing by teaching, writing characters, annotating ancient books, and compiling articles for "Ciyuan" and "Cihai". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a member of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an honorary director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Tianjin Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, and a librarian of the Tianjin Municipal Museum of Culture and History.
Wu Yuru has been passionate about calligraphy since childhood, learning to write at the age of 5, and by the age of twelve or thirteen, he has a considerable ability in writing small letters and writing. After decades of extensive study and study, it can fuse the styles of various families, take the famous masters of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Qing dynasties, and take the "two kings" as the basis, forming a unique style of calligraphy with beautiful beauty, vigorous and bold, ethereal and ethereal.
Its subordinates, kai, rows, grasses, and seals are all capable.
Among them, his small works can be copied as large characters after enlargement, and their skills are very exquisite. As we all know, it is the most difficult to write in small letters in the world, and it is even more difficult than small letters to enlarge and write small letters. Many calligraphers in history do not agree to enlarge the small letters, because they will lose their charm. But Wu Yuru did not take the usual path, he not only enlarged the words to write, but also used the five difficulties of shengxuan, thin paper, light ink, long edge, and hanging elbow to break through one by one, and had to sigh at the strength of his pen control ability.
His cursive calligraphy, the highest attainment in four-body calligraphy, is a collection of famous masters of all generations, and writes large grass on the uneven fan surface of the well-worn fan bone without failing. From his inkblots, it can be seen that he went from the Jin Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and later returned to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, just using the "Second King" as a tool to achieve himself, in order to improve himself.
He has his own habits and opinions on the use of paper, pen and ink. In the early years of writing, I did not use the jade version of the propaganda, liked to use the raw propaganda, the material half, after middle age only used the continuous. And he likes to use light ink, evil use ink, and is also good at making thin pipes and long-bladed sheep pens.
Wu Yuru did not accept the name "calligrapher" during his lifetime. Instead of the great painter Pu Xinshe of his contemporaries, he also said: "If you want to call me a painter, it is better to call me a scholar; if you call me a scholar, it is better to call me a poet; if you call me a poet, it is better to call me a scholar." But not all things in the world follow the will of the individual.
Today, people mention Wu Yuru and Pu Xinshe, and they all call them great calligraphers and great painters.
Wu Yuru's most revered achievements in literature and calligraphy are not so much his upright and unruly character throughout his life. His words, metaphysical, and most importantly, the divine aura can reach the invisible nature.
Wu Yuru has always been adhering to the principle of following the good examples of houxue, and his disciples and even privateers have spread all over the north and south, as far as the Border of Xinjiang, As far as The Nikkler County on the xinjiang border, Kunming, Dali, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in Yunnan.
Wu Yuru admired "A Thousand Words"
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