Ink poured $10,000 on the paper, and Lin Sanzhi sold 15 pieces at that time

▼ The following views are compiled from Chen Chuanxi's quotations

Throwing it on the paper is $10,000

The decline of calligraphy art has the reasons why the market economy has led to the impetuousness of writers, and on the other hand, there is also the impact of foreign cultural intrusion on us. For example, when americans start buying our calligraphy, whose works does he buy? At that time, Lin Sanzhi's characters only sold for 15 yuan, Lin Sanzhi wrote words for 80 years, kung fu is quite good, but americans do not buy, he bought a young man who does not understand calligraphy. The young man threw ink on the rice paper, and the American looked at it: Good! How much did americans spend on his words? $10,000. Lin Sanzhi's 80 years of practicing words is l5 yuan, and throwing it on the paper is 10,000 US dollars... This influence will drive between 100,000 and 1 million people who write.

They don't know that this is because the United States itself has no cultural traditions, and people spend some money on cultural policies, and people will never spend money to buy what best represents your Chinese cultural traditions.

There were once 5 American professors who went to China to give lectures and talked about modernist art, and they said very responsibly that through the survey, only 5% of the Americans really engaged in modernist art, and there was support. The number of American collectors collecting modernist art is zero. The American professor acknowledged the conspiracy because there was no tradition in the United States, no Dunhuang, no Paris, and it was impossible to transfer the art center to the United States. So they put forward their ideas, paid theorists to write articles, said that the art on the shelf was now outdated, and engaged in performance art. Our young people don't understand this, so they follow it, in fact, they are guiding you to learn from them.

If the calligraphy is incomprehensible, it is wrong. It is writing, why do people not understand? Some people don't know cursive and think that cursive can be scribbled, but in fact, cursive has cursive rules, and you can see it immediately if you write a wrong word. The literati's artworks are cultural and reasonable.

We don't need so many people to write

Now there are two ways to say about calligraphy, one is that it is declining, and the other is that it is prosperous. When we talk about prosperity, we mean that there are a lot of people who write. Many people think that calligraphy is to be able to write and sell money, so they switched to writing, like some who were originally engaged in economics, medicine, and philosophy have changed their professions to writing, and feel that writing a few words is more comfortable and painful. So, is this prosperity a good thing or a bad thing? I think that's a bad thing. For a society, it needs a lot of medical and philosophical workers, and calligraphers also need it, but one or two is enough.

Zhao Yi, who wrote "Non-Cursive Writing" in the Han Dynasty, once expressed the view that calligraphy is not good for the country, and it has nothing to do with governing the locality, and there is no need to spend a lot of effort. In fact, anyone should write well, but once they all become calligraphers, it is a tragedy for the whole era. Engaged in economic construction, the more people the better, for calligraphy, we do not need so many people to write.

People of insight at that time, such as Zheng Zhenduo, had strongly opposed the establishment of a calligraphers association, on the grounds that calligraphy was something that everyone should know, and there was no need to establish an association. Now not only the Establishment of the China Book Association, but also the Parallel With the Artists Association, resulting in a great waste, if oil painting and Chinese painting are independent, what use is the Artists Association? Judging from the actual role played, it is not ideal.

Qi Gong calligraphy works

Without a considerable temperament, you just can't learn well

Calligraphy, I think, is a small way, is a small skill, but it needs the support of a large aspect, without a considerable temperament, you just can't learn well. Everyone knows the story of Wang Xizhi, when the prime minister came to choose a horse, what did Wang Xizhi do? Belly east bed! As a result, the idiom of the East Bed Pony is left behind. It shows the temperament of Wang Xizhi himself, and he is a very frank person.

Look at Wang Xizhi's son. Wang Xizhi had seven sons, of which Wang Xianzhi wrote the best. Under the influence of Wei Jin's demeanor, Wang Xianzhi's temperament and demeanor are very typical. There is such an example, saying that Wang Xianzhi and Wang Xizhi's other son, Wang Huizhi, were chatting in the house, and when there was a fire in the house, Wang Huizhi could not even wear his shoes and escaped, but Wang Xianzhi "looked idyllic, and Xu Hu helped out left and right." Others talk about demeanor occasionally, but only Wang Xianzhi goes deep into the bone marrow. Only with such a temperament is his calligraphy.

Skills this thing, half a day can be finished, easy to say, very difficult to practice. And our calligraphy should talk about both skill and not just skill. If you always work your skills, you will go to the crooked path. To write well, it must be a combination of skill and temperament, demeanor, and knowledge. Now many people do not read books, do not read newspapers, do not care about major national affairs, have no ink in their chests, and write very angry. Embracing the world and thinking about making two small money, the artistic realm revealed in the pen is like a world. Enough skill is needed, what is needed is to carefully read the traditional things and then melt into their own temperament.

What is art? Art is ideology, and consciousness is the form of form. How Yan Zhenqing is, we don't know, but looking at his words, it is his character. We don't know how Li Bai is, but looking at his extravagant poems, people without a heart can't write them.

Don't innovate at every turn

Modern people as calligraphers, do not innovate at every turn, it is good to inherit the tradition. You see Zhao Meng has studied the "Wang Zi" all his life, did not innovate, and still became an excellent calligrapher. China is known for inheriting traditions. Traditional Chinese culture is the same lineage, such as traditional characters, Lishu, etc., are now known, because the inheritance has not been interrupted.

There was a very rich old lady in Germany who wanted to donate money to China when she was dying, for what reason? It is because she believes that only China in the world has adhered to its traditional culture without interruption. If China is a country with characteristics, this characteristic is inheritance. For calligraphy, especially to talk about inheritance, there is no calligraphy without inheritance. Many people are shouting to break the tradition, and it is wrong to break it. Some things don't just break when they don't say they break. Calligraphy is like this, and there is no point in not inheriting it. It is very remarkable to continue to thicken the tradition in the process of inheritance. So how did the feature come out? It should be said that you naturally have characteristics when you write to a certain extent, just like Yu Youren's words, there is no deliberate innovation, and naturally there are characteristics.

Yu Right Ren calligraphy works

What is a good calligraphy work

What is a good calligraphy work? What do good calligraphy works look for? It's about looking at style. This is neither mysterious nor mysterious, style, breath, people who understand calligraphy can see at a glance, the level of calligraphy is ultimately a matter of style, in the final analysis, it is the problem of calligraphers' minds.

And if you want to understand, you must listen to people, you must read more, from shallow to deep, read more gradually to understand. If you read it through, you will understand the aesthetics of calligraphy, and if you can't read it thoroughly, you will make a joke.

Chinese philosophy is like this, such as painting, it is easy to paint, it is not easy to paint, it is not easy to paint, it is not necessarily good, it may not be better, but it may be very bad; ugly monsters may be really ugly, maybe not really ugly... These people in the past all understood and knew how to look at it, but today's modern people do not understand it, so they have to learn.

Calligraphy is a "non-professional profession"

Calligraphy is the externalization of the spirit, all in one go, you can't swing the skill. Any art without a skill stage can't do it, but there are too many skills to become a high art. A few years ago, I first put forward a point of view, which is also the criterion for judging the aesthetics of calligraphy, called "Chia Tai Meteorology". Good calligraphy works should have a Zhengda calligraphy style. You look at Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Zhao Meng, you look at Su, Huang, Mi, Cai, which one is not Chia Tai Weather? This kind of Zhengda weather, after the Tang Dynasty, was actually worse than a day. You see the Han Dynasty stone carved puppies, lambs, are very connotative, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, stone lions are like cats, but also hold a hydrangea ball. If you look at Yan Zhenqing's characters in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's poems, Du Fu's poems, and Zhang Xu's cursive writing, they are all great weather. If you look at the calligraphy now, there are oblique and crooked and twisted everywhere, which reflects the unhealthy atmosphere.

Calligraphy cannot be a profession, but it is a "non-professional profession". What is a "non-professional occupation"? That is to say, it is doing a science, but it is not a profession, it is not doing nothing, and it can be written well every day. We look at history, Wang Xizhi is the right general, the pillar of the country, Yan Zhenqing is the plain Taishou, Su Dongpo is also a government official, they are all busy all their lives, where is the daily special writing? Where in history have there been professional calligraphers?

Our philosophical system is different from the West, our calligraphy, medicine, are all cultures, and the West is technology. Our Chinese medicine can treat the same disease and treat different diseases, which is incomprehensible to Western medicine. And calligraphy, our calligraphers do not write calligraphy specifically, they belong to Mr. Xiucaixue - overnight, because there is culture as the foundation.

Lin Sanzhi's calligraphy works

The more truthful things I told have been deleted

Now there is a view that no real calligraphy critic has become a "praisegiver", right? This is due to the social climate. I think that back then, Lu Xun scolded Liang Shiqiu as a "lackey of a capitalist who lost his family", and scolded so much that Liang Shiqiu did not go to the court to sue Lu Xun, nor did he become a dog, and later lived well, and it was not good. In today's criticism circles, the people who criticize do not have the courage of Lu Xun, and the people who are criticized do not have Liang Shiqiu's mind, and they will sue you if they are anxious. As a media, I dare not use blunt criticism. In such a situation, it is impossible to have a big critic.

I once published some articles in the newspaper and told some truths, and I felt that it was right to tell the truth, not to tell lies, but my friends saw me and said to me: "Yes, you dare to tell the truth." "Telling a few words of truth seems to have become a very remarkable thing. In fact, the more truthful truths I have told have been deleted. The most admired thing in the Chinese tradition is integrity, which is lacking in today's literati.

Wu Guanzhong calligraphy works

Wu Guanzhong's characters are crooked and evil, very disgusting

The characters written by Wu Guanzhong are not called calligraphy at all, crooked and evil, very disgusting, and are laymen's nonsense. Confusing the boundaries between calligraphy and painting, Chinese calligraphy is finished if it is to develop in this direction.

Has he worked Western colors, on the world's only Chinese calligraphy? How can I do it without working on it? How can I do it without power? If you want to become a generation of calligraphers and open up a generation of customs, whimsy can only become a laughing stock. The words in Wu Guanzhong can only make people who want to make money happy and make people in the art world feel sad. Art must be beautiful, and the most basic things cannot be without. This art, as if man is called man and dog is called a dog, has boundaries.

This boundary, which was not there at the beginning, came later. If you have boundaries, you can't mess around, because there are boundaries that are right. Painting and calligraphy have their own most basic things, and the basic things cannot be destroyed. It's like saying that a professor is not like a professor, that the basic things that belong to him are missing; that this person is not human, that is his basic thing - morality is gone.

Good things are not artificially eliminated

I used to be pessimistic, like feelings about Grammy. I thought that Grammy might die out completely in a few years, but in fact it is now beginning to revive. It can be said that good things will not be artificially eliminated. For example, in the past, the oil lamp used for night lighting, no one to knock it down, it naturally died, because there is a better way to replace it completely, you want to ensure that it can not be saved. However, the candle did not fall, because the candle has the irreplaceable function of electric lamp. Now Western medicine is everywhere, but Chinese medicine is still invincible. Calligraphy and Grammatical poetry are also the same truth, they all have their own things, you advocate it may not develop, you do not advocate it also has social needs, not necessarily not develop. As long as the tradition is not broken, it is certain that the master will be born.

Now the tradition of calligraphy has not been broken, but only in the stage of cultural accumulation. When the economy develops, some people have free time, and they practice writing after work, not for the sake of fame, nor for the sake of selling words, the impetuous wind has been removed, out of interest, coupled with cultural accumulation, natural creation will give the heaven and earth aura to some people, and there will be big calligraphers. This may not happen until a generation or two later, and now that it is a low tide, this false prosperity is better than no prosperity. Now even if there is Reiki on whom, it will also be destroyed by the market.

I believe that our descendants will despise us, most people will look down on our generation, but it is also our accumulation that lays the foundation, and we leave the seeds of the continuation of calligraphy.

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