"Yunjian" is another name for Songjiang, the birthplace of Shanghai's history and culture, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the humanities are Bingwei, the art garden is prosperous, and the Indian circles in the Kangqian period will collectively call the Songjiang Indians in the Kangqian period "Yunjian School".
One of the representatives of the "Yunjian School" is Wang Ruizhang, who lived to be 98 years old, the oldest person in the history of Chinese seal carving.
Wang Ruizhang made a living from engraving and printing all his life and was a professional Indian. Although he was born poor, the seals he carved were "stable and ancient", "dignified and elegant", and his skills and charm were very unusual.
His compatriot Wang Zuxi (shen, sisheng), nicknamed drunken love layman, has a penchant for printing, and is good at collecting. Wang Zuxi greatly admired Wang Ruizhang's seal carving art, once saying: "Brother Zeng Lu has been working hard for more than fifty years, expounding the secrets of his predecessors to renew himself, breaking through the good and ancient of the modern and the present, and being well-known in the sea for a long time." ”
Wang Zuxuan and Wang Ruizhang, just like the flowing water of the mountain meets the zhiyin. These two people who were obsessed with seal engraving were as they were, and in the third year of Qianlong (1738), Wang Zuxi gathered some wonderful sayings from Shi Langxian's "Flower Shadow Collection" of the Ming Dynasty, and asked Wang Ruizhang to engrave more than 200 squares and compile them into a book.
This is the beginning and end of this book of "Drunken Love Residence Seal Appreciation".
Wang Ruizhang devoted his life to seal carving, and he dabbled in the famous masters of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Ming Dynasty and even the early Qing Dynasty, and eventually formed a stable and simple printing style.
In "Drunken Love Residence Seal Appreciation", this seal carving style is reflected everywhere. The printing surface is innocent and sparse, corresponding to the content of the indian text of different lengths and leisure, and there is a kind of leisure and elegance.
For example, the lines of "Heaven on Earth" (lower right) are gentle and natural, and the layout is stable and coordinated.
Bai Wenyin "full of paper spring sorrow ink is not dry" (middle and lower) lines are calm and dense, dense and staggered, self-interesting.
"Qu is not the end" (middle and upper), this square circular chapter, the knife technique is gentle and powerful, several breathable, not scattered. The broken edge in the lower right corner seems to have an afterglow outside the printing surface, which is reverie.
The "Drunken Love Residence Seal Reward" is arranged in an orderly manner, with five square prints on the front and an explanatory text printed on the back, followed by the relevant seven words and sentences, and a seal text.
For example, "Blue Clouds and Yellow Flowers", the interpretation of this square seal is: cloud clothes condensed blue far floating in the air, hedges falling yellow flowers scattered (cong, two sounds), autumn colors are full of bleakness, the sky and wasteland are old and separated.
Before the autumn colors are full, the sky is barren and the land is old... What a moving spectacle...
Even if you don't take it to appreciate the print, reading this text in your leisure time is still very mouth-watering.
"Drunken Love Residence Seal Appreciation" brings together Ming Dynasty songs, Qing Dynasty seal carvings, seal texts, Yintuo pleasing to the eye, poetry appreciation, it makes the classic American text in the form of seal carving, complete presentation, is a rare and collectible book.
The folio is about 29 centimeters long and 17.5 centimeters wide, and the frame is about two 22 centimeters high and about 13.3 centimeters wide.
The word "Seal Reward" is engraved on the mouth of the book, the number of volumes and pages is engraved below, the signature book, the title page is attached to the book, all of which have the title of the book, and there is no paragraph. The beginning of the volume is Wang Zuxuan's self-order, the example is six, and the end of the volume is attached to the sheng hundred and two post-order. The upper volume contains 102 square seals. The next volume contains 102 square seals, and the whole book contains a total of 204 prints.
Wang Zuxuan at the beginning of the volume is self-prologue, with gorgeous words and brilliant literary style
At the end of the volume is the prologue of Sheng Bai2, and the sympathy between the literati jumps on the paper
The book uses ink reproduction technology to select handmade white propaganda that has been stored for ten years, from printing to binding, all processes are handmade by ancient methods.
I have been engaged in the reproduction and promotion of calligraphy posters, accumulated more than ten years of printing experience, during which time, I came into contact with a large number of rare books and ancient books, more and more aware that some of them are gradually scattered and lost, it is difficult to be seen by the world, so I came up with the idea of reproducing these books, so that they can be seen by more people.
Drunken Love House Print Awards is the first set of thread-bound books I personally produced, using authoritative rare books from the Collection of Harvard University. In the production process, I abandoned all the participation of the machine, from revision, printing to binding, every link, I personally made, trying my best to restore the original appearance of the book.
When I made this line-bound book, I thought of Wang Ruizhang, three hundred years ago, in his old age, who was in good spirit and slash-and-slash.
I also thought that Wang Zuxi helped him and finally let Wang Ruizhang's imprint be recorded in a book. Indians feel sorry for each other, through the time of eternity, it is still admirable.
So no matter what, I would like to pay tribute to this beautiful relic in the most sincere way.
I also want the emotions carried by the seal to be passed on and continued, just like this reproduction of the seal and text.
When you are reading this handmade "Drunken Love Residence Seal Appreciation", whether it is out of interest in Ming Dynasty songwriting, Qing Dynasty seal engraving or the line-bound book itself, I believe you will be able to gain a thing or two from it, it contains countless mysteries in itself, worthy of careful appreciation and reading by you and me.