Previous, we briefly introduced Mi Fu's life and his early years of learning experience, this article, we focus on his calligraphy.
But before that, I think it is necessary to make some additional information to Mi Fu.
Mr. Cao Baolin believes that Mi Fu has been criticized all his life and pressed him to raise his head, and finally trapped the "redundant" origin, just because Mi Fu's mother Yan had been a midwife for the Empress Yingzong Gao, and Mi Fu because of this "old grace of the domain" and into the office, resulting in Mi Fu's life of grotesque temperament, and even "grandstanding". I think this is not comprehensive enough, Mi Fu "redundant" origin, the reason why it can be called "redundant", is not a simple thing, but very complex. And these will inevitably affect his personality and his standards of life, as well as his artistic creation. So I added the corresponding materials as follows:
1, Mi Fu's mother Yan is not Yingzong's midwife (Wen Po), but Shenzong (Zhao Xu) nurse. The difference is so great that it is impossible for a midwife to receive any subsequent grace;
2, Mi Fu's mother Yan is not Mi Fu's father's wife, but the second wife (that is, the concubine), Mi Fu's father is an official in the DPRK after all, he is impossible to let his wife be a nurse for others, midwifery is even more impossible, despite this, Mi Fu still feels inferior, because in fact it is not "Mi family son-in-law".
3, Mi Fu ancestors are military attachés, which in the Song Dynasty, which is not a glorious thing, and is not conducive to the development of Mi Fu's career;
4, Mi Fu's ancestors are not Han nationality, but the ethnic minorities in the northwest, which is not conducive to his development, for this reason, Mi Fu has put his life experience to the Chu State Mi blood "leaning", but "rice" and "Mi" are not the same thing at all;
5, Mi Fu did not take the road of the imperial examination, but because of the "old grace of the domain" and into the official career, but the initial position is the "History of the Song Dynasty" contained in the "Hun Guang Wei", this official position, in the Northern Song Dynasty, is actually a poor and remote area of a nine-grade martial arts, not significant.
To sum up, it is indeed "redundant" and indeed "turbid".
(Mi Fu statue)
Well, the book is back to the topic, we say Mi Fu's calligraphy.
Mi Fu after a hard journey, finally bitter and sweet, he climbed the highest height, the largest potential energy accumulated, then the kinetic energy must be the most huge. As he himself put it:
Since the old man started a family, people see it, but they don't know what is the ancestor.
When he reached this time, calligraphy finally completed the leap from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom. Dong Qichang described that "take off the pen of the family, from the machine axis, such as the Zen family enlightenment, the flesh to the mother, the bones to the father, the Buddha scolded the ancestors, the face is not the same." Although Su and Huang met, they were not without intimidation. In his later years, he said that he had no right army and was a little cheesy, and he was good. ”
Zhang Bangji commented on Mi Fu's calligraphy, saying:
This dynasty can write, the world pushes Cai Junmo, but the ancients are mysterious, when the rice Yuanzhang, the rice is also conceited.
Mi Fu's conceit, seen in the "Bo Chong post", when he created this post, he was forty-seven years old.
(Mi Fu "Bo Chong Post")
Full Post Commentary:
November 25th. Fu Dun first started. Insults. The first in the world. I'm afraid I'll lose my eyes. But I didn't know each other. It's hard to get rid of it. I can't say enough about it. Same as the official line. Bong Numbers. Carelessly. Fu Dun head. Bo Chong sat on the platform.
Friends flattered him as the number one in the world, and he pushed the boat down the river and refused to let him (he also made an excuse, saying that he was "stunned to get to know each other"). Now we should admit that everyone's conceit is based on full self-confidence, and why not Su and Huang? It's just that Mi Fu pointed to the country, his mouth is not blocked, he behaves more vividly!
During the Shaosheng years, Xue Shaopeng sent a letter on the misuse of words in the Jin post, and Mi Fu wrote a poem to answer him:
Why bother to read? Hard to laugh and laugh. Since ancient times, writers have not been able to understand words.
You should know that everything is the same play, and you should not ask about clumsy work. I am self-sufficient, and I put my pen into play.
This poem, especially the last four sentences, is Mi Fu "Shangyi" essence of the theory, he regards Hanmo as a game, he only values the entertainment role of the writing process and ignores the results of the work, that is, to abandon all utilitarian purposes, which is the same as the previous Su Shi, Huang Tingjian can be said to correspond to the same voice, with the same breath.
Mi Fu's "pen play" not only depends on the relaxation of the mentality, but more importantly, it relies on a set of excellent skills that have been practiced for decades. He can simply brush without thinking, and complete a series of difficult movements in the speed of flying the pen. He is like a masterful rope walker, tossing and rolling on a tightrope and never falling. This is the usual hard training in exchange for the freedom to walk on the ground.
"Mi Sheng in the posture", a "posture" word does say that Mi Fu is good at it. Mi Fu's new posture is the most abundant, so the composition of each chapter is also different. His works in his later years, whether they are a book, an essay, a praise, or a song, are all wonderful and thrilling. Of course, if you want to move people, you must first have affection in your pen. And Mi Fu is in the place of all the constraints of the interference, in order to make the heart of the heart like a volcanic eruption burst out.
For example, we can see his pleasure in "Coral Post":
(Coral Post)
The leisure of "Yan Shan Ming":
("Yan Shan Ming")
The annoyance of "Duty Rain Post":
("Rain Duty Post")
The whimsy of "Drama into Poetry":
("Rain Duty Post")
Of course, there is also the harmony of "Shu Su Ti":
(Detail of "Shu Su Ti")
These feelings are like molten gold and mercury, frozen in the lines that are sometimes flying, sometimes gentle, sometimes serene, sometimes restless, and sometimes light.
"Song four", like Mi Fu has so many empathy means of people are not much, Su, Huang, Cai's face is relatively single, the expression is not diverse enough, in addition to a few masterpieces, most of the works have the same drawbacks of déjà vu. Unlike Mi Fu, people never get tired of seeing, common and new.
But Mi Fu's cursive writing is limited by the concept, and there is no innovation like his treatment of the book. The number of cursive scripts is also much lower than that of line script, and its skill is dwarfed.
Mi Fu's grass creation is relatively concentrated in two periods of time, the front is Yuan Yu between the view of coconut Wei Tibetan post. At this time, it was probably influenced by Emperor Wu of Jin and other Western Jin Dynasty, and his work was still relatively heavy. The latter paragraph is when Shaosheng and Yuan Fu are in Lianshui. At this time, not only are the lines sharp and smooth, but the creative state also clearly reveals a lack of confidence.
("Mid-Autumn Festival Poems on Haidai Tower")
For example, in the "Mid-Autumn Festival Poem on the Haidai Tower", the same poem was transcribed twice, and the latter poem mistakenly wrote the "west" of "to the west" as the word "east". This kind of impetuous annoyance finally boils down to the sigh between the two poems: "Write three or four times, one or two words are good, and letters are also difficult!" "Just ask, how many have I seen Mi Fu in the book problem such inferiority and self-pity? Since then, he has not been seen in any cursive writing, and it is likely that he put his pen on hold.
Next, we read Mi Fu's book theory.
([Follow the pudding calligraphy history] No. 142, some pictures come from the Internet, the copyright belongs to the original copyright owner)