In the ancient group of calligraphers, a person's achievements often depend on his insight and experience and his own social status, for ordinary people, even if they have artistic talent, in the era of printing technology is not developed, it is difficult to see the ancient masters' Legal Posts, and it is basically impossible to become a calligrapher!
Even a figure of the scholar-doctor class like Huang Tingjian can only see the inkblots of Zhang Xu and Huai Su by chance, so some of the great calligraphers who can be passed down in ancient times are often figures of the scholar-doctor class, and only these people can have enough calligraphy learning resources.
Emperor Huizong of Song Zhao's "Poetry of Yongfang"
Of course, the most abundant resources are the emperor. Among the calligraphers of the past, the profession of the emperor is the largest proportion of calligraphers, among the more than 500 emperors in the past, many can be called excellent calligraphers, the earliest historical records are LiangWudi, to the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong, Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian are all first-class calligraphers, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a top master of art.
He is Song Huizong, Song Huizong is a well-known artist emperor, he died because he likes art, such an artistic genius, not suitable for being an emperor, but fate tricked people, the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed in his hands.
Song Huizong is an artistic generalist, he is almost familiar with the traditional art of ancient times, music, poetry, painting, calligraphy, all proficient, especially in the field of calligraphy, he created a unique "thin gold body", which can be called a generation of wizards.
When Song Huizong was 22 years old, he had already written the "thin gold body" to the fullest, and this year he wrote a volume of the book "Thin Gold Body Thousand Character Text", the characters are exquisite, and it is really valuable to be able to have such a skill at the age of more than 20 years old.
In today's "National Palace Museum in Taipei", there is a famous "treasure of the town hall", this work has a total of 40 words, each word is 15 centimeters in size, in the Song Dynasty this kind of large characters are extremely rare, these 40 words are written in a typical "thin gold body", the word bending gold and breaking iron, like an iron painting silver hook, enough to be called the peak of the "thin gold body"!
The content of this work is:
In the middle of a garden, Zero dew is drunk, and the remnants of the sun seem to melt. Dan Qing is difficult to write, and the creation is left alone, Dancing butterflies are fascinated by the incense path, and the evening wind is fluttering.
These 40 characters are self-composed poems by Emperor Huizong of Song, and at the end of this "Poetry of Yongfang" there is a passage from the great Qing Dynasty poet Zhou Bangyan:
"Xuanhe calligraphy and painting, super yi through the ages." This volume is written in the painting method, stripped of pen and ink path, between the lines like a cluster of bamboo orchids, the sound of wind and rain, the true god also. ”
This work is to write calligraphy in the method of painting orchid bamboo, opening the method of "painting as a book", and the words have the sound of wind and rain, which is enough to be called a "divine product"!
Song Huizong's "thin gold body" was influenced by Huang Tingjian, and at the same time obtained the essence of the brushwork of Xue Ji and Chu Suiliang, one of the "Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty", which is a kind of book style that mixes various families and is unique. The characteristic of this "thin gold body" is that all the actions hidden inside the stroke are leaked out, forming a refreshing and upright, beautiful and elegant style.
Some people use 8 words to evaluate Song Huizong's thin gold body "heavenly bone beauty, fun mist" sense, this is the typical artist temperament, without a high artistic talent and the ability to shape beauty, it is difficult to create this kind of book.
Writing this kind of "thin gold body" requires strengthened pen control ability and calm state of mind to complete, Song Huizong in the "Poetry of Theory" such a large "thin gold body" letter, it is difficult to do without considerable skill!
"Thin gold body" has now become a classic that many people copy and learn. This "Poetry of Theory" is the best work in the thin gold body.
Today, we have scanned the original work of "Nongfang Poems" hidden in the National Palace in Taipei in ultra-high definition, and restored the work that is no different from the original work according to the 1:1 ratio, and the words are the same as the original.
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