In the history of Chinese calligraphy, there is such a group, they have the best educational resources and learning environment in the whole world, no matter what they want to learn, there are the best teachers in the whole world to teach, and their pursuit and orientation of calligraphy will often affect an entire era, or several generations.
This group is the emperor calligrapher.
Emperor Huizong of Song Zhao's "Poetry of Yongfang"
We count the emperor calligraphers of the past, there are many, and the strength level of calligraphy is not inferior to the first-class calligraphy at that time, such as Emperor Liangwu, such as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, just like Wu Zetian can also write a good calligraphy, the Song Dynasty is famous for Emperor Huizong and Emperor Gaozong, and the Qing Dynasty has Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and the characters are good.
However, if you judge the most cattle emperor calligrapher, it is natural to belong to The Song Huizong, who has the greatest fame, the greatest achievement, and the greatest influence in the history of calligraphy!
The greatest fame is because of his own love of calligraphy and painting, so much so that he gave up the great rivers and mountains of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Jin people, saying that his greatest achievement was because his calligraphy, calligraphy and cursive writing reached the peak of perfection, and his level of Chinese painting was also extremely high, and there were many scholars. He is said to have a great influence because he created a paradigm of writing in italics, called "thin gold body". Being able to create an original book style, and can be remembered by history, and passed down for thousands of years without fading, shows its high value!
There are many different interpretations of how Emperor Huizong of Song fell to the country, how Emperor Hui Qin was taken captive, his war tactics against Song and Jin, and his historical exploits during his reign, and now there are many different interpretations, which we will not repeat. Just talking about his calligraphy, as to whether he was mistaken for the country because he liked art, this is indeed debatable!
The name "thin gold body" sounds more exciting and moving, Song Huizong's writing of this kind of letter has certain requirements for tools, the pen he uses, is the imperial system of the court at that time, the toughness is excellent, so he can write this line, in the "thin gold body", he put the trajectory of the movement inside the line in the script, with the realistic method of Chinese painting, all of which are expressed, the characters are in the center, and can "bend the gold and break the iron", the pen power is amazing!
The representative work of his thin gold body is his "Zhifang Poetry Thesis", which is the only large-character calligraphy work when his book was in full swing, and the writing is exquisite and extraordinary, and no one has been able to match it so far!
Emperor Huizong of Song's calligraphy is slender and slender, showing an inward posture, and its method is mainly based on Xue Ji and Chu Suiliang, which is mixed with Huang Tingjian's calligraphy, forming a so-called "crane body", which seems to have endless charm and great style!
Later generations have a poem describing the thin gold body:
"Rat tail nail head square corner, Lan Skimming Bamboo small barbarian waist, dead to life back to the gossamer lead, pull the bow and arrow back to the horse to pick."
Its calligraphy features are particularly evocative!
This "Poetry of Yongfang" was written by him before he was abducted, and at this time, Emperor Huizong as a whole was intoxicated by the enjoyment of art, so his calligraphy did not have the slightest delay, a pulse of the sky, a nature!
Unfortunately, this is the only remaining Huizong large-character letter in the world, and in the last century, Chiang Kai-shek defeated Taiwan and brought this work to Taiwan, and now this work is the "treasure of the town hall" of the "National Palace Museum in Taipei" and is enshrined as a "divine product"!
Qing Ren Chen Bangyan inscription:
"Xuanhe calligraphy and painting are beyond the ages, this volume is written in the painting method, taking off the pen and ink frog, the line is like a ghost 'orchid bush bamboo, cold and cold as the sound of wind and rain, the true god also."
It means that this character is written with the pen of the Chinese painting, which can be called a "divine product"!
Today, we have copied this work 1:1 according to the size of the original work, and restored the work exactly like the original work, delicate and clear!
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