Tong Guan What a place also! A, military fortress also! The junction of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan also! The land of warriors must also be fought! Real military pass! A husband and wife should be closed!
What is the relationship between Tongguan and Shaanxi calligraphy? As like as an apple to an oyster! No stele forest was unearthed, and no book saint was born. However, the so-called great calligrapher in Shaanxi, who claims to be a heavyweight calligrapher of Shaanxi Taidou, has openly and proudly said that calligraphers from other places cannot enter Tongguan, and Shaanxi calligraphers cannot beat Tongguan. If you look at a sentence, you will closely associate Shaanxi calligraphy with Tongguan. Accurate, in a word, straight to the subject, it is a classic.
It is indeed an indisputable fact that calligraphers from other places cannot enter Tongguan and that Shaanxi calligraphers cannot break through Tongguan. Is it unfortunate to say, or has it been formed for a long time? The answer is actually shallots mixed with tofu, clear and white. It reflects the reality that the Shaanxi book world is self-enclosed and very exclusive. This is definitely not an advantage, but completely hinders the self-development of Shaanxi calligraphy.
In history, it was formed by openness and closure. It is obvious in all fields in Shaanxi that it is not the dictatorship of the book world, but only in the book world where the literati are light. After all, Shaanxi's imperial power ideology has been influencing Shaanxi for many years since ancient times, and the thick backward brick wall deep courtyard has been influencing Shaanxi, and this is not something that can be changed in a day or two. There are historical records to evaluate, "eight hundred miles of Qin Chuan dusty, thirty million lazy people forgive the Qin cavity." This is the historical record, not my fabrication. Fortunately, I am not Li Yong, and I did not host the very six plus one, so no one will ask me to apologize for saying this. Of course, this is not the South China Tiger, you do not admit that it is fake, that is true! In fact, the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty was so enlightened and circulating! There were great calligraphers like Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, who were famous for Their Yan Tendons and Willow Bones, and didn't people outside Shaanxi acknowledge and pursue them with that kind of mind? Don't the people of Shaanxi today have that kind of mind? The answer is definitely no. You didn't look at the self-facing faces of the so-called famous artists now, it is really a change of face in Sichuan opera, all kinds of things.
In reality, conservatism is formed by closure. Conservative, I think is the Shaanxi calligraphers themselves do not have the specific performance of strength, is afraid of foreign exchanges, afraid that they are not in the climate without the traditional level of calligraphy and people can not compete with people, the more so the more conservative and self-preservation, their own three points of self-retention, certainly will not allow others to plant mulberry silkworms. If we walk around Shaanxi now, we can find that it is really difficult for foreign calligraphers to really want to sell their works in Shaanxi, after all, it is really difficult for the so-called old calligraphers at the previous level to raise their so-called calligraphy works very high, and they also boast that they have interpreted them to the heavens, in fact, they have harmed a large number of collectors in Shaanxi, after all, the works left behind are to pass the test of history, and in the end, people will compare the so-called calligraphy works in their hands with the same garbage, and they will be discarded. Alas, in fact, the strength of calligraphy for young and middle-aged people in Shaanxi cannot be underestimated! But in the face of the untenable theory and practice of the so-called old calligraphers, they really have no way to deal with and deal with all this!
Only when there is a break can there be a big break, the great ethics need to be greatly destroyed, and the only way is to break the big break to stand up! Old decay is old decay, why need to raise it again! After all, in the absence of such a soaring calligrapher, only their own efforts can lead to the progress of Shaanxi's calligraphy cause.
Now that we compare the outside world's reactions to the so-called famous calligraphers in Shaanxi, we can immediately see how serious the problem is. The so-called old calligrapher in Shaanxi is really a god in Shaanxi and has a great reputation! I read his introduction in the People's Liberation Army Daily in the early 1990s, and it was really not simple, and I had been shabu in the early days of liberation. I met him in Guyuan, Ningxia, and several young calligraphers in Guyuan were very interested in him, and they were not interested in his works, so they had to theorize with him, and finally because they could not talk about the right topic, they almost used force against him, and the business was naturally a door. In contrast, after the calligrapher Xiong Boqi arrived in Guyuan, the people outside who asked for words lined up in a long line, which was really like a flowing water. As for the reasons, as I have already said, the key is that the calligraphy level of the so-called famous artists in Shaanxi is indeed too general, and it simply cannot withstand the scrutiny of local peasant calligraphy enthusiasts, let alone the so-called professionals. In recent years, many of the so-called young and middle-aged calligraphers in Shaanxi have indeed been to Gansu and Ningxia, and they all have a common understanding of the local people's love for calligraphy, but they all think that the price is low. In fact, everyone knows very well that the so-called old famous calligraphy in Shaanxi is only local to Shaanxi, and once it is in other places, no one will recognize it at all. But now the young and middle-aged calligraphers in Shaanxi, because they often appear and appear in the National Exhibition and lanting, coupled with the professional level is indeed first-class, so they have also received some praise in the national tour. This is a good thing, and it is also a blessing in Shaanxi's book world.
Striking out the TongGuan is a historical necessity. Breaking into Tongguan is the inevitable result of progress. Therefore, I believe that when Shaanxi's future book reform is brought to power by people who conform to the mainstream of history, I believe that it will become a joke to enter tongguan and not to beat tongguan.