Yao's "Han Dynasty Stone Relief Collection" was recently published in Xiling Publishing House.

Yao, male, 1964, from Lintong, Shaanxi. College degree, working in the traffic police brigade of Sanyuan County Public Security Bureau. Famous collector, connoisseur of calligraphy and painting antiques. Xi An, Deputy Director of Education Committee of China Calligraphy Museum, Art Consultant of Calligraphy and Painting Association of Shaanxi Sinology Promotion Research Center, and Reading Messenger of Jia Pingwa Literature and Art Research Institute. He used to be the vice chairman of Shaanxi Folk Art Collectors Association, the vice chairman of Xianyang Collectors Association and the chairman of Sanyuan County Collectors Association.

Contact information:13759711818.

? -Preface to the Collection of Stone Relief in the Han Dynasty

Xiao yunru

? I have known Guang Zhi for many years, and I have formed an indissoluble bond with the art collection. I don't know and I don't have time to collect it, but he has been obsessed with it, so obsessed that you can't hide it. They got to know each other because of the collection, knew each other because of the collection, and cherished it because of the collection.

? Over the years, Guang Zhi has been wandering in the home of literati in Chang 'an, carrying the little lion pots and pans in the old house and the little people in the barn on the old soil, demanding high-quality appreciation, appraisal and interpretation of those treasures in his heart. It has also made people avoid it, and it has also made people upset, and it has also been added with white eyes. As always, he is indomitable and infatuated. It's not that I'm crazy about art collection, nor that I'm crazy about it. What should I do?

? Soon, he became the chairman of Sanyuan County Collection Association, and was busy with the exchange and exhibition activities of various collection cultures with great enthusiasm and high frequency, which led to a little atmosphere among Tibetan friends. That sense of accomplishment and happiness can be seen from his eyebrows. He ran happier and was happy for several years. Later, he gradually became a frequent visitor to Chang 'an literati's home, and the gas field became a momentum.

? A few years later, he became the vice president of Shaanxi Folk Art Collectors Association. A friend advised him, as if I had talked to him. Now that he has become president, he must improve his professional level. He can't wait for him in bits and pieces. He must have a focus, a series, a special topic, a study, a deep collection and a scientific collection, in order to live up to expectations and live up to these artistic treasures in his hands. Since then, I have seen some words forwarded by him and written by himself enter the discourse level of people in the industry. I value him very much.

In less than a year, Guang Zhi took out this collection series of Han Dynasty stone reliefs, imagining that every rubbings were inscribed by literati, forming a book and an exhibition prototype of "Han Dynasty stone reliefs". At some point, Guang Zhi began to visit frequently in the literary and art circles, from two trips to three trips to five trips, and you saw precious celebrity inscriptions on each rubbings. These inscriptions, with the gentle cultural personality of every scholar, writer and famous calligrapher, are integrated into the lives of ancient artists and craftsmen who solidified and precipitated in stone carvings and brick carvings in the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago. They are fresh and simple, smart and depressed. It is a silent dialogue between history and reality through time and space! ?

? Stone reliefs in the Han Dynasty are brick carvings and stone carvings carved by Han people on the walls of tombs and ancestral temples, which are generally the art of offering sacrifices and funerals. The content includes myths and legends, laws and regulations, local conditions and customs, and accumulated a lot of information about social life in that era. If you savor it carefully, you can feel the silent radiation of these messages.

? The art of the Han Dynasty has broken out from the art of ancient gods, and the subject of human beings has gradually emerged, but it has not yet fully entered the unfettered nature of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is to mix human beings with social behaviors and life scenes, and choose the most powerful and dynamic moment to reproduce. The works of Jing Ke stabbing Qin Wang, Confucius worshiping Lao Zi, the journey of chariots and horses, the attack between land and water, and the killing of three scholars by two peaches included in this book are slightly naive and rough in art, but they can perceive the breath of life and human strength from their simple composition and lines.

? Han Dynasty stone reliefs inherited the divinity and simplicity of Warring States painting, stimulated the vitality of Wei and Jin Dynasties, and laid some basic norms of Chinese painting in many places. Together with the bronze wares of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the grottoes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, it has become a treasure of ancient culture and art in China. As an important node in the long river of China aesthetics, it is very meaningful to collect and sort it out.

? Of course, Guang Zhi will continue to make efforts in this respect, and hopes that when collecting and displaying the collections in the future, the contents will be more comprehensive and there will be more backgrounds and pictures to interpret. I don't think it's impossible for a persistent volunteer to do it.

On April 8, 20 18, he was in Xi' an.

Gao Jianqun

? Our ancients were great. They learned to speak first. Mr. Lu Xun said that the speech of the people of China began with the labor chant of "sailing in the air". When people can speak, they are not satisfied with the "knotting notes" of the past, but should express them in words. The original text is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, hieroglyphics, a bit like a child's play, drawing a sun, a moon, a half-kneeling person, a flying flag, and so on. In this way, it was finally passed down from generation to generation into words. With the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions for divination and recording, the childhood of China people and the childhood of China square Chinese characters were recognized and discovered.

? The stone relief art, which originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is another form of expression in the walking, progress, evolution and standardization of characters. Taking stone as paper and knife as pen, paper broke through the geometric patterns in Shang and Zhou bronzes, but turned all kinds of people, animals and things common in front of us into geniuses. Cut with a knife and axe, and put the capital on the stone slab, which is a big deformation and exaggeration. At that time, the secular purpose was to serve tombs and sacrifices; Today, it has become a precious cultural memory, artistic memory and national memory. This memory has become an important part of the monument culture.

? For a small example, when the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum in Xuanyuan and the Yellow Emperor Temple needed statues, people looked through ancient books and found the shape of the Yellow Emperor in Xuanyuan from the Han Dynasty stone relief "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". That's it. The experts were overjoyed, so they started carving with this picture as the pattern. Nowadays, Chinese people at home and abroad, every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day public sacrifice, 99 Double Ninth Festival folk sacrifice, music sounded, cigarettes filled. It is the statue of Xuanyuan devoted to farming depicted in the Three Emperors and Five Emperors that is worshipping!

? This kind of precious Han stone and brick can be found everywhere in this book. For example, the famous picture of Confucius asking for gifts from Laozi seems to have appeared many times in this book.

Laozi, the originator of Taoism, had a great meeting with Confucius, the originator of Confucianism. It is located in Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. "Young man, there are several important things that I must entrust you to do. I have collected more than 3,000 early Chinese folk songs. You put them on your ox cart, take them back to Qufu's hometown and compile the Book of Songs, leaving historical memories and cultural real estate for our nation! Besides, this is Zhouyi. Even Yishan in Xia Dynasty and Yi in Tibet in Shang Dynasty disappeared on the way of Gao Feng's second move to Luoyi, but the Book of Changes is still there. Take it back and compile a book of changes. In addition, compile another classic, another book of rites, another music, and another daughter's book.

? This is what Laozi said to Confucius at that time. With that, he resigned as an official of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and rode out of Hangu Pass on the west side of Qingniu. Confucius, on the other hand, returned to his hometown in Qufu after the age of sixty-three, and led the students to complete Laozi's entrustment. Imagine that if there were no Six Classics, the history of the Chinese nation in the last 2500 years would be much more vague and chaotic. Then the Six Classics is the foundation of China culture!

? There is also a Chinese stone relief pattern in the book, which is the scene of the sun god driving a four-horse high car in the sky. Four-horse-high carriage is called "crown block", which is a special term for the emperor. Looking at this painting carefully, I was deeply shocked by the strange and magnificent imagination, smooth and exaggerated lines and even some evil and strange emotions in the whole work. I thought of Biazli, who illustrated the Evil China by Samuel Wilde and Baudelaire. He is regarded as a pioneer of western art in the 20th century. This is about the devil's mission. In this book, I drew a picture of the sun god riding the emperor's chariot with pen and ink, and used it as an illustration of my newly published novel "Sickle", and the effect was great.

? There are many interesting shapes in this book. If we dig deeper, each one can write a long paragraph. Those dragon totems, phoenix totems, tiger totems and unicorn totems may be cultural codes that have yet to be deciphered. Because of the space, I won't argue here.

? Mr Yao, the editor of this book, is from Lintong, my hometown party. In Xi 'an, no matter what kind of art people, he can step into this door. I only knew before that he liked to collect some calligraphy and paintings and antiques. For example, he gave me two stone lions at home. He put the stone lion down and said, "Let the lion's big mouth face the door and bite others. Never bite your own people at the door. " This made me laugh.

? He respects culture. Strictly speaking, he is actually a clown. However, his awe, obsession and persistence in culture are very human. I often think, why are we Lintong people so literate? Later, I realized that the place where Qin Shihuang burned books and buried Confucianism was in the valley behind Lishan Mountain. Thirty thousand Confucian scholars have been pestering me for more than two thousand years. Maybe there is a soul attached to this old Yao!

2065438+August 2008 in Xi 'an.

-Preface to the Collection of Stone Relief in the Han Dynasty

Lee? Have both appearance and substance

? Traditional culture is not accumulated, but precipitated. Under the time, deep in the scenery, in the prajna of words, we can find the spiritual breath, brilliant demeanor and even the vicissitudes of the Millennium of the sages, with endless string songs. This is my feeling after reading the Collection of Han Stone Relief by collector Yao. Sincerity is sincerity, and penetration is cutting. Unfortunately, these works, which reveal the lofty and delicate thoughts of nature, reflect the inner feelings and tensions of the Han ancestors, and present the contemporary artists' examination and reflection on history-their transcendence lies in their in-depth interpretation of life and history and their respect and awe for the rhythm of life; There are both heavy echoes of history and civilizations that keep pace with the times. In this way, we see a touch of bright color, a kind of vitality and a pure richness from the works. Collection, in fact, like faith, is piety, purifying the soul, achieving good thoughts and pinning good hopes on life.

? Judging from the inheritance of China's traditional culture, Zhong Yi's calligraphy and painting, seal cutting and inscriptions all belong to a gentle vein, which is a tribute to the ancients and a constant spiritual energy and passion for life. "Great men flourished in the Tang Dynasty" has always been the peak of human history. The "weather of Han and Tang dynasties" that we often miss is supported by the construction of verve and character, and characterized by "auspicious atmosphere, frustrated tone, bright and heroic, and history and gold", showing a clear and vigorous artistic style, which is also the spiritual portrayal of that era. In the Han dynasty, especially after the "rule of cultural scene", the society was stable and the economy was prosperous, and Confucianism was in an orthodox position. Influenced by the immortality of the soul, emperors, bureaucrats and gentry worked hard to build tombs, and they were extremely sad and honored. The so-called Han Dynasty stone reliefs are actually the architectural structures carved with portraits in tombs, cemeteries, ancestral halls, wooden pavilions and other buildings in the Han Dynasty: life is vivid, nuanced and interlocking. All kinds of people are natural, seeing words like faces, and historical and earthy smells are coming. It is not only a wonderful flower in China National Art Grand View Garden, but also a vivid social history of the Han Dynasty. Its appearance had a far-reaching impact on the artistic development after the Han Dynasty. The rubbings of stone reliefs in the Han Dynasty clearly reproduce the patterns of stone reliefs or brick reliefs left by the Han Dynasty with rice paper and ink, involving all aspects of culture, religious belief and social life in the Han Dynasty, which has extremely high historical and artistic value. Mr Yao spared no effort to create a visual feast with China temperament with traditional cultural symbols. These collections are not only maps and landscapes of artists' spiritual world, but also blessings and gifts for readers. Undoubtedly, the enthusiastic and vigorous cultural attitude of collectors will become a bright light in national memory and will also ignite our love and respect for art.

? There is no word "profound" in the aesthetic system constructed by China culture for thousands of years. The categories used to evaluate a poem, a painting or even any work are style, elegance, artistic conception and realm, while the requirements for the author are sophistication, freedom, talent and indifference. Mr. Guang Zhi wisely combined the collection of Han portraits with cultural interests and asked for an inscription, which gave the painting a solid internal strength. These different kinds of artists, with their profound life details and leisurely and detached brushwork, are slowly showing their reasoning and interpretation of the life scenes and all kinds of people in the Han Dynasty. Different people have different opinions. The concise, carefree, elegant and meaningful sketching style makes life have a story and rubbings poetic, which is freely passed down from Chinese, elegant and Taoist. Although it is not a professional appreciation of the collection authority, the embodiment of personal aesthetics and interest is also an irreplaceable angle. It is not difficult to see from the article that these artists cherish the rubbings of Korean portraits, with gorgeous rhetoric, informative research and romantic charm. Or side by side, without feeling sluggish; Or concise, and I don't feel its simplicity. Whether it is calligraphy painting or flowers and birds landscape, people all feel a kind of artistic tension that is patchy and interesting, giving people a sense of visual freshness and impact of hiding without reading, hiding without reading, learning from others' strengths and rich writing style, showing a mysterious and far-reaching undercurrent in the vast volume.

? "Heaven and earth are the reverse journey of everything, and time is a passer-by for hundreds of generations." Time is the cruelest. Once romantic, once singing and dancing, once suffering and glory, will eventually slowly precipitate and turn into a thin page in the history books. But time is also the fairest. All insights, all masterpieces, and all profound thoughts on the times will continue under the polishing of time, and will be brilliant. It will leave everyone with a power beyond time and space. It can be said that Mr. Yao's collection of Han portraits is both tempering and drainage. It is both traditional and contemporary; It not only picks up the treasures of the past years, but also marks the active spiritual pulse of the times. The exquisite rubbings and elegant brushstrokes published in this collection are not only a comprehensive display of artistic elites, but also a painstaking proof of years of exploration; It not only shows the reverence and respect for the orthodoxy of the sages, but also shows the elegance and independence of the later literati: the scene in front of us and the inner world, the light and shadow of reality and the illusion of history, the agitation of emotion and the sinking of reason, just like the vertical and horizontal axes of the coordinate system, locate the temperament and style of these works, so that we can appreciate the texture of time and the warmth of art in the splendid ancient elegance of Zhu Mo-while impressing readers, we also express our respect for history and culture.

Confused, they are all fragrant Chinese styles. You might as well look at it and pray for it!

1898 The lotus moon in the movement praised the study in the south of the city.