Information about Yin Bingshou, a great writer of clerical script

Yi Bingshou (1754-1815) character group like, the number of Moqing, Moan, Tingzhou, Fujian Ninghua people. In the fifty-fourth year of the Qianlong era (AD 1789), he was awarded the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and then moved to the Foreign Affairs Department. In the fourth year of the Jiaqing era (AD 1799), he was appointed as the governor of Huizhou, and in the tenth year of the Jiaqing era (AD 1805), he was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou. He was a clean official, diligent and loved the people. Wucheng nostalgia record "reputation:" Yangzhou governor generation famous sage, Qing Qianjia, Tingzhou Yi Moqing governor for the most prominent, the flow of literature and elegance, the benefits of government and the people, and Ouyang Yongshu, Su Dongpo successively comparable to the townspeople, the countryside people said never fails to be enshrined in the Shrine of Virtue in the Hall of Wine."

Yi Bingshou was born in a family of books like painting, four styles of work, the regular script of Yan Zhenqing's charm, extensive collection, both masters of a hundred, self-expression of their own ideas, for the attention of the people of the time. The highest achievement of its Clerical Script, for the Qing Dynasty monumental in the Clerical Script of the rise of one of the representative characters.

Yi Bingshou's official script from the Han inscription to take the divine reason, since the face. The pen is strong and steady and calm, the knot is full and broad, the momentum is majestic, elegant style. Yi's own summary: "square, strange and wanton, gesture vertical, more or less easy, reduce the province, virtual and real, fat and thin, millimeters change, out of the wrist under the ......". His couplets and plaques, from the line to the style, extremely rich in the changes of sparse and dense gathering and dispersing, in the Thucydides with a distinctive gesture, distinctive personality, horizontal and vertical. He used the brushwork of the seal script to write the official script, so the strokes are rounded, similar in thickness, and without obvious waves and picks. Chapter extremely distinctive, word spread, four sides of the foot, giving people a square rigorous decorative sense of beauty, and Liang Zhangjui on the "bigger and stronger" comment.

Yi Bingshou's clerical script in the strokes and traditional Han Li are very different, he eliminated the Han Li horizontal painting of a wave of twists and turns, replaced by a straight stroke with little change in thickness; Han Li's flat form in his hands no longer exists, leaving only the awkward shape of the rough wood hut, but this is not a fabrication of the skill is exhausted, but in-depth grasp of the essence of the Han Li after a mutation. Yi Bingshou insight into the simple and sincere nature of art, but also y influenced by Confucian aesthetics, if he said that the success of architectural structure, and Ouyang Xun's Regular Script; if he said to reduce the action of the pen to simplify the line and achieved a miraculous effect, he and the Bada Shanren coincide. Yibingshou calligraphy integration of Qin and Han stone tablets, simple and thick, "a temple atmosphere", the later generation of calligraphy innovation has a lot of inspiration.