A Cup of Wine to Release Cursive Script

I have a pot of wine, can comfort the wind and dust, as much as pouring the river and the sea, to drink the world. Most of the ancient and modern literati love wine, "wine poems" of Li Bai, dashing Zhang Xu ......... calligraphy also used wine to create a unique style of drunken cursive, set off the first wave of romanticism in the history of Chinese calligraphy.

On the topic of cursive and wine is very interesting, cursive, is an encounter with the development of the direction of free expression of calligraphic emotions. From the Han Dynasty onwards, the history of calligraphy has entered into a rift, the initial function of Chinese characters is practical, the earliest seal script and official script, such a script is subject to the constraints of the structure, strokes, combinations, and so on, and therefore in the writing of the time not enough free, not enough lyrical, and so calligraphy in the Eastern Han Dynasty to carry out the change, in fact, at that time, cursive script rows of scripts and regular scripts are also embodied, but relatively speaking, the cursive script is mature earlier.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhao Yi wrote an article called "Non-Cursive Script", which vividly described the prevailing trend of cursive writing and sharply criticized it. However, these people were "not doing their jobs" and did not work seriously at their posts, but only got together every day to think about and explore how to write cursive script without sleep or food. From this we can see the novelty and charm of cursive writing, so many people are crazy about it, and its artistry is incomparable to other styles of writing. First of all, its shape, structure, chapter are very wonderful, writing speed, so there will be a lot of uncontrollable factors, the final rendering of the effect and the Chinese painting "splash of ink" has the same flavor.

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These are the most important of all. A lot of cursive writing that is commonly known is often closely related to wine. For example, the Tang Dynasty's Bengzhang Drunken Su, such as the Ming Dynasty's Xu Wei ............ masters of cursive writing, in some ancient book theory, the poems of predecessors are often depicted as "drunkenness letter hand two or three lines" state. The state of affairs.

So, the wine in the "upside down Zhang drunken vegetarian" in the end for what?

Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking

Tang - Du Fu

Zhizhang rode a horse like a boat,

and his eyes fell asleep under the water.

Ruyang's three buckets were first brought to the sky,

and the mouth of the emperor's carriage salivated,

and I hated to move the seal to the Wine Spring.

The left minister spends ten thousand coins a day,

and drinks like a long whale sucking in a hundred rivers,

and titles himself a saint of the world.

Zong Zhi is a handsome young man,

he raised his goblet and looked at the sky,

bright as a jade tree in front of the wind.

Su Jin's long fast in front of the embroidered Buddha,

drunk often love to escape Zen.

Li Bai wrote a hundred poems in one bucket,

and in Chang'an, he slept in a house of wine.

The son of heaven called to not get on the boat,

claiming that he was an immortal in wine.

Zhang Xu's three cups of grass saints,

Take off his hat and show the top of his head in front of the king,

waving his pen to drop the paper like a cloud of smoke.

Jiao Sui is a great scholar,

and he is a great scholar.

In Du Fu's "Song of the Eight Immortals in the Drinking Water", "Zhang Xu's three cups of grass saints were passed on to him, and he took off his hat and showed his top in front of the king, waving his pen and dropping the paper like clouds of smoke". Very vivid image depicts Zhang Xu in the drink drunk, all the rules and etiquette, personal image do not have to care about, he will chest block into the bottom of the waves of the pen, wake up to see the handwriting, is very wonderful, can not be reproduced. There have been anecdotes, Zhang Xu interest, and even take the hair directly dipped in ink writing. Cursive writing is fast, waving the brush between the paper fall dashing and unrestrained, as if the ancient chivalrous swordsman sword light and shadow, as if breaking through the bamboo.

Zhang Xu does not always write works to drink, and not only write cursive, the more this pure art, the more this kind of art with strong subjective feelings need to instantly to show, in fact, the more to be very solid basic skills.

Zhang Changshi real book "Langguan stone record", Dong Po said "the word Jane far, such as the Jin and Song people". Commentators think that the words of knowledge. However, the study of Zhang grass, often not study its law, the first hostage wild and strange ideas. Do not know grass solid out of its true, and long history of true how? Shangu said: "between Beijing and Luo people copy the wild and strange words, not into the right army father and son of the rope and ink, are not Changshi pen." The first time I saw this, I realized that it was not the same as the first time I saw the first time I saw the first time I saw the first time.

-- Liu Xizai "book general"

We can see in Zhang Xu's masterpiece of the regular script, Zhang Xu in addition to the very high achievement of the cursive, magnificent, his regular script is also y ancient, learned some of the essence of the people of the Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the kung fu is very solid.

This one is rumored to be Zhang Xu's four posts of ancient poems. Whether it is true or not, when learning calligraphy or appreciating, more attention is paid to the work itself, good or bad, this work is very thick, which is very rich in a variety of contrasting elements, the overall feeling of generosity and harmony.

Xu Wangshi Yao Yun: "The ambition in the novelty of no fixed rules, the ancient thin Li Li half inkless. Drunkenness to letter hand two or three lines, but after waking up the book book can not." Shulun Dai: "The situation is strange, and the strange shapes and shapes of the hands and hands stand in the right place. Everyone wants to ask about the wonderfulness of this, but Huai Su said he didn't know it at first." The language is fast and furious, but there is Dou Jiyun: "There are dozens of long corridors with powdered walls, and the gas in the chest is small and open in the Xinglai. Suddenly screamed three or five times, the wall is full of ten million words." Dai Gong also Yun: "Chihao sudden ink columns run team, full of lost voices to see less than." Foolish eye, then there is the father of the Secretary Xunwei Lang Wu Xing Qian Qi poem: "far crane (tin) no former partner, the lonely cloud sends too much emptiness. Madness to light world, drunkenness to get the real thing."

? --Waisu "self-narrative post" excerpt

Waisu's self-narrative post is rumored to be a Song dynasty imitation of some of the events in which Waisu is more exaggerated, so that it carries more stories, but not necessarily is the real thing to see, in that case, it means that Waisu, usually should be similar to the Zhang Xu this kind of dashing or drunken! Afterwards, he wrote cursive script with great interest. Drunkenness to letter hand two or three lines, after waking up, but the book book can not, also shows that he was drunk when the state of dashing relaxation, sober, but can not return to that state.

The ancients have less large paper, so when writing large grass will often mention the wall, the ancients of the wall how we have no way of knowing, after all, with the change of dynasties a lot of ancient buildings have disappeared, "pink wall corridor dozens of rooms, the Xing came to a small open-minded gas," indicating that the area of the large, "Suddenly! The "three or five calls, full of Bixi vertical and horizontal ten million words" can be seen Huai Su he should belong to the special like performance, rumors also said that he was also like in some of the princes and nobles in the scene between the creation of the writing, the line of clouds and flowing water, magnificent.

Waisu's "bitter bamboo shoots post", although only a short two lines, but very wonderful, and extremely to the point.

We can learn. Bump Zhang drunk Su, they are indeed with the wine has some very deep affinity, they use a pot of wine in the Great Tang, write drunken cursive thousands of years.

Li Bai in the "will enter the wine" in the words of "ancient sages are lonely, but only the drinker to leave his name", artists, including literary artists, with wine as a companion, more heroic, and will make the work with some legendary color.

? Zhang Changshi cursive must be drunk, or thought strange, wake up that naive incomplete. This is the long history is not wonderful, there is still drunkenness and wakefulness of the identification, if the Yishao how to send to the wine? I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get away with this.

--Su Shi "book Zhang Changshi cursive"

Mr. Dong Po said in the last sentence of this paragraph: "I am not immune to this matter. In other words, Mr. Dong Po felt that he himself was on the same level as Zhang Xu, and that in many cases the creation of some good articles and works depended on wine, but Wang Xizhi did not need it.

Is this statement of Su Dongpo correct or not?

Mr. Dongpo mentioned that Zhang Xu had to drink wine when he wrote cursive script, or when he was drunk, he would produce some wonderful works, but when he woke up, he did not have that kind of naivety, natural and romantic feeling, and so Mr. Dongpo said that, in fact, like Wang Xizhi, the real saint of the highest level of calligraphy, he did not need to rely on wine.

Wang Xizhi's cursive writing does not need to rely on wine, but Wang Xizhi calligraphy in the creation of whether to drink wine? Through the introduction of some of the Lanting Preface, we probably know that a group of literati were in a slightly drunken state, so in this relaxed and natural state of Wang Xizhi's world's first line of calligraphy, "Lanting Preface".

With the great Han of Yu Jing, Shao Youjun's brushwork, although the rough transmission of the regular rules, I am afraid that it has not been done. The first is that it is not possible to make a decision on whether or not to use it, but the second is that it is not possible to make a decision on whether or not to use it! After Xizhi to the city, the wall. Zi Jing Mi wipe away, always easy to write its place, private for not evil. Xizhi also, see is sighed: "I go really drunk!" Jing is ashamed.

--Sun Jiao Ting "book spectrum"

We can see the "book spectrum" in a paragraph, but also rumors of some strange things. Said Wang Xianzhi at that time and Wang Xizhi in calligraphy and known as the size of the king, and the level of calligraphy is very high, and then once secretly erased Wang Xizhi's words, and then wrote a paragraph up to Wang Xizhi came back and sighed: Alas, I left when it seems to be a drunken, writing is not good. At this time Wang Xianzhi realized that there was still a very big gap between himself and his father. Through these words, we know that Wang Xizhi's calligraphy level is not the same when he was drunk and not drinking, which means that the Sage of Calligraphy is still the Sage of Calligraphy, and he was able to show his exquisite brushwork to the fullest extent when he was not drinking or in the state of being slightly intoxicated.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the fifth generation of Yang Ningshi, known as Yang crazy, woke up one day nap, coincided with a gift of leeks, very tasty, and then wrote "leeks sticker" to show his gratitude, his regular script kung fu is very solid, and cursive script is also often have to mention the wall. We see his masterpieces, the style gap is very big.

From this point of view, wine can indeed play a role in spicing up the artist in the creation of a more relaxed and elegant state, but one of the most important prerequisites still lies in the fundamentals of calligraphy to be solid. Just like two days ago, Mr. Wang Yijun mentioned the pen, you again good grip, but your kung fu is not, it is equivalent to holding a sword or someone else empty-handed to kill the same reason.

Although I like wine, but unfortunately not overpowering, and occasionally drink a few cups of wine, about drinking also gave himself a small unwritten rules: non-good friendly wine do not drink. The most ideal state of drinking is a few friends with the gathering, drinking good wine, a few people casually drink, do not fight, not drunk, the kind of fire suitable for chatting, if then a paragraph of poetry, and then beautiful.

Contemporary traditional calligraphy in my most respected teachers, like Chen Zhongkang teacher, Wang Yijun teacher, including my Chinese painting teacher, Mr. Fang Yan, several of them do not drink, so, in fact, wine and calligraphy does not say that there is a hundred percent relationship, these are different from person to person, some people do not get drunk on wine, some do not get drunk on wine, some drunk on wine, some people are drunk on books, and some people do not want to get drunk on wine.