Deng Shiru, Qing Dynasty Seal Sculptor, Calligrapher, Seal Script Works, Zhang Zixi Inscription, etc.

Introduction

Deng Shiru original name Diem, because of avoiding Renzong taboo, so the word line, less study, good stone carving, imitation *** seal stamps very work. He was very good at carving stones, and was very good at imitating *** seals. At that time, Weng Fangzang specializing in seal scores, to Shi Ru not to its door, for the. Liu Yong, Lu Xixiong saw his book, were greatly surprised. They went to his door and asked to know his face. Bao Shichen pushed his seal script as a god. Qian goblet and Shichen traveled to Jiao Mountain, see the seal script between the walls of the Heart Sutra, said: "This is not a little Wen (Li Yangbing) can not be made, the world is not this person?" Less taste guest Jiangning Mei B home, got to look at the Qin and Han since the good stone and stone books, each copy each hundred copies. Cao Wenfill said that his four styles of calligraphy were the first in the Qing Dynasty. He was an engraver and sealer, and was known as the Deng School. Born in a humble family, his grandfather and father both loved calligraphy and painting, but they both ended up in poor huts with cloth clothes. Deng Shiru was nine years old when he studied for one year, after stopping school to pick woodcutting, selling cakes and bait to make a living. 17 years old, he began to write, carving and printing to earn a living in the art career, a life of low social status. He said himself: "I did not taste reading when I was young, hardship and suffering, nothing to taste, 13 or 4 years old, the heart steals the book, 20 years old, my grandfather brought to Shouzhou, will have been able to train the Meng is now old, jianghu tour food, people do not treat literate people." Deng Shiru was about 30 years old, in Anhui Shouxian acquaintance with the Methodist College lecturer Liang t, and by Liang t introduced to Jiangning, became a guest of the lifer Mei H. Deng Shiru spent eight years with Mei H, a great collector in Jiangning, "rising every day in the dark, researching ink on a plate, until the end of the night to finish the ink, summer and winter without stopping". Deng Shiru was soon honored by Cao Wennani, Jin Fuzhi and others, and his reputation for calligraphy was greatly enhanced. In 1790, on the occasion of Emperor Qianlong's 80th birthday, Cao Wenzhi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, entered Kyoto in June and invited him to go with him. In the fall, he passed through Shandong and visited Mount Tai. After entering the capital, Deng Shiru became famous for his calligraphy. In the fifty-sixth year of the Qianlong reign (1791), he worked as a staff member of Bi Yuan, the governor of the two lakes, for three years. Zhang Huiyin and Bao Shichen both learned calligraphy from him.

A Slight Collection of Past Events

Deng Shiru, a great calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, is also associated with a famous anecdote in history. Deng Shiru's family kept two cranes. It is said that the two cranes were at least 130 years old. One day, the female crane died, and only ten days later, Deng Shiru's wife, Shen, also died. This coincidence, in the literati at the time produced a lot of associations. 59-year-old Deng Shiru sad, the male crane also lonely song, and he was dependent on him. Because he could not bear to see the sadness of the crane, Deng Shiru chose a place 30 miles away from the Jixiankuan Buddhist temple, the crane foster monks. From then on, he carried food to feed the cranes, thirty miles round trip, monthly perseverance. Suddenly, on another day, he was staying at the Daming Temple in Yangzhou when he got a rumor that the crane had been spotted by the governor of Anqing and captured back to his house. He immediately set out to return to Anqing, and wrote a letter to the governor in running script, "Chen Sends a Crane Book".

This article is written in a sad and moving, tearful, the momentum of the mountains, such as the clouds of phantom sky, in order to exhaust the rhetorical devices such as prose, anthropomorphism, and other rhetorical devices to count the crane, send the crane sad and happy past events. In order to this crane, he can put life and death at risk, as written in the book, "the power of adults can move mountains, then the mountain people into cranes, cranes into the mountain people do not resign." The governor received the book, there are no words to answer, and the crane will be returned to the Buddhist temple in a few days.

Deng Shiru was 9 years old with his father, 10 years old, he dropped out of school, 14 years old, "in poverty, can not be from the school, the village children picking woodcutting, peddling cakes and bait, the negative turn sold. However, under the influence of his grandfather and father, he became y interested in calligraphy, goldsmith's stone, poetry and literature, and made great progress. 17 years old, he made a seal script of "Xue Lang Zhai Inscription and Preface" for the "Elder of Xiaoxia", which was highly praised by the people of the time. Since then, they embarked on the road of calligraphy and carving art. 20 years old in his hometown set up museums, as a child division, intolerant of students "simple jump" and leave, with his father to Shouzhou (now Shouxian) to teach Mengkuan, 21 years old due to the loss of his wife resigned, traveling outside of the book carving, to ease the grief.

In the 39th year of the Qianlong reign (1774), when he was 32 years old, he went back to Shouzhou to teach, and often for the students of Shouchun Methodist College seal engraving and writing fans in small seal script. He was recognized by Liang Xian (a native of Bo County, famous for copying Li Beihai's calligraphy), who was the main lecturer of the academy, and recommended him to study at the home of Meimu, a scholar from Jinling (present-day Nanjing). Mei's family is not only the famous family since the Song Dynasty, but also the Qing Kangxi Imperial gift of ink and the most precious family, the family collection of "secret treasures" and the Qin and Han Dynasty after many of the Kingstone good books. Shi Ru vertical view of the exposition, careful study, hard work. During his eight years in the Mei family, he specialized in seal script for the first five years, and in Chinese characters for the last three years. In the 47th year, when he was 40 years old, he left Mei's house, traveled to various places of interest, copied a large number of ancient tablets, and refined his art of calligraphy and carving, and finally produced a large number of works in all styles of "seal script, clerical, authentic, running script and cursive script", forming his own masterpiece. In the forty-seventh year of the Qianlong period, he traveled from Huangshan to Shexian County, where he became acquainted with the famous Huizhou school of goldsmiths and stone scientists Fang Jun Ren and Xinan scripture Cheng Yaotian, as well as the Hanlin Academy cultivator, Jin Beng, who was skilled in the seal scripts and seal scripts. Later, through the recommendation of Meimu and Jinbang, he met Cao Wennihua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. In the autumn of the 55th year of the Qianlong reign, Hongli's 80th birthday, Cao Wenshani to celebrate his birthday, to Deng Shiru to go with him, Shiru refused to go with the Haniwa's mikoshi from the brigade, and wear straw hats, wearing shoes, riding a donkey alone. When he arrived at Beijing, his calligraphy was seen by Liu Wenqing, a calligrapher, and Lu Xixiong, a connoisseur, who was amazed and commented, "There is no such work for thousands of years." After being sidelined by the Cabinet Bachelor Weng Fangzang as the representative of the calligrapher, was forced to "stumble out of the capital", introduced by the Cao Wenliang to the Ministry of War, Governor of the two lakes Bi Yuanjie Department (Department of Wuchang) as a guest of honor, and for the Bi Yuanzi teaching reading "said the original text". In the Department of three years, not the purpose, so go.

Qianlong fifty-nine years when he was 52 years old, from Wuchang back to his hometown, to buy 40 acres of land, the following year to build a house, and personally write a plaque, "Tiyan Shanfang" placed at the door. He often sold his books and carvings for the relief of the townspeople, and he tried his best to subsidize those who were poor and could not be buried. The next 10 years, his calligraphy and carving art more and more perfect, he ignored the old age, often traveled in Jingkou (now Zhenjiang), Nanjing, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places. A year before his death, but also climbed Mount Tai, meeting friends, and exchange of skills. 60 years old, he traveled to Jingkou, met Bao Shichen, three years of teaching, and the key to calligraphy, said: "sparse places can walk horses, dense places do not make the wind, often counting the white as black, the strange interest is out." Bao to its method to test the six dynasties of the book are all in line. When he was 63 years old and on his deathbed, he still included his disciple Cheng Hengshi in the seal script Zhang Zixi Ming (张子西铭). In that year, he was informed that there were eight stele in Jingxian County that needed to be written in big seal script, small seal script, split script, and regular script, and he was invited to do so, and only wrote one stele because he was sick, and he died at home in October of the lunar calendar.

Folk strange man

Deng Shiru tall, chest floating a lock of long beard, encounter people fall, character and straightforward, nothing to do, no style, no charm, no vulgarity, called a great man of the sky and the earth.

Because his ancestors were born in humble circumstances, withered old poor hut, his life more tasted the sweet and sour of the world, living a life of "picking woodcutters and peddling cakes and baits, day to day with their winnings to self-sufficiency". He lived as a "mountain man", in the old house in the deserted river, lying high, the two words of fame are forgotten.

Why so indifferent? He lived in the era, is the history of the "Qianjia era". He came to this world, the political situation has long been stabilized, the world has long been Aisin Gioro's pair of eagle shooting tiger hand stroked more ironic. Life with the river of time, day after day, calmly flow away. We only know that he wore a straw hat, with a man's feet, curry donkey, wandering the world's famous mountains and rivers, such as clouds and water between the lonely floating gulls. His good friend Shi Lichai once sent him these two lines of poetry: "It is rare to have a pure heart with the snow, but also know that wealth and fortune are floating clouds." Look down on the flashy, flashy, flashy name, also with the fickleness is far away. "Tolerant of fame, in exchange for the shallow singing", Liu Yong, the kind of unrecognized talent of the whining he did not; "suffering from the name of the establishment, suffering from the years of the long", Jia Kui's ambition and enterprising he lacked; "the name of the flying sun and moon, the righteousness and the wind and clouds Xiang "Li Bai's great ambition to help the world he also does not have. He is just attributed to the light, all things in the world are light, light to self-satisfied loneliness, away from the red dust. However, he truly loved calligraphy, and could not be discarded even for a day. Every morning, he studied a tray full of ink, with the net a couple of splash, must wait until the ink is dry before going to bed. The so-called "love", in Deng Shiru's life, in addition to the humble origins, suffered from the torment of life, but also have to put fame and fortune in the back of their minds and devote themselves to the art of hard work. He was not afraid to sit on the bench for ten years cold, and even more unwilling to be like some "celebrities" as keen on today's television, tomorrow's newspaper, the day after tomorrow, won the Grand Prize, or else the day is also difficult.

Back then, he was the Governor of Hubei-Guangzhou Bi Yuan's friends, "and people on the road art, the Kan chisel, not the slightest falsehood, cloth brown hat, noble guests among the ministers, the shore of nothing stuttering also." Just like a civilian artist's true colors. However, "day after day, I see a group of ants tend to chasing, flattery and sycophancy, this is now the so-called timing, but also today's so-called shortcut. To get a great deal of good place, most of the face to be so. And said Diem can be? Day with these people for the company, depressed very much." He was not accustomed to the officialdom of the swarm of ants tend to chasing, but also do not want to flatter the rich and powerful. Then, even though he was a friend of the curtain, he was not a good fit - he was not suited to that ecological environment. So, he whisked his sleeve away, back to *** between, the appropriate person from the appropriate, from the life of more than sixty years no longer mixed in the officialdom.

Deng Shiru is not willing to pander to the stubbornness of the trickery, to say a little more elegant and fashionable, is not he has the usual literati lack of the so-called "civilian consciousness" or "folk complex"? Dang Shiru, formerly known as Diem, the word Shi Ru, self-titled stubborn uncle, finish white mountain people, finish white mountain people, Longshan woodcutting long, Fengshui fishing long, and so on. To the stone than themselves, to

The stone since the situation, a mountain people of the maverick, floating as in front of us. Deng Shiru's behavior, and his contemporaries rated very high. Some say "noble", some say "noble". I will only mention two things here. The first, Deng Shiru first into the capital, the people at that time to the Cabinet Bachelor Weng Fangzang for calligraphy of the master, Weng is also proud of a moment, and Deng Shiru "only do not pay a visit". Do not go to the door to visit Weng master, is not willing to make friends with the rich and powerful, or itself look down on his calligraphy? I dare not guess. But the consequences are in his expected, overbearing Weng Fangzang extremely depreciate Deng Shiru calligraphy, and Deng Shiru a smile, "not with the school also". Another thing, may be able to see Deng Shiru's high and pure. Deng Shiru often live in Jixianguan, got a crane, carefully fed and stored in the monastery, he walked with it, it accompanied him to read, "two pieces of idle homework". Unexpectedly, a governor to see and love, take the crane and go. Deng Shiru was extremely unfair, wrote a sternly worded letter to claim back. From then on, with the crane as a companion, morning and night. Deng Shiru died, the crane issued a sharp cry, wailing a few days later, played a spin, disappeared in the desert sky, feathered away. Crane cry, blue sky, far away - this is my heart roaming through the picture, but also in front of the flow of poetry. Yes, a coat of cloth, look up to the sky, some attachments to come, no attachments to go; both know that everything has a spirit, more light outside the body; "you return home from my own home" - people and cranes, leaving only a period of gathering and dispersal of love in the past and present. His good friend Yao Nai, a great writer of Tongcheng School prose, once wrote him a couplet:

The thatched cottage, eight or nine fishing rain, plowing smoke, must believe that the rich are not as poor as the poor, the noble are not as cheap;

Bamboo books, ten million words to fill the flower brewing wine to know that the peace and quiet is appropriate to enjoy the leisure is appropriate to the Qing Dynasty.

The most important thing to remember is that you don't want to be rich and famous, you don't want to be emotional and you don't want to be in a state of shock. Fishing rain farming smoke, irrigation flowers brewing life, washed away is vulgar powder, dust mud dirt, infiltrated out of the history and history of the collection of books and all the immortal style of the Taoist bone. In people, each other as a table, to settle down, can also "do what you want not to exceed the rules". As soon as life reaches this state, the depth and longevity of art will come into being.

As the ancient and modern calligraphy, Deng Shiru is a model of genuine innovation to win our respect. His contemporaries Bao Shichen in the "Art Boat Shuangji" in his calligraphy as "God", known as the "four books are the first national dynasty". In the history of calligraphy, the "thick ink prime minister" Liu Yong, who was conceited as "I have made my own book", saw Deng Shiru's words and exclaimed, "There is no such work for thousands of years!" Even a very high level of vision, learning rich five car Kang Youwei, depreciate Yan (Yan Zhenqing) depreciate Liu (Liu Gongquan), depreciate Jin post, depreciate the Tang Dynasty monument, and Deng Shiru's book is not only highly evaluated, but also as an epoch-making a sign of him. In all fairness, it is not fair to disparage Tang and Jin, while Deng Shiru's evaluation is justified. The innovation of seal and official scripts and the rise of monumental studies in the Qing Dynasty opened up a new side of traditional calligraphy, and this worldly achievement was quietly established by Deng Shiru in the mountains and fields. The flexibility of Deng's seal script and the naturalness of his brushwork broke the rigid traditional pattern since Li Yangbing, no wonder he was so conceited: "Where can I make Bingsi (Si refers to Li Si)?" Deng Shiru also had many creative ideas in calligraphy theory. The theory of "counting white as black" crystallized the reasoning of "the pen does not reach the meaning". "Sparse place can go horse, dense place does not make the wind", the art theory of the contrast between the real and the imaginary explained as clear as words.

Representative Works

Deng Shiru is a great calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, specializing in the four styles of calligraphy. His seal script was first learned from Li Si and Li Yang Bing, and later learned from Changuo Mountain Stele, Sanguo Mountain Stele, Tianfa Divine Prophecy Stele, Shiku Wen, as well as Yi ware markings, and Han inscription, etc. He used the scribe method for seal script. He used the scribe's method for seal script, breaking through the millennium-old fence of yuh seal script and opening up a new world for seal script in the Qing Dynasty. His seal scripts are sprawling and slightly square, close to the Qin-Han wadang and the Han inscriptions. Clerical script is from the Han stele, tightly knit, rich in appearance, strong bones, and majestic, also making the Qing Dynasty clerical script a new face. The regular script takes the law of the six dynasties tablet version, and also take Ouyang Xun father and son of the body potential, the penmanship is decisive, the knot word close, to get the momentum of the wind. The cursive script mainly absorbs the cursive method of Jin and Tang, and the brushwork is hesitant and flowing. The large cursive script has an open meteorology and a vast mood. In general, his four styles of calligraphy, the seal script is the most accomplished, followed by the regular script, running script and cursive script. Deng Shiru was also a seal carver, creating the Deng School of the Anhui School. He used the small seal script as his seal, emphasizing the meaning of the brushwork, and his style was majestic, simple, robust and graceful, complementing the calligraphy and seal carving. Deng Shiru's seals are characterized by "sparse enough to run a horse, dense enough not to let the wind through".

Deng Shiru's calligraphy was highly evaluated by the people of the time, and he was called "the best in all four styles, the first in the National Dynasty", and his calligraphy was the most outstanding in seal script, while his seal script achievement was in the small seal script. His small seal script was modeled after Si and Bing, with a slightly longer form, but he creatively incorporated the brushwork of the official script into it, boldly using a long and soft brush, lifting, pressing and undulating, which greatly enriched the brushwork of the seal script, especially in his later years, with rounded, thick and majestic lines, reaching a perfect state of perfection, creating a typical seal script of the Qing Dynasty, and making a monumental contribution to the development of the art of the seal script. The Clerical Script, on the other hand, has benefited a lot from the long practice of immersing himself in the Han Dynasty monuments, and he is able to write the Clerical Script with the meaning of the seal, and with the strength of the Wei Dynasty monuments, so that his style is naturally unique. The Regular Script did not start from the Tang Dynasty Regular Script, but traced its origin to the Weibei, using more square strokes, the brush strokes to turn the connotation of the meaning of the Clerical Script, not to the horizontal and vertical weight, the left and right low and high to take the method of yinmei and to seek for the correctness of the ancient, lush and simple, and the customary style of pavilion body out of place, showing the spirit of courage to explore.

Liu Yong Lu Xixiong: "Thousands of years without this work."

Cao Wennani: "This Jiangnan scholar Mr. Deng, whose four styles of calligraphy are the first in the country."

Bao Shichen "Art Boat Shuangji": the first of the divine product

Zhao Zhiqian: "the national dynasty of people's books to Shanren first, Shanren first of the official script; Shanren seal script pen pen from the official script out of the self-proclaimed less than Shao-wen when it is here, but this is from the more Shao-wen, the good easy not to say easy, poetry must be poems, sure to know that the non-poet, are the same reason.

Shaumeng is a good example of a good poet.

Sha Menghai, "nearly three hundred years of epigraphy": "Qing Dynasty book people, public praise for the outstanding everyone, not the East Cabinet Bachelor Liu Yong, not the Cabinet Bachelor Weng Fangzang, but the vine cane shoes of Deng Shiru."

Inscription works

Inside the Deng family's house in Bailinpan, north of the city of Huaining County, Anhui Province, there is a long couplet of 146 characters in regular script, namely:

Canghai Sun, Chicheng Xia, Emei Snow, Wuxia Clouds, Dongting Moon, Pengli Marriage, Xiaoxiang Rain, Wuyi Peak, Luoxiang

Canghai Sun, Chicheng Xia, Emei Snow, Wuxia Cloud, Dongting Cloud, Pengli Marriage, Xiaoxiang Rain, Wuyi Peak, Lushan Waterfalls, and the wonders of the Universe, painted on the wall of our fasting wall;

Shaoling Poetry, Moqiqi Painting, Zuo Zhuanwen, Ma Qian History, Xue Tao Paper, Right Army Poster, South China Scripture, Xiangru Fugue, Qu Zi Li Suo, the collection of the best of ancient and modern art, placed in the window of the mountain.

This door couplet, which is countersigned as "Title Bishan Study House", was written and calligraphed by Deng Shiru, a famous calligrapher and seal carver in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. This couplet has a grandeur and peculiar conception, which is like the magic of "seeing through ten thousand miles" and "thinking a thousand loads" as Liu Feo, a writer in the Southern Dynasty, said.

The first couplet takes in the scenery, colorful; the second couplet takes the text, beautiful chapter stacked show. The upper and lower lines are coherent, one breath. The scenery is typical, the literature is pure, the language is elegant, the implication is long, the committee is a masterpiece in the pair, the United States of the turnip Hua.

The reason why this couplet has been widely spread, in addition to the above, and the author is good at the use of the Lijin rhetorical device is also related.

Lijin rhetorical method is a noun or noun-centered structure composed of statements, in which there is no adjective predicate, but can write the scenery and lyricism; no verb predicate, but can narrate the story of feelings.

Life lessons in the dusty world: heirloom old books. --Ink inscription

Autumn water in Nanhua on the seat; spring mountains in Beiyuan between the screens. --Self-titled

A thousand feet of pine at the blooming of ten thousand flowers; a crane's voice in the singing of birds. --Self-titled

The book is open and the spirit travels over a thousand years; the heart looks at the curtain in the ten thousand mountains. --Self-titled

After the good book is realized, there are three more months; when a good friend comes, there are four seats of spring. Self-titled

Wading and trekking through the mountains, I come to shed two lines of tears; facing the wind and the moon, I always cherish a piece of the heart of the deceased.

Around the accumulation of several layers of strange stones, the moonlight, such as peeping into the ancient streams; the ground has a hundred feet of tall pines, the green shade of the sun, when to the foreigner.

The cottage is eight or nine rooms, fishing rain and cultivating smoke, must believe that the rich is not as poor as the poor, the expensive is not as cheap;

Bamboo book ten million words, irrigation flowers brewing wine, I know that the peace from the right to happiness, leisure from the right to clear.

--- The description of Huai

tolerate people but insults, be careful but sick, drink but sad, think but dream, plant flowers but vulgar, burn incense but dirty;

*** make up for the labor, sleep alone to make up for the deficiency, use to make up for the poverty, for the good to make up for the faults, to rest wrath to make up for the gas, and to make up for the trouble of the few words.

-- self-titled Cao Tang

long seven feet big body, can not enjoy the wealth, can not enjoy the fame, in vain, holding that broken compilation, what flavor;

this piece of stinking skin, what clothes, what coffin, not as good as casting the weeds, is not it fast.

-- self-elegance

Seal engraving

"The sound of the river breaks the bank of a thousand feet", "I book meaning to create this can not", "obscene reading of the ancient text of the day to hear dissenting words", "home in the four Spirit of the mountains and water", "the intention of the meeting with the ancient", "the dance of the pen song and ink", "the city one day", "the spirit of the stone long", "the long", "spring end", "the long", "the long", "the long", "the long", "the long".

Poetry


Deng Dai

The Dai order is soaring with a banner, and the gazami crab is so mean that it offers a neigh. The only thing I can do is to get closer to the sky, but the sky is not as high as a human being's footsteps.

The mountains of Qilu have been lost in the clouds, and all the mountains have been added to the list. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.

The end of the manuscript of the book sent by the mountain people of the Finish White

The mountain people of the Finish White Deng Shiru Dunshou, the book for the start, Chen sent the crane. The owner of this crane has years to prove that he is one hundred and thirty years old, and has been in the door of the Secretary of State for four years. According to wanling zhang Hanzhai too Shi To "ancient crane line poem", Diannan chancellor Sun Gongyi Bing engraved in the jinling clan, the crane in changshu jiang home, the second live in wuxing shen home, and then returned to deqing xu home. Jingkou Ministry of Agriculture Yuan Litang to thousands of dollars to hire the 36 peaks in the Museum, this hundred and thirty years of age can be counted. The years before, it is not available and carry on. Shanmin traveled to Yuan Gong's home for a year, the Ministry of Agriculture of the son of Tingji order crane said Shanmin: "This is your Lord." The crane was said to be suitable for the mountain people, so it was given to the mountain people. Mountain people dying ears, get this for the old companion, Xun wilderness also. In the fall of the first year of the Jiaqing period, the boat passed by Jinling, Sun Zhongcheng pleased, want to hire the mountain people crane, but also the gray crane two gifts to the mountain people. This is also a puffin, not a crane. The crane is a slave, and the crane will not accept it. But it is, I crane return. The mountain people's families are all alone, and they have a lot of food and fingers, and each ink stone is used to feed their wives, and they are afraid that the cranes will be in trouble with the savages, so they chose to send the cranes to the monk's house in Jixianguan. Although the Zen room is poor, but the forest is luxuriant, bamboo trees, pass dangerous, rocky mountains, for up to the main road of Tianqu, and the dragon vein of the city of Anhui special. Monks want to rely on the Buddha's power to create and develop, in order to support the road, cultivate and protect the feng shui, its sincere and far-reaching. Not thirty miles away from the mountain people live, carrying food to feed cranes, monthly routine. Even though we are waiting for this crane, we are also waiting for the monks. Because the monk called the crane training and wishing that: "You are the tire bird floating hill, by the Cloud Gate, drumming the wings of the Huabiao, flying sound negative sky cloud ambition, I fear that the end is not a poor family have also. You have the heart, but also listen to your soaring, can not be羁 also. Now belongs to the monk, to repair your age. The monk is entrusted to you to supplement his name. You do not have to live up to the intention of the mountain crane to roam around here. This place has bamboo and ancient trees, can shelter Er; there is an ancient Buddha green lamp, can repent Er; there are spiritual streamers treasure cover, can be a dignified Er; there is the Dharma seat scripture altar, can be solemn Er; squatting lions and elephants, can protect Er; there is a Luo Yue pine wind, can be wandering Er; there are flowers and wildflowers, can be relieved Er step; there is a brook spring gurgling, can be washed Er Feather; there are rocks roaming the mountain, can be harsh Er beak; there are moss Hua embroidered masonry, can be a crazy Er; there is a tall wutong heavy, can be Zhang Er cover; a pale rattan drooping, can be row Er Block; there are bells and drums, can be used to repair Er age, the monk entrusted to Er to assist the name. rows of blocks; there are bells and drums boring O sound, can be the highest peak of the sea and wind pan may be the green clouds of the will; there are wind and rain, grass and trees shaking sound, can be touched to lead the high cry, if there is a defense of the pastoral duties; there are mountain birds singing noise, can be helped by the group under the integration of things and I, Xixi * * * Le Linquan of the degree of; there are car and horse line Mai sound, can be lamented for its dusty way, you will be combing plume Jiu Fei, the head of the tour to see; there are crowns to and from the sage rest, can be read in the field, dry gleam. Carrying a load of drive, the long way, cowering day and night, more show your openness and strong escape, alone and lonely standard. Where the four seasons in the mountains, snow, moon, flowers, wind and the weather, sunshine and thunderstorms of the insults, you can silently understand its constant change. You can be sure that you will be able to take my advice."

Also said: "The monk returns to the companion, the monk out of the guard. The moon is white and the wind is clear, listen to the scriptures and point the head. Do not drink and peck, end clean hair and feathers, he was too clear clothes Chu Chu, is not the driver ride, you roam. If you don't have a hundred thousand dollars, it's hard to go to Yangzhou. I don't live far away, in yan thirty miles. If you want to return, Dragon Mountain and Phoenix Water. Listen carefully to my toast." After wishing, the crane looked around in fear, if there is a will to escape. Was comforted and said: "before you come, you have to rest here." The crane then converted to the Buddha. Although converted to Buddha, the crane is still the crane of the mountain. Monk proposed its name, Yu said: "is a hidden thing, not a few names can be humiliated, but the Buddha can make it." So he changed his name to Fo Nu. The place where the crane is sent is not here, and the feeling of Yee Crane is not here. Crane ye monk ye, its help for the reason ye. The mountain people have no stone storage, the former had ten gold to help the monks create send crane pavilion, tea to help pedestrians. Yesterday, the fall drought, still money ten thousand Zuo monk frame this East Xuan, now cultivate bamboo ten thousand rods, clear shade full of seats, passers-by can be based on purify hubbub also. Today, I heard that the monk Lin Baishi Cao Tang said, His Excellency buckskin to live here, crane dance under the steps, from the officials to celebrate, that the official rank of a product of the omen, directly referring to the day ear. I did not notice, but I sent my men to fetter him and send him to the office. The monks were on their way, the cranes were at their death throats, they did not hear of the welcome of the car, but were humiliated and imprisoned, and those who rewarded people with good fortune would not care about being in such a predicament. From then on, the guests of the Lotus Curtain competed with each other to enjoy the birds that were not hired by the window, while the monks in the cold courtyard withered, and the day? The mountain people know that your intention is not as good as that of the mountain people. The mountain people know that your intention is not as good as it is, but the people who are close to the service figure this to invite the reward. Or plum to open the East Pavilion, temporarily borrowed to entertain the feelings, open the agar feast to sing flowers, order goblets and drunken guests, do not have? The first is a white bird of paradise, which is not a good idea. The white bird of Zhai, how can it be enough to enjoy this elegant feelings. Ride the Xing beckons, all the Xing wave, the crane is still returning to the people of the mountains in a few days. Or political leisure and enjoyment, see objects and people, the wind of the ancient qin and crane, in order to encourage its cleanliness, and the light of the state of Wan. The mountain people have to be the people under the rule of the people, but also with the honor. If you have it in your hands, can you live up to Yuan Langzhong's intention of giving a crane? I am also ashamed of this crane. And the outside counseling that the governor took the name of the mountain man crane. If you are guilty of blasphemy and dignity, then the mountain people will be transformed into cranes, and the cranes will be transformed into mountain people. Therefore, the beginning and end of the ancient crane, and monks, mountain people with this matter of mind, especially with the strands of the statement on the Chen, I am not afraid of fear and trepidation to. The mountain people again pause.

Another book after the self-record of a cloud: "Crane life I do not know its period, the human life repair short, the extreme is only a hundred years. All the universe of the mail thing ear. This crane is sent to the Secretary of State, sent to the mountain people, sent to the monks and Buddhists, and sent to the governor. The governor, the monk and the Buddha, the mountain people, and the government officials are all sent to the crane. The crane is sent to the people? The crane is sent to the people, and the people are sent to the crane. Although the life span of a crane may be uneven, it will eventually return to the universe, so I have nothing to do with it! I have been a servant for many years, and I have my own crane, but when I returned, I just thought that I would play with it for a short while, but I have never been around it with the crane's spirit. This book has become, with the crane, love the crane, training the crane, wishing the crane, how can I forget the crane. Although this is not negative to the crane, but the heart is not released to the crane. The book to save the crane, can be said to have a crane and no crane, no crane and have a crane also. Crane Ruoxi, Crane Ruoxi, do not wait for my other day of blue water and mountains together with the tour view in the desert? The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what I'm doing and what I'm doing.

Art Appreciation Introduction

Deng Shiru: (1743---1805), formerly known as Diem, the word Shiru, also known as Stubborn Bo, the name of the complete white mountain people, but also the name of the complete white, the ancient Raccoon son, the tour of the book of the Taoist, the Fengshui fishermen, the Longshan woodcutting long, etc., in Anhui, Huai Ning people. Some people categorize him as Anhui School, and more people respect him as "Deng School" because of his outstanding contribution in the history of seal cutting.

Deng Shiru childhood poverty, a lifetime of low social status, he said himself: "I was young at the end of the book, hardship, nothing to taste, year 13 or 4, the heart of the book, the year 20, grandfather brought to Shouzhou, will have been able to train the Meng is now dying old, the river and lake tour food, people do not treat literate people." Such a little reading "a cloth", grew into a great artist, all rely on the hard unshakeable faith, tenacious will and hard exercise. At the age of seventeen, he began to carve books for himself. After the age of thirty, through the introduction of friends, one after another, met the Nanjing Mei Miao three brothers and other friends, looking at the Mei family collection of gold and stone good books, where the famous stele always have to copy more than a hundred times, for this early in the morning and late at night, night and day for the future art of seal carving has laid a solid foundation of calligraphy. Therefore, people at that time commented that his four styles of calligraphy for the first person in the Qing Dynasty.

Deng Shiru era, when the Anhui and Zhejiang schools dominated the printing world, but he was never satisfied with the results achieved by the previous printers, but based on his own strong and calligraphy, "books from the print, prints from the book," breaking the traditional program of the Han seal in the official seal carving, the first in seal carving using the text of the small seal script and the amount of the tablet, broaden the funding for seal carving, and the first to use the small seal script and the tablet. Deng Shiru broadened the scope of seal carving and developed his own robust and graceful style of seal carving, which rose to prominence in the field of seal carving at that time, forming a rivalry with the schools of Anhui and Zhejiang. Deng Shiru's strong wind has been affecting the same period of Bao Shichen, Wu Jeanzhi, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Zi, Hu Shu Xu Sangeng and so on. In the history of the development of seal carving art, Deng Shiru is an outstanding master. Unfortunately, his original stone circulated very few surviving "complete white mountain people seal carving occasional", "complete white mountain people seal genealogy", "Deng Shiru seals deposit" and so on.

Introduction

"The river has a sound, the broken bank of a thousand feet" line from Su Shi "after the Red Cliff Fugue", is one of Deng Shiru's masterpieces. Artistic conception of the most avoid average dull, he has put forward in the theory of calligraphy, "the word can make the sparse place to walk horse, dense place does not make the wind," the aesthetic concept, this seal can be said to be a vivid embodiment of this concept. The characters "流、断" are written in a complicated manner to increase their density, so as to set off the sparseness with the density. The word "river" echoes the words "bank, thousand, feet", with open strokes and a large expanse of wide ground echoing the word "broken", plus the flow, there, sound! The "Density" of the word "break" forms a sharp contrast. His knife is different from the Anhui school, but also different from the Zhejiang school, but the knife as a pen, turning and smooth, carved out his robust and graceful style.

"I book intention to create this can not" a seal, in the fine white text engraving method, can be said to be unprecedented, unique he put the Song and Yuan round Zhuwen engraving method, the development of this fine white text engraving method, the print of the text of the square and round twists and turns, depending on the form of the seal randomly with the form of the seal, and this white text lines, the most reflective of his calligraphy, the pen feelings This white lines can best reflect his calligraphy of the pen and ink interest and the flavor of gold and stone with a knife as a pen.

"lust read ancient texts, heard different words", the same style as the last seal, although the knife is not as strong as the last seal, but the chapter is painstakingly managed. The whole seal eight words divided into three lines, sparse its line and dense its left and right, is the characteristics of this seal.

"Home in the four spirit of the mountains and water" full seal seven words, as its book. The seal of this seal is exactly the opposite of the last seal in the middle of the dense and the left and right sides of the sparse, tight place does not make people feel suffocated, the sparse place is more than enough. Painting master Huang Binhong was influenced by this, in his painting theory, there is also "sparse can walk horses, dense can penetrate the wind" said.

"Ling Shi Shan long", "spring end" two seals, diagonal sparse echo, Zhu white mirror, the whole seal pen sound ink full, full of round, simple and lush feeling. A seal often has a tone, compared to down, "Chunya" plus columns of the white seal, due to the turn slightly see between the power. Art master Feng Zikai once said, seal carving art is "operating within a square inch, and appreciate the fine hair, review its sparseness, identify its ugly woman". Therefore, "calligraphy and painting have the same origin, but the book is deeper than the painting, and the golden stone is deeper than the book". Therefore, "non-subtle art cultivation, not enough with the language". These insights are of great significance to the art of Deng Shiru.

Interpretation of Calligraphy:

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the seal script has gradually become silent, and those who are good at it have become like morning stars. It was not until the Qing Dynasty, with the rise of jinshi and kaoxue, that the spring of the revival of seal script was ushered in. The emergence of Deng Shiru in the Qianjia period completely broke the deadlock of the seal script and opened up new horizons. Deng Shiru changed the method of seal script of the past several hundred years, fully utilizing the strengths of the brush to express the meaning of the seal script, so that the writing of the brush strokes of the lift and press, start and finish the brush strokes of the intent more rich in change, in the structure also broke the past kind of stereotyped fixed pattern, the influence of the reach, the trend.

Deng Shiru, initially named Diem, the word Shi Ru, the number of stubborn uncle, Anhui Huaining people. Deng Shiru was a man of cloth, selling books and engraving seals for his own subsistence. He studied calligraphy and seal carving all his life, and his achievements in seal script were the highest, with pioneering contributions. His seal script is based on the Shikuwen (Stone Drum Script), Taishan Sculpted Stones, Yishan Stele, and Kaimu Shiquet, and incorporates the graceful and fluttering interest of the Han Dynasty, with square and rounded characters, novel gestures, deep and strong strokes, graceful and elegant, generous and flexible strokes, and tough bones, sweeping away the dull and weak, monotonous habits of the time. The seal script is also derived from the official script, and the official script is derived from the seal script, creating a style of its own. After the Qing Dynasty, all seal calligraphers were influenced by him, and it can be said that for more than two hundred years, the colorful style of seal script art and the emergence of great masters have made Deng Shiru the beginning of this brilliant scene.

Book in the first year of the Jiaqing after the "Deng Shiru seal script book", the pen force is robust, bone such as cotton wrapped in iron, the body of the trend of composure, pen such as silkworms spitting silk, especially into the meaning of the seal of the official pen, can be regarded as Deng Shiru heirloom ink in the representative of the work. When practicing this post, one should carefully observe and y appreciate the varied characteristics of the brushwork. In terms of starting and ending, there is both a reversed start and stop, which is introverted and subtle, and a reversed entry and flat exit, which is easy and smooth. The strokes of the arc paintings, or with the method of lifting and turning to see the roundness, or with the method of folding to see the square strength. These subtle changes in the use of the brush, are to be Pro in place, it is not possible to pass by in the practice of a big and big. Must be done as Sun Taiting said, "the one who is still fine, the one who is like." In terms of characterization, Deng Shiru Seal Script Album strives for a uniform method of white cloth, thus making each seal character appear smooth and peaceful, but in the blank space, it is drooping and trailing, thus forming a unity of opposites between sparseness and solidity, and between etherealness and richness. While dealing with the uniformity and sparseness of the white cloth, we should also pay full attention to the relationship between the parallel, symmetrical, embracing and backing of the lines. In addition, the variation of the lines is also an important aspect that should not be neglected in order to learn Deng Shiru's seal script. The arrangement of the differences between the lines of the small seal script is often the key to creating vividness. Qing dynasty Wang Shu Yun: "Seal script has three essentials: one is round, two is thin, and three is different. Round is strong, thin is fat, the difference is neat. Lose one of the three, slave book ear!" This should be we write the small seal script to keep in mind.