Engaged in journalism in Coconut City for nearly ten years, I met Mr. Chen Chao, who is keen on calligraphy. The end of 1980s was the golden age for the islanders to "go to sea", but he decided to study at China Correspondence College of Painting and Calligraphy for three years. He knew that he had a poor foundation, so he had to redouble his efforts when he became a monk halfway. In the past ten years, I started from copying, took Tang Kai as my ancestor, followed other schools in the past dynasties, surpassed Qin and Han Dynasties, and absorbed inscriptions and traditions. In order to find the true meaning of "reading thousands of books and taking the road of Wan Li", it is intended to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, enrich the cultivation of kung fu outside books, and appreciate the way that "the beauty of learning books lies in people" and "beauty must be lost in the chest".
Chen Chao is good at cursive script and official script. His official script comes from the Diamond Sutra of Shoushan Buddha, which is thick, quiet and elegant. The cursive script is based on the "two kings", especially the brushwork of Sun, Huai Su and Fu Shan, which is bohemian, free and easy and full of connotation.
Master Hongyi from Badashan is a great man in the history of calligraphy, and his unique calligraphy style has always been very attractive. Judging from Chen Chao's calligraphy works in recent three years, some of them are pursuing the realm of sages, and the simple lines reveal the lightness and charm, showing detachment. There is no impetuousness in his books, which shows that his personal environment is carefree, which may be Chen Chao's quiet learning style.
Casual, free and easy, vigorous are the remarkable characteristics of Chen Chao's official script works, which can be seen from "keeping quiet to cultivate one's morality, saving to cultivate one's morality". In general products, he is careless, with a high pen tube, fast falling and slow entering, with ease. Judging from the cursive script of the work "The Painter has God", the strokes are vertical and horizontal, but the pen is closed, but God makes it happy, and the change of dark and light ink color is even more ethereal.
Chen Chao realized that China's calligraphy art was rooted in China's philosophy and followed the habit of "a gentleman is better than jade". He believes that he should read more books, practice more, write without me, and master nature with his heart.
We look forward to Chen Chao's artistic pursuit in the future, and it may be better to be more rigorous in his scholarship and inject more charm into the book style of Jin people.