Modern ugly calligraphy won the prize.

When we mention Zheng Banqiao, the first thing that comes to mind is his bamboo, and an idiom derived from it: We have a well-thought-out plan, and we are also familiar with his calligraphy, that is, the two paintings of "It's hard to be confused" and "It's a blessing to suffer". When we look at Zheng Banqiao's handwriting, it is indeed curved in shape and varies in size, so it is called "a street full of stones". Therefore, some painters and calligraphers with strange painting and calligraphy styles in Yangzhou became "Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou".

Zheng Banqiao's weirdness is not innate, which has a lot to do with his personal experience. As a scholar, he must be able to write beautiful lower case letters, which is the basic skill for taking the imperial examination. However, it is not easy for him to be a scholar. He has a seal engraved with "Kangxi Scholar, Yongzheng Juren, Qianlong Scholar". After the Three Dynasties, he was admitted to the scholar at the age of 40, which was really hard for him to accept.

However, getting into the Jinshi exam does not mean the end of the pain. After being unemployed at home for six years, Jinshi finally got a job assignment and was transferred to the mainland as a seven-product sesame official. The ideal of ancient scholars was to study hard and be an official, but Zheng Banqiao's career was bumpy, and he became a county magistrate in his fifties. His family is not going well either. He lost his mother very early, his middle wife died, and his son died in his later years. It can be said that there are four tragedies in life, and he has experienced three.

And he vented all these unhappy and unhappy lives on calligraphy, and used calligraphy to express his grief and indignation. Sure enough, master artists have tragic life experiences. In his later years, he resigned as a civil servant and went to Yangzhou to sell paintings for a living. He no longer needs to write standard regular script. Start trying to innovate. The accumulation of calligraphy in his early years provided rich nutrition for his innovation and created "six books and a half" Because official script is also called eight-part script, his calligraphy is less than official script, which is between official scripts, so he calls himself six-part script.

But his calligraphy is not made by himself, but a combination of ancient inscriptions. This is an important reason for his success, which can be said to be a strange word. On the basis of six and a half books, he mixed the brushwork of drawing orchids, so they looked different sizes. But this is precisely the embodiment of his artistic style. His calligraphy is a high generalization of his attitude towards life and embodies the calligraphy art of "books are like people". He has a place in the history of calligraphy, which is the success of civilian calligraphy. Calligraphers in history, such as Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Huang Tingjian, Zhao Meng and Wang Duo, are all dignitaries. The rise and fame of Zheng Banqiao represents the rise of common people's calligraphy. At the same time, his calligraphy is known as "strange" and has become a household name.