Chen Liang
Writing has now become an important factor in art, and both stele study and post study are based on writing. China's traditional writing art has been fully developed in calligraphy. In the practice of calligraphy, Zhang Shucong keenly explored the special resources of bamboo slips in Qin and Han dynasties, and revealed the extensive possibilities of calligraphy and daily life in the emotional form of military soul through the performance of techniques.
? Zhang Shucong's calligraphy created a space to discuss unearthed bamboo slips and writing mechanism. It opens up a new writing power different from Han stele and traditional scholar-bureaucrat calligraphy, stimulates the vitality of the creation of bamboo slips in Qin and Han dynasties, and shows an ideological world about the contemporary transformation of bamboo slips. A brand-new sensibility from Qin and Han dynasties, which blooms and grows from the inner writing emotion, is vivid and charming.
As we all know, there are two systems of calligraphy in Han Dynasty, one is inscriptions, the other is bamboo slips and ink, which are books and documents before paper was invented or widely used. Because of different materials, different writing tools, different contents, different shapes and different writers' identities, they show different artistic styles. There are seal script, classification, grass and so on. What Han writes is either a letter or a document report, so it is not limited to appearances, but mostly sloppy. In addition, it is limited by narrow face and small handwriting. However, the ancient calligraphers were still able to lay out the rules in an ingenious way, with a patchwork and ease. Han bamboo slips are not so bound by writing ideas, so they show rich creativity, so they have more potential and are more likely to be excavated.
Kang Youwei's Talk on Guang Yi and Zhou Shuang said: "The beauty of calligraphy lies in the pen, but in the time when it is played, but in the surroundings." "The method of writing a pen is ten late and five urgent, ten hidden and five out, fifteen volts. This is a wonderful song. " Therefore, it is not easy to write a tablet or a post with a pen, which plays a very important role in writing. This is especially true for the transformational creation of contemporary bamboo slips.
How to transform the thumbnail sketches of Juyan Han bamboo slips, Dunhuang Han bamboo slips, Wuwei Han bamboo slips and Gangu Han bamboo slips into contemporary creations on Xuan paper requires a lot of exploration in techniques. In Zhang Shucong's creation, he simplified the complex and realized the internal transformation of Fiona Fang, China, turning point, lifting and pressing, and translation.
Among the bamboo slips of Juyan, Wuwei, Dunhuang and Qin Chu, Zhang Shucong's calligraphy works are the most diligent. Creative aspects are also very diverse. Including regular script, running script, official script, Cao Zhang and other characters. Cursive script originated from bamboo slips and spread to the creation of big grass. In addition, his early efforts in Zhong You and Wang Chong's regular script made today's calligraphy based on bamboo slips more profound and endowed with an aura of Wei and Jin Dynasties.
On the whole, Zhang Shucong's works show a unique realm, which comes from the spiritual order since Qin and Han Dynasties, and also shows a brand-new personal delicate and heroic style, such as the ups and downs of a python in a trickle.