During the Ming and Qing dynasties, imperial examinations were highly valued, and the quality of candidates' lower case calligraphy was also one of the important assessment criteria. Moreover, after becoming an official, capital letters still have important practical value for writing memorials and official documents, so capital letters are an indispensable skill for literati in this period. The Qing dynasty had strict requirements for the imperial examination and calligraphy in officialdom. Not only should the handwriting be clear and neat, but it can't be altered or sketched, and it is absolutely not allowed to use different forms and different glyphs. If you violate these requirements, you will lose the admission qualification of candidates and be punished by officials. In this atmosphere, lowercase letters in the Qing Dynasty formed a neat and standardized unified look. Because this face is mainly for the royal family or the court. Therefore, it is called "pavilion style".
"Pavilion Style" originated from practical small letters and gradually extended to calligraphy creation. In particular, the calligraphy works displayed in the palace or the royal garden also meet the formal requirements of the "pavilion". The specific performance is that the stippling is round and smooth, the font is square and neat, and the ink color is thick and black. At that time, it was summarized as the formula of "the light of Ukraine". In practical writing, such as exams and official documents, it is reasonable to require the standardization and neatness of small letters, but it is contrary to the requirement of calligraphy art to express temperament to blindly demand the neatness and similarity of regular letters. The prevalence of "pavilion style" in the world has had an obvious negative impact on modern calligraphy, especially the creation of regular script.
Appreciation of Shen Du s Regular Script Four Proverbs;
Speech suggestion
If you don't know what to say, what can you say? People who know what to say are silent, and their meaning is conveyed. In the curtain debate, people described you as a traitor. In taichung's comments, people are inclined to you. You don't punish evil, but you hurt it!
Touching suggestion
Philosophers know a few things, think of their sincerity, carry out their aspirations, keep their actions, be rational and prosperous, want and despair, think of the second, be afraid and self-sustaining. Practice and nature, sages and sages return together.
Shizhen
If there is a loss in the heart, if there is no trace, there must be something, and it is regarded as a rule. Cover the front and move it. Outside, inside. Self-denial, long and sincere.
Listen to advice
People are good at grasping the easy, have a book, and know how to induce materialization, so they will die and have foresight. Zhi Zhi has a determination that he will be honest and idle, so don't listen to evil.
Book introduction:
Shen Du (1357-1434), a native of Huating (now Jinshan, Shanghai), was a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, and his brother Shen Yun was good at calligraphy. Yongle entered the Hanlin with good books. A bachelor's degree is taught by classics. Shen Du is good at seal script, official script, regular script, running script and other calligraphy styles, and is hidden in the secret house. He is called "Pavilion Style" and is a representative figure of Taige Style calligraphy in Ming Dynasty.
Shen Du, who was good at Taige calligraphy, won the appreciation of Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was known as "I am Wang Xizhi", which made him famous for a while. Teach Zhai Zhen in ink has been handed down from generation to generation. Brother Shen Fengyun, good at cursive script, son, good at calligraphy, all inherited family studies. He is the author of Xiqing Leisure Music Draft, Self-submitted Compilation, Southern Yunnan Draft and Notes. Famous calligraphy works include Li Longmian's Picture of Wei Moyan's Religion, Liu Songnian's Picture of Ascending the Mountain in the Song Dynasty, Liu's Picture of Gui Zhuang in the Song Dynasty, Never Leave, Bao and other books.