Wu Tiyu (1929-2009), a native of Xinhua, Hunan Province, whose real name is Wu Diyu, whose name is Chao Ji, and whose name is Xijiang Woodman, is also a strange man in yujiang county. Gifted, four-year-old Linchi, has been working hard for more than 70 years. He studied the styles of Erwang, Ou, Yan, Liu, Zhao, Chu and Banqiao, which originated from the ancients but were different from them. His regular script is rigorous, clumsy, elegant and unique, and is called "Wu Style" in the world. Wu Tiyu's thousand-character script and Wu Tiyu's calligraphy have been published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House and Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, and dozens of monuments have been built in places of interest such as Yuelu Academy, which is a master of modern regular script, and another peak in the development history of regular script since the Tang Dynasty. His son Wu Jiangwan is collecting and sorting out his works, and has signed a contract with Founder of Peking University to jointly launch Founder Wushu font library.
On February 23rd, 2009, Mr. Wu Tiyu, a famous scholar in Hunan, died at home at the age of 8 1.
Chinese name: Wu Tiyu.
Alias: Wu Diyu
Place of birth: Xinhua, Hunan
Date of death: 65438+February 23rd, 2009.
Occupation: contemporary master of regular script
Representative Works: Small Case Copy of Tao Te Ching
brief introduction
Wu Tiyu, (1929-2009), a native of Xinhua, Hunan. His real name is Wu Diyu, whose word is Chao Ji, and he is a woodcutter in Xijiang River, and he is also a strange man in yujiang county. Gifted and intelligent, Linchi is four years old and has been writing for more than 70 years. He studied the styles of Erwang, Ou, Yan, Liu, Zhao, Chu and Banqiao, which originated from the ancients but were different from them. His regular script is rigorous, clumsy, elegant and unique, and is called "Wu Style" in the world. Copyright of Tao Te Ching Regular Script was published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House on 1992. In addition, it has dozens of places of interest such as Yuelu Academy, a Millennium institution, and is a contemporary master of regular script.
publish a book
Tao Te Ching's Regular Script Copywriting (1992) was published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.
In 2006, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House published Wu Tiyu's Wen Zi.
Wu Tiyu Calligraphy was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 2007.
Main story
199 1 year, when the Yuelu Academy, a Millennium institution, was rebuilt, the origin of Yuelu Academy was written by Wu Laoshu Dan, and Mr. Wu Tiyu also had dozens of places of interest such as Hunan Changde Monument Gallery and Guangdong Shikoku Monument Forest.
In 2005, Wu Lao Calligraphy Exhibition was held in Changsha, Hunan. At this time, Wu Lao has been paralyzed for eight years, which is the first time to hold a solo exhibition.
His son Wu Jiangwan is collecting and sorting out his works, and has signed a contract with Founder of Peking University to jointly launch Founder Wushu font library.
World assessment
Elegant and Unique —— Zhang Hai, Chairman of China Calligraphers Association.
"Sweet and sour, straight into the calligraphy hall!" -Ouyang Zhongshi.
"Dangerous power escapes beautiful and elegant alcohol." He Daozhou's praise rate is more body language, and the eight characters are the world, but if you give me a few words, I won't feel guilty! "-Wen Huaisha.
Student Cao Juanping: "He was stolen by a thief in the street many years ago, and then he wrote an advertisement to persuade the thief to learn calligraphy from him and learn how to make a living."
Wu Lao's life
Mr Wu Tiyu is a contemporary master of regular script. 1929 was born in a calligraphy family in Xinhua, Hunan. His real name is Wu Diyu, whose word is Chao Ji, and he is also a yujiang county man. He is gifted and intelligent. He was in Linchi when he was four years old. He insisted on writing for more than 70 years, and finally formed a refined, rigorous, dangerous, elegant, dignified and agile style, which was praised as "martial arts" by the world. Professor Gan, vice president of China Calligraphy Culture Research Institute of Capital Normal University, once wrote "Don't seek to get rid of the law, don't be bound by the law". He wrote in the book: "There are several students who have succeeded in learning Europe in this world, and Mr. Ti Yu's sincere work can stand independently among them." As early as 199 1 when the Yuelu Academy, a Millennium institution, was rebuilt, it had been a long time since the first monument of the stele gallery, The Origin of Yuelu Academy, was written by who. Finally, the experts pushed around in the crowd and decided to ask Mr. Wu Tiyu, who lives in seclusion in the rural area of Xinhua, Hunan Province, to write, and Wu became famous from then on. Mr. Wu Tiyu also has dozens of masterpieces and monuments in Changde Monument Gallery in Hunan and Shikoku Monument Forest in Guangdong.
In 2005, Mr Wu Tiyu's calligraphy exhibition was held in Changsha, Hunan. At this time, Mr. Wu has been paralyzed for eight years. Many viewers finished Wu's works with tears. They said: there are still such good words in the world, so we must publish them! Many people think Wu style is more beautiful than European style.
Mr Wu Tiyu worked in a porcelain factory for many years. Because he has been writing on porcelain for a long time, he likes to use the line pen special for porcelain factory. This kind of pen has a special pen holder and a prominent stick head, which is more weighty than ordinary pens. Ordinary people dare not write, but Mr. Wang is handy to use. Mr. Wang's pen adheres to the principle of "square but not stiff, round but not slippery, just like a mountain and soft as water", so it is more rounded and subtle than his pen, because it is unobtrusive, explicit and delicate. He once said in an interview with Hunan Satellite TV artists: "If Europeans' handwriting is square, I will write round;" If the European body is thinner, I will write a little fatter than it. " Kang Youwei said in "Twenty-one Laws of Guangyizhou": "The beauty of calligraphy lies in the use of a pen. The best way is to use them in Fiona Fang. If the square is not round, it will be round, or if the body is round, or if the pen is round, it will be beautiful and single. " Mr. Wu Tiyu is deeply touched!
In pen and ink, Mr. Wang likes to use an extremely strong Su Mo. When he puts pen to paper, he tends to fall from the rocks. When you enter the paper, you draw sand with a cone, which is wonderful in Yin Yinni. It has a strong three-dimensional sense, but it is gorgeous, beautiful and quiet. Appreciating Mr. Wu's calligraphy gives people the greatest feeling than a quiet word. After watching it, Mr. Yang Hui, a famous TV producer, said, "Although I have never met your teacher, I think Mr. Wu must be a very quiet person."
Mr. Wang's calligraphy is not only "quiet", but also advocates "both brushwork and brushwork" and once said that "it is actually empty, but it is real". Although the pen on the periphery of his words is as heavy as Mount Tai, the pen inside is slender and ethereal, and the contrast between light and reality is stronger than his face, penetrating the back of the paper and shocking. The boldness of pen and the density of ink are rare in ancient and modern times. He has a profound foundation, skillful technique, extremely lively brushwork and flowing style, and successfully combines the contradiction between "dignified" and "smart". The difficulty of regular script is that it is difficult to achieve "both running and writing", that is, the structure is accurate and the brushwork is meticulous, and at the same time it reflects the brushwork of running script. Even "Song Sijia" Su Dongpo can't help sighing that "real books are hard to fly". Wu's success is precisely on the basis of rigor and rigor, skillfully combining Zhao Meng's running script.
Mr. Wu Tiyu's structure is not tight, but his palace is tight, his introversion is closer than that of Ou Yangxun, and his indulgence is more elegant than that of Chu Suiliang. On the whole, it is suitable, fresh and pleasing to the eye. At first glance, the structure is dense, but in fact, the brushwork is circuitous, wide and slow, pneumatic, interactive and free, which can be described as "Ming Xiu follows the crowd" (Shu Zan). In composition, Mr. Wang skillfully borrowed Yang Ningshi's "Jiuhua Tie", and the spacing between words was very wide, leaving an ethereal dust. Mr. Wang once said: "Words are alive, so leave enough room for them." According to common sense, this kind of composition is not done well, and it is easy to make people feel lazy and depressed, but Mr. Wang's works can create a knotted spirit and a harmonious realm, which can't help but make people marvel at his superb driving ability. No wonder Mr. Feng Qiyong thinks that he has surpassed Huang Ziyuan in the inheritance and development of European style, which is probably the reason. Reading Mr. Wang's calligraphy is like walking on an old mountain road, meeting a master and listening to his talk, just like soaking in the spring breeze in a light rain, swinging the dust in your chest.
Nowadays, people often regard regular script as a daunting road, thinking that Tang script is the highest peak that cannot be surpassed, and it is a waste of time to work hard on regular script. Mr. Wu Tiyu used his whole life to prove that the ancients were not insurmountable. His life, unaffected by the current wind, has gone through hardships. He wants nothing but the highest level of calligraphy. What Mr. Wang pursues all his life is-"better lie in the ditch and rock than pass by." He knows that artists want to be handed down from generation to generation by works. Even after the old age is paralyzed, ask someone to lift it up and spread it with paper and ink every day, and then someone will put a pen in his hand and write a picture or two. After 200 1 year, my hands have been shaking and I can't catch food when I eat. He needs someone to feed him every meal. When writing, someone needs to break his convulsive fingers and hold a pen in his hand. Even so, his calligraphy is rock solid. It is this simple and persistent pursuit that excludes the interference of all material desires. In addition, Mr. Wu Tiyu, who has lived in Hunan for a long time, has acquired the aura of Xiaoxiang and the temperament of Huxiang. After 70 years of profound education and tempering, he has finally been cultivated into a masterpiece of Tang Kai, which can be called "an artistic masterpiece unaffected by urban industrial civilization". In his later years, Mr. Wu Tiyu loved "Banqiao Style" and tried to change his own style. His book tends to be clumsy and old-fashioned on the basis of the original work, but unfortunately he failed to write more wonderful works after 1997 was paralyzed.
Wang Shu of the Qing Dynasty once criticized those who studied Europe in ancient times: "Every time they read it, the efficiency is relatively high, and many aspects are boring, which makes them lack rhyme." I don't know, but I'm gentle inside, bright and beautiful in appearance, clear and beautiful, and absolutely charming. "Mr Wu Tiyu is undoubtedly a successful European student! It is no exaggeration to say that Wu Tikai's calligraphy combines Ou Yangxun's beauty, Yan Zhenqing's dignity, Zhao Meng's charm, Chu Suiliang's grace, Yang Ningshi's ethereal spirit and Zheng Banqiao's nifty, and it is unique in structure, pen and ink and even composition. The high unity of the four makes Mr. Wu's calligraphy unique in European style, beautiful and elegant. From this point of view, Wu style is more relaxed, natural and vivid than European style, and its inherent bookish spirit makes the works elegant, quiet and far-reaching in artistic conception. Some people use the word "beautiful, elegant and mellow" to summarize the characteristics of Wu Tiyu's calligraphy, which is just right. This is also the advantage that Mr. Wang is different from those who used to be good at Europe. As the "business card of Huxiang calligraphy", Mr. Wang's calligraphy has finally added another pearl to the history of China calligraphy. People who are familiar with Wu Lao not only admire his profound calligraphy skills, but also admire his poetic talent and character. Mr. Wang/Kloc-became an orphan at the age of 0/2. Later, he served as a soldier, taught books, worked as a porcelain painter in a porcelain factory for more than 20 years, and retired to grow vegetables, plow fields, recite poems and write. He has a song "Le Nong Ge", which has a deep legacy. This is a portrayal of his life after he retired from the porcelain factory in the 1980s:
What is the joy of rural spring? It's hard to express your stupid intentions. Bamboo shoots are peeled and tender, and chickens hatch pheasants, which are soft. Wild ducks float in Shan Ye, and partridges fall on trees. Ziyannan came back to find the old base, and orioles moved north to raise new chicks. Rape flowers are golden and wheat seedlings are lush. The morning glow and the beautiful scenery of Xiushan are full of men and women. The iron cow played a symphony and the seedlings were arranged in eight arrays. The fishpond is sparkling, and the pigsty is chubby. The garden is full of vegetables picked at random, muddy wine and full of feelings. Xing with two spun poems, idle waves for a few lines.
What he wrote in his poem was the happiest time of his life. "The fish pond is sparkling, and the pigs in the pigsty are chubby." That stupid pig is very beautiful and lovely!
Mr Wu Tiyu is particularly good at writing couplets. 1992 Dong Sheng Cao Juanping accompanied Teacher Cao to visit the Art Department of Xiangtan Normal University. He was invited to write a book for China painter Mr. Zeng Jingxiang. On the spot, he wrote calligraphy couplets such as "Danqing is all over the world, peaches and plums are all over China" (for Mr. Zeng Jingxiang), "Adding luster to essence, turning decay into magic" (for the framers) and "Yun Qi's morning glow, geese flying flat sand", which is unique and unconventional, and very in line with the identity of the characters.
Mr. Wu Tiyu's calligraphy skill is superb, and he has a great eye, but I have never heard him say anyone's fault. Mr. Wang teaches tirelessly, and his disciples are all over Hunan. There are dozens of calligraphy graduate students and doctoral students who have left Wumen. Yan Fuchu, Liu and Su Meihua, the backbone figures in Hunan's book circle today, are all his disciples. Mr. Cijiang Bender is a benevolent and artistic heirloom. In addition to his cool appearance, he also won the mantle of Mr. Zijiang Bender and won numerous awards in China. Xiao Ming, a clever woman, now teaches in Loudi and Xinhua, and her disciples are all over urban and rural areas, and her reputation is far-reaching. It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Loudi and Xinhua.
There are many criticisms of Mr. Wu's calligraphy. Some people say that Mr. Wu's calligraphy is too perfect and lacks temperament. I beg to differ. In today's society, people pay special attention to writing temperament, but any neat works are dismissed as "cabinets", while Wu Lao's calligraphy innovation is completely ignored, let alone understand the mystery of Wu Lao's realm. I think: simplicity and wildness are a style pursued by literati, and accuracy and perfection are another artistic realm! Ceng Yun, Mr. Wu Tiyu: "Regular script can express people's personality and emotions, but it is not those flamboyant, radical and dynamic emotions. Regular script shows the kind of quiet, calm, meticulous and peaceful mood and emotion, and regular script can express static beauty to the extreme. "
Mr. Wu Tiyu once wrote in his sixties: "I want wealth and brilliance, but I hope that calligraphy will shine on future generations." There is no hope of success from generation to generation, and the language is not amazing. In this regard, Yan Fuchu, a famous calligrapher, once said: "Wu Lao lives in an era when calligraphy pursues scarcity and wildness, so his calligraphy achievements are not recognized by people at that time, otherwise his influence and fame will be even greater! "Today, Mr. Wu Tiyu is famous all over the world. 1998, when Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi first saw Mr. Wu Tiyu's calligraphy, he wrote an inscription: "Sweet and sour, straight into the calligraphy hall! And wrote in the signature: "Wu pays tribute to Mr. Guan Diyu, who is deeply respected! Zhong Shi ". In 2005, Feng Qiyong, a famous scholar and calligrapher, happily wrote an inscription after appreciating Wu Tiyu's thousand-character writing: "The rate is higher, and Henan is more charming. I am writing a letter to Mr Feng Qiyong. This year, Mr. Tan Tan, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, wrote an article entitled "Stand with Books and Look Far-reaching", praising Wu Lao's calligraphy. At first, I said, "I have always respected Mr. Wu Tiyu, not only because of his books, but also because of his personality. From Wu Lao's book, we can also see the profound extra-word kung fu, which shows the beauty of calligrapher's thought, talent and cultivation. Wu Lao's calligraphy works are the perfect combination of calligraphy and character, and truly achieve the wonderful situation between people and books. "
In 2007, Zhang Hai, Chairman of China Calligraphers Association, wrote an inscription for Mr. Wu Tiyu's calligraphy collection: "Elegant and Unique". In the same year, Mr. Wen Wei, a master of Chinese studies, a famous scholar and calligrapher, wrote an inscription: "Danger, strength and eloquence are elegant and mellow." He Daozhou's praise rate is more body language, and the eight characters are the world, but if you give me a few words, I won't feel guilty! "Danger and strength, beauty and elegance are mellow" was originally Ji Shao's praise for Ou Yangxun. Now Wen Lao thinks that "four or eight words seek the world, but if you give Mr. Shu a few terms, you are not guilty", which shows the high level of martial arts.
In 2007, Mr. Wu Tiyu's eldest son, Wu Jiangwan, signed a contract with Founder of Peking University on behalf of Mr. Wu Lao, and plans to launch the "Wu Ti regular script font library" at home and abroad within three years. We have reason to believe that with the popularization of "five-body regular script font", the "first after reform" five-body will be loved and recognized by the world!