The limitation and one-sided understanding of calligraphy art and academic thought liberated the communication and application of China's language from the original tedious strokes and brushwork, and made the cursive script of China's calligraphy truly become a tool to improve the writing speed and efficiency of China. At present, Mr. Liu Tianyi has finished the first draft with 28,000 words and 5,000 commonly used words. Here is a detailed introduction to the motivation and significance of why Mr. Liu Tianyi re-edited the book History and Reality. The cursive script of China's calligraphy must be simplified and popularized.
Cursive script is a lyrical style with high artistic value, simple writing, quick response and high practical value. Through cursive writing, calligraphers can bring the beauty of calligraphy to the extreme. However, in the creation of cursive script, the cursive script writers of past dynasties have different sources, different writing methods, different grasping of cursive script radicals, different ways of thinking in artistic creation, and different cursive scripts. Therefore, the phenomenon of different characters, multi-modal characters and even dozens of styles in each book is very serious, which makes the cursive script in a chaotic state and makes the later learners feel at a loss. What's more, some people don't understand cursive script (structural method, commonly known as cursive script), and cursive script is absurd, so there is a phenomenon that cursive script is out of shape and the fairy can't recognize it, or the cursive script is not standardized and the fairy is difficult to distinguish. Mr. Yu Youren often taught Liu Tianyi before his death that cursive script is the main writing format of western foreign languages, especially English, and China people communicate with Chinese characters in regular script. However, the structure of Chinese characters in regular script is too complicated, and writing is time-consuming and laborious, so the process of ordinary people learning calligraphy is complicated and it is easy to give up halfway. Then the cursive script of commonly used Chinese characters is carefully selected and standardized, and promoted. This is him (Yu Youren
Therefore, as early as the end of the 1920s, Mr. Yu Youren began to study all kinds of laws and forms of cursive script, consulted a lot of materials and used a lot of manpower and material resources. Although it has been edited and published several times, due to the busy official business and bad political environment, the working conditions and energy can't keep up, so I can't devote myself to learning and editing. In addition, the professional quality of the users is not high enough, and their own calligraphy writing level is mixed, which leads to many words being not practical enough. Therefore, he has always hated the strange phenomena in cursive script, such as "difficult to recognize, difficult to write and difficult to remember", which has not been completely solved. Therefore, Mr. Liu Tianyi decided to follow Mr. Yu Youren's thought, re-study and standardize the core elements of practical popularization of cursive script.
On this basis, Mr. Liu Tianyi drew many opinions through his own writing and comparison, and clearly summarized them as follows:
1, define the purpose and principle.
Chinese characters are complex, with many radicals, and it is difficult to recognize and write, and it is difficult to understand and use them later. Therefore, in order to "popularize cursive script in the world, for convenience, to give full play to cultural functions, to save the time of all citizens, and to carry forward the traditional weapons of the whole nation, isn't it today's weapon?
Urgent! "That is to say, how to make China's calligraphy style with a history of more than two thousand years-cursive script, from complex to simple, from difficult to easy, from bitter to happy, from complicated to unified, from illusory to practical and popular. This is the ultimate goal. " After the purpose is decided, it is a principle: easy to understand, easy to write, accurate and beautiful. According to these four rules, I think it is a choice. Words, whether they are chapters or chapters, are crazy, whether they are hidden or obvious, whether they are paper, silk, masonry or bamboo slips, they are just for everyone to appreciate and use. At the same time, through this arrangement, the people get happiness from suffering, while those who use them are separated and unified. This is the author's only hope. "
2. Over the years, Mr. Liu Tianyi has extensively collected cursive scripts (ink and rubbings) and papers of past dynasties. Spent decades, exhausted a lot of resources, extensively searched for hundreds of thousands of versions of cursive cultural relics in past dynasties, and devoted himself to studying Chinese calligraphy and calligraphy.
At first, Mr. Liu Tianyi took Mr. Yu Youren's "standard cursive script" as the "matrix", overcame all kinds of shortcomings and difficulties, and gradually formed a script with modern cursive script as the standard. He also made a comparative study of cursive script on the basis of previous studies. Although the thousand-character script is the most concerned and dedicated topic of cursive writers in past dynasties, "celebrities gather and give their strengths" to facilitate the comparison between famous places and learn from each other's strengths. However, the number of words in Thousand-Character Works is not enough, and the commonly used words only account for half. For learners who have a basic knowledge of calligraphy, it is possible to draw inferences from others and achieve the effect of drawing inferences from others, but it is still difficult for most beginners. Then, on the basis of this deletion and optimization, Mr. Liu Tianyi wrote Comparison himself, which enriched and reclassified its words and became a more concise and practical reference book.
3. The dictionary of China calligraphy cursive script standardization is the crystallization of borrowing the artistic achievements of famous cursive writers in past dynasties. According to the principle of "standard cursive script", Mr. Liu Tianyi added the words according to the ancient meaning, and all the words were taken from the works of ancient calligraphers, accounting for 92.69% of all the words. Among them, Wang Xizhi's 350 words and Huai Su's 136 words are selected. There are more than 2,000 words selected from ancient posts, and * * * refers to the inscriptions of more than 50 calligraphers in past dynasties/kloc-0.
The most famous ones are Zhiyong (Song Tuo and other four versions), Huai Su, Sun, Yu Shinan, He, Xian Yushu, Xing Dong, Wang Chong, Su Dongpo, Zhao Mengfu, Huang Tingjian, Dong Qichang, Huang, He, Yu Youren, Wu Changshuo and Liu Juemin. Other cursive scripts mentioned, from the Western Han Dynasty to modern times, span more than 2000 years. Hundreds of works by more than 200 calligraphers "involve engraving and ink painting, from famous cursive scripts such as Jizhang, Yueyi Post, Shi Song, Seventeen Post, Shupu, Autobiographical Post to Spring, and newly unearthed Loulan characters and characters. Cui Yuan and Zhang Zhi in Han Dynasty, Zhong You in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi in Southern Dynasties, Sun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Huai Su and Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. Wang Xizhi, a book sage, collected more than 100 posts, and 206 posts were selected as the first draft. Besides Preface to Lanting Collection, Preface to Saint Education, Seventeen Posts, Man Jiang Hong by Luo Shenfu and Mao Zedong, Waves on the Sand by Yue Fei, Song of Harmony in Justice by Yu Youren, and A List of Teachers, there are other famous works. "Throughout the ages, until the formation of their own style. The rich materials he collected provided a solid foundation for the selection of Chinese characters, which enabled the research to be in-depth: "The reference and selection of cursive masters and their famous products made their research results have historical continuity and high grade. The participation of many calligraphers and their works makes their research deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and popular. "
Mr Liu Tianyi inherited the unfinished business of standard cursive script initiated by Yu Xiansheng. After more than 70 years of painstaking research, he took the standard cursive script as the female parent. On this basis, he compiled and compiled the manuscript of Standard Cursive Script for Chinese Characters with more than 5,000 commonly used words. He added more than 200 individual symbols, and the number of representative symbols increased from more than 100 to more than 200. In this way, the representative symbols of cursive script organization (mainly) and the individual symbols of regular script organization (secondly) make the standardization and standardization of cursive script in China tend to be complete. "If you master these two symbols, you can draw inferences, and the identification and writing of cursive script will be handy and very convenient." The discovery of these symbols "revealed the secret of the emergence and popularization of cursive script" and "solved the mystery of ancient and modern cursive script". The expansion of cursive symbols in China is another milestone in the standardization of cursive scripts in China.
4. The cursive script of Chinese characters in China is the standard of symbols and the "standard" of Chinese characters writing and communication in China.
After the publication of the standard cursive script in Yu Youren, it aroused strong repercussions in the society, especially in the calligraphy circle in China. Some famous calligraphers and scholars wrote poems and articles to give affirmation and praise. Some scholars believe that Yu Youren has made at least three contributions to the standardization of cursive script; First, standardize the cursive form and the configuration law of cursive script-the discovery and application of magical symbols, so that people can understand the general law of cursive script and have universal character; Secondly, his contribution to philology; Third, the cursive script is simplified, and the script with round lines as the main feature is more concise and quick after symbolization.
5. The realistic background and development significance of rewriting dictionaries.
As we all know, because of politics and war, because of the opposition between political parties and various historical situations, the only fly in the ointment is that the students who followed Mr. Yu Youren to Taiwan Province Province only talked empty theories and misinterpreted them mechanically. Almost all are doing nothing or doing nothing. What is particularly ridiculous is that some students who stayed in the mainland first and Yu Youren.
This is especially true for people who have nothing to do with students and students. They changed the standard cursive script society in Nanjing, Chinese mainland from a pure academic institution to a yamen-style administrative institution, and the person who mastered this institution is a famous so-called "calligraphy master" who can't write cursive script at all, because this institution has office space allocated by the government free of charge, various welfare benefits, no substantive work tasks and progress, and can get the salary given by the government as long as it dawdles all day. Therefore, in this distressing realistic environment, Mr. Liu Tianyi hopes to explore and excavate wholeheartedly in his lifetime, to develop things that have not been discovered by predecessors, and to complete great projects that future generations cannot reach, from the wonderful principle of cursive script-to the law of symbols-to popularization-until all China people in the world can easily and happily accept and master the cursive writing method of China Chinese characters. Therefore, Mr. Liu Tianyi is serious and cautious in editing this new standard cursive dictionary. Then, the detailed workflow is still in the confidential stage.
6.20 14 65438+ 10, published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House in Beijing to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Yu Youren's birthday, the 49th anniversary of Huang's birthday, and the 7th anniversary of Qian Shoutie's birthday.