Huang Daozhou (1585- 1646), whose real name (or Youping), also known as Ruo and Ping, was born in Tongshan, Zhangpu, Fujian Province (now Dongshan County, Fujian Province), a famous scholar, painter and national hero in the late Ming Dynasty. In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), he was a scholar, and the official was the minister of rites. After the Ming Dynasty, he resisted the Qing Dynasty, was captured and martyred, and was loyal and heroic.
Huang Daozhou knows astronomy, mathematics and mathematics. He has taught in Zhejiang Dida, Zhangpu Mingchengtang, Zhangzhou Ziyang, Longxiye and other academies, and trained a large number of talents. Everyone knows Mr. Huang Shengren and Mr. Shi Zhai. His works are rich, including The Scholars, Shi Zhai Ji, Yi Xiang Zheng, Chun Qiu, Xiao Jing Ji and so on. Later generations compiled The Complete Works of Mr. Huang Zhangpu, with more than 2,000 existing poems.
Huang Daozhou is one of the most creative and representative calligraphers in Ming Dynasty, who is good at writing patterns, lines and cursive scripts, especially cursive scripts. His cursive style is vigorous, steep and strange, and his book style is vigorous and unrestrained. Huang Daozhou regards calligraphy creation as a personal "seven or eight opportunities", warning others not to care about it and despising the so-called calligraphy knowledge. Although his calligraphy originated from Zhong You, his posture and pattern are unique, and he is a pioneer with great atmosphere. He has a unique personality and dares to speak out, so he speaks highly of the "Calligraphy Path". Among his contemporaries, it seems that Lu Yuan is the only one in his eyes.
But after all, doing it is another set. It is better to believe in books than not to have them. Huang Daozhou talked about calligraphy in many books, such as Autumn Plum and Gu Zhuo, and attached importance to copying and writing books. The number of works handed down from generation to generation is not small, and you can get a glimpse of diligence. His reference and choice to Zhong You, Suo Jing, Erwang and Cao Zhang are incisive. It can also see the big from the small, blurring the boundary between temporary and creative, neither ancient nor new, nor ancient nor new. You can say "I am a mountain peak", genius.
Qin people said in "On Painting through Printing" that Huang "has a wonderful cursive script and takes the marrow of two kings". Sha Menghai, a close friend, pointed out in Calligraphy for Nearly 300 Years that Huang Daozhou "found another route besides the two kings". It seems that everyone's eyes are very different. But it is good to say that it has won the essence of the two kings, and it is also true to say that it is another route.
The stubbornness of towering right shoulder and the impenetrable tension of word spacing all present a kind of Huang Daozhou's "wild" temperament. That kind of "depression" emanates from the bones to the outside, but it is not fake, and it is not concealed at all. So it's not artificial.
If you can't learn Huang Daozhou early, you will be surprised as soon as you learn it, and you will fall into wild fox Zen at the touch.
(Li Jinbao)
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