Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity is a group of poems with the theme of looking at Chang 'an from afar written by Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he lived in Kuizhou, Sichuan (now fengjie county, Chongqing). It is Du Fu's masterpiece. Huai Su, a great calligrapher and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, is good at cursive script, and is as famous as Zhang Xu, the sage of grass. He is called "Zhang Dian Kuang Su" or "Zhang Dian Zui Su".
Huai Su took Eight Poems in Autumn as the content, expressed the author's mood at that time in cursive script, and showed the unique calligraphy artistic style of drunken monks. In Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity, Huai Su takes the pen as the center, and seldom takes the pen as the wing. When the pen tip turns, or the snake turns around, or the snake jumps into the grass, the pen tip is as sharp as a hook. The so-called "iron-painted silver hook" is the same, showing the feeling of penetrating the back of the paper.
On the whole, there are eight parts, the momentum is continuous, the clouds are rolling, the clouds are rolling up and down, and they are swinging from side to side, with slow ups and downs, strong and weak. Watching this work is like listening to a rhythmic melody. It makes people feel ups and downs. Dot painting is patchy, showing the meaning of broken silk or broken pen, endlessly, brushing the back to protect the hook, word for word, so that several lines, dot painting echo each other, the momentum is like blood, see in the wild, generous without losing the statutes.
The artistic style of Huai Su's Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity fully reflects the author's growth process, knowledge accomplishment, personal character and creation at that time.
Huai Su was smart and studious since childhood. He came straight to the point in his autobiography. He said, "Huai Su lives in Changsha, a young Buddhist. After meditation, I am quite fond of writing. " His spirit of studying hard and practicing hard is amazing. This poem is a summary: "when I was young, I learned to read in the Qing temple, and there were holes in the brush and paint plate." When I retired my pen, I became a grave, and finally I went crazy together. " Because he couldn't afford to buy paper, Huai Su found a board and a disc and painted it with white paint to write.
He also reclaimed land near the temple and planted more than 10 thousand banana trees. When the plantain grew up, he picked the leaves, spread them on the table and waved his hair. Because Huai Su practiced calligraphy day and night, he used a lot of broken pens to practice calligraphy and buried them in the soil, which is called "pen burial". In order to seek development, he worked tirelessly, not seeking Luoyang or Chang 'an. This laid a solid foundation for the formation of his calligraphy style, especially in the use of pens.
In calligraphy, he learned the cursive script of Zhang Zhi and Zhang Xu, and also learned the regular script of Yan Zhenqing. He also wrote poems and had contacts with poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Xun. Being a monk, I have no intention of practicing Zen and like drinking. He and Li Bai are also called "Eight Immortals of Drinking". Whenever drinking rises, people call it a "drunken monk", regardless of walls, clothes and utensils.
Princes and celebrities are also willing to make friends with this crazy monk. Tang Renhua wrote in a poem: "The mad monk moved to Beijing the day before yesterday, rode a vassal's horse, and stayed at the vassal's house at dusk. Who doesn't build a plain screen, paint a white wall, shake the green light, and freeze the plain screen? I can't forget, the steed welcomes you to the throne, and the golden plate holds wine and bamboo leaves. Ten cups and five cups don't understand, and after a hundred cups, you start to go crazy ———— "The predecessors commented on his cursive script, inherited Zhang Xu, and made new progress. Also known as "drunk". "
There are many records about Huai Su in Tang literature, such as "the pen is like a whirlwind, flying around, changing at will, and the statutes can be obtained." It is an accurate expression of Huai Su's personal character in the artistic style of his work Weeds. This is closely related to the social reality and its humanistic environment at that time.
Huai Su can express Du Fu's seven-character poem "Eight Poems in Autumn" so incisively and vividly, which is not only related to his profound calligraphy skills and cultural background, but also related to his understanding of this poem and the author's thoughts and feelings. Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity is a sentimental poem by Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. With the scene of late autumn, it expresses the sadness that people are helpless in their twilight years, the deep sadness of life experience, the pain of leaving chaos and the yearning for their hometown.
Eight poems are a complete movement, with patriotic thoughts about the rise and fall of the country as the theme, especially with heavy feelings about the safety of the motherland as the keynote, interspersed with relaxed and happy lyricism. Each capital expresses the author's thoughts and feelings from different angles with unique expression techniques. Huai Su also lives in Chang 'an and has contacts with dignitaries there, including Li Bai and Du Fu.
Human feelings are warm and cold, and combined with his status as a monk, he will also be touched by the contents of Du Fu's Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity in a strange place, thus producing a sense of * * *. In this way, the pen can stay away from the dragon and snake, and this emotional blending is in the form of pen and ink. Make this "Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity" icing on the cake, poetic and picturesque.
In short, Huai Su's Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity, in addition to simple cursive brushwork, highlights the word "crazy", which is rounded and powerful with a pen, making it like a circle, unrestrained and smooth, like flowing clouds, with "chapters" but not following, and "chapters" become "crazy", but crazy can drive. Composition mainly embodies grandeur, musical rhythm, poetry and relatively independent harmony. His inheritance and development of Zhang Xu's Wild Grass and the Sage of Grass made the cursive script change from classical simplification to diversification.