Artistic Appreciation of Dong Qichang's Running Script Yueyang Tower in Ming Dynasty

Born in poverty, Dong Qichang was born in the 16th year of Wanli (1589). At the age of 34, he was promoted to a scholar and started his official career. I worked as an editor and an official, and later as an official in Nanjing, such as Shangshu, Prince Taibao and so on. He is extremely sensitive to politics and takes pride in his profession. Dong Qichang was the most outstanding and influential painter in the late Ming Dynasty. He was familiar with Zen, devoted himself to studying Tibetan, devoted himself to poetry creation, and was good at calligraphy and painting and its theory. His calligraphy has the highest attainments in cursive style, elegant and ethereal style, lofty conception, moderate relaxation, elegant and self-sufficient, rounded and elegant strokes, plain and simple, and meticulous brushwork. He is always upright, and there are few pens that are stagnant and sluggish. As far as composition is concerned, the appearance of Yang Ningshi is messy and orderly. Word to word, line to line, the branch layout is dense and symmetrical, and the ancient method is pursued. Its use of ink draws lessons from Chinese painting techniques, which is dry and dull and wonderful. Dong Qichang's handwriting is light and smart, which shows the leisure and aura of the literati. Dark and colorful, it is refreshing to read. It is the elegant mentality and complacent expression when seeing the author.

The Story of Yueyang Tower was written by Dong Qichang in the 30th year of Wanli (1609). Dong was fifty-five years old. The work is 37.6 cm long and 1.499.5 cm wide. It was written after he was idle for four months before he added Fuzhou's deputy ambassador. This is the mature period of Dong Qichang's calligraphy creation-he is over 500 years old, sensitive to political affairs, and has made outstanding achievements in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and official career. However, Dong Qichang, who has lived in officialdom for a long time, is still as loyal as the literati of past dynasties. However, he was cautious and full of contradictions, and the hidden pain was beyond words, that is, he wrote a long scroll "Yueyang Tower". From this masterpiece, it is not difficult to see Dong Qichang's complex mentality of focusing on career and life. It can be said that The Long Scroll of Yueyang Tower is the realism of Dong Qichang's thought at that time, which shows its inherent complexity to the fullest.

The Story of Yueyang Tower was written by Dong Qichang with Yang Hao as the center. At this time, before going to Fuzhou, Dong Qichang was full of anxiety, anxiety and inaction. He hates the party struggle in the imperial court, and he is proud of his reputation in the world. Deep down, he is afraid of being lost and displaced. This volume has won the true meaning of Mi Fei's calligraphy, and its opening is magnificent. Every word is well-written, and both pens are sent. Obviously, the place where you put down your pen is like a rolling stone, overwhelming. He paid great attention to the magnificent landscape of Fan Zhongyan's The Story of Yueyang Tower: "Holding the distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, making delicious soup, the horizon is boundless, the sunrise rises, and the weather is cloudy ..." When writing The Infinite Horizon, the author's mood suddenly moved, and he was lamented by the present world; After the "morning glow and twilight", I repeated my past mentality, suffering from loss and loss, and my hair was so weak; At the end of the appreciation, I found that the author was in a state of mind, looking up at the vicissitudes of life and completely immersed in the artistic conception of Yueyang Tower.

The Story of Yueyang Tower is written in three lines, with natural composition, vigorous and dense beginning, and a seamless suite that is exciting, thought-provoking and difficult to suppress. This natural portrayal of emotion moving with words and feeling from the heart makes the whole work rise like a tall building and become an artistic swan song that lasts for thousands of years.

Dong Qichang's The Story of Yueyang Tower is a realistic description of the contents of Fan Zhongyan's The Story of Yueyang Tower and the self-mentality and thoughts of the calligrapher, and it is a model of the perfect combination of the spiritual world of two generations of literati.