Walking alone by the West Lake in the afternoon, I looked at the West Lake surrounded by clouds and smoke, with the mountains hidden by the water, and looked at the words on the stone tablets. Being in it, it seemed as if the ink landscape paintings were slowly unfolding, and my thoughts I can't calm down for a long time.
The beauty of the West Lake has an additional layer of poetry in addition to its painting, and the white space between the real mountains and waters adds to the profound flavor. The square characters engraved on the stone tablets and the "snow and mud claws" left by ancient sages are all vivid paintings, showing its past to us younger generations.
I remember Mr. Yu Guangzhong had a very vivid metaphor for our square characters in "Listen to the Cold Rain". He said, "apricot blossoms, spring rain, Jiangnan." Six square characters, maybe the piece of soil is inside. No matter whether Chixian, China, or China, changes come and go, as long as Cangjie’s inspiration never dies and the beautiful Chinese language never gets old, the magnet-like centripetal force of the image will surely remain.
Because a square character is a world.
There are words in Taichu, so the memories and hopes of the Han nation have sustenance. For example, if you write the word "rain" out of thin air, bit by bit, drizzle, patter, all the clouds and rain will appear in it. How can rain and pluie satisfy this kind of visual beauty?
When you open a book called "Ci Yuan" or "Ci Hai", metal, wood, water, fire and earth each form a world. As soon as you enter the "Rain" part, you can see the ever-changing sky of ancient China. The beautiful scenery Frost, snow, clouds, and terrifying thunder, lightning, and hail all reveal God’s good and bad tempers. The meteorological observatory is full of encyclopedias that laymen can’t understand. ”
Our square characters---Chinese characters are the most beautiful characters in the world, and Chinese calligraphy is even more dazzling and beautiful: the mysterious beauty of oracle bone inscriptions, the simple beauty of bells and tripods, large and small seals, the dignified beauty of official script, The graceful beauty of the regular script, the graceful beauty of the running calligraphy of the jade tree facing the wind, the unique beauty of the cursive calligraphy of the dragon and the snake are beyond description, and the "Gongsun Auntie Dances with the Sword" is almost the same.
The characters are like those of the people: Wang Xizhi, Chu Suiliang, and so on. Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Xu, Huai Su, Su, Huang, Mi, Cai... famous people emerged in large numbers, each showing their own magnificence and beauty.
This is the place where Zhang Cangshui, the anti-Qing general, was executed in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Fenghuang Mountain was not far away. Finally, he looked at Fenghuang Mountain and said three words: "Good Landscape", which means "Such a great river and mountain, such a beautiful scenery, such a land, it is worth dying for." I think it is not alone. Such beautiful landscapes deserve us to understand and cherish them, and the rich and precious spiritual heritage passed down to us by the sages of the past generations needs to be deeply understood and cherished. It is also another kind of scenery of our nation.
The old days are over. I hope that in the years to come, I can do my best, starting from the most basic way of writing Chinese characters, and then gradually being able to express and protect freely with paper, pen and ink without being constrained by form. The mountains, rivers and scenery in my heart leave my own "claws in the snow and mud"
? 2017.9.17
An elegant and intellectual cultural entrepreneur
Photography: Li Qingjian
Editor: Li Qingjian (the text is slightly modified, the title is added by the editor)