At this moment, the ancient fragrance of calligraphy, like a colorful auspicious cloud, is drifting through time and space, coming from ancient times and stopping at the small town of Juning, Jiangsu Province on May 5, 1955. With a baby crying, a little boy Zhong Wei was born. This is a day with four "5", which reminds people of the number "5" in the Taiji diagram. This may be a good sign, and it is also a good sign for the calligraphy circle in China in the future.
Zhong Wei was born in a scholarly family, and his grandfather and father were teachers of the New Fourth Army and private schools. Both of them wrote beautiful calligraphy, which is quite famous in the local area. Zhong Wei was endowed with genes. At the age of 2, he can scratch graffiti, and at the age of 5, he can write. He was strictly trained by his parents since he was a child. Practicing calligraphy every day requires that the left foot is steady, the right foot is weak, and the pen end is held. Often in practice, my father will suddenly hit his calf with a bamboo stick. Zhong Wei Jr. is a small man, who often bumps his head on the console table, and his forehead is red and swollen. Because I was afraid of pain, when I was practicing calligraphy, my two calves were alternating with each other, and I stood very steady. Over time, I have developed solid standing skills.
Father asked Zhong Wei to practice a word every day, writing a word hundreds of times, and gradually began to practice from regular script, official script, running script and cursive script. Every calligraphy style needs to be practiced for one or two years. After several years of training, I copied nearly a thousand pieces of various historical sites. Zhong Wei's childhood is different from all other children, and it is a "calligraphy childhood" accompanied by pen and ink.
China's calligraphy art is philosophical, which contains the mystery of "the unity of heaven and man, the nature of Taoism". Paper, ink, paper and water are just like Tai Chi in the Book of Changes, which gives birth to two instruments and four images. Taking the heart as the center and operating for the five elements, you can write beautiful brushwork. In his "calligraphy childhood", Zhong Wei Jr. was born with aura, and later gained insight. The young mind imperceptibly integrated into the enlightenment thought of "the unity of heaven and man, the nature of Taoism" in calligraphy, which made his childhood calligraphy extraordinary, lifelike and radiant.
When Zhong Wei was 65,438+00 years old, a youth calligraphy competition was held in Jiangsu Province. His mother selected several of his calligraphy works and sent them to the competition. Nearly ten thousand people participated in the fierce competition, and nearly one hundred works were rematched. Zhong Wei easily won the first place in the province. The news came that Jiangsu was boiling, and people all over the city rushed to tell each other that Ju Ning had a "calligraphy prodigy" and won the first place in the province at the age of 10.
The judges and teachers of the organizing committee of the contest, although famous on the list, still can't believe that a child as young as 10 can write better calligraphy works than adults. In order to avoid mistakes, Zhong Wei was specially sent from Juning to Shanghai for on-site inspection. When Zhong Wei Jr. wrote his calligraphy on the spot, all the judges were stunned. With applause, they all gave thumbs up and exclaimed: prodigy, prodigy!
After two years, Zhong Wei 12 years old won the first prize of Children's Calligraphy Competition in six provinces and one city in East China again.
The legend of Zhong Wei's childhood calligraphy reminds me of Li Yun's Childlike Heart in the Ming Dynasty: "Youth is also the beginning of life; Childishness is also in the initial heart. " Childlike heart is true nature, and Zhong Wei's calligraphy is good in childhood and at the beginning of life; The initial heart is true and beautiful. This childlike beauty has nothing to do with age, but only with all the beautiful and real beings in the universe. However, Zhong Wei's calligraphy in his childhood shines with this pure and beautiful light, which will surely benefit him all his life.
Fan Ceng said, "The English poet Wordsworth said that children are the fathers of adults. China poet Fan Ceng said: Childlike heart is the sun of human beings. Now I want to say: childlike innocence is the mother of art.