?Back then, the military library was my favorite place to go. Because there is a person living here. Big guy with a loud voice. He has the enthusiasm, straightforwardness, straightforwardness and heat of a Shandong man. Loves fun and makes friends.
? What I admire most is his determination. Although he has a wind-like personality, he has an extremely calm side. He concentrates on writing calligraphy and inscriptions for more than six hours every day.
? This person is Liu Hongwei. Famous contemporary calligrapher. Zheng Yanxing, the famous director of CCTV, called him a "master of calligraphy".
? He wrote cursive, regular, and official seal scripts, and practiced the five styles simultaneously. And I like his official script best. Ancient and refined, restrained and peaceful. There is a sense of quiet and elegant order. 28 years ago, we were soldiers in the same army. In the same year, he joined the army and was transferred to the agency. I am in the reporting team and Hongwei is in the film team. I collect and write news, and Hongwei specializes in calligraphy. The two were inseparable. Mirror each other.
? In the dead of night, the two of them often sit opposite each other and have a drink, changing cups and cups, their hearts a little tipsy, and all they talk about is literature and calligraphy. When the wine reaches a certain temperature, we look at each other with drunken eyes, and I laugh dumbly. Do you and I feel like we are looking into a mirror? What is outside the mirror is me, and what is inside the mirror is you.
? Hongwei was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands and laughed, well said! After a pause, he said no, they don't look alike, it was clearly a feeling of confidant.
? I smiled and said, a close friend is looking in the mirror. A reference. A contrast. A kind of cries. The minds are connected and the three views are close. Besides, look at you, then look at me, with drunken eyes, do you care whether they look like me or not?
? Now, after years of hard training and baptism, Hongwei has become a powerful contemporary calligrapher. Look in the mirror and don't dare to lie. However, when we talked enthusiastically about literature and calligraphy again, it seemed like we were back in the military camp days.
? What Hongwei talks about most is the traditional classics and the spirit of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. His conversation and calligraphy works once again brought me great surprise and shock after more than 20 years.
? Hongwei is famous for writing Buddhist scriptures. Many of his calligraphy works are regarded as Buddhist treasures. After being blessed by well-known masters, they are collected in well-known Buddhist places across the country, including the Lama Temple in Beijing and the Hermitage in Hangzhou. There are more than 30 well-known temples including Jinan Huguo Temple and Chengdu Huangzong Temple.
? I think great success still comes from inner hard work. He has a supreme solemn respect for calligraphy and Buddhist scriptures. He considers himself a disciple of Buddhism and practices hard in meditation. In the practice of calligraphy, he injects his emotions, hard work and enlightenment.
? Use your own calligraphy style to write your favorite Buddhist scriptures. Hongwei created a variant of official script, which he called "Xiao Official Script", which was specially used for writing Buddhist scriptures.
In order to find this font, he studied hard for 20 years. Based on Han steles such as Cao Quan, Zhang Qian, Shimen, Yi Ying, and Ritual Vessels, and Qin and Han bamboo slips, he drew on the writing styles of scriptures written in previous dynasties, adopted Qin and Han bamboo slips and silk writing techniques, and integrated contemporary aesthetics, and finally settled on the "Xiao Li Script" style. font.
? He believes that learning from the past and incorporating the past is not only about the form, but also about the meaning. Having only form without spirit is futile. Only when modern people wear the shoes of ancient people, get as close as possible to the life and original state of life of the ancients, and use their brushwork to approach and restore the ancients infinitely, can they appreciate the rich details and life consciousness contained in them. Only in this way can the artistic feeling deep in the heart be awakened. Inability to innovate means that there is not enough learning from the past, and there is not enough time to prepare the post. Only on the basis of maintaining traditional classics, finding the pure self deep in the heart, attracting the aura of heaven and earth, and integrating the ideas of the times, can it be possible to reinvent yourself and form your own style.
It is said that currently, he has written more than one hundred Diamond Sutras and more than five hundred Heart Sutras on the market. His works have been exhibited many times at the National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Rongbaozhai, Beijing calligraphy and painting stores and other places, and have far-reaching influence. At the same time, it has also attracted the attention and collection of sinology calligraphers from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and other foreign countries.
Anyone who has been a soldier knows that life in the military camp is short, but it will follow you for a lifetime. I think that the magnificent military career also injects the characteristics and charm of soldiers into his calligraphy. His success was due to his pure calligraphy style and the extension of his mind that resulted from years of hard work. I don't know calligraphy, but I am willing to read and interpret magnificent calligraphy from the perspective of an ordinary viewer, the public perspective outside the book world, and the perspective of intimate interpretation among comrades-in-arms. In short, this is my rough feeling. I thought that only a rich and magnificent person could write such rich words. Magnificent success is not accidental, magnificent and greater success can be expected.