Author: Yang Zhongming (Shanghai writer and sculptor)
Xu Jian, a scholar of Qing Dynasty, said in Printing Notes: "When printing, the windows are bright and clean, the tea is ripe in Qing Xiang, and I occasionally want to make a good stone ..." Li Wei, a Shanghai printer, studied printing, touched stones and drank tea, and was immersed in China tea culture for many years. He is fascinated by finding historical sites and tasting famous tea. Spring breeze and autumn moon, time is like water, Li Weijing is quietly practicing in the moon-holding hall, and the method of seal cutting is getting better and better. In recent years, a series of seals of China tea culture poems have been engraved, with a size of 100 square meters, which is magnificent, simple and brilliant. This is the original work of Li Wei, an old tea drinker. As an art teacher, Li Wei studied under Mr. Han Tianheng in his early years, then under Mr. Liu Yiwen and Mr. Lu Kang, and his art became more and more mature. His seal cutting works participated in the first to fifth national exhibitions and participated in the international exhibition of Xiling Printing Society for many times. One day, Li Wei and I were chatting in an old teahouse on the sea. Li Wei said that tea culture is an important branch of traditional culture in China. People enjoy tea and tea at different levels of life. Poets chant tea, painters draw tea, calligraphers write tea and writers remember tea, forming a rich tea culture. I use seal cutting to express it, just an attempt. Tea culture and Chinese seal are quite consistent in aesthetic taste. Li Wei's seal cutting, reading, feeling and creation alternate. He developed rubbings of ancient seals, tiles and bricks in the Qin and Han Dynasties, collected rubbings of portraits in the Han Dynasty, played with glazed pottery pots in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and collected ancient furniture. He realized the leisure feelings of the ancients from planting bamboo, planting flowers, feeding fish and making turtles, and looked for the leisure and elegance of the old literati. It can be seen that the seal of tea culture in Li Wei is based on elegance and quietness, and the knife method has injected the flavor of the times. His "tea-scented" tiles are printed in Gu Zhuo, with novel design. The upper part of the word "seal" echoes left and right, and the strokes in the lower part are intentionally elongated and slightly rolled, just like Zhu Feng flying together, lifelike. "Tea is the national drink" is printed in white and the four-character line is thick. The seal seeks balance from the side, and the agility contains silence. Last October, when Li Wei visited Luge in Wuzhen, he saw a small bamboo stove with Yixing stove built in, and a custom-made purple sand pot for lifting beams, which implied that Mr. Dongpo "relaxed the bamboo stove and lifted the pot to meet each other", and his heart was full of joy. I asked if it was not for sale. When the owner knew that he was a tea printing culture lover, he gave it generously. Li Wei sighed, "I've never met before, and I take tea as my friend. Now that I have a bamboo stove, my heart is drunk. On the wall of Li Wei's living room, there are sentences inscribed by himself and Liu Yiwen's book Time is Rolling, Immortals are in Tea, which are beautiful and elegant, and should be regarded as the master's spiritual monologue of holding the moon.