John pandazopoulos, Australia's Minister of Multicultural Affairs, highly praised Wei Wu's Mawangdui calligraphy during his tour in Australia and awarded him the "Australia-China Cultural Exchange Award". Lei Zhenyu, the Australian Chinese leader, presented him with the certificate of "Honorary Member" awarded by the Australian China Cultural Center and the Australian Advisory Council. John williams, director of the Federal Immigration Bureau, awarded him the "Wuwei Mawangdui Calligraphy Art Communication Contribution Award". This shows that Wei Wu's achievements in excavating Mawangdui's calligraphy treasures have won international praise.
In the 1970s, thousands of precious cultural relics were unearthed from the No.1, No.2 and No.3 Han Tombs of Mawangdui in Wulipai, eastern Changsha, Hunan. Among them, there is a silk book that embodies the essence of China culture, that is, Mawangdui Calligraphy. Wei Wu, who used to be a newspaper supplement in Xinjiang, liked calligraphy since childhood. He tried his best to collect and study all kinds of calligraphy, especially interested in Mawangdui calligraphy, and collected all the published materials of Mawangdui calligraphy. When sorting out the research, he found that the calligraphy of seal script and official script, which were popular from the Qin Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty, had important historical value in the study of ancient Chinese culture, while Mawangdui's calligraphy was a silk script of seal script and official script that had been lost for more than two thousand years in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The pen is simple and unrestrained, without the disadvantages of later carving, and has great artistic and academic value. It can be compared with the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qin Dynasty, and its value is naturally not under the Qin Bamboo Slips in Crouching Tiger in Hubei and the Han Bamboo Slips in Northwest China.
Wei Wu is a graduate student majoring in literary theory. He has written many works, such as novels, essays and reportage collections, and has written 65,438+10,000 words on Mawangdui's calligraphy research. With his profound literary and calligraphy skills, combined with Mawangdui's calligraphy history and the internal structure of silk books, he disassembled and practiced. Some silk books have so many residual words that it is impossible to determine the shape of each word. When he comes across a word that is missing or misspelled, he will refer to the brushwork and composition in the history books of past dynasties and then create a complete word. Repeated practice shows that Mawangdui's calligraphy pays attention to the echo of the surrounding words when writing, and the manipulation of each word pays attention to artistic beauty, which makes people feel more charming and melodious. After years of unremitting thinking, Wei Wu finally mastered the mystery of silk font structure. His Mawangdui calligraphy is vigorous, simple, elegant, compact and full of books, which is called "Wu Mawangdui Calligraphy".
Wu Wei can be said to be the first person to study the calligraphy art of Mawangdui. His research has been strongly supported by many units and colleagues. In February this year, "China Mawangdui Calligraphy Art Research Institute" was established in Shenzhen, with Wu Wei as its president. He said that it is necessary to publicize Mawangdui's calligraphy through various channels and let Mawangdui's calligraphy enter the world cultural heritage declaration. In particular, he hopes that this research can be strongly supported by the government. Because, if this essence of China traditional culture can be carried forward in the Special Zone, it will make a unique contribution to Guangdong's construction of a cultural province.