The main reason why Dong Qichang's calligraphy style was highly praised in the early Qing Dynasty was that Emperor Kangxi loved Shu Dong. The imperial examination, the imperial examination, was taken by the emperor. He can write the scripts that the emperor likes, and there is indeed an advantage in marking papers. In the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi (1697), the matter of sharing the same door with Jiang was a typical case. Jiang has been trapped in the mountains for a long time, and is famous for his "clothes in the south of the Yangtze River", but he has repeatedly failed. At that time, he was seventy years old and good at calligraphy, which happened to be in Hong Shi, Rainbow. He was called "Wang Jiang". Because Emperor Kangxi knew his calligraphy style, Jiang was awarded the third place (exploring flowers). However, Wang Shihong won the first place. The champion and both were famous calligraphers at that time, who studied under Dong, and became a story for a while, pushing the worship of Dong to the extreme in the early Qing Dynasty.
Bao Chen Shi also listed Wang Shihong's books as "the best products". In fact, Wang Shihong's calligraphy teacher is not Dong Qichang, he is just influenced by the times. In Shen Yin, Wang described the learning process of his book as follows: "Beginners stop at Yunting, Magu Xiantan and Jing. After entering Beijing, his friend Tao Zishi mocked the wooden board "Huang Ting" and was unable to learn from Zhao. If you learn Chu again, you will lose weight. In his later years, he still admired Zhuan Xu and Li, and hung the Yan Jia Temple Monument on the wall to watch the imitation. " As a clique of the Iron School, Wang praised Zhuan and Li in his later years, and his calligraphy concept began to gradually turn to the study of steles, which was indeed a rare new voice in the era when the east wind was pervasive.
Judging from Wang Shihong's academic background, this change is not accidental. Wang Yisheng has written a lot, especially in archaeology. He once wrote A Textual Research on the History of Yihe Ming Dynasty. He Ming was carved on the cliff at the foot of Jiao Shan in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and his book is known as "immortal trace". Because the official branch is the chronological year, the author only has the font size, so there have been different opinions on the author and the engraving age, mainly between Jin and Tang dynasties, and the Liang theory in the Southern Dynasties is more popular. This inscription fell into the river, and few people knew it. In the winter of the fifty-first year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (17 12), Chen Pengnian and Wang Shihong, the former magistrate of Suzhou, ordered workers to remove the residual stones in the river, with an inscription of 86 words, 9 of which were incomplete. The residual stone was repaired by conjugation and stored in a pavilion on the left side of the main hall of Dinghui Temple in Jiaoshan. Wang's Textual Research on the History of the Ming Dynasty is based on the stone books published during Peng's reign, and is ready to adopt the theory of the ancients, and eclectically quotes Zhang Bi's Textual Research on the History of the Ming Dynasty, which is quite detailed. The early research work of heming, a classic of stele study, was written on the model of later learning, which shows that the process of calligraphy from later learning to stele study in the early Qing Dynasty was gradual change rather than drastic change.
Today, the Shanghai Library held an exhibition of famous manuscripts of Ming and Qing Dynasties, displaying a batch of "Wang Shihong's Letters to Mianzhai", which involved the borrowing of rare books from heming. Later, there was Zhang Tingji's postscript: "Chen Cangzhou (Peng Nian) was too cautious to publish Heming in the water, and Tuigu (Wang Shihong) was involved. This is a timely seal. " Although this calligraphy can't get rid of the barrier of Dong Shi, it contains the idea of gradual change from post school to monument school, and also carries a story about the operation of heming, which can be described as beautiful.
Wang Shihong's Dongpo Review is a scroll, paper and running script, with a length of 9 1cm and a width of 50.9cm, which is collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Interpretation: Yu exiled Huangzhou and Tang Liushu. Wu Yun's family has a copy of Friends, and Zi commented on it for me. Later, Lin's book spread far to me. Right Dongpo wrote six Letters from Down's Family and Wang Shihong.
Two seals were placed, namely "Wang Shihong Seal" and "Bone Rejection Seal", and the first "Autumn Spring" seal was introduced. No identification, no seal.
The vertical axis of Wang Shihong's Preface to Lanting (written in 17 13).
Wang Shihong's calligraphy vertical axis ink silk edition
Wang Shihong xing kai si Yan Lian
The Vertical Axis of Wang Shihong's Calligraphy Poems
Wang Shihong's running script five-character poem
Wang Shihong (1658- 1723) was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). In the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi (1697), the official awarded Huiyuan. Calligraphy is equal to ginger. (Jiang) With the pen brushwork, the book is absolutely thin and hard, and the photos are beyond the reach of other scholars. Shen Zeng wrote that he claimed to be a beginner in Zhiyun Pavilion, Magu Immortal Altar and Classic, but his friends ridiculed him as a plank. Because after a change, learn Zhao weak, and after a change, learn Chu thin. (Chu Suiliang) still admired Zhuan Xu and Li in his later years. When he hung a monument on the temple wall, (Li) looked at the imitation. The years passed and little progress was made. His book is big and small, but it has a peculiar potential. It is self-releasing, but it is divided into white and white, and there is no discretion. There are many memorial tablets of famous officials and ministers. He is the author of Textual Research of Ming Dynasty, Collection of Vulgarians in Autumn Springs and Chronicle of the Whole Qin Dynasty. Died at the age of 66.