Chen Chuanxi is cruel. He made some discordant voices about calligraphy, which were ignorant and unpopular and could be sprayed to death by millions of calligraphers. In fact, his view that calligraphy is not a profession is quite right. At least, in the history of ancient calligraphy, there is hardly a professional calligrapher like today, and most of the ancient calligraphers who are familiar with today do not take calligraphy as their main business, and regard it as their lifelong goal, which is quite different from those who flaunt "being born for calligraphy" and walk the rivers and lakes. What is Wang Xizhi's identity, a calligrapher? Or right general and will take the civil history? He was born into a noble family in Xie Wang. He has a proper occupation and rank. He has never been a consultant to the book association or anything, and there is no data to prove that he has run a famous calligraphy class. He only occasionally teaches dolls to write and sometimes pulls out Wang Xianzhi's pen tube.
Why is Wang Xizhi Hee-ji Wang? First of all, he is a standard ancient gentleman. Even if today's people read a doctorate in calligraphy, their professional vision, comprehensive quality and spirit of social responsibility may not be comparable to an ordinary scholar in ancient times. 1999 Li Yi, a young scholar, said: "After Qian Zhongshu, Ji Xianlin was the only academic circle." When Ji Xianlin died in 2009, I wrote a blog post "There is no more Ji Xianlin in academia", lamenting that after the traditional cultural soil was changed, there were no more great scholars who studied Chinese and Western cultures like Wang Guowei and Luo Zhenyu. In the era of gradual planarization, the new generation of scholars have difficulty in even some basic skills, such as poetry, painting and calligraphy, which are the "by-products" of the profound cultural education of ancient scholars. This worrying situation is just like the title of "bosom friend" in "butterfly lovers": "Iraqis fly to become butterflies, and there is no room for Ma Wencai here." Perhaps Ma Wencai, a punk in literary works, is not inferior to today's "experts".
At first, the main function of Chinese character writing was practicality, but it gradually became an art after Wei and Jin Dynasties, which was closely related to the literati, who created the beauty of calligraphy in various ways with their own life consciousness and cultural feelings. Taking Wang Xizhi as an example, he created the same beauty of neutralization as himself, which was gentle and plain, gentle and beautiful, surpassing the vulgarity of the Northern Dynasty and the gentleness of the Southern Dynasty. Nowadays, traditional calligraphers are not experts who specialize in calligraphy, but by-products of knowledge, mind and knowledge as scholars, which is also the difference between them and those who specialize in copying.
Who is Wang Xizhi? In my opinion, he is a gentleman who knows the demeanor of Wei and Jin Dynasties, a competent national civil servant, a good Zhejiang man who implements the Party's mass line to help the poor and sells inscriptions for the old lady, an animal researcher who loves geese, a good father who teaches his son to write well, and a fashionista who likes to take Dan medicine and pursue longevity? If Wang Xizhi is only a calligrapher, he is also a calligrapher born for calligraphy. Wang Xizhi, who knows under the fountain, probably thinks that it is almost an insult to evaluate his life with such a skill of carving insects, and will reply angrily: You are the calligrapher! Your whole family are calligraphers! Your family are all famous calligraphers! Haha, laughing my baby to death. What exactly do you think of you?