Characteristics of Zhu Yunming's Calligraphy
Zhu Yunming, a great calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, is also known as the four great talents in Wuzhong with Tang Yin, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing. Because he has an extra finger in his right hand, he calls himself Zhishan. Zhu Yunming has a gift since he was a child. When he was young, he showed talent that ordinary people could not reach. At the age of five, he was able to read Chinese characters and learn from his family. He can not only write gorgeous articles, but also splash ink. His calligraphy is as beautiful as Youlong's.
Zhu Yunming studied hard and practiced calligraphy since childhood. His calligraphy is the highest of all schools, and it is the only one in the Ming Dynasty. It absorbed the essence of the calligraphy of Chu Suiliang, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and promoted the development of Huai Su cursive script in Tang Dynasty. His Wild Grass is known as "the first in Ming Dynasty", and it is also known as "the three great calligraphers in the middle of Ming Dynasty" with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Wang Chong.
Zhu Yunming's calligraphy began with his grandfather Xu Youzhen. Xu Youzhen is good at cursive writing. His cursive script has the elegant demeanour of Huai Su and Mi Fei, and it is very quaint with its magnificence and straightness. Zhu Yunming is the true biography of his grandfather. Zhu Yunming believes that to write calligraphy well, it is necessary to pay equal attention to sex and merit. Sex refers to human spirit, while merit refers to the ability and kung fu of calligraphy creation. Both are indispensable, and they must have both, so as to reach the ultimate destination of "spirit".
The main achievements of Zhu Yunming's calligraphy are cursive and regular script. Its regular script is quite rigorous, catching up with Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. The cursive script is magnificent, elegant and natural, mainly from Huai Su and Zhang Xu, and closer to the Yellow Valley.
For Zhu Zhishan's calligraphy, all dynasties have a good evaluation. The more representative works are Luo Shen, Fu on the Red Wall, Ruoyin and so on.
The story of Zhu Yunming.
Zhu Yunming, a famous calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty, was born in 1460, at the age of 67. The word Xizhe, No.,together with Tang Yin, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, is called "Four Great Talents in Wuzhong". Because he is the judge of Jingzhao Yingtianfu, the world also calls him "Zhu Jingzhao".
Zhu Yunming grew up in a bureaucratic scholarly family. Grandfather Xu Youzhen was once a traitor in the Ming Dynasty, who was highly respected and made extensive friends. Grandpa Zhu Hao is quick-witted and free-spirited, and Zhu Zhishan has been influenced by two people for a long time. Moreover, he was gifted since childhood and was taught by two great scholars. At the age of five, he could read, at the age of nine, he could write poems, and at the age of ten, he read widely and wrote good articles. At the age of fifteen, his teacher Wang Yuzhong won the third place in the college entrance examination. Deeply influenced by it, Zhu Yunming studied hard and practiced calligraphy. Among the four gifted scholars in Wuzhong, Zhu Yunming's calligraphy is the most outstanding, and he, together with Wen Zhiming and Wang Chong, is called "the three great scholars in the middle of Ming Dynasty".
Zhu Yunming is a free and easy person, bohemian, and likes to travel around the country. He is good friends with celebrities such as Tang Yin, Wen Zhiming and Shen Zhou, but his career is bumpy. I was promoted at the age of 33, but I was still not hired after 50. I have no patience and often drown my sorrows in wine. Fifty-five-year-old magistrate of Xingning County, Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. Zhu Yunming made great efforts and strategized, which greatly improved Xingning County with impure folk customs. At the age of sixty-three, Jing Zhao was sentenced to Tianfu, but the officialdom was dark, so he resigned and returned home.
Zhu Yunming is a brave man and has a good personal relationship with Tang Bohu. At the age of 37, he advised Tang Yin to study for an official position. However, God played a trick on him. The next year, he was implicated in a cheating case and banned from being an official for life. They are in the same boat and comfort each other. At the age of sixty-four, Tang Yin died, and Zhu Zhishan was heartbroken. He wrote two poems, crying with fear, revealing his grief and pity between the lines.