Xiang Ruobing's Postscript to Song Fengge's Poems in the Northern Song Dynasty said: Huang Tingjian used a chicken brush in Hunan, and he can also write lyrics. People who can be written by their predecessors sometimes choose paper and pen on impulse. In addition, Pan Boying's Calligraphy Essays said that Huang Tingjian claimed to be fascinated by writing in his later years, and he wrote "Practical San Qian Chicken Pen" on a proud word. It can be seen that during the Northern Song Dynasty, chicken writing brush did not flourish. Chicken feathers (feathers) are tough and smooth, and their elasticity is slightly stronger than wool (because they are short). If it is made by seiko, it will not let the wolf fly and avoid the arrow. However, wolf hair and rabbit arrow hair are expensive in the market and are not commonly used by ordinary citizens. Therefore, "San Qian Chicken Brush" should be replaced by a broad public market. Dong Qichang, the minister of the Ming Dynasty, once touched Yang Ningshi's cursive script with a chicken feather. This is really of interest to ancient calligraphers. Occasionally, Zhang Tixin of Tianjin was the first one who didn't use chicken feathers as his main creative tool. One is Xiang Sheng, the other is Xiang Sheng, and the other is Mi Sheng. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), he was recommended as a man. Taking chicken feathers as servants is unprecedented in the past, and its vivid charm is more inspiring for later learning. His works, such as Vajrayana, are rich and colorful, lofty and vigorous, elegant and unrestrained, full of tension, and the posture and breath of the Han monument show new vitality in his works. Kang Youwei once spoke highly of Zhang's calligraphy. "Rooted in both capitals, the artistic conception is superb and rare in the world. Jiangbei calligraphers should take Mr. as a giant. " Zhang Ti-xin once wrote a five-foot couplet of "A horse on the shore of heaven, a dragon in a strange man", which was inscribed by Gao Yaolin, Gao, Wang Shouxun, Meng Guanghui, Zhang Shou, Wang Xiang. Zhang Tixin can also use chicken feathers as his calligraphy style, which is unique, vigorous, comfortable and shocking, but it is rare.
In the fourth year of Xianfeng (AD 1854), He Ye, a scholar in Chengdu, used the title of "Hua Qian Zhi" in the poetry building. Clouds and shadows live on the first floor. Zhang Zhidong, Xie and Jin Hanlin, governors of Qinghuguang, wrote a brush for Huangzhou Chicken: "The ancients emphasized hard writing and depiction, and needed to be strong. The biography of Xuancheng can make Shao Shi sleepy, but nowadays people are full of lofty sentiments. How can it go smoothly in difficult times? There is always a margin for ink mining, while men are slow and tenacious, and new ideas are stuck all over the place. San Qian is not mean. This dish is particularly satisfying. It comes from Yiyang County. Mustard feathers are killed by anger, and the grass is moist. Qi Li is also neat, and the horse clothes are forgotten quickly, so it is impossible to brush them. Lean muscles are exposed, and muscles are full of rhyme. Everything is neither rigid nor soft, and good service is carried with you. I lost my pen and wiped my eyes and forgot my spine. " After the poem, there is a postscript: "The precious hand of Huangshan Mountain can make this precious pen, write with heart, and carry forward the precious poem to thank the precious Hanlin in Huangzhou, and remember Huangzhou when writing this poem." This hole is also a masterpiece. I wonder if the Huangzhou courtyard wall carved by Jinbo still exists? I sang a lot with Jin Bo. However, En's "Collection of Poems" also pays more attention to Nanpi's poems, knowing that the spirit of Zhang Hezhou inspired him at that time.
After liberation, Mr. Lin Junxuan was famous for his chicken feather cursive script. He collected the fluff under the wings of a white bamboo chicken and made a writing brush, because the fluff of the writing brush is thin, dense and inelastic; There is a lot of ink, so it is difficult to operate this pen. If you don't have deep skill, it's easy to feel like writing ink pigs. Mr. Wang practiced martial arts in his early years, and he integrated Tai Ji Chuan into calligraphy; He is also a disciple of Kang Youwei, a great calligrapher in modern times, who advocates the unity of steles and inscriptions and the combination of rigidity and softness. After years of tempering, I finally realized calligraphy from the filament dance, and created my own forest calligraphy with vigorous and steady pen, strange posture, dry pen and ink and dense composition. The cursive couplets in the picture below: the poems written in Chinese characters are full, and the paper-cuts are full of colorful autumn colors. It is a meticulous work by a 70-year-old gentleman, and it is magnificent, in which you can appreciate the unique style of Lin's chicken brush, which is well-known in the book world.
In the early 1960s, when Dong and Guo Moruo led their southern tour of Foshan, they talked with Mr. Lin Junxuan about writing poems with words, which was a great event that Mr. Guo Moruo and Mr. Guo improvised at that time. Mr. Dong also received Mr. Lin Junxuan twice, and personally wrote a peace poem as a gift: sharing prosperity with you and following Marxism-Leninism. When did the poem "Jun Zi Jun" become famous all over the world? This incident became a literary story for a while.
In modern times, Mr. Zheng Ziduan is the only one who paints with a chicken pen.