The third running script in the world is "Huangzhou Cold Food Poems"
"Huangzhou Cold Food Poems", paper, 25 lines, 129 words, is Su Shi's running script Representative work. This is a poem of excitement, a sigh of life written by Su Shi on the Cold Food Festival in the third year after he was demoted to Huangzhou. The poem is desolate and sentimental, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and loneliness at this time. The calligraphy of this poem was inspired by this mood and situation. The calligraphy throughout the text is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, without any rash strokes. "Huangzhou Cold Food Poems" has a great influence on the history of calligraphy. It is called "the third running script in the world" and is also the best among Su Shi's calligraphy works. As Huang Tingjian wrote after this poem: "This book also has the writing style of Yan Lugong, Yang Shaoshi, and Li Xitai. I tried to restore Dongpo to it, but it may not be as good as this.
Explanation: I have come to Huangzhou. After three cold days, I want to cherish spring, but I don’t want to miss it. This year, it rains bitterly, and the autumn is bleak. I smell the begonia flowers in the mud, and the snow is secretly carried away. It’s so weak in the middle of the night. The disease begins.
The spring river is about to enter the house, and the rain is coming. The hut is like a fishing boat, and the cold dishes are being cooked in the empty stove. . The gate is nine deep and the tomb is thousands of miles away.
The gloomy images in the poem are like huts, empty restaurants, black paper, and tombs... to create a kind of feeling. The gloomy and melancholy artistic conception expresses the author's gloomy and depressing mood when he was exiled to Huangzhou due to bad luck. From the words "cooking cold vegetables in an empty kitchen and burning wet reeds", we can imagine his embarrassment in life. Among Su Shi's more than 3,000 poems, this is not his best work. However, when the author switched to another art form - calligraphy to express it, the sad artistic conception created by the colorful and rich calligraphy imagery became more vivid. "Huangzhou Cold Food Poems" has become an eternal masterpiece.
"Huangzhou Cold Food Poems" shows the momentum and is filled with ups and downs of emotions, and the calligraphy is also in this mood. The whole poem is full of ups and downs, fast and steady, and full of joy. Su Shi embodies the changes of mood and emotion in the poems, either directly or sideways. The knots are also strange, big or small, sparse or dense, light or heavy, wide or narrow, uneven and random, with endless changes. No wonder Huang Tingjian is obsessed with it. He sighed and said: "Dongpo's poem is similar to that of Li Taibai, but he is afraid that Taibai may not be anywhere." This book combines the writing styles of Yan Lugong, Yang Shaoshi, and Li Xitai. Trying to make Dongpo reproduce it may not be as good as this. "("Postscript of Poems on Cold Food in Huangzhou") Dong Qichang also wrote a postscript praising: "I have seen no less than thirty volumes of Mr. Dongpo's original works for the rest of my life, and I must take this as my first impression." "Postscript on Poems on Cold Food in Huangzhou" is a calligraphy work by Su Shi It has great influence in the history of calligraphy. Yu Shu of the Yuan Dynasty called it "the third running script in the world" after Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface" and Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript of Sacrifice to My Nephew".