"Autumn water articles are free from dust", that is, words and expressions are as clear and transparent as autumn water, without any worldly dust. It hides a refined and dust-free realm.
This couplet was written by Deng Tuo in the bedroom of Tieyan Mountain in Dengzhai, Huaining County, Anhui Province in Qing Dynasty.
Because of its elegant style and meaningful meaning, it is praised by people Spring breeze has a broad feeling of accepting all things, words and expressions are like autumn water, without any secular dust.
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When Deng was a child, his family was poor and his social status was low all his life. Such a "coarse cloth" with little reading has grown into a great artist with unshakable faith, tenacious will and hard exercise.
After seventeen, he began to carve his own food with books. After the age of 30, through the introduction of friends, I gradually got to know friends such as the three Mei brothers in Nanjing, and visited the rare epigraphy books collected by the Mei family. Every famous inscription always has to be copied more than a hundred times, so I got up early and got greedy for black, which laid a solid calligraphy foundation for seal cutting in the future. So at that time, people evaluated his four-body calligraphy as the first person in Qing Dynasty.
In Deng's time, Anhui and Zhejiang led the printing altar alone, but he was never satisfied with the achievements made by his predecessors, and relied on his wealth and calligraphy to achieve "books are printed, and books are printed."
It broke the traditional process of official seal cutting in Han and India, pioneered the use of small seals and inscriptions in seal cutting, broadened the scope of seal cutting, formed its own vigorous and graceful style in seal cutting, and rose proudly in the seal cutting altar at that time, which can be said to have formed a foothold with Anhui and Zhejiang schools.
Deng's brilliance has always influenced Bao, Zhao, Hu Shu and others in the same period. Deng is an outstanding figure in the history of seal cutting development. Unfortunately, few of his original stones have been circulated in the world, such as Wanbaishan seal cutting, Wanbaishan seal, Deng seal and so on.
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