Yu Maoyang's Social Evaluation

Excerpt 1: Mr. Yu Maoyang writes freely, and the brush can be thick or thin, long or short, sparse or dense in his hand. The words are free and easy, elegant, calm and happy, showing the scholar's demeanor. Like the boss's title, "Different people have different opinions" and "All rivers run into the sea", all of which have their origins. He said: "Carrying things by virtue" comes from the hexagram in Zhouyi: "The terrain is vast, and a gentleman carries things by virtue". "Virtue carries things" only says Kun hexagrams, which is incomplete. It is also necessary to write down the dry divination that "Heaven is healthy and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement". "All rivers run into the sea" is a couplet written by Lin Zexu in the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi: "All rivers run into the sea, and there is no desire to stand on the wall", which has not been finished yet. . Yu Xiansheng is full of smoke. Every time I finish writing a painting, I have to smoke a cigarette. "Teacher Yu, are you enough for two boxes a day?" I asked. "I smoke while writing, but I don't usually smoke," Yu Xiansheng replied calmly. Perhaps the process of smoking is the process of master's planning and creation. Yu Xiansheng lives a simple life. He said, "After 50, everything is easy." . Until today, I came from Jinan without a driver. He said that when he returned to his hometown, he never alarmed the local leaders. All he did was find some light snacks to eat and drink. I ordered lunch at the cutting-edge hotel, but he insisted on returning it. "If I eat seafood, I don't need to come here. Just arrange a stewed cabbage vermicelli. Eat local food in the restaurant. " To this end, I specially arranged for the master to make four peasant steamed bowls. During the dinner, Yu Xiansheng was very satisfied with the local peasant-style dishes. Yu Xiansheng treats people sincerely and never forgets to teach us how to be a man when writing or eating.

Excerpt 2: If 1995 China's first calligraphy education major founded by Professor Yu Maoyang is the first of modern calligraphy education, then the attempt to combine traditional calligraphy with modern design art is also a pioneering work in theory and practice. In the past ten years, the calligraphy major he founded has trained a group of calligraphy creation and teaching and research talents, and made outstanding contributions to calligraphy art education in Shandong Province and even the whole country. Professor Yu Maoyang's achievements in calligraphy education stem from his accomplishments in calligraphy art creation. I was diligent and studious in my early years, and I was familiar with famous people all over the world. His works are unique in style, profound in foundation, calm in brushwork, elegant, smart, chic and fluent, concise and connotative, well-known, ingenious in conception and reasonable in layout. As early as the end of 1980s, Professor Yu Maoyang became famous among young calligraphers in Shandong Province with his pure Mi Fei running script. Professor Yu Maoyang studied books in his early years, covering a wide range, such as Oracle bone inscriptions, Zhong Ding, seal script, etc. In recent years, Professor Yu Maoyang has devoted himself to the creation and research of cursive script. His cursive script is based on Mi Fei's cursive script, and has the brushwork of Weibei and Cao Zhang. His artistic style is calm and happy, and does not fall into the general academic pattern. His works are "innovative in statutes and ingenious in spirit", with profound traditional skills and distinctive personality style. Most of his works are written by the center, and there is a method of "not sagging, not shrinking, not closing". The internal force of brushwork echoes, and the lines of the works are thick and powerful. Its characters have the characteristics of cursive script of two kings and Mi Fei, which can be used by teachers, and have a combination of vertical and horizontal styles, forming its own side. At present, there are many calligraphers who take the calligraphy of Erwang and Mi Fei, but few of them can be integrated with the brushwork of Wei Bei and Cao Zhang. Mr. Yu Maoyang's cursive script is one of them. Dongpo has a saying, "It is not enough to put pen to paper like a mountain. You have to read thousands of books to understand the spirit.". Lu Fangweng also said that "Kung Fu is above poetry" when teaching his son to write poetry. Calligraphy is a comprehensive art, and all aspects of knowledge and literacy are indispensable. Nowadays, many scholars are too busy or unwilling to get involved in learning, which seems essential in the basic stage of entry, but if they work hard for a breakthrough in style all their lives, it will be difficult to get into the top grade in the end. Although their books can attract people's attention, they can never rise to a higher artistic level. Professor Yu Maoyang is a scholar first, then a calligrapher. His knowledge is not only reflected in the study of the history of calligraphy, but also in different fields such as literature, poetic discipline and appreciation of cultural relics. A friend asked for a book, and Professor Yu Maoyang presented a self-made poem couplet, so that people who want books now can directly let them write their own poems. The influence of such a broad academic field on Professor Yu Maoyang's calligraphy style is self-evident. Throughout Professor Yu Maoyang's calligraphy works in different periods, there is a strong and free atmosphere filled with a strong and fresh scholarly atmosphere, which is naturally the result of the subtle infiltration of Professor Yu Maoyang's knowledge and cultivation in calligraphy creation. As a university administrator, Mr. Yu Maoyang is not only busy with school management and teaching, but also devoted to the study of book history and book theory. Since 1990s, he has published many papers in core journals such as Calligraphy, and many works in magazines such as China Calligraphy, which have been exhibited and won prizes at home and abroad. The monograph History of Calligraphy in China in the Twentieth Century (the first author) was officially published, which had a great influence in China. No matter in the specific teaching process or in personal creative practice, Professor Yu Maoyang takes cherishing and respecting tradition, attaching importance to academic accomplishment and respecting students' individuality as the fundamental guiding ideology. This may be related to his free and easy life, rigorous scholarship, publicity of creative temperament and generosity. Through his works, we can see many inner qualities of Yu Xiansheng-frankness, free and easy, rich background and brilliant. Professor Yu Maoyang is a great calligrapher, a pioneer of higher calligraphy education in China and a pioneering and influential calligrapher in Shandong and even the whole country. Having entered the age of knowing his destiny, he is full of ambition, "sitting humbly and waving" and full of confidence in his career. We also sincerely wish that the cause of calligraphy education initiated by Professor Yu Maoyang and his calligraphy creation and research will have a far-reaching impact in the future.