Appreciation of bamboo slips' calligraphy works
Selected pictures of bamboo slips calligraphy works 1
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Selected calligraphy works of bamboo slips Figure 4
Brief introduction of bamboo slips
Bamboo slips are bamboo or wood chips with ancient characters written on them. Among them, bamboo slips are called bamboo slips or bamboo slips, and wooden slips are called wooden slips or bamboo slips, which are collectively called bamboo slips. Jane? In fact, it contains the meaning of wooden slips. )
Bamboo slips are the carrier used for recording before the popularization of paper. The dates of bamboo slips discovered now are mainly the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty at the latest. Bamboo slips can be woven into a book with string or cowhide rope.
Bamboo slips are ancient documents in China, which were recorded with renovated bamboo and wood. ? Jane? It is a long strip cut from bamboo and wood; ? Hey? This is a plate made of wood or bamboo. The words on it are written with a brush. Do Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen already have one? Books? Therefore, some scholars believe that bamboo slips were used as writing materials in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The earliest discovered Jane was in the early Warring States period. According to documents and archaeological findings, bamboo slips were popular in the pre-Qin period and reached its peak in the Han Dynasty. It was not until the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that they were replaced by paper documents that had been invented for four or five hundred years. As the main document form, they have been used in China for more than 1000 years.
The history of calligraphy pen
Among many pen products, the brush is a unique category in China. Traditional brush is not only a necessary learning tool for the ancients, but also has a unique power in expressing the special charm of China's paintings and calligraphy. However, because the brush is fragile and difficult to preserve, ancient pens that have been passed down to this day are rare. The manufacturing history of brushes is very long. As early as the Warring States period, the use of brush was quite developed. China's calligraphy and painting are inseparable from the use of brush. There are many kinds of pens in ancient times. Judging from the raw materials of the pen, there are rabbit hair, white hair, Miki Sayaka, yellow hair, sheep beard, horse hair, deer hair, musk hair, badger hair, raccoon hair, mink hair, moustache, mouse tail, tiger hair, wolf tail, fox hair, otter hair, orangutan hair, goose hair, duck hair and chicken feather. In terms of performance, there are bristles, soft bristles and double brushes. Judging from the texture of the pen holder, there are bamboo joints, feather bamboo, spotted bamboo, brown bamboo, purple bamboo, chicken wings, sandalwood, nanmu, rosewood, fragrant wood, carved lacquer, green lacquer, snail, ivory, rhinoceros horn, horn, tortoise shell, jade, crystal and glass. According to the use of pens, there are landscape pens, flower pens, Ye Jin pens, figure pens, clothing line pens, bone pens and colored pens.
The earliest writing brush can be traced back to about two thousand years ago. The source of the brush is generally considered to be Meng Tian in Qin Dynasty, but the bamboo script and ink left on the fragments of Oracle bones unearthed from Kaoyin site are written with the brush. It can be seen that the brush originated before the Shang Dynasty, and Meng Tian was actually an innovator of the brush.
Although there were no physical objects of writing brushes in the Western Zhou Dynasty and above, we can find some signs of using pens from prehistoric painted pottery patterns and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the brush was widely used to write bamboo slips and silk books. The writing brush of the Spring and Autumn Period was found in the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Leigudun, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. It is the earliest pen found so far. Later, the Warring States pens unearthed in Zuojiagong Mountain, Changsha City, Hunan Province, the Qin pens unearthed in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, and Fangmatan, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, as well as Mawangdui in Changsha, Fenghuang Mountain in jiangling county City, Gansu Province, Xuanquanjia in Dunhuang City, Maquanwan, the Han pens in the ancient rock area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Western Jin pens in Wuwei are all precious materials left by ancient times.