Source: Autobiography of Huai Su by Tang Huaisu.
Selected passages:
Commissioner Lu said, "At first, it was suspected that the light smoke was shrouded, and it seemed like a mountain." Wang Yongzhou chanted, "Cold apes shake withered vines with drinking water, while strong men pull out mountains and stretch iron." Zhu Yaoyun: "The pen only looks at the induced current, and the word is only afraid of dragons."
Translation:
Mr. Lu praised: "(See Huai Su's writing) Sometimes it feels like hazy smoke wandering, and sometimes it feels like looking up at a steep cliff." Wang Yong wrote this poem: "This blow is sometimes like a dead vine climbed by a cold ape drinking water, and sometimes like a strong man pulling out a mountain and stretching out an iron." Zhu Yao wrote a poem like this: "When Huai Su wrote a cursive script, all he saw was lightning and thunder. After the words are written, it seems to be a dragon, which is daunting. "
Extended data:
Huai Su's calligraphy style can be divided into three stages:
First, the early way of learning books followed the charm of "two kings";
The second is the wild and crazy romantic style represented by "self-narrative posts";
The third is the return of the book style in his later years represented by money.
Autobiography of Mad Grass was written by Huai Su when he was 465,438+0 years old. The content is mainly about Huai Su's experience of learning books by self-narration. The whole article is magnificent, which embodies the characteristics of wild and romantic calligraphy style through changing the dynamic performance of the pen, writing with arbitrary lines, showing the strength of the pen in seal script and expressing the artistic conception of the virtual and the real.