"Nothing" is the origin of things; "You" is the boundary of things. Everything in the world has its origin and boundaries. Only by recognizing this, can we see the mystery and the eternal way to know things. In calligraphy, the writer's mind and emotion are "nothingness". Every stroke that falls is a presentation of thoughts, born from the heart, and the words are like people. Our thoughts and emotions are the source of every stroke. As for "you", Lao Tzu interprets it as "Ben". The foundation of a reader is the noumenon of the law he has learned. Any calligraphy learning can not be separated from copying calligraphy posts, and calligraphy posts are the foundation of a person who studies books, which is what Laozi called "being". When you write all over Qian Shan, there must be a posting root system that stretches for thousands of miles.
This can be used as the motto of scholars. When you pick up a pen, you should be careful and don't ask for speed. It's even like threading silk thread, stepping on thin ice, fermenting wine and making honey by bees. Learning books can give people a refined attitude towards life, drawing them bit by bit, and each stroke is regarded as difficult and respectful, such as to the gods. "Everything is difficult at the beginning" means that it is difficult to learn books, and nothing can be taken lightly, just like being a man: meticulous and not overstepping the rules. I have been deeply touched by this since I learned the preface to the sacred teachings of Huairen.
Thought begins between heaven and earth, and Tao takes nature as the law. The inspiration of calligraphy art also comes from the natural universe. Mrs. Wei took the young Wang Xizhi to perceive nature: to understand weight and speed from the point of "falling rocks at high peaks"; Learn to be open-minded from the horizontal direction of "a thousand miles of clouds"; From the vertical direction of "Long live the withered vine", we know strong persistence. Wang Xizhi got calligraphy from this. Besides, the brushwork in calligraphy, breaking the pen and hanging the thread, is not also an inspiration to the beauty of nature? Like a misty mountain, like an ancient temple hidden in a deep valley ... half of her face is still hidden behind her guitar. Get aesthetics from nature, sharpen the senses, enrich the feeling of beauty, understand life, fear nature and have animism. Calligraphy is a matter of life, so we should respond with life.
Everything is complementary to each other and belongs to one. In calligraphy, lifting and pressing make Fiona Fang bring out the best in each other, and dry and wet bring out the best in each other. The length and thickness are complementary, and the density is self-contained. On the contrary, they complement each other, and the echo, compromise and strewn at random of lines contribute to the beauty of composition, such as the rhythmic violin symphony, which changes at will without losing the beauty of harmony.
Lao Tzu stresses single-mindedness, unity of form and spirit, never separation, maintaining nature, innocence, gathering qi to the softest state of mind, and being as naive as a baby. Sun said that "the mind and hands are in harmony", just as Lao Tzu said that the body and mind are in harmony, the hands follow the heart, concentrate on it, wave it, flow naturally, the emotions are from the pen, and the pen and ink are full of affection, so using the pen will be comfortable and refreshing.
Seemingly empty and useless, it has just become its great use. Novels in literature emphasize suspense and imagination; Painting emphasizes the art of blank space; In calligraphy, it is also a wonderful thing to know white when it is black and white when it is black. Black-and-white, virtual-real, and virtual-with-white space just reflects the aesthetic feeling of changeable lines in space, and the seemingly nonexistent "white" is just worth pondering. Horse racing is impenetrable and sparse. The most meaningful thing is in this "white". Through it, it seems that you can feel the breath of words. Just like the trickling spring in Qi Baishi's paintings, it is invisible and smart, colorless and colorful. This "white" is what Laozi called "chong", which has reached the "big profit" in the structure of the seal. This "whiteness" is like the hidden wisdom of China people: if it doesn't work, it won't work. A calligraphy is full of life consciousness and grace.
Laozi told us: excessive pursuit of external, forget the truth. Learning calligraphy needs to learn a lot of essence, enrich brushwork, make lines more varied, and have a deeper and broader understanding of calligraphy. But at a certain stage, we should be able to forget the techniques and forms and write the spirit of nature. Learning ancient times is to finally jump out of the ancients, have their own face and write their own temperament. Learn skills by copying calligraphy, and then forget skills. If you do it from the heart, you will forget the fish.
Let the mind stay in the best state of "emptiness" and "quietness" and not be affected. If you have knowledge and desire, you can gain true knowledge. This one of Laozi is the sublimation of the last one. Learning to copy books, from having no skills to having skills and then forgetting skills, seems to be the three realms of meditation: "Seeing mountains is mountains, and seeing water is water". I walked into the calligraphy door with curiosity, thinking that calligraphy is to copy and write with a brush and draw a gourd ladle; After the proposal of "seeing mountains is not mountains, seeing water is not water", after a long period of persistence and bottleneck, we can know that the realm of calligraphy far exceeds our own cognitive range and has infinite depth; In the posting stage, "seeing mountains is mountains, seeing water is water", and taking calligraphy as simple and pure again with one's own cognition and temperament is a return to nature after an epiphany, a heartfelt search, and "returning to nature"; It's just Rainbow's theory of "beauty" to "magnificence", and the realm from "no self" to "with me" is really wonderful!
In life, we often only pay attention to useful things, while ignoring those intangible and seemingly useless uses. In calligraphy, because of the deep accumulation of China traditional culture and the support of aesthetic power behind calligraphy, it is doomed to be difficult to get better. Going into nature more, feeling more about life, reading more and thinking more will open the touch of the soul, give you inspiration at a certain moment, and realize the process from gradual enlightenment to epiphany in the art field.
Mu Xin said: "Without aesthetic power, it is a terminal illness, and knowledge cannot be saved." The power of aesthetics begins with observation. In order to exercise their abilities in these two aspects, Zong Baihua, a modern aesthete, even sat in the car, while walking on the road, attentively observing every passerby and inferring what they had experienced through their clothes and looks. It is this seemingly boring and useless behavior that gradually formed his unique aesthetic philosophy vision. His thoughts, like "the blue sky and starry dreams last night are flowers in the eyes of today", are comfortable in the world of calligraphy, painting, poetry and literature.
The beauty of calligraphy, like all the beauty of art, tends to the beauty of jade and needs to absorb the essence of nature. The beauty of calligraphy, after a long and invisible tolerance, presents a unique luster and gradually becomes the essence. Also like the patina of the teapot, it shows a low-key but luxurious luster in the polishing and oxidation of time.
It is those "useless uses" that gradually make "useful" look beautiful, just like human temperament, and appearance is irreplaceable after all.
Mr. Lin Sanzhi said: "Interest changes with age: teenagers love beautiful words, young people love nervous words, middle-aged people love meaningful words, and old people love plain and innocent words." I think this change in interest is also due to useless use. I especially like a poem by teacher Wang: I don't want to go my own way with the world, but I am proud of my pen and ink over the years. Write to the deepest part of the soul, I don't know if there is me or no one.