Slender Gold Style is a calligraphy font created by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (Zhao Ji, 1082~1135). It is also known as "Slim Gold Style" or "Thin Gold Style". It is also known as "Crane Style" and is a regular script. kind of. In his early years, he studied Xue Ji and Huang Tingjian, and participated in Chu Suiliang's other schools. He came out with a slim, elegant and smooth style. After integrating them, he transformed the two Xue (Xue Ji, Xue Yao) and formed his own style, named "Slim Gold Body". It is characterized by being thin, straight and upright, with hooks for horizontal strokes and dots for vertical strokes, like a dagger and a cutting knife, with slender vertical hooks; some couplets are like gossamers, and are close to running script. His writing style is derived from Chu and Xue's, and his writing style is thinner and more vigorous; his overall style is based on Huang Tingjian's large-character regular script, which is stretched and strong. Among the modern art fonts, the "Fake Song Style" is created to imitate the charm of the Thin Gold Style.
The handwriting of Shou Jin Shu is erratic and fast, and the handwriting is thin and strong, even if it is thin without losing its flesh. At the turning points, traces of hidden fronts, exposed fronts, etc. can be clearly seen. It is a very unique style. font. In terms of image theory, this style of calligraphy should be a "thin body", and the use of "gold" to change "jin" is a sign of respect for the imperial calligraphy.
There are many thin gold-style works handed down by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. The more famous ones include "Thousand-Character Classics in Regular Script" and "Poems of Autumn Fragrance". "Thousand-Character Classics in Regular Script" was written by Zhao Ji when he was 23 years old. The treacherous minister Tong Guan's thin gold calligraphy style has begun to take shape at this time.
Introduction to Zhao Ji
Song Huizong (1082~1135), whose surname was Zhao Ji, was a failed politician but a successful calligrapher and painter.
Like Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, this subjugated emperor made great achievements in art. He contributed to the construction of the Song Dynasty painting academy and the development of courtyard painting, to the promotion and creation of calligraphy and painting art, and to ancient art. It has made outstanding contributions to the organization and preservation of. He can be called an emperor who "does not love the country but loves the painting". He extensively collected folk cultural relics, especially inscriptions, calligraphy and paintings, and ordered civil servants to compile the "Xuanhe Calligraphy Book" and "Xuanhe Painting Book".
In the history of Chinese painting, Song Huizong was an outstanding painter. His calligraphy "thin gold style" has great influence. His paintings have two styles. The first is the tradition of the Huang (猌) school with exquisite workmanship, such as the "Pounding Practice Picture" and "The Lady of Guo Kingdom's Spring Outing" which he copied from Zhang Xuan. As well as his own "Auspicious Crane Picture", "Hibiscus Golden Pheasant Picture", "Listening to the Picture" It can be seen in his works such as "Qin Tu" that he used fine brushwork to fully express the gorgeous and wealthy sentiments, which had a profound influence on the painters of the Academy of Fine Arts. Secondly, he used ink rendering techniques, not paying much attention to color, and advocating the light taste of pen and ink. There are "Willow Ducks and Reed Geese" and "Fighting Parrots" which are purely ink. His highest artistic achievement is the painting of flowers and birds. Works such as "Chimonanthus Birds" and "Apricot Blossom Parrot" are all written concisely and accurately, and the wintersweet, daylily and apricot flowers are all vivid.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji's regular calligraphy imitated Tang Xue Ji's, and his strokes were thin. Hard, self-proclaimed "Skinned Gold Book". Song Zhoumi's "Guixin Miscellaneous Collection·Bianliang Miscellaneous Affairs": "Huizong Dingding Stele, Skinny Gold Book". In the old imperial city, civilians were digging for earth to build walls, and suddenly saw the stele and stone dome. What's more, there are two dragons on it, turtles with their heads raised, and they are very finely crafted, which is a thin gold stele. "Yuan Liu Guan's "Fan Poems on Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty": "The shadow of the fan has gone with the shadow of the Luan, and Qing Wan has left the thin gold book." Liang Zhangju's "Miscellaneous Notes on Returning to the Field· Painting Scroll of General Xiao Li": "Zhou Yixuan of Pucheng had the same fortune, and his family has old paintings. At the beginning of the scroll, there is Xuanhe's Thin Gold Book 'The Rising Sun in the Sea and Sky by Li Zhaodao of the Tang Dynasty' with nine characters in one line and a royal stamp at the bottom."