Song Xiang's calligraphy is widely circulated. The archives and museums in Meixian District of Meizhou City have collected the examination papers (photocopies) of the court examination, the running script couplets of "The mountains are only quiet, the sea is vast and the mountains and rivers are vast", the inscribed wall of Boya Qintai, a bamboo book in Hanyang, Hubei Province, the plaque of "Cantonese Customs" in Guangzhou, the plaque of "Hufeng Academy" in Huizhou and the plaque of "Ancient Zoulu with Small Mountains and Rivers". According to the staff, it is blue, and the words are bamboo couplets.
Song Xiang's "The Title Wall of Boya Piano Platform": "Hey, why is Boya's piano suddenly high and deep? This song doesn't spread people's worries. Hey, I knew my bosom friend when I was a child. How do I know the height and depth of the mountain? There are no words since ancient times. Yeah, yeah, meet me here. The mountain is eternal, and the water is eternal. I'm going to write a poem on the wall! "
-This bundle of bamboo leaves is eight giant tablets written by a pen, which is magnificent and free and easy in Gu Zhuo. Written in the fifth year of Daoguang reign in Qing Dynasty, Song Xiang was appointed Governor of Hubei Province. At that time, Song was over 70 years old and died a few months later. A few years later, some people were afraid of being eroded by wind and rain, that is, they asked craftsmen to carve stones, which have been well preserved to this day.
Legend has it that Song Xiang once lived in Jiaying Hall when he was in Xieyuan. One day, he heard from the deacon of the church that a new imperial examination official had come to a nearby church and held a banquet to celebrate high school, which was very lively. Song Xiang listened to their words, admired them very much, and said, "It's not difficult, you watch the fun. Just put up notices in conspicuous places in the city, saying that Song Xiang, a new science student, is scheduled to write big characters at the entrance of Jiaying Hall one day. " After the notice was posted, on that day, as expected, the scribes from all over the country came one after another, with horses and chariots gathering and crowds, which packed the entrance of Jiaying Club. Song Xiang took his time, holding a large sum of money in his hand, climbed the escalator, cursing the seven characters of "Midnight Return to the Moon" on the wall, while the dragon and phoenix dance, the last Chinese character, dragged the center for more than ten feet, just like a sword falling from the sky, with cold light shining and dazzling eyes, and the viewers all sighed.
Legend has it that when Song Xiang visited the famous scenic spots, he left behind a cursive script of "Mountains last forever, flowing water for thousands of years", which shocked all directions. A monk with cool handwriting heard about it and made a special trip to pay his respects. The more he looks at it, the more he respects it. So he built a hut beside him, imitated his brushwork, forgot to eat and sleep, and practiced day and night. After two months, calligraphy has made great progress. So, the monk was full of energy, and arranged his books with Song Xiang's according to Song Xiang's original cursive script. The audience appreciated it and thought it was comparable to Song Xiang's calligraphy. When Song Xiang heard about it, he felt that "mountains and rivers meet bosom friends". When he arrived at that place, he was deeply impressed and deeply regretted. Everyone asked, "Why are you both moved and sorry?" Song Xiang replied: "The impressive person is his calligraphy, Gu Zhuo, which is free and easy, simple and true, and has reached the point of perfection;" It is a pity that he practiced hard day and night, was badly hurt, and soon died. " They don't believe it. They think Song Xiang is pretending to be great. Before long, the monk vomited blood and died. Everyone was surprised and asked Song Xiang, "You read the words written by the monk. Why do you know that he is going to die?" Song Xiang said, "I've been grinding the inkstone for decades, and he's only been practicing for two months. How can he not die? " All of a sudden.
Good at calligraphy, he once carved a huge plaque of "Hu Feng Academy". His couplet "Humanistic Ancient Zoulu Xiao Peng Ying Shan Chuan" inscribed for the Academy was included in the book "China Places of Interest". There is an antique and solemn marble tablet in Dali, Yunnan, which records the history of Song Xiang's organizing and mobilizing the masses to plant trees during his term of office: he took a photo of the west road sealing the sun, bought three stone pine nuts, drummed and asked people to plant them in the temple behind the three pagodas of Diancang Mountain. Today, a guest reported that Yu Song found a post. He was very happy and impressed by the prospect of becoming a forest. This is based on three quatrains:
I haven't seen Cangshan for six years, and the old tour is like a dream. Affectionate bamboo reports peace, and flowing peach blossoms are melancholy.
Look at the ancient snow clouds several times, and the willow circles the white head. This just know, Wan Li south Yunnan, day sent Cangshan to plant trees.
A cinnabar tripod, a pine nut and a pine tree. When will you buy another 3000 stones and plant 19 peaks on the cloud?
This is a well-known and widely circulated pine monument in Dali, Yunnan. According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, Song Xiang bought pine nuts and three stones during his term of office, and let the villagers with three styles of writing plant them on Cangshan Mountain behind the three pagodas. Six years later, on May 1, the second year of Daoguang, the poet saw Diancang Mountain, which he had not seen for six years, and someone told him that "the pine tree has been found and has become a forest." He was very happy, but by this time the poet was sixty-six years old. Deeply moved, he wrote these three seven-character quatrains, expressing the poet's complicated mood. Inscriptions and running scripts, flowing like clouds and flowing water, have the legacy of Li Beihai, and are deeply loved by calligraphy lovers, and many of them are treasured by the people. The original monument stood next to Santasi, and then moved to Nanhuatang, Dali No.1 Middle School.
Song Xiang is good at calligraphy such as official script, official script, official script and cursive script, and he is bold and unconstrained, with extraordinary momentum. In addition to making good use of the brush, bamboo leaves and bagasse can be picked up at will and written in the same way, and even superb handwriting can be written with rags and brooms. Therefore, Qiu has a poem praising him: "Write down the questions on the stage and write five poems about the West Lake. Bamboo leaves and bagasse are wonderful pens, and Mi Dian's calligraphy is Ling Du's poem. "
The book Long Zang Song Mo Poetry, existing in the Palace Museum in Beijing, commented: "Wan Zhi's cursive script is magnificent in composition and elegant in brushwork, and it is often dumped by the sages when it is written." This comment was made by more than 90 scholars, including Shi and Huang, who set up an altar in Longzang Temple (now the Great Buddha Temple) in Guangzhou in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925). A couplet attracted hundreds of people to recite, reflecting the situation that Song Xiang's calligraphy was dumped by people at that time.