Character Life Song Ke was born in a wealthy family. He is a big man with chivalry. When he was a teenager, he was involved in books, entertaining guests at home, and liked to drink and give money. When he was an adult, he was in turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Thinking about his career, he thanked the guests for learning to be soldiers, and wanted to go north to the Central Plains and raise the flag to start an uprising, but he was blocked. Then, he went to places of interest such as Jinling and Huiji in You Jiang, and then went home. There is a room in my home, which contains ancient calligraphy tablets and Zhouyi's inkstone, during which I had a great time. During this period, he devoted himself to calligraphy and worked very hard. The Biography of Wen Yuan in the Ming Dynasty recorded: "Kedumen dyed Han, and spent ten papers a day, so he wrote the world with a good name." His career was unsuccessful all his life, until Hongwu got a governor's junior officer in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province in the late and early years, and soon resigned and returned to his hometown, where he interacted with celebrities such as Yang Weizhen and Ni Zan at that time and rewarded them with poems and paintings.
Song Ke's artistic achievement is the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. He is handsome and tall, and often compares himself with Li Taibai and Su Dongpo. Ren Xia made him very angry and smelled the chicken dancing. His intelligence is extraordinary, he is knowledgeable and good at drawing bamboo slips. Today, there is a "Wan Zhu Tu" handed down from generation to generation. Poetry and prose are also called "ten talents" because of their friendship with Wu scholars Gao Qi, Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu. Rao Jie, a disciple of Yuankangli, studied books, all of which were taught by the two kings of cursive script, so Wen Zhong especially loved cursive script. The cursive script is fluent and free, dancing like a flying sword, natural and unrestrained, which is very suitable for Song Ke's character of "Ren Xia making gas". Song Ke's learning method is very high. He lived in Zhong You and admired the calligraphy of the two kings. Cao Zhang studied the "emergency chapter" of the emperor's statue. His brushwork is vigorous and vigorous, and his brushwork is harmonious and free and easy, especially his Grass and Cao Zhang, which are the best in a generation. Wu Kuan commented on his book: "One gram of the book was written in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it won the method of Wang Zhong, so the pen was pure in Mo Miao, and the expression was lovely ... His book came from Wei and Jin Dynasties, learning from Zhong and Wang Zhizhi. He was good at regular script and cursive script, especially at cutting cursive script, which was the first at that time. His "Cao Zhang" continues the style of He Deng, develops to some extent, and incorporates the brushwork of modern cursive and running script, making it more fluent and vigorous.
Handed down works include Urgent Chapter, Gong Shi, Li Bai's Difficult Walk, Zhi, Shi, Ding Wulan Pavilion Postscript, Shi, Xing Zengying's Ancient Poetry, and Shu Pu. They are all treasures of Maureen and high-quality products of Hanzhong.
Discussion of works
His works include Biography of Nangong in Gao Qi, History of Silent Poetry, Danqing Zhi, Coral Net, Two Paintings of Liuyanzhai, etc.
The urgent chapter "urgent chapter", formerly known as "urgent chapter", is an enlightenment reading for students in Han Dynasty. Biography has thirty-two chapters, each chapter has sixty-three words. The author You Shi was an official in the Western Han Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty (48-33 BC). According to Wang Songying-lin's explanation, the title of "Set of Nine Articles" means: "Urgent meaning means that words are difficult to know, and urgent can be sought." This book was very popular in Wei and Jin Dynasties, when calligraphers often wrote many books. In the past dynasties, Cao Zhang wrote Urgent Chapter, which is the oldest book spread to the Three Kingdoms. Song Ke learned Zhang Caoshu from this book. Due to copying, the contents of "Ji Jiu Pian" before Tang Dynasty were often corrupted. At that time, the "urgent chapter" style was a new cursive script derived from official script. People call this cursive script "Cao Zhang", and Cao Zhang later evolved into a cursive script-"Today", which is two stages in the history of cursive script development.
Song Ke has written more than one book, including Forbidden City and Tianjin Art Museum. As far as the collection of the Palace Museum is concerned, this work is vigorous and simple. From his self-knowledge, combined with the detailed features of the whole article, we can know that this is Song Ke's masterpiece, which has both the god of ancient law and the shape of ancient law. In this regard, Wang Shizhen's comment is quite central: "Guan Shu's Urgent Chapter is pure and beautiful, thinking that after the punishment, it will be seen. Later, I occasionally looked at the stone tablet of the emperor. The size and front and back of the model are the same, but the waves are small and different. "
This volume consists of ten pages and more than 1,900 words, and it is meticulous, and the calligraphy skill has reached the extreme. In addition to the calligraphy value, this volume is of great value to the mutual interpretation of Cao Zhang and Zheng Shu in Urgent Chapter and the collation of lost articles.