Here, while paying attention to the differences between Japanese calligraphy and China calligraphy, we review the history of Japanese calligraphy and sort out these differences, so as to explore the reasons for our disharmony when watching China's calligraphy.
2. 1 The Birth of Calligraphy
Japan, which has never had its own writing, first learned about writing through exchanges with the mainland. China's Qin Dynasty (? Are you mistaken? It's obviously from the Han Dynasty, and it was translated according to your original text. (8 ~ 23 years) The "fire spring" released by Wang Mang was excavated in the site in the late Yayoi period. In other words, it can be concluded that Japan had a contact record with Chinese characters in a very early period. The "golden seal" unearthed in Shiga Island, Fukuoka City during the Edo period is also very famous, and it also records the long history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After taking Chinese characters, with the help of foreigners who are naturalized as Japanese, they write and learn Chinese books and skillfully use Chinese characters. The inscription on the broadsword unearthed from the ancient tomb of Kumamoto Kawayama should be an article in the late 5th century, and it is one of the oldest written relics made in Japan, in which the name of the Japanese emperor was written in official script. From this we know that the history of calligraphy began from this period.
2.2 the formation period of calligraphy
From the 7th century to the 9th century, the Japanese gained useful knowledge and advanced technology from China by sending envoys, studying abroad and monks to the Tang Dynasty. Thus, a centralized public security country modeled after China was born. At the same time, it can be seen from the calligraphy styles of the Six Dynasties displayed in the inscriptions on Buddha statues and epitaphs that China's calligraphy in this period should take this as a model. The earliest record of writing poems is the second year of Emperor Tianwu in Japanese Secretary (673). Since then, many poems have been written in China's calligraphy. The ancients absorbed Chinese characters and China's calligraphy by writing Confucian classics. These have become the basis of Japanese calligraphy.
2.3 the growth period of calligraphy
In the early days of Ping 'an, under the influence of Xie (687-842), intellectuals such as court nobles studied China literature and history, appreciated China's poems and Chinese characters, and made these China poems popular. There is also the transformation of China's poetry and Chinese from phonetic reading to training reading, and the popularization of Chinese characters. Finally, calligraphers like Sanbi appeared. The three strokes are Konghai (774 ~ 835), Emei the Great and Orange Yi Shi (? ~ 842) Three people. Konghai once entered the Tang Dynasty to study Shinrikyo. I came back from the Tang Dynasty and brought back many books. His calligraphy is based on cursive mixed running script, taking Wang Xizhi's calligraphy as a model, from which we can see the influence of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy. The decorative calligraphy can be seen in the calligraphy of Emperor Xie, and the influence of Ou Yangxun's structure and brushwork. Ju's calligraphy is highly respected, and it is also called "Orange Life" in China. He is also famous among international students for studying the culture of the Tang Dynasty hard. Including the first two and three strokes, based on China's calligraphy, he also developed his own calligraphy style.