Appreciation of cursive script by the most scribbled people in ancient times
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Brief introduction of Zhang Xu's calligraphy
? Zhang Xu (date of birth and death unknown) was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
At first he was the commander-in-chief of Changshu, and later he became an official of Jinwu, known as "Zhang Changshi". His mother Lu is the niece of the calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty, that is, the granddaughter of Yu Shinan.
Zhang Xu is free and easy, generous, outstanding, brilliant and knowledgeable. Du Fu befriended Li Bai and He Hao, and was listed as the "Eight Immortals of Drinking". He is a master of cursive script with great personality. Because he is often drunk, clamoring for madness, then writing books, and even writing with his hair dipped in ink, he has the nickname "Zhang Dian". After Huai Su inherited and developed his brushwork, he also got his name from cursive script, calling it "Dianzhang Zuisu".
Zhang Xu is unrestrained, likes drinking, often dances after getting drunk, and then goes back to the table to start writing.
Wave a hand. Some people called him rude and gave him a crazy nickname. In fact, he is very careful. He believes that everything he touches in his daily life can inspire his writing. To get something occasionally is to melt it into your own calligraphy. At that time, as long as people got a piece of his paper, they all regarded it as a treasure, and it was hereditary and true.
Zhang Xu's calligraphy began with Zhangzhi and Erwang, with cursive script as the highest achievement.
History is called "the sage of grass". On the one hand, he is proud of inheriting the tradition of "two kings", on the other hand, he imitates Zhang Zhi's cursive art and creates a kind of unrestrained and unpredictable wild grass, which shocked the world. According to legend, he saw the princess arguing with her husband, and he heard the advocacy and got the meaning of brushwork; When I was in Yexian County, Henan Province, I loved watching Gong Sundaniang dance the sword of Xihe River, so I got the grass god. Yan Zhenqing resigned twice and asked him for his brushwork.
Zhang Xu is a pure artist. He pours his emotions into stippling, and no one looks at it, and he is as intoxicated as a madman. Tang Hanyu praised in "Preface to Send a Noble Sage to a Master": "Emotion, embarrassment, sadness, happiness, resentment, longing, drunkenness, boredom and injustice, all of which are touched in the heart, should be expressed in cursive script. Looking at things, we can see mountains and rivers, cliffs and canyons, birds, animals, insects and fish, flowers and trees, the sun, the moon and stars, storms and fires, lightning and thunder, singing and dancing battles, and changes in heaven and earth. One is in a book, so the changes in Xu's book are still unpredictable, and there is no way to make a clue, which will eventually be known to future generations. " Xiong Bingming's "China and calligraphy theory System" said: "Zhang Xu is an extremely important figure in the history of China's calligraphy. The Wild Grass he created limited the development of free expression. If you are more free, the words will be difficult to identify and calligraphy will become an abstract painting. "
After Zhang Xu died, everyone missed him very much. For example, after Du Fu entered Shu, he was very sad to see Zhang Xu's ink, so he wrote a cursive script of Yang Jian in the temple for Zhang Xu to see. In the poem, he said: the Sri Lankan people are dead in the clouds, and the grass is secret. I am so annoyed and full of sadness when I see this. In his poem To Zhang Xu, Li Qi said: The top of the bed is called three or five times. Xing lai wall, pen like a meteor. You can see how much you love Zhang Xu. To commemorate Zhang Xu, Changshu people still keep a "drunken street" near the square tower at the east gate of the city until today.
In the past, there was also a "Cao Sheng Temple" in this city. A couplet in the temple said, "The book became a god and the paper fell down. Today's ancient games spread eight laws; The drunken man is called a cursive sage, who is full of wind and rain, and should drink three cups at the age of ",which expresses the deep respect of the Yi people for this cursive sage. Zhang Xu's wash pen inkstone pool has also been preserved for a long time, and it is called "Xiyan Lake". Zhang Xu Cao Sheng Temple will be built in Suzhou in Tang Dynasty. Located on the west side of Tang Yin's tomb, all of them are ancient building materials. Caosheng Temple will be built into a building similar to Lanting in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, which will display the artistic achievements of Zhang Xu's calligraphy and become a place for literati pen meetings at home and abroad. Suzhou people are proud of calligrapher Zhang Xu. Zhang Xu is also the pride and glory of the Chinese nation. 155