"How to understand that when you used to be naughty, today you have different disadvantages."

1, translation: The key is that they are simple and not fashionable, and beauty is different from beauty.

2. Analysis: "Good time" has a fashionable and fashionable meaning; "Same shortcomings" means just a fashion. In other words, learning from the ancients can't go against the spirit of the times, and following the flavor of the times can't be mixed with the abuses of that time. In other words, it is not advisable to learn from the ancients without grasping the spirit of the times, nor is it desirable to be willing to set things right in order to grasp the spirit of the times.

In fact, this is also a view on the inheritance and innovation of calligraphy art. Sun's calligraphy thought of "naughty in the past, different disadvantages in the present" has always been a warning to the writer's creative view. Through the analysis of the methods and creations of the ancients, we can understand how valuable works with original significance are to our time.

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The source and introduction of sentences

1, Source: Sun Benshu Rating:

The commentator said: "There are four sages, who are unique in ancient and modern times; I can't catch the ancients today, and the ancients are embarrassed now. "Husband quality is changed by splendor, and beauty is changed by customs. Although the book is written, it is suitable for memorizing words; However, when spring moves, the quality changes, the evolution of red meaning and the smoothness of physics change. When you could be naughty, today is different. The so-called "gentleness". Then a gentleman. " Why is it easy to carve palaces at acupoints, but not jade at chakras!

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Critics said: "The four great calligraphers, Zhong Zhang and Erwang, are particularly prominent in the ancient and modern calligraphy circles respectively. But today (two kings) is not as good as ancient times (Zhong Zhang). Ancient times were characterized by simplicity, but today they are beautiful. " In my opinion, simplicity is the product of that era, but beauty changes with different customs.

Although people write to meet the needs of recording language; However, just like wine has strong and weak points, simplicity and literary talent are also diverse, the times are constantly improving, and the things of predecessors are reforming, inheriting and developing, which is the universal law of the development of things. The key is that they are simple and unfashionable, and beauty is different from beauty.

As the saying goes: "Only when literary talent and simplicity are properly matched can you become a noble person." Why abandon the palace with carved beams and painted buildings and go to the cave, and get off the car decorated with beautiful jade to take an ancient car without spokes?

2. Introduction to the work

Pu Shu, a 3700-word magnum opus, is profound and rich in content, involving all important aspects of China's calligraphy. It reveals the essence of calligraphy art and many important laws, and has become a landmark work in the history of calligraphy theory in ancient China, marking the development of China's calligraphy into a brand-new brilliant stage.

Sun Shi's main theoretical contribution lies in his consistent and scientific exposition of the "expression" essence of China's calligraphy in Shu Pu.