Calligraphy is based on words. It depends on words but cannot be bound by words. It can work within the rules and outside the circle with ease. Mr. Li Guofang is such a master of calligraphy who is sailing in the sea of ??art. He is well-read and knowledgeable, and is knowledgeable about the past and present. Say a few lines of ancient poetry to him, and he will immediately be able to tell the source. The ancients said: "If you draw back a mountain of pens, it will not be enough. Only by reading thousands of volumes can you gain enlightenment." Mr. Li's calligraphy has a strong bookish style.
Mr. Li was born in a scholarly family in 1925, and three generations of his family have been engaged in education. He loved calligraphy since he was a child. He copied Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription" and Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface" for many years. He also adopted Ouyang Xun's Thirty-six Methods of Knotting, and gradually formed his own style.
Mr. Li is optimistic, open-minded, and humorous, so his writing style is bright and open. Looking at his calligraphy, it is like flowing clouds and flowing water, elegant and green, with deep and solid brushwork, penetrating the hair with strength, like the lightness of floating clouds, and containing the shape of a frightening dragon. Horizontally, it is like a cloud formation thousands of miles away, and vertically, it is like a hundred-year-old withered vine. It is eloquent, vivid, well-proportioned, and the overall beauty is very strong and amazing!
His running script "Lanting Preface" won the first prize of the national "91 Double Ninth Festival Piston Cup" and was exhibited at the Beijing Military Museum. His calligraphy works won the gold medal in the Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Competition of the Institute of Oriental Art in 2002. In 2005, the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Artists Association awarded him the title of "Outstanding Chinese Contemporary Calligrapher and Painter". In January 2008, at an event held in Changsha to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Zhou Enlai's birth, his calligraphy work "Morning Court Walk" won the gold medal in the competition. In 1998 and 1999, Fenghuang Mountain and Yandang Mountain respectively used his calligraphy works to be erected in the Forest of Steles.
In November 2012, the Chinese Five-Body Calligraphy Research Association and Beijing Huaxia Fengya Calligraphy and Painting Academy published "Ten Chinese Calligraphy Masters", and Mr. Li was on the list. This calligraphy album spans the year 1660. Among the vast number of calligraphers, 10 people were selected. From Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, and Huai Su in the Tang Dynasty, Mi Fu in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty, Wen Zhengming in the Ming Dynasty, to Shen Peng and Li Guofang in the contemporary era. Congratulations to Mr. Li for receiving this honor! This is not only his glory, but also the glory of Jiangcheng. The publication of this special collection is an affirmation of Mr. Li's calligraphy and the result of his many years of hard work, making him a well-deserved master of calligraphy in my country.
Li Guofang has successively published "Xingyuan Poetry Notes", "Xingyuan Poems Preserved", "Xingyuan Poems Remaining", "Flower Language", "Poem Rhythm", "Ci Rhythm", "Music Rhythm" He has published fourteen anthologies including "Qidong Lu", "Xingyuan Collected Works" and "Chicken Sai Collection". He has created more than 3,000 poems and written more than 100 articles. Among them, "Explanation of the True Taste of Cai Gen Tan" was published in the Chinese Writers Century Forum and was awarded the first prize by "Contemporary Writers' Literary Collection". The novel "The Love of Mountain Ghosts" won the second prize at the Chinese Writers Century Forum and was included in the "Collection of Award-Winning Writers" for publication.
When the Wenchuan Earthquake struck on May 12, 2008, Mr. Li wandered by the Songhua River and wrote affectionately: "The green mountains and green waters are nothing but the sky. Standing by the river is boring. Looking at Wenchuan from a distance, there is nothing." It is sent with tears of heart and bitterness. "It is not that he has nothing to send, but he has actively participated in the earthquake relief work. He has not only made many donations, but also participated in many disaster relief pen meetings. Sometimes due to inconvenience, he Just asking his children to send the works shows his sincerity.
With the keenness of a scholar, Mr. Li always pays attention to the development and changes of the motherland. During the 2008 Olympic Games, he was so ecstatic that he could not sleep at night. From the moment the Olympic flame was lit, in just 150 days, he not only wrote 550 poems praising the great mountains and rivers of the motherland and praising the athletes, he also wrote these 550 poems in regular script into a 100-meter-long scroll, and published a special collection "Holy Fire" "Integrating Poems" to express the joy in my heart.
Mr. Li is not only proficient in poetry, song, calligraphy and painting, he is also proficient in Chinese studies. He has been the vice president and secretary-general of the Jilin Zhouyi Research Association for many years. Recently, he wrote a long historical novel "The Fist of God" with more than 500,000 words, which provided supporting evidence of history from a folk perspective, indicted imperialist aggression, and spoke highly of the Chinese people's spirit of resistance.
In 2003, Mr. Li was awarded the title of "Expert Member" by the World Organization for Science, Education, Culture and Health. The China International Academy of Fame awarded him the "World Cultural Celebrity Achievement Award". In 2003, the Chinese Poetry Development Research Association awarded him the honorary title of "God of Contemporary Poetry", which is the highest honor in the world of contemporary poetry.
In 2008, he won the Gold Medal for "Creative Achievements" in Chinese Studies and was awarded the title of "Meritorious Artist of Chinese Studies". Mr. Liu Naizhong, a famous Chinese calligrapher, said of Mr. Li: "Mr. Guofang is profound in learning, skilled in poetry, diligent in writing, and skilled in art." The famous Chinese calligrapher Ye Tianhui wrote a couplet to praise Mr. Li: "Three friends are pines, bamboos, and plums. A family of poetry, calligraphy and painting."
Mr. Li is also an outstanding educator and has been teaching all his life. After his retirement, he still teaches calligraphy in the calligraphy and painting class of teachers of the Municipal Education Commission, and teaches Chinese literary history and ancient poetry at the University for the Elderly.
He is affable and meticulous in his art. Over the years, he has adhered to the ancient motto that literature is used to convey morality and force is used to stabilize the country. He has always consciously regarded inheriting the excellent culture of the motherland as his own responsibility, being strict with himself and being lenient to others. He not only lectured and wrote about Chinese studies, he also used Chinese studies to regulate himself and influenced people with his words and deeds. As the saying goes: "A gentleman is knowledgeable in literature, and if he makes an appointment with courtesy, he can live next to his husband."
Nowadays, although Mr. Li is old, his creative enthusiasm is still the same as before, and he has established a A pledge to never stop living and writing. The sun is short when writing books, and the stars are few when dancing ink. He is still working day and night.