Introduction:
The full name of this monument is "tombstone, governor of Kuizhou in history and defender of the army in the history of secretariat". Yan is Yan Zhenqing's great grandfather. Yan Zhenqing was 7 1 year old when he wrote and published this monument.
This tablet was recorded in Ouyang Xiu's Collection of Historical Records, but it was not recorded in Jin Bian in Qing Dynasty, which shows that this tablet was very famous in the Northern Song Dynasty. Buried in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was rediscovered in the Republic of China. According to the inscription of Song Bolu 1923, this tablet was obtained by He Menggeng in the back soil of Fankutang in the elderly in 1922 10. Although the tablet has been interrupted, it is intact from top to bottom, except that its inscription can be traced back to the tablet and was erased because it was used as a base in the Song Dynasty. The newly unearthed rubbings, the word "Li" in "the mouth of the elders", are broken at times, but they do not damage the strokes. Then the word "so" went down. The right vertical pen of the word "flat" in the first line is undamaged.
Yan Bei was written by Zhenqing for his great-grandfather Yan at the age of 7 1. This monument has a calm connotation, a broad structure, a graceful and upright appearance, and a face brushwork with many connotations, giving people a sense of solemnity. It is neither as square, refined, beautiful and elegant as the tower in The Story of the Ancient Immortal, nor as "domineering", and it is one of Yan's representative works of regular script in his later years. The structural characteristics of the diligent monument can be summarized as: 1. The contrast between horizontal light and vertical weight is obvious. Many Chinese characters are composed of horizontal and vertical paintings, or mainly horizontal and vertical paintings. For these figures, the structure of the Exquisite Monument is basically light and heavy, with sharp contrast and beautiful shape, which reminds people of pine trees with thick branches. Such as "scholar". 2. Use the vertical position to tighten inside and loosen outside. "Diligence Monument" takes a vertical posture, so that every word looks very close. However, through the use of techniques such as interlude, concession, avoidance and blurring, the whole glyph is dignified and stable, with a temple-like atmosphere. Such as the word "que". 3. The font is square, open-minded and dignified. The word Yan changed the structure of the side and was written with a relatively flat stroke. The left and right sides are also basically symmetrical, and the words are square. It absorbs the method of ancient seal script, adopts positive trend, and makes people feel solemn and fair, with magnificent connotation. Such as the word "so". 4. Graceful and generous, wide Bo Gu swings. Generosity, Generosity Bo Gu is an artistic feature of Yan Ti, which is also its structural feature. The brushwork of round pen center; The juxtaposition of two verticals leads to the extension of tension, strength and dynamics; The thickness of the painting is an important condition to form this feature. Such as the word "four".