Time: Northern Song Dynasty
Styles: Running Scripts
Specification: 40.2×28.6 cm.
Word count: 85 words.
The paper book "Things Change", 40.2cm×28.6cm, is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei and is one of Su Shi's masterpieces in his later years. This is a letter, named after the word "crossing the sea"; At the end of the volume, the words "My Lord, Shi Dunchu Dream Secret School, June 13th" are written, so it is also called "Dream Secret School" or "Dream Secret School Book". This article was written in the third year of Fu Yuan (A.D. 1 100). It is a letter that Su Shi left for his friends when he left Danzhou, Hainan, a relegated place, and went north to cross the sea.
Su Shi is over 60 years old, with a hard career, a cold world and self-knowledge and indefensible. However, Zhao Mengde was able to give Su Shi the most sincere friendship and meticulous care at the lowest valley of his life, which made Su Shi feel comforted when he was unaccompanied in Hainan. As for "drinking non-human, tea has words; I feel guilty behind closed doors ",and Zhao Mengde is a bosom friend. Su Shi was banished to the end of the world on his deathbed, so he planned to die in Hainan. Accidental forgiveness makes me have mixed feelings.
He wrote in the second book of Chengmai Children's Supermarket: "I want to live in the old Hainan village all my life, and the emperor sent five sheep to recruit my soul." There is no place in the sky, and Qingshan is the Central Plains. " It shows his attachment to Hainan in anxious to return. This parting will be a farewell, but I didn't meet my bosom friend Zhao Meng and didn't say a word. How can you not regret for life? As a last resort, the feeling of leaving a book to meet an old friend is beyond words in his letters, and this feeling is fully integrated between his calligraphy and painting.
The brushwork of Crossing the Sea is vigorous, unrestrained, careless and natural, as Su Shi himself said: "I can't do this book with my heart, but I'm bored with trusting my hands." The structure of this post is typical of Su Shi's calligraphy style, and the font structure is on the rise, with the style of Li Yong (Beihai). For example, Huang Tingjian said that "the old age is as calm and happy as Li Beihai", and another example is that Huang Tingjian wrote Su Shi's "The Stone Shocks the Toad".
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