With the development of archaeology in China, a large number of bamboo slips (mostly in Han Dynasty) have been unearthed one after another. It has attracted many calligraphy lovers with its natural and simple appearance, and imitation, learning, appreciation and research have become a common practice for a time. It is an indisputable fact that contemporary calligraphy is deeply influenced by it. This phenomenon seems accidental, but in fact it is logically inevitable. As we all know, Lishu is a watershed in the history of calligraphy in China. Due to the influence of pragmatism, by the Han Dynasty, the strokes of Chinese characters had evolved from dense to simple. The symbolization of writing strokes has broken the original characteristics of pictographs and turned them into pictographs without pictographs, which is a turning point of China characters and China calligraphy art. Since then, calligraphy as an art has its own artistic content, that is, it is no longer bound by images, but written with lines of calligraphy and the subjective feelings of the writers. Most of the Han bamboo slips are written by folk calligraphers, among which there are many childish works, which give modern people a new aesthetic impact. The simple and vast folk calligraphy with a long history is an inexhaustible source. Once discovered, it reflects dazzling brilliance with its tenacious vitality. Ink on bamboo slips is one of the models of folk calligraphy. Compared with literati calligraphy, it is natural and smooth, unpretentious, showing vitality and personality in freshness, which has aroused the desire and pursuit of contemporary people.
The Influence of Han Bamboo Slips on Contemporary Calligraphy
In addition to its own charm, the main reason lies in the collision between the social consciousness of modern people and the creative consciousness of calligraphers and the spiritual connotation of Han bamboo slips. At present, the social consciousness, personality consciousness and aesthetic consciousness of contemporary China people have undergone unprecedented changes. In the past years, especially in the decade of the Cultural Revolution, a unified and rigid cultural model has imprisoned people's personality and thoughts. From this deformed social and cultural environment, China people are moving towards opening up, which has aroused the activity of ideological culture, people's subjective consciousness has begun to awaken and have spiritual desires, and people are tired of that foolish, rigid and closed mental model. Cultural groups that are most sensitive to the pulse of the times begin to look for the expression of this desire and the object of consciousness corresponding to this psychological state-calligraphy works (a tributary of the spiritual source) to achieve psychological balance. Shu Lang in Han bamboo slips is bold and unrestrained, swift, straightforward and exposed. With its clumsy artistic connotation, it has produced a * * * sound among many calligraphy lovers. Based on the foundation of traditional culture, they look for the correspondence between early human culture and contemporary cultural consciousness from bottom to top in the long history, and think and innovate on this basis, which is actually a conscious and unconscious re-understanding of national traditional culture and a revival and sublimation of ancient artistic spirit.
The academic value of Han bamboo slips
Because of its freshness, frankness and simplicity, Han bamboo slips are regarded as aesthetic objects by modern people again, which has strong academic value. Besides being a cognitive object, it coincides with contemporary people's social psychological consciousness and further affects contemporary people's aesthetic consciousness. People in the Han Dynasty have a calm and true mentality in writing, which shows the natural beauty of nature and meets the spiritual needs of contemporary people to get out of the rigid environment. Maslow listed aesthetic needs as the highest level of human needs in his hierarchy of needs theory. With the more urgent requirements of modern people in this respect, a strong spiritual consciousness of returning to the truth came into being. Specifically, it is the desire for spiritual truth and freedom. Beauty is a symbol of truth and freedom. This aesthetic proposition tells the essence of aesthetic consciousness, and art is the symbol of beautiful mind. In my opinion, this is naturally the main driving force for creative consciousness and aesthetic consciousness for a long time to come. The aesthetic value of returning to nature will also play a leading role in artistic creation and aesthetic activities.