Why is Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy called "six and a half books"?

"Liushuban" is another name for Zheng Xie's (Zheng Banqiao's) calligraphy in Qing Dynasty. Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy was originally learned from Huang Tingjian. Later, he added "Eight Points" (referring to the mature official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, called "Eight Points") and Zhu Lan's brushwork to establish his own calligraphy style. This kind of calligraphy is not the original "eight-part essay", but between official script and official script, with a little Zhu Lan element, so it is called "six-part essay".

Zheng Xie, whose real name is Kerou, whose real name is Banqiao (1693— 1765), is a famous painter and painter in Qing Dynasty, and one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, who is good at painting orchids, bamboos and stones. Painting is the first life in life, but after death, the reputation of calligraphers is higher than that of painters. Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, known as the "six and a half books" in the world, has different font sizes, strong stone flavor, vigorous brushwork, beautiful and elegant, square and round, positive and oblique, sparse and dense arrangement. This creation and variation changed the atmosphere of "familiarity" and "kitsch" in calligraphy at that time, which greatly promoted the development of calligraphy art at that time. Qing? The ten volumes of "The Taoist Love of Farmers" have such an inscription: "Mr. Banqiao is a generation of strange people. Its writing is very strange, and its words are also very strange. Look at the text and describe the words, and Mr. Wang is on the paper. I know it's seal script, I know it's official script, I know it's official script, I know it's official script of the Six Dynasties, it's true cursive script, I know it's true cursive script. If whether it is printed or not, it is the true grass of the Six Dynasties, and it is consistent, countless families are combined into one family, but I don't know the countless families in the sense, just regard it as one family. I am rare outside my husband. " In the Qing Dynasty, He Ji Shao also wrote an inscription: "Zheng Banqiao's life was full of ups and downs, full of fun ... The word is the proud valley (Huang Tingjian), which means Zhu Lan, which is particularly interesting. The straw method originated in Huai Su, and its beauty lies in that it was learned from Zhang Changshi (Zhang Xu). " Yuan Mei, a gifted scholar in Qing Dynasty, once mocked Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy as "Wild Fox Zen", lacking the natural sense of "national beauty and fragrance".