The Book of Art, No.3, 217
"Phoenix Cloud" painted Gu Mo
Pen and ink inkstone, Four Treasures of the Study. Pen crown is the first place, which has always been praised; Although Mo wrote the famous paintings of Song and Yuan Dynasties, it also made them last for years, but it was only the second place. In Han Yu's Biography of Mao Ying, the pen was sealed and worshipped, while the ink was called "Chen Xuan, a crimson man", just a cloth. In fact, this may have drowned out the merits of ink. As early as before Han Yu, calligrapher Xue Ji had already started to play the "study room", which was to enfeoffment the official position of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the position of ink was obviously miraculous.
Gu Mo, the pipa of Ming Cheng Jun Fang
The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all rewarded with "Nine Tin" in Xue Ji. "Nine Tin" is nine sharp weapons that only the Emperor can control and use, symbolizing the highest power and dignity. In real political life, it is generally awarded only to princes with outstanding achievements, and their official positions are different, such as Paper is "a general who is the secretary of the state, the secretariat of Baizhou, and the commander of the military world", while inkstone is "a long military history and a tough history of Jimo"-obviously, these official positions and titles are all based on the respective materials, colors and textures of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which can be called well-intentioned. Among them, it is said that when the ink was sealed, the weather was extremely miraculous:
(Xue) Ji also sealed nine tins for the ink, worshiping Songyan and guarding it, and Xuanxiang was the satrap, which was also a matter of peace in the counties of Mizhou. It's the day, and the ink spits out different gases, forming a balcony. Neighborhood to see, eat for a long time is destroyed.
It seems that, under the care of Xue Ji, ink has infiltrated heaven and earth, and it is quite human. This is, of course, a pastime of the literati's game pen and ink, but it is precisely because of this pastime and elegant lifestyle that our cultural tradition is increasingly rich and extremely essence. Since Xue Ji, "Xuanxiang Taishou", "Songyan" and "Smoke Protection" have become the nicknames of Mo. In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, Mo also had such elegant titles as "Gold will not change", "Black Jade Zan", "Book Media" and "Messenger of Black Pine". These elegant titles that have continued to this day vaguely imply that the artistic atmosphere of literati's life at that time has permeated every detail and part of daily life.
Ming Cheng Jun Fang made "different fish spit ink" ink
A poem by Li Tinggui in the Tang Dynasty said:
Give Erwu Jade Zan, and the fountain must be clean. Hanging leather bags in the summer, plum blossoms in the breeze.
Li Tinggui was born in Xuzhou (now southern Anhui), and his father Li Chao, who lived in Yizhou (now Yixian, Hebei), was a famous master of ink making, and lived in Jiangnan during the war in the late Tang Dynasty. At that time, Yizhou and Luzhou in the north (now Changzhi, Shanxi), and Zhangzhou and Xuanzhou in the south of the Yangtze River were well-known ink-producing resorts in China. Li Tinggui, who was born in an ink-making family and lived in the hometown of ink production in the south of the Yangtze River, naturally had the advantages of integrating the North and the South and creating new ideas.
When he made ink, he added spices and medicinal materials such as Garcinia Garcinia, Rhinoceros horn, Zhenzhu, Croton, etc. The production process was more complicated and refined than Wei Dan's, and the ink samples were also brought forth new ideas. He designed round cakes with dragon stripes on the sword ridge, carp with double ridges, black jade Zan, Panlong pellets and so on. It is said that Li Tinggui ink is "as strong as jade, and its lines are like rhinoceros", which is insoluble in water. At that time, it was already difficult to buy with heavy money. At that time, people had the saying that "gold is available, but Li's ink is not available".
The poem "Storing Ink" refers to "Wu Yujun", which is Li Tinggui's own work. From this proud poem, we can roughly understand how clean and elegant the pen and ink life of the upper-class literati was at that time: fresh spring water should be used for grinding, the inkstone should be washed frequently to keep it moist and clean, and the ink should be stored in leather bags after use, hanging in the cool breeze and bright moon, and the plum fragrance is cold ...
In contrast, five spindles of Qing Fugui Shou Kao Mo are stored in Gu Mo and four spindles are stored. Xue Ji, Han Yu, and other people who worship the official position and set up a monument for the pen and ink are careless and superficial-a real aesthetic life should not only let the details and parts of life stay in poetry and works of art, but also infuse the emotions and imagination originally projected into poetry and art into daily life, regard daily life as works of art, and study it deeply in ordinary daily things, and the music is wonderful. In other words, let life itself overflow and exude an artistic atmosphere.
People use pen and ink as gifts for their relatives and friends, which makes human relations lose their worldly utilitarian meaning. For example, Li Bai once wrote a poem "Reward Zhang Sima to Give Ink":
Shangdang Biyong Smoke, Yiling Dansha Powder. Blue musk deer coagulates precious ink, and its clothes are as good as those of others. The yellow-headed slave is a pair of crows, and the tips are raised in the arms. Today, I will give it to Lanting, and I will sprinkle a pen to meet the mountain.
According to the experience of appreciating ink, the first four sentences of the poem are about the material, luster and color of ink; "Yellow-headed slave and double crow" depicts the ink "sample" and bends to the best of material state; "Keeping a treasure in your sleeve" is the method of "keeping a treasure"-my friends give me precious ink, and I reward it with songs and poems. This is an elegant life that is unconventional and unconventional!
Qing Dynasty "Cheng Junfang" Yuan Ming Zhen Fu Gu Mo
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