Zhao Mengfu's life story
Zhao Mengfu was born in a prominent family. He is the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. His father was an assistant minister in the Southern Song Dynasty, a comfort station in Lin 'an and a senior official. After the demise of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols established the Yuan regime, and Zhao Mengfu was elected as an official, which is also a misunderstanding of later generations. Many people think that Zhao Mengfu is a traitor and a traitor. In fact, at that time, if Zhao Mengfu didn't go to be an official, it would bring trouble to the lives of people around him, so it was only the Yuan Dynasty's helpless move for Zhao Mengfu to be an official. Besides, being an official in the Yuan Dynasty is not a traitor, and they are all from China, so there is no such thing as a traitor.
When Zhao Mengfu was an official, although his official career was bumpy, he did a lot of useful things for the people, and he was also an honest and clean good official. This is because Zhao Mengfu's achievements in calligraphy and painting are so high that people ignore his achievements in politics. Zhao Mengfu has made great achievements in calligraphy. All-rounder in calligraphy, proficient in cursive script, regular script, running script, official script and a series of mainstream calligraphy fonts.
The calligrapher Zhao Mengfu's main achievement is also above calligraphy. He advocates? Is calligraphy retro? I highly admire the calligraphy works of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, paying attention to realism and basic tempering. Therefore, Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy skills are very solid, and each of them has its own characteristics. Therefore, Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy works are highly respected by future generations, and have also become the objects of copying by many calligraphy lovers.
Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy Works
Zhao Mengfu created his own calligraphy style after studying the calligraphy of famous artists in Jin and Tang Dynasties, especially those of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. Zhao Ti? , and Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun and called? Four in regular script? . In addition, his running script is also very famous. One of the four great calligraphers in China? The other three are Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Su Dongpo, all of whom were born hundreds of years before Zhao Mengfu. Zhao Mengfu has learned the essence of their calligraphy, and Zhao Mengfu is a real character in As You.
Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy developed after middle age, because before middle age, he was imitating others. Zhao Mengfu was born in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his ancestors were Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Mengfu's birth was an unfortunate beginning. When he was born, the Song Dynasty was not far from collapse. By the time Zhao Mengfu came of age, the Song Dynasty had perished and the Yuan Dynasty was established.
After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu lived in his hometown and studied calligraphy. Later, he was recommended to Kublai Khan and praised by him for his talent. Although Zhao Mengfu worked as an official in the Yuan Dynasty for a period of time, he was soon dismissed from office because of many contradictions within the Yuan Dynasty.
Zhao Mengfu studied calligraphy at home while reading. With the passage of time, Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy has made great progress, and Zhao Mengfu is proficient in almost all calligraphy. At first, he didn't stick to his predecessors' calligraphy experience, but had his own ideas. Later, he created his own calligraphy font. He has many representative works, the most famous of which are Ode to Luoshen, Tao Te Ching, Four-body Thousand-character Essays and so on.
Characteristics of Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy
Zhao Mengfu was originally the son of Zhao family in Song Dynasty, and also a descendant. There are not many real geniuses in governing the country, but there are many famous calligraphers, such as the famous calligrapher Song Gaozong Zhao Gou. Zhao Mengfu studied Zhao Gou's Si Ling Shu in his early years, and Zhong You, the famous master of official script in the Western Jin Dynasty and the inventor of lower case, in his middle age. In his later years, Zhao Mengfu also made constant progress. He gradually improved his calligraphy level by copying famous calligraphers and some classic calligraphy inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty.
Zhao Mengfu studied many schools, but he didn't lose himself. On the contrary, he supplemented himself with the essence of each family and gradually formed his own characteristics. Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy has three characteristics:
First, there are many bookmakers. In Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy, we can see the characteristics of many famous calligraphers, and these characteristics can well appear in Zhao's works. This is not a simple combination, but an organic combination of these calligraphy features, just like cooking. Only by making full use of ingredients can we make the most delicious dishes.
Second, a solid foundation. Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy is suitable for calligraphy lovers to copy when laying a good foundation. Zhao Mengfu was born in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, calligraphy and painting became a little grandiose and skillful, but they lost those basic things. On the basis of learning from the characteristics of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu reformed it and became more retro, paying attention to basic application.
The third is the combination of form and meaning. The greatest feature of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy is the combination of form and meaning, and his calligraphy is very good at the combination of form and meaning. Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy combines the advantages of predecessors' calligraphy and pays attention to the combination of form and meaning, which makes calligraphy have its own meaning and rhyme.