Interpretation of Huang Tingjian's cursive script in vernacular Chinese.

"Modern scholar-officials seldom use the ancient method, but use a pen to wrap it around, hence the name cursive script. I don't know whether tadpoles, seals and officials agree with the same method. For hundreds of years, only Zhang Changshi, Huai Su, the mad monk of Yongzhou, and Yu San have realized this method. "

-Yellow Valley

(For hundreds of years, after the Jin people, Huang Guqian dared not surpass the "two kings". Huang Gu's arrogance has been verified in cursive script. After the yellow valley, there is no trembling pen; And this sentence, as of this era of Huang Tingjian, does not include future generations (Wang Duo, Xu Wei, etc. ))

Huang Tingjing, the word Lu Zhi,No. Valley; The founder of Jiangxi Poetry School in its heyday, and Du Fu, Chen (the first ancestor Du Fu; Three cases, Chen and Huang. ) called; They, Chao and Qin Guan all studied under Su Shi, and they are collectively called "Su Men Four Bachelor". During his lifetime, he was as famous as Su Shi, and he was called "Su Huang" in the world; Calligraphy is good at cursive script, which is unique and one of the "Song Sijia". That's the title. In the above sentence, the madman in the valley is by no means inferior to Mi Dian.

Today, Bian Xiao and book lovers appreciate Huang Gu's cursive script, and when they mention Huang Gu's cursive script, they have to bring the word "quiver pen". (Refer to the previous article: Huang Tingjian used China's brush technique perfectly in calligraphy, but do you dare to use it? Let's just say that when I was studying calligraphy in my early years, Bian Xiao really couldn't understand Huang Gu's calligraphy. I really think that his works, such as the "dead snake hanging a tree" mocked by Su Shi, a master of Huanggu, are stiff, lifeless and dare to be so crazy. Looking back now, I didn't appreciate the work of my aunt before Bian Xiao. Even so, we can't blame Bian Xiao's lack of appreciation, because Huang Li's early calligraphy works really give people a stiff and clumsy feeling.

Bian Xiao believes that to appreciate Huang Gu's cursive script, we must first understand his sentence: "I don't know if tadpoles, seals and officials are consistent." For hundreds of years, only Zhang Changshi, Huai Su, a mad monk in Yongzhou, and Yu San realized this method. "Then, we must begin to appreciate the mature representative works of Huanggu cursive script; Otherwise, it is really difficult to understand Huang Gugu's calligraphy, not to mention his "trembling" skills.

"I don't know whether tadpoles, seals and officials agree with the same law." Popular understanding, the artistic conception of the pen, like tadpoles swimming in the water, is soft, light and natural, swimming around without direction, but the artistic conception is clear, and you can swim wherever you want. Book lovers can imagine this scene, and we understand it from the mature cursive works of Huang Gu.

Biography of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, the mature masterpiece of Huanggu cursive script, is rich in pens, which can be used to investigate the origin of pens and inherit the essence of pens used by Zhang Xu and Huai Su in Tang Dynasty.

As shown in the picture, it is a typical cursive style of the Tang Dynasty.

Huanggu's original vibrato pen, the expression of Huanggu's early calligraphy works is a dead snake hanging a tree; The expression of vibrato pen in later mature works is perfect and full of agility. "I don't know if tadpoles, seals and officials agree." It is no exaggeration to say that after crossing the Yellow Valley, there is no tremor; In the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Yunming had a learning valley, his cursive script was different, but the use of vibrato pen was not as good as that of Huang Gu.