The whole volume of "Four Posts on Ancient Poems" contains four ancient poems with 188 words: "Nine-zhi cover in the East Ming Dynasty, and a five-cloud car in the north candle. Floating into the reverse scene, disappearing and rising haze. Jade slips under the spring spring, The blue bird looks at the walnuts, and the Marquis of Qi asks about the thorn flowers. He visits the Cai family in the North Palace, and the dragon mud seals the jade slips, and the Shangyuan wind and rain are scattered. , The song of Zhongtian is blown. The fragrance is smelled thousands of miles away. Noisy. When I saw Mr. Fuqiu, I had a lot of trouble with you. The medicine collectors in Hengshan were also lost in the road. They sat down at Xiyan and met each other. His writings are not the teachings of the world, and his people must be sage. "His writing is done in one breath, his writing is thick and powerful, and his writing is powerful and powerful. He is said to "crouch like a tiger lying down, rise like a leaping dragon, jump like a mountain, and push forward like a spring." "Four Calligraphies of Ancient Poems" is full of majestic momentum, the layout is wide open and close, and the writing is very critical. It is crazy but not strange, and the calligraphy momentum is unrestrained and unrestrained. For example, six lines and eight sentences: "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty looked at walnuts, and the Marquis of Qi asked about the thorn flowers." The strokes are continuous, the brushstrokes are powerful, the round head is reversed, and the skill is strong. Another example is the nine lines, "We should drink Shangyuan wine and visit the Cai family together." The lines contain endless connotations, are full of ancient interest, and are full of tension and magnetism. The writing style is superb, giving people a sense of various manners, and the writing is connected with meaning, making people endlessly daydreaming. Another example is the thirteenth line, "The jade slips are sealed with dragon clay, and the true text is refined by fire." The brushwork has a circle in the square, and the writing is done by pressing, turning, and alternating between virtual and real. Throughout the whole article, the words are meaningful, the composition is rigorous, the layout of the lines is dense, well-proportioned, hard and soft, and integrated. No matter whether you look at the whole text or some individual words, you will be moved by the flowing, twisting, hidden fronts and straight turns, and the touching masculine lines. Without superb artistic accomplishment and well-established skills, it would be impossible to write such a masterpiece of ingenuity and perfection. Because of this, Zhang Xu's cursive script has been highly praised by all generations and is praised as the "Sage of Cursive Calligraphy". A Ming Dynasty man said: Zhang Xu's cursive calligraphy "is as if it were thrown down from the air, with graceful and smooth strokes, shining like the light of the sky, as if it were not done by human hands." However, this volume is not a masterpiece without regrets. In my humble opinion, the writing style in the beginning is relatively monotonous and restrained, but after the Five Elements, it gradually becomes more relaxed, and the middle chapter gradually gets better. If the opening chapter is as strong as the second half, then this post will be even more perfect and wonderful. Zhang Xu's calligraphy was first developed by Zhang Zhi and Er Wang, and he achieved the highest level in cursive script. He himself is proud to inherit the tradition of "Two Kings", and every word is legal. His regular script is correct and rigorous. The rules are so extreme that Huang Shanshangu praised him as "the one who has no equal in the official writings of the Tang Dynasty". If his regular script is more inheritance than creation, then his cursive script is a great innovation and development in calligraphy. In this way, a free and upright and unpredictable wild grass is created, and its appearance can be described as shocking. Han Yu said: "Xu is good at cursive writing. If you don't improve his skills, Xu's writing will change like ghosts and gods. Don't watch it." Yan Zhenqing resigned from office twice to ask him for advice on calligraphy. Zhang Xu's cursive script looks very crazy, but the composition is quite standardized. It is a kind of cursive script that is sublimated based on the cursive script of Zhang Zhi and Wang Xizhi. If you look closely at the calligraphy, there are no irregular smears. Many subtle strokes and transitions between words are clearly explained, and there is no sense of artificiality. Zhang Xu's cursive script accelerates the rhythm under the influence of exciting emotions, like a golden snake dancing wildly, or like a tiger sitting on a dragon's coil, showing the momentum of a thousand miles. Because the artistic flavor of the prosperous Tang Dynasty was added to the turbulence and texture of the lines, it formed its own unique and wild cursive style. Among many calligraphy styles, cursive script is a special calligraphy style. In addition to its own characteristics, it also contains the aesthetic qualities of other calligraphy styles. Therefore, it is the most expressive calligraphy style in the art of calligraphy. As an art, cursive script not only has the same characteristics as calligraphy, but also has musical characteristics. Music is accomplished through the harmonious changes in the sequence of various notes to produce melody. Calligraphy also uses simple pen and ink to write lines with vitality and rhythm. It is completed by relying on the stroke order and the style of the characters to make various unified and harmonious changes in weight, urgency, dryness and so on over time. Some people compare calligraphy to silent music and believe that the jump of musical rhythm can be felt in the works. This is caused by the various temporal characteristics of calligraphy. This feature is most obvious in cursive script among various calligraphy styles. Because cursive writing requires the most time at one time in the continuous writing process. Cursive writing also has characteristics of painting.
Although it does not express specific images, nor does it have the colorful colors in paintings, the abstract graphics in calligraphy are inherently "all things in one". Its lines and various combinations of lines constitute a Figures that have different shapes but do not represent any entity. Its pure black and white colors are endlessly varied depending on the shade of ink and the priority of the brush. The visual effects formed after this combination of changes are similar to those of paintings. Among individual calligraphers, cursive script is the most obvious one that can express the artistic effect of calligraphy. The unrestrained changes in pen and ink, the highly abstract structure and graphics, the clever combination of calligraphy and gestures, and the methodical use of each word are the most poetic and picturesque. Similar to cursive writing is dance. Du Fu recorded in "Preface to Watching Aunt Gongsun's Disciples Dance with Swords and Utensils": "In the past, Zhang Xu, a native of Wu, was good at cursive calligraphy. He saw Aunt Yun Gongsun dancing with Xihe Sword Utensils several times in Ye County. Since then, cursive calligraphy has improved." Calligrapher Lin Tie Having benefited from dance is enough to illustrate the relationship between the two. Dance constantly changes the shapes of various dance postures in a certain time sequence to express beauty, and its performance is judged in terms of strength, shape, connection, etc. This is very similar to the requirements of calligraphy. Among all calligraphy styles, cursive script also has the strongest requirements for this aspect. However, the art of calligraphy is independent after all and has its own characteristics and requirements. It expresses the author's emotions and aesthetic concepts through vital lines and various relationships between lines, which are combined with rhythm in the course of time to create a harmonious and changeable overall spatial effect. In these senses, Zhen, Cao, Li, Zhuan, and Xing all have this meaning. However, among various calligraphy styles, cursive script is the one that best embodies the time characteristics of calligraphy and the most direct emotional expression. It can be said that cursive script is a collection of calligraphy strokes, ink techniques, and composition. It is the highest level of calligraphy rhythm, rhythm, and meaning. Therefore, Liu Xizai said in "Art Summary": "There is no better way to observe a person than to see his cursive writing." This is precisely because "calligraphy has more meaning than meaning" and "cursive writing has more meaning than calligraphy". Therefore, a person's artistic talent and artistic accomplishment can be better seen from cursive script. Zhang Xu is a master of cursive script artistic talent and artistic accomplishment. In fact, cursive script is the most representative of the art of Chinese calligraphy, because it elevates Chinese characters from a practical writing tool to an art of emotional sustenance. The awakening and pursuit of calligraphy is predicated on the establishment of cursive script, which makes people In addition to practicality, it has more fun. Zhang Xu is a typical representative of cursive calligraphy artists from ancient to modern times. He not only has profound calligraphy artistic literacy, but also perfectly combines his exciting emotions with calligraphy art in expression. Zhang Xu used Kuangcao to express his personal emotions, which actually reflected the ideological complex and general spiritual outlook of artists in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This is the product of the combination of subjective will and objective reality, which enables the most perfect development of calligraphy that reflects emotions. The wild momentum of Zhang Xu's calligraphy, the harmonious rhythm and rhythm, the conformity of the structure between the characters, the weight and smoothness of the lines, etc. have all reached the highest level of cursive script. It can be said to be "unprecedented and unprecedented". The emergence of calligraphy has influenced almost all great calligraphers in subsequent dynasties. Today, the art of calligraphy is quite popular among the masses, and "Four Calligraphies of Ancient Poems" is an excellent model for learning calligraphy.