Interesting words about Wang Shushan’s calligraphy couplets?
36. Zeng Guofan’s inscribed couplet of He Shusui Self-cultivation
In the thousands of hectares of Taihu Lake, gulls and Tao Zhu live in the same house;
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The bright moon is divided into two parts, and the crane moves home with He Xun***.
He Shi was a bibliophile and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. He was a Jinshi in the 25th year of Daoguang's reign. He was highly appreciated by Zeng Guofan and was said to be "a talented person's pen is admired by everyone". Later, he traveled to Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, looking for business opportunities and became extremely rich. A great deal of construction work was carried out in Yangzhou, and Huyuan (later renamed "Huyuan") was built as the land of Cuqiu.
He sang harmony with Qu Dajun, Chen Gongyin, Liang Peilan, etc. and founded the Huxin Poetry Society. When guests come, they don't ask their names, and they drink wine and sing the joy of the day. There are those who stay away for months and months. It was called Shiyin at that time. He was highly appreciated by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang. Zeng Guofan
He went to Yangzhou twice and stayed at He Shu's house both times. Once, He Shi invited Zeng Guofan to drink. During the dinner, He Shi talked about how he used salt to get rich in Daying Mansion after he was dismissed from office, and invited Zeng Guofan to inscribe the title for the residence. Zeng Guofan thought of Fan Li who was "loyal to the country, wise to protect one's life, and became rich in business and famous all over the world". He assisted Gou Jian to destroy Wu and avenge Kuaiji's humiliation. He knew that Gou Jian could be with the Communist Party of China in adversity and suffer the same fate. An Le then floated to the sea, concealed his name, became a couple with the gulls, and managed to produce tens of millions. He then dispersed all his wealth to Tao and named himself Tao Zhu Gong.
Then he wrote the first couplet:
In the thousand hectares of Taihu Lake, gulls and Tao Zhu live in the same house;
He Shi saw that the allusion in the first couplet was appropriate, and I offered him three glasses of wine. After drinking, Zeng Guofan thought of He Xun, a writer from the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties who was able to write poetry at the age of eight. He Xun's lyrical descriptions of scenes were extremely exquisite, with a fresh and graceful style, such as in "Farewell to Jiangzhou and Traveling to the Past"
"The night raindrops drop on the empty steps, and the light is dark when leaving the room"; in "Farewell to Hu Xing'an at Night", "the dew wets the grass in the cold pond, and the moon reflects the clear Huaihe River"; in "Farewell", "the river is dark and the rain is about to come, and the waves are white and the wind is beginning "Get up" and so on, the scenes blend together and seem to come at your fingertips, but
it is sincere and unforgettable after reading it. He was good at using fluent language to describe natural scenery in detail and with neat contrasts, which had a clear influence on Du Fu. When He Xun was in Yangzhou, he often chanted "Oh" every time the plum blossoms were in full bloom. Later, he lived in Luoyang.
He couldn't miss the plum blossoms, so he asked to be appointed to Yangzhou again. , be friendly with the scribes, and be proud all day long. Isn't He Shi just like He Xun? He moved to Yangzhou with the crane. And there is a sentence in Xu Ning's poem "Remembering Yangzhou": "The world is divided into three parts
The bright moon night is divided into two parts, and Yangzhou is divided into two parts." So Zeng Guofan wrote the second couplet:
The bright moon is divided into two parts. , Crane moved home with He Xun.
In this way, a couplet embeds two allusions, leaving a beautiful story through the ages.
37. Praise for Dong Gaolian
The writing desk is famous for its famous names;
When you go to the painting mountain, you will learn more from Fuchun.
Dong Gao was a famous official, great calligrapher, painter, and talented man in the Qing Dynasty. He could write the four words "Peace in the World" on a sesame seed. The landscape is endowed with family knowledge, the elegance is unrivaled, and the people are friendly and easy-going.
He successively served as the Minister of Rites, Work, Household, Officials, and Punishment, the Vice President of "Sikuquanshu", was ordered to compile "The Examination of the Origin of Manchuria", served as the President of Wuyingdian, and the Bachelor of Wenhuadian. In the forty-fourth year, he was appointed Minister of Military and Aircraft, then Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and twice appointed as Ziguang Pavilion.
Dong Gao was a highly respected minister, who had been in and out of prison for more than 40 years. He was diligent in his duties and measured in his actions. He was familiar with anecdotes, gains and losses in political affairs, and could understand the root cause. He was seventy-nine years old. Emperor Jiaqing came to pay homage in person, and wrote an elegiac poem with the sentence "Only articles are passed down to his nephews, but no money is left to Zhuang Tian", and he personally allocated funds to build the "Donggong Temple". Granted the posthumous title Wengong. This couplet is a couplet written by the Qing Dynasty scholar Shen Tingfang in praise of Dong Gao. The first couplet "The writing desk is named Fanlu" uses an allusion from "Spring and Autumn Fanlu" written by Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, and praises Dong Gaobo
He is knowledgeable and has written many works, hiding a "Dong" Character.
The second line of the second line "If you study the mountains, you will learn more from Fuchun." It uses an allusion to Huang Gongwang's painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" to praise Dong Gao. The "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is a paper created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350. Ink painting, one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. With the Fuchun River in Zhejiang as the background, the painting uses light and elegant ink, the mountains and water are arranged in an appropriate density, and the ink color is thick and light, dry and wet, and is full of changes. The painting of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is known as the "Orchid Pavilion in the Painting" and is a national treasure. In June 2011, the two sections were displayed together for the first time at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Dong Gao was a native of Fuyang, Hangzhou. The second couplet uses an allusion from "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" to praise Dong Gao for being good at painting landscapes, which is very appropriate.