Su Dongpo is a unique genius in ancient China: he is known as Su Huang in poetry, the ancestor of the liberal style of poetry, he is listed among the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and he is ranked among the four great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties. What I bring to you below is Su Shi’s cursive calligraphy. I hope you like it. Appreciation of Su Shi’s calligraphy in running script
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The significance of Su Shi
Su Dongpo is a unique genius in ancient China: Poetry has Su Huang Zhi has a good reputation as the founder of the liberal style of Ci Chenghao. He is listed among the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and is ranked among the four great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties, including Su Huang, Mi, Cai and Song. As an official, he shares the minister and deputy positions with his younger brother; gourmet food is not his area of ??expertise, right? But he invented Dongpo pork...
Such an outstanding person who has never been born in the world, in one sentence? Worship? can no longer express our admiration. Although after many vicissitudes of life, many stories and works have been lost and will never be seen again, there is too much content that can be savored just from Dongpo's works that have been handed down. Of course, I still want to return to his calligraphy here and appreciate Su Dongpo's "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" and running script with everyone.
Huangzhou Cold Food Post is known as the third running script in the world, second only to Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface" and Yan Zhenqing's "Nephew Memorial Manuscript".
"Cold Food Post" is a poem written by Su Shi. It is a sigh of life written by Su Shi on the Cold Food Festival in the third year after he was demoted to Huangzhou. The poem is desolate and melancholy, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and loneliness at this time. The calligraphy fluctuates accordingly, embodying the changes in the mood and emotion of the poems in the changes in the dots and lines, either frontally or sideways, changing and disconnecting smoothly, completely natural. The characters are also strange, big or small, sparse or dense, light or heavy, wide or narrow, staggered and scattered, random and strange, and ever-changing. "Han Shi Tie" has a great influence on the history of calligraphy and is known as the "Third Running Script in the World". Huang Tingjian bowed his head and sighed: "Dongpo's poem is like that of Li Taibai, but he is afraid that Taibai may not be anywhere." This book combines the writing style of Yan Lugong, Yang Shaoshi, and Li Xitai. Trying to make Dongpo reproduce it may not be as good as this. ?Dong Qichang also wrote a postscript praising: ?I have seen Mr. Dongpo's authentic works in more than thirty volumes in my life, and I must take this as my first impression.?
Su Shi (1037-1101), courtesy name Zizhan, also known as Dongpo Jushi, was a native of Meishan, Sichuan. He, his father Su Xun, and his younger brother Su Zhe are famous for their poetry and prose, and are known as "San Su" in the world. They are ranked among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He studied calligraphy from "Er Wang" in his early years, Yan Zhenqing and Yang Ningshi in his middle age, and Li Beihai in his later years. He also extensively studied calligraphy from other calligraphers of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, forming a style with great individuality and interest. Dongpo was open-minded and unrestrained by nature, with delicate emotions. He could sing "The River Goes to the East" and chant "Chan Juan", which is reflected in his art. His poetry styles are changeable, grand and magnificent; his calligraphy is rich, graceful and full of interest, and he looks around with high spirits and fullness. The paper is full of calligraphy, and it requires great talent to do it.
Su Shi is a unique genius in ancient China.
When he was 21 years old, he took part in the Ministry of Rites examination. Su Shi shocked the examiner Ouyang Xiu with his unparalleled talent. Ouyang Xiu mistakenly thought it was his disciple Zeng Gong. In order to avoid suspicion, Su Shi was chosen as the second. In the sixth year of Jiayou's reign, he took the high school entrance examination and entered the third class, ranking first in the imperial examination in the Northern Song Dynasty for a century. (There is controversy about the authenticity of the examination rankings, but there is no doubt that Su Shi’s grades are excellent)
Su Shi’s articles, together with his father Xun and his younger brother Zhe, are among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties; his poems have the reputation of Su Huang; write lyrics, I accidentally overshadowed the Wanyue poet Liu Qilang, the ancestor of Cheng Hao's liberal school; Su Huang Mi Cai ranked first in calligraphy; in painting, he was good at painting ink and bamboo, which laid a theoretical foundation for the development of "literati painting". He occupies a place in the history of painting; as an official, he and his brother served as minister and deputy; in terms of food, he created Dongpo pork and Dongpo elbow...
Su Shi had great political ideals and adhered to principles. He could neither be tolerated by the new party nor forgiven by the old party. He was demoted several times in his life. Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou were further away each time, but he was persistent and firm and never changed his original intention.
At that time, successive prime ministers and important ministers in the court, such as the scholar leader Ouyang Xiu, the reformist Wang Anshi, and the conservative Sima Guang, were all his friends. They all valued his talent and recognized his ability. Even the emperor was his fan. But he chose and insisted on taking a path destined to be difficult, which was not easy. But while being persistent, he was also extremely open-minded. He remained optimistic despite ups and downs, and wrote a large number of famous poems that have been passed down for thousands of years.
In that era, when writing poems to express aspirations and lyrics to express emotions, the lyrics could only be about love, love and love. The graceful school represented by Liu Yong became very popular. Su Shi wrote his bold poem late, but he was extraordinary when he started it. At the age of 38, he wrote his first bold poem "Jiangchengzi? Hunting in Mizhou": "I am chatting like a teenager." He holds the yellow on the left, holds the blue on the right, wears a brocade hat and mink fur, and rides on thousands of horses. In order to repay Qingcheng, I followed the prefect, shot tigers myself, and watched Sun Lang. Drunken and brave, the chest is still open. It doesn't matter if there is a slight frost on the temples! When will Feng Tang be dispatched in the clouds holding the knot? He will draw the eagle bow like the full moon, look northwest, and shoot at the wolf. ?Su Shi was quite proud of this joyful and touching work. He once wrote in a letter to a friend: ? Recently, it is quite a small poem. Although it does not have the flavor of Liu Qilang, it still belongs to the same family. Haha, a few days ago, I hunted in the countryside and harvested a lot. I made a lot, which made the strong men of Dongzhou place their palms in their hands and stamp their feet to sing, playing flutes and drums to celebrate the festival. It was quite spectacular. Su Shi's poem goes against the traditional concept of "Shizhuang Ci Mei", "washes away the fragrance of Qiluo, gets rid of the subtle and subtle attitude", and broadens the realm of Ci.
He has achieved extremely high attainments in literature, poetry and Ci, and can be regarded as the representative of the highest achievement of literature in the Song Dynasty. Moreover, Su Shi's creative activities were not limited to literature. He made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields, and also contributed to medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills. Su Shi typically embodies the cultural spirit of the Song Dynasty. From the perspective of literary history, Su Shi's significance has two main points: First, Su Shi's attitude towards life has become a paradigm admired by later generations of literati: he can advance and retreat freely, and he is unfazed by favors and disgrace. Because Su Shi integrated the two attitudes of scholars in feudal society with the same value scale, he was able to remain calm and unstoppable. Of course, this paradigm is more applicable when scholars encounter ups and downs. It can lead to a state of life that adheres to integrity and is full of fertility. This is exactly what scholars of all dynasties after the Song Dynasty hoped to achieve. Secondly, Su Shi's aesthetic attitude provided an enlightening aesthetic paradigm for future generations. He embraced the world with a broad aesthetic vision, so everything is appreciable and beauty can be found everywhere. This paradigm opened up a new world for future generations in terms of subject matter, content and expression techniques.
Su Shi enjoyed a huge reputation in the literary world at that time. He inherited Ouyang Xiu's spirit and attached great importance to discovering and cultivating literary talents. At that time, there were many young writers surrounding him like stars and the moon. Among them, Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Chao Cuozhi, and Qin Guan, who had greater achievements, were collectively known as the "Four Scholars of Sumen". Together with Chen Shidao and Li Lao, they are collectively known as the "Six Gentlemen of Su Clan". In addition, Li Gefei, Li Zhiyi, Tang Geng, Zhang Shunmin, Kong Pingzhong, He Zhu and others were also directly or indirectly influenced by Su Shi. Since Su Shi's achievements include various literary styles, and his own creations have no fixed norms to follow, Su family writers have different styles in their creations. Huang Tingjian and Chen Shidao were good at poetry, Qin Guan was good at Ci, Li Lao was famous for his ancient prose, and Zhang and Chao were both good at poetry and prose. At the same time, their artistic styles also have their own personalities. For example, Huang's poetry is new, while Chen's poetry is simple and simple. Their styles are not similar to Su's poetry. Later, Huang and Chen founded separate sects.
Su Shi's works were famous at that time and were widely popular in Liao Kingdom, Goryeo and other places. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court banned the circulation of Su Shi's works for a time, but as the ban became stricter, the circulation became more widespread. When the party ban was lifted in the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Shi's collections were widely circulated in various versions and were reprinted continuously in subsequent dynasties.
In the minds of later generations of literati, Su Shi was a talented literary master, and people rushed to draw nourishment from Su Shi's works. During the era of confrontation between the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Shi had a profound influence on both the north and the south. Su poetry not only influenced the poetry of the Song Dynasty, but also provided important inspiration to the Gong'an School poets in the Ming Dynasty and the Song Poetry School poets in the early Qing Dynasty. Su Shi's spirit of liberating the style of poetry was directly inherited by the Xin School of poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, forming a bold and unrestrained style of poetry that was as equal as Wanyue's. Its influence has been felt by Chen Weisong and others in the Qing Dynasty. Su Shi's prose, especially his sketches, is the artistic origin of Gong'an School prose in the Ming Dynasty, which advocated independent expression of one's soul. The influence of Su Wen can still be seen in the prose of Yuan Mei and Zheng Xie in the Qing Dynasty.
Su Shi still remains in the world as an image of affability, humor and wit. The travel notes, poems and couplets he wrote in various places, as well as the interesting inventions he created in life, have all been handed down to this day and are deeply loved by people.