Army: Wang Buying's Seven-character Couplet

In the painting and calligraphy collection of Qishan County Museum, there is a beautifully decorated and well-preserved couplet, which was made by Shaanxi scholar Wang Mai Ting in the late Qing Dynasty. This collection belongs to Professor Guo Zizhi, a famous scholar in Qishan, , and was moved to the museum on 1972. It was confirmed as a precious cultural relic by Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.

The couplet is 37 cm long and 37 cm wide. Paper mounting, colored silk edge. Type, the word diameter is 12× 10 cm. The first part of "Who is Independent for the Millennium"; Bottom line: "Getting married is realistic". The bottom line is that "Wang Mai" is followed by a white seal of "Wang Mai" and a seal of "former imperial envoy of Zhu Wen" (Figure 1). This couplet is elegant in artistic conception and profound in meaning. Calligraphy is beautiful, vigorous, graceful and moist. At first glance, it seems very thin, but on closer inspection, you can see that there are needles hidden in the cotton, and there are rigidity in the softness, alternating rigidity and softness, fresh brushwork and natural agility.

According to the examination, Wang Mai, whose real name is Bailuyuan, fasted that night and was appointed by the Department. A native of Hedi Village, Jinqu Township, Meixian County, Shaanxi Province, was born in the second year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1852). Smart since childhood, diligent and enterprising, should be a junior high school student at the beginning; Tongzhi for 12 years (1873), when 2 1 year old, the hair was plucked; The first year of Guangxu (1875); In the second year of Guangxu (1876), Lian Jie Jinshi was promoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Finance, which can be described as a pleasant career. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi fled Ann. Wang Buying was elected as an internal affair and went west with the emperor. The following year, he was promoted to the position of doctor in the Housing Department to fill the suggested position. 16 (1927) died at the age of 76. This artificial calligraphy, good poetry and prose, and written manuscripts such as "Intention" remain in the world. Although this pair of couplets has a long history, judging from Hou Qian's seal of "Pre-Imperial History" and Wang Mai 1923' s hand-written book "Shou Quan Ji" (see Collected Works, No.6, 2004), they should be works of the same period. At that time, Wang Buying's calligraphy art reached perfection.

Wang Mai's literary reputation is more important than his political voice. The calligraphy of famous people in past dynasties is a hundred years ago. After the vicissitudes of war and cultural revolution, it can be preserved as always. Thanks to the careful collection of scholars and the proper preservation of museums, it has become a spiritual wealth shared by the whole people today.