Who will you hang on the couplets of Qi Gong, Yu Youren, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Kang Youwei...?
I wrote an article "Looking at the calligraphy couplets of five calligraphy association chairmen on Double Eleven. I really didn't expect that Qi Gong could surpass Shu Tong." I found that Qi Gong's calligraphy couplets were all around 400,000. I I think it may be related to the fact that many of the couplets are written in Qi Gong and Bing Shu (combining and writing, writing your own original work)
Qi Gong: Sitting quietly makes you happy; traveling in peace makes you happy in this life.
Although I don’t appreciate Qigong’s cursive writing, I think Qi Gong’s couplets are very good. This word, this article, written as a couplet and hung in the study, absolutely amazing!
But for me, Qigong is too serious.
If the text and characters are combined, I prefer Yu Youren’s calligraphy couplets
Yu Youren: A long sword and a glass of wine, a tall building and a heart thousands of miles away
Use I picked up half a line of Li Bai’s poem that I like, very heroic!
Yu Youren: Get the clear air of the mountains and rivers, and the grand view of the world
I like too many couplets by Yu Youren.
Yu Youren: If the country is waiting for you, the world will be more selfless
Yu Lao has a good literary talent, and his words can form a couplet, and his words are soul-stirring and have a higher artistic conception. Using Du Fu's poem "Houyou", "The country and the mountains are waiting for you", it also corresponds to my own couplet. Such a master is rare in the world.
Li Hongzhang is suave and unconventional
When he is in public, he is heroic and popular; while Shen Tong is broken, he is suave and unconventional
This realm, this demeanor, and It's not comparable to Yu Youren, but it's too far away from my generation, but I still like it.
A couplet written by Li Hongzhang in his later years is posted in the Li Hongzhang Ancestral Hall in Nanjing. First couplet: Enjoying happiness does not mean being an official. As long as you have money in your pocket, rice in your granary, and poems and books in your belly, you will be the prime minister in the mountains. Second couplet: I pray for a long life without taking medicine. I hope you will be free from illness, worry-free, and have no creditors. Can be a god on earth. ——I can’t find the handwriting at the moment.
Zhang Zhidong: Use old bottles to grow new flowers at will.
Ancient research does not tolerate ink; old bottles can grow new flowers at will.
You can grow new flowers in old bottles - good!
Zongtang Zuo
Everyone likes Zuo Zongtang’s couplet hanging in Li Ka-shing’s office. Sit somewhere and walk toward the wide place. "
But I prefer the following sentence:
Count the words in the sleeves of the general; the five-colored clouds in the pavilion can be seen.
Kang Youwei’s calligraphy couplets
Maybe not many people like Kang Youwei’s calligraphy, but I like his couplets.
Looking sideways to the world, I am more nostalgic for the past, and I swim independently in the vastness of the poem.
Suddenly I want to ask: What is a gentleman?