"Good luck (orange) and good fortune": an auspicious ritual in autumn and winter throughout the ages
Orange, also known as "orange", can be associated with people regardless of its radical or homophone. When it comes to "auspicious", it often means "good luck (orange) and good fortune", which is exactly the auspicious etiquette of the autumn and winter seasons throughout the ages.
The ancients loved oranges. In traditional Chinese culture, there are many allusions about orange trees to support objects and express aspirations:
For example, we have long been familiar with the story about orange tree planting in "Yan Zi sent Chu" In Huainan, it is an orange, but when planted in Huaibei, it becomes a trifoliate orange. The story of "Southern Orange and Northern Trifoliate"; or Qu Yuan's "Ode to Orange", which really pushed the symbolic meaning of "orange" to its peak in Chinese traditional culture. The description of the handsome and touching external beauty of the orange tree turns to the passionate eulogy of the inner spirit of the orange tree, thus expressing the high moral integrity of "being horizontal but not flowing" and "being kind but not obscene", and the sentiment of "withering" even in the face of hundreds of flowers. At the end of the year, it is still lush and green, with the determination to never give in to the cold.
"In addition, about 1,700 years ago, Wang Xizhi got a batch of good oranges. The oranges were picked before the frost. It is said that the oranges will taste better after the frost, so not many were picked." Famous financial reporter , the first generation Internet person, inheritor of imperial cuisine, president of Beijing Bilouge Art Academy, and editor-in-chief of "Chinese style" writer Huai Jun, said that Wang Xizhi immediately sent 300 pieces to his friend, and attached a "note"—— "I offer you three hundred tangerines. The frost has not yet fallen, so I won't get many." Those oranges were probably all gone, but Wang Xizhi's short letter was deliberately preserved and became the most famous piece of writing in the history of Chinese calligraphy, "Safety: How to Serve Oranges".
"Ping'an" and "He Ru" are two letters written by Wang Xizhi, and "Fengju" was originally an appendix to "He Ru". During the process of circulation, "Ping'an" lost the last two lines, and "Fengju" gradually became independent. The three posts were combined into a volume in the late Ming Dynasty, and inscriptions and postscripts by Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi, Cai Xiang and others were transferred from other places.
The three calligraphy works are all made in the Tang Dynasty with double hook outlines. The signatures on the rolls are copied together, and traces of damage to the paper are outlined with thin lines, which shows that the attitude of being faithful to the original work when copying is also inferred. Most of these calligraphy retain the original appearance of Wang Xizhi's original writings.
This is one of the few Tang Dynasty facsimiles of Wang Xizhi at home and abroad. The quality of the facsimile is better than that of the more well-known "Quick Snow Shi Qing Tie", and the details of the shading and reflections are perfectly clear. It can be seen that the calligrapher's superb brushwork combines changes in speed and slowness, square and circle, and lifting and pressing.
Perhaps due to the difference in calligraphy style between early and late, or the influence of the psychological state of writing, the writing style of "Sangluan Tie", "Er Xie Tie", "Deshi Tie", "Chu Yue Tie" and "Kong Shizhong Tie" is faster , the changes in the thickness and size of the characters are more complex, and copyists often use duller ink lines to describe the white strokes caused by rapid use of the pen.
The writing style of "Ping An He Ru Bing Ju Tie" is more stable and less dry, but occasionally similar intentions can be seen. For example, in the second line of "He Ru Tie", the word "Chi" is left. There are obvious traces of light ink, which is a deliberate imitation of the original traces. The fonts throughout the calligraphy vary in size, tilt, opening and closing, and straightening. They are all the same but complement each other, showing the calligrapher's rich creativity. ...Shangguanwan