Duck head pill paste
Duck Head Pill Tie is an excellent cursive script written on silk by Wang Xianzhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It's a copy of the Tang Dynasty, two lines 15, now in Shanghai Museum.
The brushwork of this work is very skillful, with vigorous brushwork and scattered charm. The main features are as follows: "The pen front is dexterous and changeable, including Fang Bi, round pen, side front and hidden front. For example, the words "Duck" and "Dang" are written directly along the stroke, the word "Gu" is a silhouette, and the words "Head" and "No" are the same.
In this post, there is a connection between words, such as the first line "Ming Xu" and the second line "Ji Ying Tong", while the words "Jia Ming", "He Jun" are rewritten and the strokes are adjusted, but there is still an echo in the dark. The combination of disconnection and connection makes the whole word dense and flexible.
The words 10 in the post are combined with each other: horizontal and vertical, with strong aesthetic feeling; There are also curved pens that turn around and extend outward, which are graceful, ingenious and natural, dry and varied. In the composition, the line spacing is very wide and appears scattered and sparse. It can be called an eclectic, law-abiding, charming and beautiful, free and easy boutique cursive script.
This post was originally hidden in the secret pavilion. After the death of Song Dynasty, it was collected by Xuanhe Neifu, and then presented to Ke who returned to Neifu in Ming Dynasty, and then spread from Neifu. It belonged to private collector Wu Yongqing in Wanli, Wu Xinyu in Chongzhen, Xu Shuhong in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty and Ye Gongchuo in the Republic of China.
Before this post, Wang Kentang, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, wrote an inscription: "Jin Shangshu ordered Wang Xianzhi to post a duck head pill". There are Xuan He seals on the scroll: "Shuanglong", "Xuan He" and "Zhenghe". There is a generous seal of "Li Bao" at the end of the article, which bears the inscription of Yu Ji, a famous scholar in Yuan Dynasty: "On the 12th day of the first month of the third calendar year (1330), I gave a gift to Ke and a gift to the scribe." The above seals and money stamps are all originals.
Later, he wrote a piece of paper praising Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou: "The Great Order will be a great success and will never return. Traces are displayed, dragons and phoenixes are lingering. Tibetan towel attack, Guanrong bookstore. Shaoxing Gengshen retro temple book. " Stamp "Treasure of Imperial Books" on the seal. Later, Liu Chong and Tu Yu in the Northern Song Dynasty wrote inscriptions on Qian, Wang Kentang and Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Shouchang and Jiang Biao in the Qing Dynasty.