Liu Yuxin
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2006, the award ceremony of Shanxi Yongji Federation of Great Enlistments at Home and Abroad was held in the rain. Thousands of participants took part in the meeting in front of the magnificent mirage with umbrellas, which became more and more enthusiastic and emotional. I sit near Li Junhe. He said he would write a book about couplet calligraphy and asked me for an order. I'm glad I promised him at once. I remember it was raining in Mao Mao, and we were all in a good mood.
Mirage building's collection of major leagues at home and abroad is an elegant example Of the16,000 entries, 18 authors won the prize. Hejun's award-winning couplets are hung at the main entrance of the mirage. I was giving an award to another Manchester United friend. Later, He Jun took the stage to accept the music award. Looking at the handsome and tall figure, I was thinking: couplets have a long tradition in the south, but it is a miracle that there is an award-winning professional in the north.
Over the years, I have a prejudice: couplets, an ancient literary form, have a fine tradition in Jiangnan. In some ancient villages and towns in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as you go out, you can see ancient couplets on ancestral halls, temples, academies and even residential pillars. The tradition there is profound. This is not the case in the northeast. Due to historical reasons, land administrative reasons and many other factors, the cultural heritage of past dynasties in most areas is not as good as that in southern provinces. The other is the sound problem. Southerners are blessed by nature. I have several good friends, Chen Dongcheng, Guo Dianchong and Wang Yiqi, who use ancient rhymes to make couplets. Feel free to come. There is nothing wrong with leveling. On the other hand, northerners use Mandarin in their novels, all of which are new tones. Especially in the northeast, it is a "blank area" of ancient rhyme.
Previously, I received a series of books from my good friend Xie, which further proved my prejudice. Collect ancient and modern couplets, including pavilions, official halls, temple academies, tombs and memorial archways, and six exquisite books. Just looking at the catalogue makes people envy people who grew up in the south. For example, the Temple Fair Alliance, Zhejiang and Jiangsu were selected for hundreds of pairs, followed by Anhui, Huguang, Shanxi and Henan. I only saw three or five pairs in Jilin.
Southern traditional culture has unique advantages. It is difficult for northerners to compete with southerners in the creation of couplets. However, this is not entirely the case. Jilin Li Junhe broke my preconceptions. His couplets often win prizes and become a real professional winner. Not only that, but his poetry and calligraphy have won awards again and again, which is even more rare in today's situation that calligraphy and poetry couplets are out of touch. Li Junhe, a burly Kanto man. It is more appropriate to say that he is a "handsome man in eight talents".
Now, a heavy book "Selected Ink of Li Junhe Award-winning Poetry Association" is on my desk, and I have many feelings after reading it. Below, I will talk about my own experience in creating couplets of He Jun's poems.
First of all, the biggest feature of Hejun Poetry Association is innovation. The most basic requirement of literary and artistic creation is innovation, that is, unconventional. Hejun's couplets are all painstakingly managed. Every couplet embodies fantastic ideas. Or different ideas, or novel realm, or strange rhetoric, or unique language, or unique form. Just a few examples.
For example, the title of the book "The Pentagonal Pavilion in the Ancient City of Yehenara" is a unique landscape painting with only fourteen words, which is unremarkable. This couplet seems to have no surprising language, but it is unique after careful consideration. Couplets can not only be read backwards and forwards, but also each word can be changed into a couplet, which can be read as twelve couplets. This is an unprecedented couplet, which can be said to enrich the artistic form of couplet. This is a pioneering work of Hejun.
In the first national calligraphy contest of self-written couplets, Hejun found a new way to launch a pair of three-column couplets, which won the gold medal in one fell swoop, creating a precedent for winning the national three-column couplets and causing a sensation in calligraphy and couplets.
The stork tower in Yongji, Shanxi Province, is famous all over the world because of a poem by Wang Zhihuan in the Tang Dynasty, which shocked the whole world. Jung-ho won an award from the Si Long Association. He uses anthropomorphic methods. "If you want it to live in a stork, you must indulge in this scene." In the first part of the book, the stork is personified. The second part: "Do you still want to stay on the fourth floor when the Yellow River turns?" He also regarded the Yellow River as a living person. Because the stork tower is tall and majestic, he deliberately turned around and looked at the "fourth floor". It's really ingenious and amazing. There is also the topic of Liuyang Hu Da Fireworks, which is selected in this book: at the beginning, "Life is moving, death is more shocking", which links the life and death of firecrackers with earth-shattering. The majestic momentum and wonderful mind are so appropriate! Then, the pen turned sharply, giving life to fireworks and writing them into living flowers. Naturally, "no need to fertilize the soil" is indeed "biased towards Leng Yun (what a cold cloud! What a wonderful daydream! The next joint sentence: "Why not be afraid of breaking bones, but be happy to add color to the night" also uses anthropomorphic methods. Throughout the All-China Federation, it not only pays attention to fireworks, but also conveys the author's personality charm, which can be compared with the ancients.
The works that won the first prize in the first National Poetry Competition of Apricot Blossom Festival in Yanqing, Beijing were composed by collecting epigrams. It is not novel to set epigrams as couplets, which have existed since ancient times. But it is not easy to relate to the theme, and it is even more difficult to integrate into the scene. Hejun collected eight distinctive epigrams, using four color words "red, yellow and purple" and two verbs as lining words, and described Yanqing as a colorful landscape painting, which was presented to the world. It vividly shows the prosperity and celebration of the apricot blossom festival, and at the same time cleverly embeds the words "ode to the apricot blossom festival" Moreover, every word is naturally revealed. Once it is fixed there, it cannot be replaced. It's really charming and natural, which shows that the author has a deep foundation.
An adverb board in Li Junhe won an award, which caused a sensation in the world. Some people who are good at "being effective" are also following suit. After several times, more people used epigrams to collect couplets. Li Junhe used anthropomorphic methods, and imitators emerged one after another. Several of our CFA judges said half seriously and half jokingly: This is the Li Junhe phenomenon.
Secondly, Xiaojun and he are both agile. Friends who often make couplets know that long couplets are difficult to do, and short couplets are even more difficult to do. Hejun's "Poem on Qipo in Shenyang" is full 160 words, gloomy and full of turmoil. But there is no trace of carving, and it seems easy to lift weights. A short couplet "Spring Festival couplets in 2006", with only six words, is concise, highly summarized and rich in coverage. Only six words summed up two major events that happened in the country that year. The reason why a pen is healthy is that it has vitality and high capital. Handsome, talented and comprehensive, this is the key to his success. I once said on a public occasion that there are nouveau riche in both political and economic fields, especially in the economic field. A person who was naked and barefoot the day before may become a millionaire overnight, wearing a suit and tie. However, only culturally there are no nouveau riche. Cultural success depends on accumulated, persistent and unremitting pursuit. He Jun is smart and studious. He studied hard at the Expo since childhood and laid a solid foundation. He experienced a military career in his prime and traveled all over the country after becoming famous. These accumulations have a close causal relationship with his creation.
Third, he jun's poetry couplet has deep feelings. His poetry couplets are all sincere. Appreciate the Seven Laws, review Yanqing's Feeling Fu and read its preface, and you will find your feelings in the text. Readers have been infected by their true feelings when they see "rolling mountains, spring in the valley, dumplings in the gorge and moonlight in the waves" When it comes to "Xia Hong mountains, green trees shake smoke, green grass holds up clouds, and Oriole crows in the valley", people are fascinated. Finally, I read that "the world admires Taoyuan, but the apricot blossom world is far from the illusory realm of Taoyuan." Has been conquered by his feelings. Reading poetry is more infected. It's really emotional to make a quip. Without true feelings, true love for Yanqing and special feelings for apricot flowers, such words can't be written.
Also, Hejun's poetic couplet is in harmony with the law. Quatrains and metrical poems conform to statutes. There is no fixed method in the book, but there is a convention. Take couplets as an example, a couplet exists with the style. It can be said that couplets without couplets are not couplets. The couplet method is the essence and core of the independent style of couplet. As a person who has lived in Jilin for a long time, the couplets of Hejun, whether flat or flat, are completely integrated, which is really commendable.
Hejun is not a full-time cultural worker. He has his own job. I spent all my spare time in order to create. As the self-carved leisure chapter said, "there is no day to be free." Although he is extremely hard, he never perfunctory. His creative attitude is serious, taking the application for couplets as an example: basically, he conceived when he saw the inspiration, painstakingly arranged for a few days before finalizing it, and then repeatedly deliberated and revised it until he was satisfied. It will not be issued before the deadline. It can be said that each of his works must be carefully thought out and strictly controlled to be impeccable.
Hejun is good at calligraphy, and has published a book "Pen Regular Script Acceleration", which has a great influence in society. He knows all kinds of calligraphy, and calligraphy is his best. His official script has a unique style, fresh and elegant, full of seal flavor. It seems that his purpose is to pursue the interest in the evolution and inheritance of calligraphy. The strangest thing is that He Jun's official script actually introduced the meaning of seal and grass. How bold and steep! The cursive script is occasionally integrated with the whole spirit and form, and there is no far-fetched state or abrupt feeling.
Hejun's seal script is also the essence of the ancients. The shape is simple and the lines are smooth. Point with a pen. It can be seen that Hejun devoted himself to studying calligraphy and did not follow the rules. He is a veritable calligrapher of strength.
He Jun loves epigraphy and is good at printing. Between square inches, it is divided into white and white, with appropriate density and good elasticity. Shaw-shaped, tile-shaped, wall-penetrating and mud-sealed forms are all involved, and the methods are ancient and wonderful. Bird seals, insect books, ancient brushes, Zhong Ding, Qin Zhuan and Han Li are all ready, and they are all magnificent. Printed by the ancient seal method, the blade is sharp and the charm is meaningful. Show the image of nature.
It is not too much to say that Jun is a heavyweight in today's couplets. I remember that in 2006 10, I married your son Linli, and I congratulated Zeng Zeng on "Lianhao's child". Scholar family style. "The inscription reads,' There are writers, writers and Lian Hao, who are the father of Lian Hao today, the pride of Kanto people and the treasure of Jilin'. It means that Hejun is one of the few all-rounders in the current league and a rare strong league player. From the Zhang Liang Award, the highest national award of China Couplets, we can see the recognition and approval of the Federation. Hejun's creative momentum is booming. I hope he will create more and better works in the future and enrich the treasure house of contemporary couplets culture.
June 6, 2008 +65438
(Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of Liu Yuxin/China Couplet Society/Director of Jury/Executive Director of China Documentary Literature Society/Famous Writer/Winner of Lao She Literature Prize)