Four Ancient Poems Translated by Zhang Xu

Translation:

In the east, where the sun and the moon rise, the umbrella cover looks like Ganoderma lucidum, like the Arctic region where candlelight is dim, and colorful vehicles are driving. Up and down, fast and slow, into the reflection, lingering mist and rosy clouds. It's a good place for spring water to flow with glazed tiles and bluebirds to fly to Jinhua. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stared at the peach pit, and Qi Hou questioned the thorn flower. It's time to catch up with the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month and visit Cai's family together.

The gatehouse in the north of the palace is close to Danshui, and the Nangong rises a red cloud for this. Bamboo slips made of dragon-patterned mud jade are practical words. The wind in the sky stopped raining, and the voices in the sky were separated. Fly over Chihiro, or smell the fragrance of the clear sky in Wan Li.

Kindness, virtue, justice and integrity are not beautiful, but they can hardly stand the test of ten thousand years. As a prince, Chu Jun is not noble. How can he transcend the sky? The prince has returned to a fresh and broad realm. The world is too noisy. Now that I have met Gong, he can fly with you.

A man went to Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue to collect herbs, got lost and ran out of dry food. When I was resting under a stone, I saw someone talking to each other. They are an old man and four or five teenagers, no different from immortal hermits. There are ancient characters and bird prints on the paper they left after climbing the mountain, which is not a general secular sermon. These people must be sages and philosophers.

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calligraphy appreciation

Four Ancient Poems is a calligraphy work created by Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. Zhang Xu wrote four ancient poems by Xie Lingyun and Yu Xin, two great writers in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, on precious five-color stationery with a unique cursive script.

It is characterized by being more wild than in the past, and its overall momentum is like the Yangtze River, which is a new breakthrough in the history of cursive script development. It broke the rigid cursive style in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and put cursive on the original basic structure, closely connecting the strokes of upper and lower characters. The so-called "continuous winding" is sometimes like a word, and sometimes a word is like two words.

In the arrangement of rules and regulations, the density is very different. In writing, he opposed the slow and steady traditional writing speed in Wei and Jin Dynasties and adopted a lyrical form of unrestrained freehand brushwork.

Famous comments

Professor Peking University and pioneer Li Zhimin commented: "There are four posts of ancient poetry, which are indisputable and refuse. There will naturally be a response. "

Modern Guo Zixu said: "Four ancient poems can be said to be the crystallization of Zhang Xu's life, the typical beauty of genius and nature, the essence of national art and the symbol of eternal beauty."

Brief introduction of the author

Zhang Xu (658-747), a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, was born in Wuxian County. He was first the commander-in-chief of Changshu and later promoted to Jin Wu, so he was called "Zhang Changshi" and was good at poetry.

Zhang Xu is the grandson of Lu Jianzhi, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. He learned biography since childhood and was proficient in regular script and cursive script. He developed the popular calligraphy style of "Today Grass" at that time into a "Crazy Grass" calligraphy style with bold and unrestrained brushwork, continuous brushwork and varied fonts, and was the founder of "Crazy Grass" in calligraphy. Later generations called it "the sage of grass".

According to historical records, Zhang Xu loved drinking. Whenever he is drunk as a fiddler, he asks people to run wild and then write with a brush. His writing is strange and unrestrained, and sometimes he writes with his hair dipped in ink. I woke up and couldn't get it back. I was called "Zhang Dian". He was one of the Eight Immortals in Chang 'an at that time.

His works handed down from generation to generation include Four Ancient Poems, Thousand-character Works, Langguan Stone Column and so on. His calligraphy opened the romantic freehand brushwork style in the middle Tang Dynasty and showed the elegance of calligraphy in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Tang Wenzong and Li Ang have issued decrees to designate Li Bai's poems and songs, Peiman's sword dance and Zhang Xu's cursive script as "three musts".

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