"Wang Zhiluo's Commentary on Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy"
From an aesthetic point of view, all art can be divided into two major schools: masculine (magnificent, bold) and feminine (beautiful, graceful). . Zhao Ti is known for his beauty and elegance, so he obviously belongs to the latter. However, masculinity and femininity are not completely opposite, but interpenetrate and rely on each other. Many fine works of art contain virility in gracefulness, or conceal charm in vastness. Su Shi and Xin Qiji's poetry styles are known for their masculinity and boldness, but there are also such graceful and graceful poems as "The drizzle and the slanting wind make it slightly cold" (Su Shi), "Yesterday's spring was like a thirteenth daughter learning embroidery, and every branch did not teach the flowers to become thin" (Xin Qiji) A showpiece. Mr. Mei Lanfang's art is characterized by femininity, but it is also masculine. The characters he plays all show the masculinity of women and men. Therefore, masculinity is not necessarily all "King Kong's angry eyes and strong men's fists".
Although the character Zhao has a feminine beauty, its appearance is round and beautiful but its connotation is strong and strong; the strokes are round and beautiful, and the frames are square and strict. It can be seen that masculinity and femininity do not have to belong to the same corner, let alone want to compare themselves with each other and force them to be divided into A and B.
However, since Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty advocated stele studies, the calligraphy style known for its femininity has been repeatedly devalued starting from the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi, and Zhao Ti was the first to bear the brunt. Mr. Wu Yuru said, "Since the Qianlong period, the importance of stele tablets has been emphasized, so the importance, clumsiness, and weirdness have been respected, and the trend has led to the devil." The study of stele became popular at a time when the study of steles was in decline, and its contribution is indispensable, but we must pay attention to a tendency Cover up the disadvantages of another tendency. Especially those who have studied calligraphy recently, their overall cultural quality has been lost, and they are prone to impetuousness, vulgarity, superficiality, and sloppiness. In this context, advocating a calligraphy style that is known for its beauty and neatness has the effect of correcting current shortcomings.