-My humble opinion on the cursive art of Mr. Chai Yong
More than 2000 years ago, Confucius "climbed Mount Tai to make a small world". Today, watching Mr. Chai Yong's cursive work "Top of Henry" gives you a panoramic view of the vastness, grandeur and massiness of the northern land. Zhuangzi said in The Journey to the West: "There is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying anything, there is always a clear law without discussing it, and everything is rational without saying anything". Calligraphy is wordless, just as "different people have different opinions, and the wise have different opinions". The cursive script of Mr. Chai Yong, director of China Calligraphers Association, vice chairman of Datong Calligraphy Association, vice chairman of Datong Poetry, Calligraphy and Printing Research Association, and president of Datong Youth Calligraphy School, is the grass as weeds, the stone as stone flavor, and the soul of Han Li. His pen and ink are fluent and changeable, his fonts are arbitrary and wonderful, and his calligraphy is unique and unique, which has been highly appreciated by his colleagues in the book circle. In the autumn of 2006, Mr. Gao Zhendong, a famous calligrapher in Taiwan Province, read Mr. Chai Yong's cursive script and was full of praise. He thinks that Mr. Chai Yong's cursive script "well represents the unique style of northern China".
One word internal strength: infatuation and diligence
The obsession with art comes from obsession. Mr. Chai Yong's love for calligraphy has been persistent since he was a child. When he was a teenager, other students rolled up their sleeves and took part in the Cultural Revolution, but he devoted himself to writing and writing. He took advantage of his lack of schoolwork to study ancient famous posts such as Jiucheng Palace in Ou Yangxun, Shence Army Monument in Liu Gongquan and Diligence Monument in Yan Zhenqing, which had a good foundation. However, Long and Chai Yong's units stopped working for ten years in a row, which provided him with a good opportunity to swim in the ink sea of calligraphy. He practices writing from 7 am to 10 pm almost every day. The whole world is talking about real cursive script. On a business trip in Taiyuan, I visited the Shanxi Provincial Museum and suddenly found a hall full of cursive scripts by the famous calligrapher Fu Shan. Fu Qingzhu's wild and uninhibited writing deeply shocked him, from which he realized the interweaving of strength and fighting feelings, as if Fu Qingzhu was just around the corner. For two days in a row, he was intoxicated by the charm of cursive art and wandered in the shadow of Fu Qingzhu. Even the museum staff began to doubt him. Back in Datong, Chai Yong collected the works of Huai Su, Zhang Xu, Zhi Yong and other cursive writers, constantly copying and studying them day by day. In the process of learning calligraphy posts, Chai Yong found it easy to enter posts but difficult to publish them. The face of blindly copying calligraphy is not only neither fish nor fowl, but also weak and superficial. Although Chai Yong's calligraphy was famous at this time, it was difficult to extricate himself from the painful learning bottleneck. To this end, on the one hand, he applied for the calligraphy major of Wuxi Art Institute and began to systematically study China, calligraphy theory, classical literature, poetry and so on. And strengthened his literary accomplishment, studying under the famous calligraphers Gao Shinong and Xu Jingyu. On the other hand, the source of Suogen involves folk calligraphy, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Qin Zhuan Han Bamboo Slips, and stone carvings in Wei and Jin Dynasties, trying to explore the meaning and essence of calligraphy and the best way to express it.
After years of calligraphy exploration and practice, Chai Yong finally decided to look for the expressive tension of calligraphy from Han Li, the source of modern Chinese characters, and made an obvious breakthrough: his calligraphy paper "On Han Li's position and role in the evolution of Chinese characters and the history of calligraphy" won the National Calligraphy Paper Silver Award; His official calligraphy work "Longmen Statue, Pursuing the Legacy of Han and Wei Dynasties" won the third prize in the "Three Kingdoms Culture National Calligraphy and Painting Competition" sponsored by China Calligraphy Association and other units, and was therefore absorbed as a member of China Calligraphers Association.
It is also the "face wall" of the soul and the grindstone of calligraphy practice for more than ten years. Mr. Chai Yong's calligraphy has changed from official to grass, and his heart is chasing hands and rubbing, and his level is higher. His cursive script is magnificent, vigorous and Gu Zhuo, full of weather, and very graceful.
External skills: experience and travel
As the saying goes, time transcends poetry. The connotation of calligraphy also shows the calligrapher's extra-word kung fu, which also deeply affects the expressive force of calligraphy works. To this end, Mr. Chai Yong, who knows this well, "there is no shortage of poems, books, paintings and seals". He wrote ten books and tens of thousands of poems, all of which are emotional and emotional. His seal cutting metaphor is vast, and he actively explores the formation law and expression method of epigraphy, which is unique. "A Family of Calligraphy and Painting", Mr. Chai Yong used books to construct paintings and entered the book. From the perspective of pen and ink techniques and artistic expression, he combined their similarities.
Mr. Chai Yong is also widely involved in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, philology, exegetics, folklore and so on. And explore the best concrete expression from the all-encompassing abstraction of calligraphy. "Reading thousands of books and taking the Wan Li Road", he also took every opportunity to travel around famous mountains and rivers, to broaden his knowledge, broaden his horizons, learn extensively and memorize, and understand and absorb the "Qi" and "God" of nature. Finally, he realized: as eclectic as mountains and rivers and nature, unadorned is nature.
Third, the characteristics of calligraphy: vigorous and wild.
Mr Chai Yong's cursive style is unique. Looking at his works, we can see "mountains", "old wax statues", "old trees and vines" or "Long live the Rock", which fully shows the "scenery of the North". Fu Shan, a great calligrapher, said in A Book for Children: "Ning Zhuo should not be brilliant, rather ugly than flattering, rather fragments should not be smooth, rather true than arranged". Mr. Chai Yong grasped the essence of this point.
Mr. Chai Yong's cursive script is rough and natural, fluent in heart and hand, and full of fun. Almost all his cursive scripts are centered on bald pens, with a large number of round pens interspersed with square folding pens, and few Leiden and flank; The center enters the pen, and the end takes the wanton plunder in folk calligraphy. Han Li's style is obvious, which reveals the charm of calligraphy and painting stones. The combination of brush strokes is late and fast, and one stroke is connected, which has the flavor of Wang Xianzhi's "one stroke", especially the cursive script with quick brushwork is even more unruly. The font is tilted to the left or right, with almost no orthographic structure, and the overall layout is slightly "S". Font exaggeration and line breaks often subvert the traditional word structure. The ink color is mixed with shade and dry ink, which not only has the wildness of Wei Bei's calligraphy, but also shows the brushwork. Jin Weishuo's "Pen Map" once said, "Those who are good at writing are skinny, and those who are not good at writing are fleshy; Skinny and fleshy are called muscle books, and fleshy ones are called ink pigs; The strong and the strong are holy, and the weak are sick. " Mr. Chai Yong's cursive script can be described as "holy".
Mr. Chai Yong's cursive works have participated in dozens of national book fairs and won more than ten awards. For example, in 2006, his wild grass works won the gold medal in the National Calligraphy Competition, the special prize in the National Calligraphy Competition of Shenyang World Expo and the special prize in the National Calligraphy Competition of Hohhot. Facing more and more honors, Mr. Chai Yong turned a blind eye. "There is no definite law and extraordinary Tao", and the art of calligraphy is endless. In his quiet calligraphy teaching and practice, Mr. Chai Yong will work against the wall for another ten years. This article has been published by Datong Daily and Datong Today.