Li Bai was a famous poet during the Tang Dynasty. He left more than 900 popular poems such as "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall", "Difficult Traveling", "Difficult Road to Shu", etc. I believe you can't think of it! Li Bai was actually a calligrapher, but about his calligraphy works, only one "Up to the Balcony Post" has been handed down.
In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan (724), Li Bai went out to Shuzhou to visit the Three Gorges. When he arrived in Jiangling, he met the Taoist priest Sima Chengzhen. The two had similar interests and spirits and became very good friends. After the farewell, in the third year of Tianbao (744), Li Bai, Du Fu and others came to visit Sima Chengzhen on the balcony where he lived in Wangwushan, and learned that Sima Chengzhen had already passed away.
Li Bai was very sad and wrote this famous letter "Up to the Balcony". He borrowed the towering peaks of Wangwu Mountain to express his longing for his friend Sima Chengzhen. The whole volume is vigorous. Powerful and elegant, the pen is free and easy, fast and smooth, and the rules are not rigid. Just like the poems written by Li Bai, it is full of heroism and has become a masterpiece. It has also become the only authentic calligraphy work of Li Bai.
However, this "Poster on the Balcony" only has 25 words. If you see the work, you will be surprised to find that it is full of marks. What is going on?
It turns out that there are many fans of Li Bai's ashes, and Song Huizong Zhao Ji is one of them. Everyone must know that Song Huizong is not very good at governing the country, but he is proficient in calligraphy and painting, and he also has special hobbies Literature, seeing Li Bai's works, Song Huizong couldn't help but feel itchy, so he added seven characters in his own thin gold calligraphy "Li Taibai of the Tang Dynasty went to the balcony" on the water barrier.
Song Huizong felt unsatisfied, so he wrote a promotion at the end: "Taibai wrote running script to take advantage of the moonlight. When he entered the restaurant in the west, he could see the characters looking at him. He was outside the world. His calligraphy and painting were elegant and heroic. , but I know that Bai is not a poet."
When this letter arrived in the Yuan Dynasty, the calligrapher Ouyang Xuan couldn't help but write a poem: "The young master of the Tang Dynasty is a fairy in golden robes, and his literary talent is six hundred years old. Year. You can see the bright moonlight in the roof, and the spare ink turns into clouds and smoke." Many literati also wrote inscriptions on it to express their admiration for the poet Li Taibai.
In the end, this letter was affixed to the hands of the "stamping madman" Qianlong. Qianlong was an emperor who loved antiques very much, and his noble status in the imperial power gave him more access to the paintings and calligraphy of his predecessor. Qianlong had a very bad habit, that is, he liked to stamp and inscribe randomly.
The full text of "Quick Snow and Clear Tie" by Wang Xizhi of the Tang Dynasty has 28 words. Qianlong was so excited after reading it that he wrote tens of thousands of words of his thoughts after reading it. However, the Tang Dynasty painter Han Gan's "Zhao Ye" "White Picture" was stamped with more than 50 seals by Qianlong.
This "Up to the Balcony Post" also failed to escape the clutches of Qianlong. Maybe he thought that his calligraphy was not as good as Song Huizong, Ouyang Xuan and others, so he only mentioned "Qinglian Yihan" on the cover "4 words, but stamped with more than 10 seals.
In this way, when everyone looked at Li Bai's calligraphy, they immediately felt dumbfounded. There were densely packed words and red seals on them, which were covered with big painted faces. It was impossible to tell them apart. Who wrote that part of the Qing Dynasty has a strong tendency to overwhelm the guest and take the lead. It has to be said that the behavior of Song Huizong, Qianlong and others is like writing "xx tourists who came here" in a scenic spot. It is not It is worth advocating that this "Up to the Balcony Post" is now stored in the Palace Museum. Interested readers can take a look. Without a little effort, you really can't find Li Bai's handwriting.