Wang Muwu
Poetry and calligraphy are the essence of China traditional culture. It can be said that these two different art forms have been closely combined for more than 1000 years. Poetry takes books as its connotation and books as its representation. Poetry and books are integrated into one, which are accompanied by each other and complement each other.
Because China is a country of poetry, and the essence of calligraphy is a practical art closely related to daily life, China has always had the habit of combining poetry with books, and recorded his own or others' poems in the form of calligraphy, so that he can read poems and words and enjoy them both. This phenomenon has not been lacking in past dynasties, especially after the Song Dynasty. As far as the calligraphy works that can be seen now are concerned, the calligraphy works that write poems account for a large proportion, and many calligraphy posts are poems themselves, such as Cai Xiang's self-written poems, Su Shi's Huangzhou cold food poems, Huang Tingjian's Songfengge poems, Mi Fei's Tiaoxi poems, Shu Sutie's poems, Bai Zhongyue's poems and so on. In modern times, the phenomenon that calligraphy takes poetry as the writing object is more common, almost to the point where speakers are all over the world.
That's why this phenomenon occurs. According to the author's analysis, there are at least five reasons:
First of all, from the content point of view, poetry works generally have the characteristics of beautiful rhyme and moving rhythm, which are easy to infect writers, enrich imagination, stimulate enthusiasm and get inspiration from them, so as to give full play to them in creation and make books look more attractive; Secondly, most poetry works are profound in artistic conception and full of philosophy. If it is written as a calligraphy work and displayed, it can make the poems and books set each other off and appreciate them properly. Thirdly, poetry works are generally short and pithy because of their concentrated content, which is very suitable for daily hanging in the form of banners, stripes, squares or sectors; Fourthly, because the language of poetry works is concise and there are few repeated words, the confusion of too many repeated words in general articles can be avoided. Fifth, because poetry has a fixed format and rules, calligraphy generally has no sentence breaks from beginning to end, so writing poetry can make people who have a general understanding of poetic rhyme have no language barriers in reading and can understand and read.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that poetry and calligraphy have been closely related for thousands of years, accompanying each other and never giving up. Especially in recent ten years, no matter what level of calligraphy exhibitions, calligraphy competitions, or calligraphy works published in books and periodicals, almost half of them are poems, and these books are no exception, such as Wang Zhihuan's Dengque Lake, a night-mooring near maple bridge, Du Fu's Jueju, Wei's Xixi Chuzhou and Li Bai's Dengzhou. Although these famous articles have far-reaching artistic conception, catchy words are very suitable for writing. But when everyone is crowded on this narrow road, it gives people a feeling of deja vu.
The best way to solve this problem is to insist on writing poems by yourself. In fact, there is no need to list those ancients, Huang Tingjian and Tang Yin. Even in modern times, there are many people who like to write their own poems, such as Mao Zedong, Guo Moruo, Qi Gong, Tsung i Jao, Shen Peng and Chen Yongzheng. They are not only calligraphers, but also poets and scholars. So most of their books are for writing their own poems.
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