What is the representative work of Zheng Zhi, the first official in Qing Dynasty?
When Zheng was young, he was determined to learn from Li and studied Han steles for more than 30 years. In order to visit the Han Monument in Hebei and Shandong, he lost everything and kept four cabinets of rubbings at home. Kong Renshang said in Zheng Jiakou's Song of Official Letters: "The Han tablet is lonely at the mouth of the valley, crossing the river to find the truth, the tablet pavilion sleeps in the freezing rain with a pillow, and the immortal sighs", which is exactly Zheng Zhi's portrayal of the tablet.
. Zheng Zhi is good at official script, cursive script and seal cutting. He first studied under Song Jue, and later turned to study Han steles, mainly studying harmony, especially the latter. The characters in the book are similar in size, but different in thickness, colorful and regular, which not only keeps the characteristics of Cao Quanbei, but also has elegant and strange new ideas, and is called "Cao Li" by the world. In the standard brushwork of official script, add a light and heavy pen with personality, or use a dry pen, the words are not plain. Compared with earlier Wang Shimin, Zheng Zhi's official script is slightly close to the Han people, full of ancient meaning. All these have created a new road for Lishu and become the calligraphy realm pursued by the tablet school after Ganjia, which has great influence. Later generations called him and Zheng Banqiao, who wrote six and a half books, "Erzheng". Bao's Guo Chao Shupin listed it as "one" with Lishu, and later called it the first Lishu in Qing Dynasty. Zheng Zhi wrote Cao Quanbei in cursive script, and his calligraphy was charming and elegant, which initiated the calligraphy in Qing Dynasty to advocate the study of steles. Zheng Zhi was the most important calligrapher in the early Qing Dynasty. He participated in the activities of visiting monuments and made great efforts to learn from Han monuments. His official script was sought after by famous scholars at that time. He advocated the study of Hanbei, which played an important role in the later revival of Hanbei. He claimed: "Writing is the most difficult, and the pen container is in hand. If you control it with a crossbow, you will lose if you don't work hard. " Its official script is elegant and ethereal, vivid and beautiful.
His works handed down from generation to generation mainly include Yang Maoyuan's Attached Horse Axe, Lutong Crescent Poem Axe, Happy Poem Axe, Lingbao Ballad and so on. Liang Yi's "On the Book Stick" said: "Zheng Yi's eight-point book learns from the Han people, and occasionally participates in the grass method, and he is famous for a while." Qian Yong's "Lu Yuan Cong Hua" said: "I started to learn the Han stele, and then I started to talk about it from the generation of Zhu Zhu An (Yi Zun), and my learning was revived. "