Appreciate Zhao Mengfu’s Spring Festival couplet calligraphy?

We have entered 2017, and the Lunar New Year is not far away! Are you still worried about how to write Spring Festival couplets? What content to write? How to copy the calligraphy of Spring Festival couplets? Here is what I did for you The calligraphy of Zhao Mengfu Spring Couplets you compiled, I hope it will be useful to you!

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Introduction to Zhao Mengqi’s Calligraphy

Zhao Mengfu***fǔ**** **October 20, 1254[1] - July 30, 1322[1] ***, named Zi'ang, Han nationality, also known as Songxue Taoist[2], also known as Crystal Palace Taoist and Oubo, was signed in the middle age Meng Fu. Zhejiang Wuxing *** is now a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang. A famous calligrapher, painter, and poet from the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, he was the 11th grandson of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and the direct descendant of Zhao Defang, King of Qin. His father, Zhao Yumin, served as the Minister of Household Affairs in the Southern Song Dynasty and as the pacification envoy to the west of Zhejiang Province in Lin'an Prefecture.

In 1286, the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty, Cheng Jufu, the imperial censor who traveled to Taiwan, "was ordered to search for the remains in the south of the Yangtze River" and introduced Zhao Mengfu to Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty. , Kublai Khan admired his talents and appearance, and two years later he was appointed as the Bachelor of Jixianzhi. In the 29th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1292 AD), he served as the general manager of Jinan Road. In 1295, the first year of Yuanzhen's reign, he returned to Beijing to compile "Shizu Shilu". In view of the many internal conflicts in the Yuan court, Zhao Mengfu took advantage of his illness to beg to return home. He was a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and a high official, and became famous all over the world. In 1322, the second year of Zhizhi's reign, Mao Zedong died at the age of sixty-nine. He was given the posthumous title "Wenmin" by Pingzhang Zhengshi and Wei Guogong of Zhongshu Province in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, so he was called "Zhao Wenmin". He is the author of "Song Xuezhai Collected Works" and so on.

Zhao Mengfu was erudite and talented. He was good at poetry and prose, understood economics, was good at calligraphy and painting, was good at epigraphy and stone, knew the rules and regulations, and understood appreciation. In particular, he achieved the highest achievements in calligraphy and painting, creating a new style of painting in the Yuan Dynasty, and was known as the "Crown of the Yuan Dynasty". He is also good at seal script, official script, Zhen script, running script, and cursive script, and is especially famous for his regular script and running script. His calligraphy style is charming and elegant, with strict structure and mature writing skills. He created the "Zhao style" calligraphy and is known as the "four masters of regular script" together with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.

The regular script writing method

The square script originated from the official script. Most of the stele inscriptions in the Six Dynasties were written in square script. The regular script of the Tang Dynasty inherited the style of the northern stele, thus forming the square script. The main characteristic of regular script is the pen. The so-called square pen means that the pen has edges and corners when writing. It is the main method of writing regular script. If the square pen is used well, it can give people a strong, vigorous, sharp and deep beauty. To start the square pen, you can use the counter-trend cutting method, also known as the point method to start the pen. Zhou Xinglian's "Linchi Guanjian" said: "Every time a word is written, it starts from the point. The point is fixed, and the four directions are complete, and the pen is dominated, so as not to be dull and hasty." The method is to carry on the previous stroke before starting to write, and first to be very low in the air. Make a reverse movement, first or lightly touch the paper with the tip of the pen, reverse the tip of the pen, and then make a diagonal straight landing ***When writing horizontal drawings***, or a diagonal horizontal landing,*** When writing vertical paintings, it is sharp, like a knife cutting into the point. When cutting into the writing point, the momentum should be heavy, but the landing point should be light. Mr. Gao Ershi, a modern calligrapher, pointed out in the "Inscription on Cao'e's Stele": "Hold the pen steadily and start writing. If it is light, it has a kind of elegance." This is indeed what he said. This kind of brushwork is also called "building the front and writing down" in calligraphy, which means building, pounding, and pounding the soil to make it solid. Just like construction workers building land, the front of the building is straight down, which means that it is like a falling stone from a peak, which means it will crash into it. After cutting in against the trend, the tip of the pen is up and the belly of the pen is down, which has become a lateral trend. At this time, it is urgent to adjust the tip to make the pen tip deflect from the center. This is the most critical place for writing small regular script. When adjusting the tip, you can use your wrist. The method is to slightly drive the tip of the brush to make one or two spiral movements that combine lifting and pressing, and quickly blend the tip of the brush into the painting. Zhou Xinglian said in "Linchi Guanjian": "When you write and put down the paper, you should stand on the ground like a person, with your heels set, stretching your waist and back, your bones will be naturally strong, and you can respond to all directions with a slight turn. If you are not good at using the pen, you will either sit or lie on the paper, or squat on the paper. It's on the paper. To eliminate this shortcoming, there is no trick. Just lift the pen up when writing, as Si Weng said. "When writing small regular letters, this movement of adjusting the front is very small and can be completed in a very short moment." Yes, sometimes it all depends on a feeling in the wrist. To practice this kind of front-adjusting movement, you should start with Dakai. At the beginning, the movements are very passive and intentional, but over time, you will naturally become proficient. After touching, you can quickly lift the front, like a dragonfly touching water, and it will rise as soon as it sticks. Complete such an action unconsciously.

Finally, let’s talk about the remedies in writing. Zhao Hengguang said in "Hanshan Broom Talk": "The writer loses the place when he writes, don't change the way because of the loss, there is something to be gained in the wrist. "It means that when writing is caused by improper adjustment of strokes or mistakes in starting strokes, it should be repaired in time, and it is not advisable to add more strokes to repair after writing. There are two ways to remedy it: First, The method of temporary revitalization is to "go to the missing area and make up for it", promptly return the tip of the pen to the starting point and then move the pen. Through reciprocating movements, temporary revitalization will cause the ink to overflow from the center and the shape will be natural. Full, the second is the time to make up for it. Even if there is something unpleasant, you can think about how to make up for it with a few strokes. You don’t have to change your ways temporarily. If you save it well, you will find it more interesting. Of course, it is best to make the starting point smooth and smooth. Feng, those who go against the trend will not gain ink. The remedy is just a last resort.

In short, writing is the most important part of using a pen, and the key to this is adjusting the edge. No matter what kind of writing style you use, it is important to use inversion, either virtual inversion or real inversion. The movement of inversion should be brisk, and the trajectory of inversion should follow the upward movement of the stroke. When writing, the movements should be clean and sharp. There should be neither hesitation nor sluggishness in the pen, nor sudden haste or cowardice. The above three writing techniques can be used interchangeably when writing small regular script. Sometimes it is square, sometimes round, sometimes hidden and sometimes exposed, so that the beauty of the changes can be maximized. However, only one style of writing can be used as the main style to maintain the consistency of the entire work. .