Zhao Bingxin
Chen Jiming went out from Ningxia. He successfully completed the spiritual breakthrough in novel creation and became one of the influential modern novelists in China. At the same time, Chen Jiming is an all-rounder and his calligraphy practice has reached a high level. I use these words: sharp, sophisticated, dry, dignified, quiet, atmospheric and outstanding.
Calligraphy is the art of lines. Among modern calligraphers, Mr. Lin Sanzhi's calligraphy, especially his cursive script, is full of poetic and picturesque movements, and the expression of lines is full of artistic conception of painting, which makes Chen Jiming fondle admiringly. "Where is the dry ink scattered, the front is turned over, and the pen and ink are turned into imaginary silk, which seems to be there." "The shade of Yin and Yang is magical, and the ink is colorful. Doing nothing, ethereal and ethereal, with ink and brilliant deification "is exactly what Buddhist scriptures say" wonderful existence ". Lin Sanzhi's calligraphy "connects the preceding with the following" with new artistic lines, forming a unique art of calligraphy. These characteristics are reflected in Chen Jiming's calligraphy creation.
A closer look at Chen Jiming's calligraphy reveals traces of Youren's calligraphy. Gao Jianqun, a famous writer, said: "Yu Youren had been studying regular script before, and even promoted' Two Kings', but after seeing Thirteen Chapters of Shimen, he was filled with emotion. The original characters can still write like this, so magnificent, bold and freehand. It was after referring to the thirteen products of Shimen that Yu Youren's calligraphy works had a unique style and developed into' Yu Ti'. " In the process of studying books, Chen Jiming was shocked and infected by the innovative spirit of famous calligraphers and politicians. Chen Jiming thinks that calligraphy may be the greatest skill in the world, but this is not to belittle calligraphy, but to trace back to the source and put calligraphy in a suitable position and in the long river of personality and knowledge. No matter how talented people are, they can't lack long-term solid learning skills and improve themselves through continuous learning and understanding. Only in this way can you realize that "Yoga Yu is the best, with no intention". He often forgets himself in ancient and modern famous calligraphy posts.
Liu Xizai said in A Brief Introduction to Arts and Literature: "A book is like a book, like its learning, like its talent, like its ambition. In short, I like someone. Tessa's books are warm and mellow, Shen Yi's books are handsome and heroic, the deformed man's books have fallen, and the gifted scholar's books are beautiful. Books can be learned. The brushwork fonts are different, and the knowledge is high and low. " Calligraphy has become an art and passed down from generation to generation because the role of Chinese characters has long surpassed the symbolic function of recording language in the writing process of literati in previous dynasties, and it has become an artistic form of dialogue between literati and "self" and "practice with aesthetic and cultural connotations". Therefore, to some extent, the calligrapher's creation is actually a "dialogue" with himself, in which he conveys his aesthetic implication and value pursuit. I think the reason why Chen Jiming's calligraphy presents such a style echoes his spiritual world. His calligraphy has a strong modern flavor, which benefits from his critical sublation of traditional culture and deep understanding of cultural modernity.
Any artist's creation is inseparable from the background of the times. Throughout Chen Jiming's calligraphy works, there are strong characteristics of the times. Our era has entered a globalized modern society, and modernity should be the most distinctive feature of our era.
No matter how good the traditional culture of China is, it is also classical and lacks modernity. For the understanding of modernity, he started with modern novels. He thinks that people like Lu Xun and Yu Dafu began to write modern novels. They are telling stories, but they are analyzing people, analyzing human nature and observing to what extent a person is himself and a real person. Under this premise, modern novels have their reasons for existence. Modern novels, which started with Lu Xun, show great practical significance in opening people's wisdom and revealing the essence of human existence. But the last kind of pseudo-morality, hypocrisy and hypocrite still has a great influence on literature. It has a lot of confusion, which harms our literature and creates a lot of fake literature at present.
Chen Jiming consciously faced the reality of modern social transformation in China, found people, paid attention to people, faced people's existence, went deep into people's spiritual world, especially the unknown irrational world, and described the absurd and unbearable existence of people, their anxiety and helplessness, and the reality that human nature was alienated. I thought Chen Jiming was a master of "exploring human nature" with literature. His novels have the profundity of human nature. I remember that his novel "Dozens of White Bottles in the Moonlight" was published 20 years ago, which aroused strong repercussions. At that time, most writers in China did not understand what "modernity", "spiritual character of people in modern society" and "modern novels" meant. At that time, many of our writers still spared no effort to write about the countryside and poetry (which continues today), but he has discovered the danger of human existence, the "profundity of human nature" and the unknown secrets of people's subconscious world.
Of course, the expression of modern art can often be found in Chen Jiming's calligraphy. His calligraphy works also have strong distortion, dryness, stagnation and profundity of modern art ... all of which constitute a part of his calligraphy art world and leave a deep impression on readers.
Zhao Bingxin is a member of Chinese Writers Association, China Literature Critics Association, China Prose Association, director of Ningxia Writers Association and member of Ningxia Political Consultative Conference. Mainly engaged in modern and contemporary literary criticism research. He won the gold medal in People's Literature Review. He is the author of untouchable years, the sound of lonely landing, walking in the depths of philosophy, and the critical dimension of modernity. , and is the editor-in-chief of Haiyun's online literature "Selected Works of Listening to the Sea".