Appreciation of Spring Festival couplets, writing brushes and calligraphy works
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Zhu Yuanzhang's Spring Festival couplets
When Zhu Yuanzhang was in office, he specially ordered every household in Jinling to write couplets on red paper and hang them on the gate on New Year's Eve to show auspiciousness and celebration.
According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled incognito and was very happy to see bright red Spring Festival couplets posted everywhere. Later, when Zhu went to a place and saw that there was no Spring Festival couplets posted on the door, he was furious. Only after careful inquiry did I know that the shopkeeper was a butcher, illiterate and would not ask others for help. Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a couplet with a stroke of a pen:
Split the road of life and death with both hands;
Cut off the root of right and wrong.
Zhu Yuanzhang wrote couplets during the Spring Festival, which became a much-told story.
The significance of learning calligraphy
Calligraphy is a wonderful work of classical art in China. In the history of writing development, no country's writing has developed into a unique art form like China's Chinese characters. They say calligraphy is? Silent music? 、? Dance on paper? , is it? The person's emotional electrocardiogram? . Calligraphy art gives people complex and diverse aesthetic feelings with its abstract, flexible and rich lines. In 2009, China's calligraphy entered the United Nations representative list of human intangible cultural heritage, and the inheritance and protection of calligraphy became inevitable.
On the surface, the art of calligraphy is nothing more than writing Chinese characters with a brush dipped in ink, without any mystery. But? Although this book is a small skill, its essence is also familiar to Yan Tao. ? This Tao refers to the law of the generation and change of the universe in the big aspect, and refers to people's literacy and conduct in the small aspect. Ancient education in China listed calligraphy as one of the six classics, which was a compulsory course for students, aiming at cultivating and improving people's basic quality.
1. Calligraphy art and personality shaping. Books are handed down from person to person? The style of calligrapher's works is ultimately the natural expression of calligrapher's personal feelings and personality. Huang Tingjian of Song Dynasty said:? Learning books must have virtue in mind and is widely learned by sages. Books are valuable. ? In what is called? The second running script in the world? According to Yan Zhenqing's Manuscript for Sacrificing a Nephew, Yan Zhenqing wrote an immortal eulogy for his nephew Yan Jiming who died in the Anshi Rebellion. From the ups and downs of lines and words, we can feel Yan Zhenqing's grief and indignation when he learned that his nephew was killed by the rebels. Similarly, the emperor asked the famous calligrapher Liu Gongquan how to learn calligraphy, and Liu Gongquan replied. Is the heart right and the pen right , left? Pen suggestion? Eternal reputation. By studying calligraphy, constantly studying ancient inscriptions and appreciating the style of the ancients, it will inevitably play a subtle educational role in shaping personal personality.
Second, calligraphy art and ability training, calligraphy learning is conducive to the cultivation of students' various abilities. First of all, through the study of calligraphy inscriptions, the first exercise is the students' subtle observation. The ancients said:? Those who observe are still refined, and those who plan are expensive. ? By observing the stippling structure, writing method and characteristics of each word, let students imitate their hands and pursue them. After a long period of training, their ability to observe things will be helped and improved.
The second is the cultivation of imagination. The ancients said:? The charm originated from nature. ? Many descriptions of stroke shapes in calligraphy come from life and natural phenomena. For example, when describing the high quality of lines, we often use? Leak marks (rain lines dripping from the eaves of farmers' houses when it rains)? Metaphor. Zhang Xu, a master of cursive script in Tang Dynasty, learned the theory of brushwork from Gong Sundaniang's sword dance, which is also a model of calligraphy art and imagination cultivation.
Third, cultivate students' dialectical thinking ability. Copying ancient calligraphy, there are many dialectical and unified ideas running through it, such as the back of the font, the pressure in the strokes, the shade of the pen and ink, the speed of the strokes, the advance and retreat of the strokes, and the Fiona Fang of the strokes, all of which constitute the phenomenon of contradictory unity in calligraphy learning. In a sense, the law of calligraphy art and even artistic creation is the process of seeking unity in contradiction by using dialectics.
In addition, learning calligraphy plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating a person's concentration and endurance. So-called? Plum blossoms are bitter and cold? Nowadays, children are keen on watching Korean dramas, American blockbusters and listening to pop songs. If we can guide children to devote enough study and attention to China traditional art, all kinds of unhealthy phenomena, such as internet addiction and terrorist violence, which happen to teenagers, may be contained to some extent.
Third, the art of calligraphy involves many disciplines. China's calligraphy art is extensive and profound, and the in-depth study of calligraphy also plays an irreplaceable role in the study of other disciplines. Summarized as follows:
Literature. ? The best running script in the world? Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is a masterpiece of calligraphy, and it is also a beautifully written travel prose. Mao Zedong's bold poems and his calligraphy works are highly unified, full of enthusiasm and anger. Facts show that a calligrapher's works can not only stay at the level of formal beauty, but also need to be enriched with literary connotation. If you see a calligraphy work, if the words are clumsy, the interest is low, and there are typos mixed in it, I believe the artistic height of the work will be greatly reduced.
History and archaeology. Calligraphy is a long-standing cultural heritage in China. Calligraphy has been produced since the beginning of writing, and the context of historical progress is always examined from the continuous development of writing. Learning calligraphy can increase our understanding of China's long history and splendid culture, which plays an irreplaceable role in other teaching. For example, when I was demonstrating the writing of Xiao Zhuan in Qin Shihuang's era, I told the students the process of Qin Shihuang burning books to bury Confucianism and Prime Minister Li Si unifying the characters. In this way, students will have a more emotional understanding when understanding this kind of calligraphy. As one sentence says? Through the imitation of stippling, it seems to touch the temperature of history? .
For archaeology, it is necessary to rely on a solid philology foundation to identify ancient artifacts. Through the systematic study of calligraphy, we can understand the evolution and development of characters, the identification and writing of ancient Chinese characters and so on.
Painting and design, calligraphy is an art with Chinese characters as the object of expression. The rich lines and complex structures of Chinese characters provide modeling elements for other sister arts. We say? Calligraphy and painting are homologous? (Painting here refers to Chinese painting in particular), on the one hand, it means that calligraphy and Chinese painting use the same pen tools, and both use brush, on the other hand, they use the same pen method, even the same aesthetic standards. China's art is the expression of personal subjective feelings, which is different from the accurate, objective and realistic description in the West. We often see some Chinese paintings, all of which are hard to use brush strokes? Sketch? This loses the pen and ink interest of Chinese painting.
Calligraphy and design art are also closely related. We took out a RMB at random. What's on it? China People's Bank? Six characters are calligraphy style. And inscriptions on the titles of some books, periodicals and newspapers, such as Modern Chinese Dictionary? Modern Chinese dictionary? This is written by Guo Moruo. Of course, these designs are only a simple reference to calligraphy. The emblem of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? China, Indian and Dancing Beijing? Are the design elements used written by seal script? Jing? After appropriate exaggeration and deformation, the word "Zi" has become the emblem we see today. A running person better conveys the meaning of Beijing welcoming guests from all over the world with an open, warm and inclusive attitude in 2008, and also embodies the design concept that the more national it is, the more the world it is.
? There is no shortage of beauty in this world, but a pair of eyes to discover beauty. ? Despite the wide spread of multiculturalism and computers, China's traditional art calligraphy is inevitably impacted. I believe that through the internalization of calligraphy education, we can arouse a heart of seeking truth and being good, so as to achieve spiritual health and freedom.