Li Yangbing

Li Yangbing

Li Yangbing was born in the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. Calligraphers of Tang Dynasty. Shaowen, a native of Qiaojun (now Bozhou, Anhui Province), comes from the southern ancestor of the Li family in Zhaojun. Li Bai's uncle wrote preface to Cao Tang Ji for Li Bai.

At the beginning, he was appointed as Jinyun order and Dangtu order. Later, he became an official to guozijiancheng and a Bachelor of Jixian Academy. It is called Shaojian in the world. The five brothers are rich in CI and seal script. Li Si's Yishan stele won the first time with thin strength. He is good at Ci, calligraphy, especially Xiaozhuan. "After Si Weng, Cao Xi and Cai Yong are not enough until Xiao Sheng." The seal script he wrote is "vigorous, forthright and popular, which is called the back of Cangjie." It is even called "the eternal one after Lisi" by later generations.

In November of 762, the first year of zongbaoying in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was not able to get sick. In his bed, he handed his draft poems to Li Yangbing and asked him to write a preface.

Life of the characters

Li Yangbing was a calligrapher of Tang Dynasty. Shaowen and Zhongwen are from Qiaojun (now Bozhou, Anhui), Hezhou (now Hechuan, Chongqing) (see Yitong Zhi), and their ancestral home is Pingji, Zhaojun (now Zhaoxian, Hebei). They are the descendants of the southern ancestor of the Li family in Zhaojun.

During the reign of emperor suzong of Tang Dynasty (758-759), he was the magistrate of Jinyun County. In the second year of the Shang Yuan Dynasty (761), he moved to be the magistrate of Tu County, and made great achievements.

Tang Dynasty zongdali early (766), promoted to Jixian academy bachelor. In the early years of Jianzhong period (780), he was the leader of the state.

Character relationship

Contacts with Li Bai

It is recorded in ancient books: "in the first year of Baoying, it was the order of Dangtu. Bai Xiangyi once wrote a collection of Bai xuqi's poems. Li Jixian academy bachelor, late for less prison, known as Li Jian

In the second year of Shangyuan (761) of Tang Dynasty, Li Bai came to Dangtu from Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) and went to his uncle Li Yangbing. At first, Li Yangbing didn't know Li Bai's predicament and intention. When Li Yangbing sent Li Bai on the ship to say goodbye, he saw Li Bai's poem "Uncle Xiancong Dang Tu zaiyangbing" and then asked him to stay. The poem first praises Li Yangbing's talent, saying: "my family has a third father, an outstanding Saint Daiying. Although there are no three seats, I don't borrow the name of four heroes. In the end, the spirit of dragon and tiger will be promoted. When the weak crown comes to yanzhao, the virtuous one flatters him. Lu Lian is good at talking and laughing, and Ji Buzhe is Gongqing. " He thinks Li Yangbing is honest and talented. He has been valued and appreciated by the sages in his hometown since he was a child. Many wise and famous people are willing to associate with him, saying that he is neither attached to the powerful nor heroic. Then he praises and evaluates Li Yangbing's achievements in Dangtu. It is said that "when it is difficult to slaughter the city, the old city is empty with floating clouds. If you shave grass, sweep the floor without fiber stem. Huize and fly away, farmers return to farming. Guanghan water thousands of miles, the sound of jade harp. Yasong is like taijieping when it is broadcast in Wuyue. " He believed that Li Yangbing came to Dangtu after the an Shi rebellion, took orders in the face of danger, managed well, benefited all over the country, and made outstanding achievements. Finally, he stated his difficult situation of no one to return to in the poem, saying: "don't leave Jinling, young man, come to Baixia Pavilion. The group of Phoenixes have pity on the birds, but the difference is sad. Each plucked five colored hair, meaning heavy Taishan light. Give to the micro, spend a lot, water the long whale. Playing the sword song is bitter and cold, and the wind is severe. The moon holds the gate of heaven, the frost falls, and the niuzhu is clear. Long sigh is the way back, Linchuan empty screen camp It can be seen from the poem that Li Bai came to Dangtu to visit Yangbing in winter. He came to Dangtu to seek help because he couldn't make a living in Jinling with the help of his friends. Li Yangbing, on the other hand, is magnanimous and generous. He tries his best to help and treat his friends with benevolence, which finally gives Li Bai a place to live and end up in his later years.

After living in Dangtu, Li Bai and Li Yangbing met at the county office and in the mountains. He saw that Li Yangbing at that time was "singing high, shaking trees, laughing loud and thundering.". It's amazing to see the clouds collapse when you write the seal script. Spit words and binghuan, five color falling stars. It's a beautiful saying that the whole country is full of talents Yang Bing not only has unique calligraphy, but also writes beautiful poems. In order to express his admiration for Li Yangbing, he also wrote a "praise of Li Zaijun painting in Dangtu" for Li Yangbing, which said: "Heaven droops down the essence of Yuan Dynasty, and the mountain descends the essence of spirit. A great man is born when he expects to live. Tuqi offers advice and hears about Wangting. Emperor Xiuzhi, yangguangtaiqing. The origin of a hundred Li, contains eight Ming. Jinyun flying sound, when Tu Zhengcheng. As soon as Yasong changes, the country will be prosperous again. Ju Yi dance, the pattern of Danqing. Eyebrow show Huagai, Mu Lang star, he Jiao Langfeng, Lin Teng Yujing, if the sun and moon, clearly run. The poor God elucidates and makes the process forever. " This eulogy not only expresses Li Bai's great admiration for Li Yangbing, but also laments that such a person with strategy, courage and political achievements can't show his skill and ambition in the situation of national turmoil and declining world.

In November of 762, the first year of zongbaoying in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was not able to get sick. In his bed, he handed his draft poems to Li Yangbing and asked him to write a preface. Later, Li Yangbing compiled his poems into ten volumes of Cao Tang Ji and wrote preface for it. In the preface, Yang Bing said that he was "in a position to be crowned, but he was also in urgent need. His draft was ten thousand volumes, but his hand collection had not been repaired, so that he could give it a preface.". This is to say that Li Yangbing compiled a collection and wrote a preface for Li Bai when he was about to be dismissed. In the preface, he not only gives a brief account of Li Bai's family background, life, thought, character and friends, but also gives a high appraisal of Li Bai's writings and achievements in poetry and prose. He called Li Bai "the only one who has walked alone for thousands of years" and "the only one who has written for the public is the six harmonies, which can be said to be the enemy of nature!"

Character achievement

Yang Bingshan's Ci and Zhang, "Xiuju ManJiang garden"; gongzhuanshu, "wonderful writing". The author praised his calligraphy with the following words: "in the three hundred years of Tang Dynasty, those who were known by seal script were only public."

There are many stone carvings written by Li Yangbing. Among them are the records of Town God's Temple in Jinyun of Zhejiang, the book of praise in the Fuzhou's Wushi mountain, the Shun Temple Monument in Guangxi's Guilin, the Yi Ting Ming in Hubei Wuchang, and the tablet of Yan Zhen Zhen temple in Shaanxi Xi'an. In particular, the Qian Gua tablet on the campus of Wuhu No.12 Middle School in Anhui Province was written and carved on the stone by Li Yangbing at the request of his friends when he was the magistrate of Dangtu County. This stele is a seal script, with sharp momentum, strong style and vigorous writing. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Wang family of Wuhu obtained the stele in Dangtu city and transferred it to the secret collection home of Wuhu. In the fourth year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty (1525), Zhang Dayong, who was supervised by Wuhu pass, moved from Wang's family to be an academic official, and wrote a postscript to it: "the ancestor of Yangbing seal script, Qin Xiangsi, had a good command of his writing skills, and Shu Yuanyu's comments are very detailed. It's the Wang family of Wuhu, which was engraved and collected in the early days of the state. It's the county government of Dangtu. It's elegant and strong, outstanding and ancient. " Unfortunately, the inscription and postscript was destroyed in the cultural revolution, but the Qian Gua tablet still exists today.

Representative works

Sanfen Ji was carved in the second year of Dali (767). Written by Li Jiqing and written by Li Yangbing. Three graves is Li Yangbing's representative work. In the seal script of Tang Dynasty, Li Yangbing is the most successful. It is called "iron line drawing." "Sanfen stele" inherits Lisi's "Yishan stele" jade tendon brushwork, winning by thin strength, slender structure, strong and smooth lines, consistent strokes from the beginning to the end, smooth and clean, graceful and graceful.

Sun Chengze of the Qing Dynasty said: "since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Li Yangbing was the first hand in seal script. Today, when we look at the story of three graves, it is not easy for us to write about the life style and the method. However, after Lu Tanwei's painting the painting of jinteng, you can see Yangbing's calligraphy. It's elegant and graceful, and it's beyond stone carving. " Kang Youwei of Qing Dynasty thought that the story of three graves was "thin and vigorous". Mr. Wang Nanming, a contemporary calligrapher, once wrote an article on Li Yangbing's Xiaozhuan: "the lines are like the swaying of weeping willows or the rolling of flowing clouds, which are full of a lyric atmosphere, representing the literary grace of the revival of Xiaozhuan calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty." The inscriptions on the world include "three grave inscriptions", "Town God's Temple tablet", "modest hexagram inscription", "Ting Ting Ming", "the name of" jenjal Tai "," epitaph of Wu Ji Zha ", etc.

Stone calligraphy

Li Yangbing likes to carve stones, and most of the steles written by Yan Zhenqing ask him to write seal characters. His famous books include "three grave inscriptions", "yting Ming" and "Town God's Temple tablet", "Yi Qian hexagram", "slipper new post" and so on. Among them, the writing style of Yi Qian Gua is particularly thin and healthy. Wang Shu's Zhuyun postscript in the Qing Dynasty called it: "carrying pen is like silkworms spinning silk, bone strength is like cotton wrapped iron."

Artistic achievements

Li Yangbing edited Li Bai's poetry collection "collection of thatched cottages" and made a preface. In Tang Dynasty, Li Yangbing was famous for his study of Zhuan, which was a great change of Qin Zhuan. He was known as the first person of Xiaozhuan after Li Si and had a great influence on later generations. It has been more than a thousand years since Qin Lisi organized and standardized Xiaozhuan from Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, Jin Dynasty to Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. Li Yangbing sighed and said, "it's not the end of the day, so I got the purpose of Zhuan Zhen." Li Yangbing once published Shuowen Jiezi written by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty as 20 volumes, but greatly changed the seal script and explanation of the original book. After that, Xu Shen's original version gradually disappeared, while Li's version was popular. It was not until the early Song Dynasty that Xu Xuan revised ShuoWenJieZi in accordance with the imperial edict and sorted out the contents of the original book.

Li Yangbing took seal script as his duty, and began to learn from Lisi's Yishan stele. He inherited Yujin's brushwork, but changed his style. The lines become smooth and graceful. "Golden pot" said "Yang Bingyou fine calligraphy, Haojun ink strength, at that time people called pen tiger." Zhang Xu's brushwork was also taught by Li Yangbing. In his old age, the style of Zhuan became more and more vigorous. Self claimed: "after Si Weng (Li Si), until Xiao Sheng. Cao Xi and Cai Yong are not so good Kang Youwei's Guang Yi Zhou Shuangji called it: "to win by thin strength, if Qian Gua Ming, it will benefit the form, be timid, and destroy the ancient law."

At that time, the tablet written by Yan Zhenqing had to be inscribed with seal script by Li Yangbing, which shows the deep influence of his seal script

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