Wang Wenzhi

Wang Wenzhi

Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), named Yuqing, was born in Dantu, Jiangsu Province. The style of calligraphy is the best. There are Menglou poetry anthology, kuaiyutang postscript, calligraphers and poets in Qing Dynasty.

He went to Ryukyu with the Imperial Academy. In the 25th year of Qianlong reign, he was a Jinshi, an editor and an official in Lin'an Prefecture of Yunnan Province. Since then, he has no intention of becoming an official. When he is less than 50 years old, he studies Buddhism. There are poems of dream building and inscriptions and postscripts of Kuaiyu hall.

experience

He was famous in the capital in his twenties. In 1756, Emperor Qianlong sent Quan Kui and Zhou Huang to Ryukyu. They admired the title of Wang Wenzhi's book, so they invited him to go with them. As a result, Ryukyu people paid a lot of money to buy Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy, which shocked the 26 year old boy's book title. Today's Okinawa Museum in Japan still has Wang Wenzhi's books. Four years later, Wang Wenzhi went to Beijing for the imperial examination and got the first and third place in the middle school. This is the origin of "light ink exploring flowers" in the future. After entering the Imperial Academy, Wang Wenzhi spent several years in the Imperial Academy and had a good time with Ji Xiaolan. Wang Wenzhi is young and honest. He is often teased by Ji Xiaolan, who is an ancient spirit. He has left many dirty jokes to the people.

His calligraphy is as famous as Liang's. Wenzhi usually likes to use light ink to express the charm of Xiaoshu Xiuyi, which is called "light ink exploring flowers" and "light ink Hanlin". He is good at painting the plum blossom and has excellent rhyme. He lived in the Tang and Song Dynasties and became his own family. Build "dream building". When you come back from Yunnan, you can buy a boy to make music. If you travel far or near, you will follow him with a song. Try to send a beautiful young girl to bi qiufan (Bi Yuan), there are good people set: "a prefect good to strange law for prostitution, as a male servant, as a female servant."

He is the author of "Menglou poetry anthology", "on the book jueju 30" and so on.

In the 29th year of Qianlong reign (1764), he served as the magistrate of Lin'an in Yunnan. He left many inscriptions and couplets in Jianshui, Tonghai and other places. Up to now, there are still some remains of his calligraphy in southern Yunnan. Although it is only ChuZhong Chu, it is also regarded as Gongbi by the people. It is 135 cm long and 44 cm wide. It is mounted in a thick frame, and its appearance is perfect. It is a rare masterpiece. Although Wang Wen's scholarly books were written by the "two kings", he had deep respect for Yan Zhenqing. He wrote in "on the book quatrains:" once the blue sea pulled the whale, the divine power was vast, and the luck was too weak. The three tripods are flourishing in the middle of the atmosphere. Du Shi, Han Bi and Yan Shu. " And like to write the content of Yan book.

works

Wang Wenzhi was famous for his calligraphy all his life. In his early years, he began to study calligraphy from his predecessor Da Chongguang and was deeply influenced by it. He studied regular script from Chu suiliang, and cursive script from "preface to Lanting" and "preface to Shengjiao". However, Qian Yong thought that he was learning from Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang, and changed to Zhang Jizhi after middle age. From the perspective of Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy handed down from generation to generation, his elegant and gentle stippling and charming and neat knot really reveal the inheritance relationship with Da Chongguang and Dong Qichang's calligraphy, and the flat and thin lines are the result of Da's calligraphy. In addition to the influence of Da and Dong, there is another factor that can not be ignored: Wang Wenzhi devoted himself to Zen after he was middle-aged, and paid special attention to the calligraphy of Buddhist scriptures. He once received Zhang Jizhi's ink and copied it, so his style of writing is as useful as Zhang Jizhi and Da Chongguang's.

In his essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery, Liang Shaoren of Qing Dynasty said: "the Prime Minister of Liu Shi'an in the Guochao Dynasty (Liu Yong) focused on boldness, while the Taishou of zhengmenglou (Wang Wenzhi) focused on Fengshen. Therefore, he had the goal of" Prime Minister of thick ink, light ink exploring flowers. " Qian Yong also compares him with Liu Yong and Liang Tongshu. He thinks that Wang Wenzhi was middle-aged and had to copy Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy, so he went into a frivolous way, just like Qiu Niang's Fu Fen, with a clear and delicate frame, a good posture, and a lack of solemnity. Although this theory takes a derogatory meaning, the analogy of Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy style is more accurate. This kind of "qiuniang Bofen" style can also be used as the basis of authenticity identification. From the analysis of the authentic works handed down from generation to generation, Wang Shuyun's brushwork is soft and smooth, his ink rhyme is light, his lines are white, his style is clear and ethereal, his spirit is extremely graceful and beautiful, which is close to Dong Qichang's style and more charming. It is hard for counterfeiters to imitate his elegant and romantic realm. It is no wonder that there was a saying at that time that "the three beams of the world (referring to Liang Tongshu, Liang Yan and Liang Guozhi) were inferior to one king in Jiangnan".

influence

According to Wang Chang's biography of Hu Hai poems, "Yu Qing wrote in regular script in Henan Province, followed Lanting and Shengjiao in running script; when he entered the capital, the literati attached great importance to it." In fact, when Wang Wenzhi was in his twenties, the title of his book was widely spread. In 1756, Quan Kui and Zhou Huang were sent to Ryukyu. The two envoys admired the title of Wang Wenzhi's book and specially invited him to accompany them. Wang Wenzhi readily agreed. Ryukyu people are good at calligraphy. They learned that Wang Wenzhi was a famous Chinese calligrapher. They paid a lot of money for calligraphy and regarded it as a treasure. For a time, Wang Wenzhi was very popular in Ryukyu. At that time, Korean people came to China to buy Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy with cake money, and his calligraphy was well-known overseas. When Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River, he saw his book "Qiantang monk Temple stele" in Hangzhou temples, which greatly appreciated his love. Thanks to the appreciation of Emperor Qianlong, Wang Wenzhi's calligraphy reputation was greatly improved, and it was widely spread and treasured by scholars. Many museums in Japan have Wang Wenzhi's original works. For example, Wang Wenzhi's ink treasures are collected in the National Museum of Tokyo, the adjacent Museum of the Fujii society in Kyoto, the Okinawa County Museum, and the Oita County Museum.

The style of Dong Qichang's calligraphy is regular and free, compact and introverted in structure, and light in color. Wang Wenzhi faithfully adheres to the meaning of calligraphy, but without the circulation of traditional calligraphy. His books are written with less strokes and more turns, mainly with turns, which is decisive and neat. The thin and hard strokes are slightly round. They are charming and charming, but also handsome and elegant. The style is scattered and the tip of the pen is sharp, showing the characteristics of talent and elegance everywhere. The work of waiting for the moon, written in running script, is beautiful and elegant, which shows that it has a profound foundation in the Jin and Tang Dynasties.

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