Song Ke

Song Ke

Song Ke (1327-1387) was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He is one of the famous calligraphers in the early Ming Dynasty. He is known as ten friends with Gao Qi and ten talents in poetry.

Hong wuchu was known by Feng Xiang. Su Gong Cao Li is well versed in Zhong and Wang Zhifa. His pen is exquisite and elegant. And work bamboo, although Cun Gang Chi cutting, and thousands of Huang Wan Yu, rain stack smoke, Xiaoran secular atmosphere. Try to make a picture of Jiqi stone industry. The title has the sentence of "if you are successful, you will not feel that you are self restrained", which means you can't get it again. The study of calligraphy is in a hurry, so it's wonderful to write bamboo. Zhang Boyu said, "I see a red carnation occasionally." so people think that Zhu Zhu began in Song Dynasty. He was sixty-one years old. Song Ke's calligraphy enjoyed a great reputation in the Ming Dynasty, and was called the three Song Dynasty together with Song Feng and song Guang who were good at calligraphy at that time.

Life of the characters

Song Ke was born in a wealthy family. He was a big man with a chivalrous heart. When he was young, he learned a lot of books and kept guests at home. He liked to drink and give money. When he was an adult, he was in turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. He wanted to make contributions, thank guests and learn from soldiers. He wanted to go north to the Central Plains and raise the flag. But he didn't realize that the middle road was blocked. So he went back to Jinling, Kuaiji and other places of interest. He was angry after returning home During this period, Zhang Shicheng was very diligent in calligraphy. According to the biography of Wen Yuan in Ming history, he wrote: "Ke Du men ran Han, and spent ten papers every day, so he was famous for his good calligraphy." He didn't succeed in his official career all his life. In his later years, Hong Wu got a little official who was familiar with Fengxiang Prefecture in Shaanxi Province. He soon resigned and returned to his hometown. He interacted with celebrities at that time, such as Yang Weizhen and Ni Zan, in return for his poems and paintings.

Artistic achievements

Song Ke lived in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. He was handsome, upright and cool. He often compared himself with Li Taibai and Su Dongpo. He was chivalrous and danced when he heard the chicken. He is very intelligent, knowledgeable in classics and history, good at Danqing, especially good at painting bamboo. Today, the painting of ten thousand bamboo is handed down. His poems and essays were also named at that time. He was friends with Wu literati Gao Qi, Zhang Yu, Xu Ben, Chen Ze and so on. Rao Jiexue, a disciple of yuankangli, once studied cursive script, which was spread by the two kings. Therefore, Zhong Wen was particularly fond of cursive script. The cursive script runs smoothly and moves freely, like a flying sword dancing wildly and freely, which is very suitable for song Ke's character. Song Kexue's calligraphy method is very high. Kai Zong Zhong Yao, Xingshu mu Erwang, Zhangcao learned from Huangxiang's "Ji Jiu Zhang". His strokes are sharp and vigorous, and his strokes are mellow and free and easy, especially his Xiaocao and Zhangcao. Wu Kuan commented on his book: "Yike's calligraphy originated from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which is well versed in Zhongwang's method, so his strokes are exquisite and elegant Zhong Wenshu's cursive style of suojing is wonderful and worthy of the name of Jing. " His book originated from Wei and Jin Dynasties, and was well received by Zhong and Wang. He was good at regular script and cursive script, especially Zhang Cao. His style of Zhang Cao continued Zhao Mengfu's and Deng Wenyuan's style, but also developed to some extent. He integrated the writing methods of Jin Cao and Xingshu, and became more fluent and vigorous.

Handed down works

The ink traces handed down from generation to generation include Zhang Cao's Ji Jiu Zhang, Gong Chen's poems, Li Bai's difficult journey, Qi Ji Zhi, Du Zimei's poems, Ding Wu's LAN Ting Ba, Liu Zhen's Gong Chen's poems, Xing Zeng Ying's ancient poems, Shu sun Guo Ting's book score, etc. All of them are the treasures of the Mohist forest and the best of Hanzhong.

Discussion on works

His works include biography of Gaoqi Nangong, history of silent poetry, Danqing annals, coral net, and liuyanzhai erbi.

In a hurry

Ji Jiu Zhang, originally known as Ji Jiu Pian, is an enlightening book for children in Han Dynasty. The book consists of 32 chapters, each of which contains 63 words. The author, Shi you, was an official of Huangmen in the reign of emperor yuan of the Western Han Dynasty (48-33 BC). According to Wang Yinglin of Song Dynasty, the title of "Ji Jiu Pian" means: "Ji Jiu means the person who is difficult to understand the word, and you can ask for what if you are in a hurry". This book was very popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and most of the calligraphers at that time had written it. In the past dynasties, Zhang Cao's Ji Jiu Zhang is the most ancient one written by Huang Xiang in the Three Kingdoms. When song Ke studied the cursive script, he got the method from it. Before the Tang Dynasty, Ji Jiu Pian had a lot of errors because it was written repeatedly. At that time, the style of Ji Jiu Zhang was a new kind of cursive script which was derived from the official script. People called this kind of cursive script "Zhang Cao". Later, Zhang Cao evolved and changed into the cursive script "Jin Cao", which is the two stages in the development history of cursive script.

There is more than one book written by song Ke, including the one collected in the Palace Museum and the one collected in Tianjin Art Museum. As far as the collection of the Palace Museum is concerned, this work is vigorous and simple. From his self-knowledge of "chatting to prepare for forgetting", combined with the rigorous features of the whole article, it can be seen that this is song Ke's masterpiece of copying the classics to combine the spirit and form of the ancient law. In this regard, Wang Shizhen's evaluation is quite to the point: "Guanzhong Wenshu's" jijiuzhang "is pure and beautiful. He thought that after the Zhengzhu, he was seen and bowed to yield. Then I took the emperor's elephant, ishimoto, and read it. The size of the line and the gap between the front and the back are the same, but the waves are different. "

This volume has more than 1900 words on ten pages. It is meticulous and corresponding. Its calligraphy has reached the highest level. In addition to the value of calligraphy, this volume is of great value to the mutual interpretation of Zhang Cao and Zheng Shu in Ji Jiu Zhang, as well as the collation of the lost and false characters.

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