When Huai Su was young, calligraphy was "not learning the ancient". According to the inheritance of China's brushwork, he is still "illegal" and still dissociated from orthodox calligraphy.
In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), in his later years, Huai Su went to Li Bai to write poems. They are similar in temperament, and Li Bai loves talents and wrote a cursive script for him.
In the first year of Tang Baoying (762), Huai Su set out from Lingling, took Wan Li Road, visited his teacher and friends, and passed through Hengyang and Ketanzhou.
In the first year of Tang Baoying (763), Huai Su began to go north to Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan).
In the first year of Tang Dali (766), Huai Su wrote eight autumn poems. The book style of Huai Su's post is not yet mature, and his heart is also in the stage of hesitation. Whether it is starting, holding or collecting a pen, it is far from the threshold of Jin people.
In the second year of Tang Dali (767), Huai Su went south to Guangzhou to learn painting from Xu Hao. When Xu Hao went to Guangzhou as the secretary of the Secretariat, the purpose of this trip was not achieved. In the winter of the same year or in the spring of three years, Zhang Qian returned to Beijing as the son of Prince Zuo Shu, so Huai Su went to Beijing with Zhang Qian. I was lucky enough to see the works of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and I also enjoyed the Cao E Monument. I spent about five years in Chang 'an and Huaisu.
In the spring of the third year of the Tang Dynasty (768), Huai Su "took a xizhang to China to meet contemporary celebrities" and toured the landscape with Wang Yong and others in Hengyang. At that time, Zhang Qian, who was demoted as the secretariat of Tanzhou (Changsha), returned to the DPRK to resume his post, and Huai Su joined Qin with his companions. After entering Beijing, he met Zhang Xu's disciple Wu Tong and worshipped him as his teacher. Wu Tong explained to Huai Su the miracle of Zhang Zhi's Linchi, Zhang Xu's cursive script and Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy. When he left, Wu Tong taught Huai Su the word "enlightenment".
In the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty, Huai Su's mother was very ill and went back to her hometown to visit at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, waiting for the decoction. Huai Su returned to Beijing after his pilgrimage.
In the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty (772), around September, Huai Su returned to his hometown, bypassed Luoyang, the capital of the East, and visited Yan Zhenqing. Yan Zhenqing taught Huai Su "twelve strokes", that is, "pointing horizontally, pointing vertically, between fingers and near fingers", and told Huai Su that he had traveled to Chang 'an in his twenties and studied under Zhang Xu for two years, but his brushwork was somewhat unstable. Yan Zhenqing also wrote "Preface to Master Huai Su's Cursive Music" for Huai Su.
In the 11th year of Tang Dali (777), on August 6th, he wrote a self-narrative post. This article sums up the main deeds of his life. In Autobiography, Huai Su left room for several important people who taught him art.
In the third year of Tang Zhenyuan (787), Huai Su and Lu Yu met. Lu Yu wrote Biography of Monks in Huai Su, which is the first-hand information for studying Huai Su.
In the 15th year of Tang Zhenyuan (779), Huai Su returned to Lingling and wrote "Qianzi Grass".
Spent his later years in Baoyuan Temple in Chengdu, Sichuan. In the fifteenth year of Tang Zhenyuan (799), he died of rheumatism.
The cursive works include Autobiographical Notes, Notes on Bitter Bamboo Shoots, Notes on Eating Fish, Notre Dame Notes, Essays on Books, Thousand-character Grass, Thousand-character Grass, Forty-two Chapters, Thousand-character Classics, Notes on Treasuring Treasures, Notes on Fagong, Seven Notes and North Court.
Self-narrative post
The self-report post, a paper book, is 28.3 cm long and 755 cm wide; 126 line, ***698 words. Li Dongyang's seal script before the post begins with "hiding the truth and telling stories". The original is now in the Palace Museum in Taiwan. Self-narrative posts are the representative works of Huai Su's cursive script. The first six lines are said to have been written by the collector of this post (Song). Compared with those below the seventh line, there is a world of difference, and it is even more obvious to open the whole volume and overlook it. The whole article is wild grass, with the pen in the middle and the vertical and horizontal oblique straight; Echo up and down, in one go.
Qianyancao
The Thousand-Word Grass was written in the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan (AD 799). There are many kinds of thousands of Chinese characters in Huai Su, among which "Xiao Zhuan Zhen Yuan Edition" is the most famous, also known as the silk book with 1,000 posts, with 84 lines and 1045 characters. This book was written by Huai Su in his later years. In his later years, Huai Su's cursive script changed from a whirlwind of showers to simple and plain, with incoherent words and more vigorous and simple brushwork. It has always been valued by the book forest because it returns to the dull work for glory.
Bitter bamboo shoot paste
Bitter bamboo shoots, written by Huai Su, a "sage of grass" in Tang Dynasty, is 25. 1cm long, 0/2 cm wide and two lines 14, that is, "bitter bamboo shoots tea is very good, so it is possible. Huai Su ". Wu Qin Qizhen commented: "Calligraphy is beautiful and healthy, and the structure is comfortable. This is a great book for a vegetarian teacher. " Bitter bamboo shoots are the earliest Buddhist calligraphy related to tea that can be verified. Hidden in Shanghai Museum.
On the book stick
On the book post, cursive ink and paper, 38.5 cm long and 40.5 cm wide, 9 lines, ***85 words. Generally speaking, it inherits and develops Zhang Xu's cursive script, so it is called "following the madness". Dong Zhui said in the Postscript of Guang Chuan: "Huai Su is good at calligraphy, and he knows his brushwork from his own words. Reading storytelling in the Tang Dynasty is said to be no less than that of that year.
Zhang Xu, though riding a rope, is always in the festival. "Today, his books call themselves True Zhong (Zhong You) and Cao (Zhang Zhi)." But in any case, Huai Su's cursive script is based on indulgence. However, in the book post, it is quite different from the common cursive script in Huai Su. It is a masterpiece of cursive script, which is "even and steady" and "out of line, absolutely crazy and strange".
Character evaluation Han (titled Huai Su cursive screen): Where is the screen? It is clear that Huai Su is lying. Although it is full of dust, the ink is particularly thick. Strange rocks rush to the autumn stream, and Han Teng Gu Hangge. If you teach water, you will be afraid of becoming a dragon.
Guan Xiu (Viewing Huai Su's Cursive Songs): After Zhangdian's ups and downs, until Huai Su's ups and downs. Teachers don't talk about Zen and classics, but their strength lies in cursive script. Crazy but afraid of being a fairy, God can help you, stone painting and ink painting must be entered. Golden statues of bamboo leaves are full of fights, half drunk and half wet. Drunk and fierce as a tiger, the powder wall screen does not ask the Lord.
General Manager Lu continued the book review and said: Huai Su's cursive script is constantly changing with the help of electricity.
An Qi in the Ming Dynasty (commenting on Autobiographical Post): The color of ink paper is wonderful and moving, and the vertical and horizontal changes take place at the extreme, which is mysterious.
Huang Tingjian: Zhang Xu is fatter, and hiding is really thinner; These two men are the champions of a generation of cursive scripts.
Mi Fei (Haiyue Book Review): Huai Su's books, like the sword of a strong man, are fascinating and moving, but they are always in the festival.
Collection of ancient books: Zang Zhen was famous for cursive script at that time, but especially his treasure in this world.
Jiang: The cursive script is ingenious, and you can win it with your heart.
Inexplicable: (Qianzicao) Huai Su's original silk script with thousands of words is unusual in stippling and skillful in technique. At first, it was careless, but it conformed to the pattern, chemical industry and some wonderful words.
Book Review by Cen Zongdan: Huai Su is carefree, so she looks like a real fairy.
Shen You's Inscription and Postscript of Calligraphy and Painting: Huai Su's book is so wonderful, though ever-changing, it will never leave Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Wang Shizhen (draft by M Guoshan Man): (Thousands of articles by Huai Su) ① Every word wants to be immortal, and the pen wants to fly. (2) All the posts of the amateur teacher are detailed, and this book is unique, stable, familiar and wonderful.
Wen Peng: (Jing Jie Jing) Gu Zhuo's brushwork is full of energy and there is a sudden storm.
He (Banqiao's Love Poem): The method of cereal grass originated in Huai Su, and Huai Su studied in Zhang Changshi. The beauty of it is that there is no trace of beginning and end. The former Zhang (Zhang Xu) and the latter Huang (Huang Tingjian) should be left to Mr. Pingyuan.
General Manager Tang Lu (after reading): Huai Su cursive script, with the help of 1000 switches, changes at will.
Zhu in the Song Dynasty (continued to break the book): A strong man drew his sword and looked moving.
Li Bai (cursive Song Xing): The young master's name is Huai Su, and the cursive name is chinese odyssey. Mo Chi flew out of the North Grilled Fish and killed all Zhongshan rabbits with the pen tip. My teacher was drunk, so he leaned on the rope bed and swept thousands of sheets in a short while. Wind and rain shake the rustling, falling flowers and snow. Stand up, don't stop by the wall. A row of numbers is as big as a bucket. UU is shocked by the smell of ghosts and gods, and always sees dragons and snakes wandering. The left plate and the right plate are like surprises, and they seem to attack Chu Han.
Historical records recorded Huai Su's calligraphy "Lingling County Records", and Gu Tao wrote "Qing Louis" in the Song Dynasty.
Lu Yu's Biography of Huai Su Monk
Huai Su's "Autobiographical Post"
Don Li Zhao's Supplement to Tang Shi
Huai Su cursive script with artistic features is called "Crazy Grass", which is round and powerful with a pen, making it turn into a ring, unrestrained and smooth, just like Zhang Xu. Later generations called "Zhang Dian is a vegetarian" or "alcoholic", which has a far-reaching influence on later generations. He also wrote poems and had contacts with poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Xun. Good at drinking, whenever drinking rises, regardless of walls, clothes, utensils, arbitrary writing, when people call it a "drunken monk." His cursive script was written by Zhang Zhi and Zhang Xu. Jin Ping Mei said that he was "drunk nine times a day". Perhaps the drunkard's intention is not wine, "crazy monks don't do it for wine, but his goal is" crazy grass " Huai Su's cursive script is written in seal script, with hidden front inward, thin and hard round, vigorous and vigorous. Although it is wild, it has not ignored the law in pursuit of novelty. On the contrary, his cursive script is rigorous and concise, which embodies the unique cursive art style.
Huai Su is good at using the pure momentum of the central pen as a big grass, such as "a whirlwind of showers, full of momentum", reaching the realm of "suddenly whistling three or five times, and a thousand words are full of walls". Although the speed is fast, Huai Su can cross the grass with few mistakes. Compared with the Notre Dame, Eating Fish, Bitter Bamboo Shoots, Zang Zhen, Zhu Tie and many other calligraphers, there are many golden hairs preserved, many of which have the style of Yan Zhenqing. For example, the thousand-character works of Weeds and Notre Dame are completely different from their crazy styles, which can also be said to be his outstanding points.
From the perspective of graphology, Huai Su's calligraphy lines and textures tend to be thin all his life, which is closely related to the bitter and cold aesthetics of meditation. When Huai Su was young, calligraphy was "not learning the ancient". According to the inheritance of China's brushwork, he is still "illegal" and still dissociated from orthodox calligraphy. When Huai Su was twenty-nine, he wrote eight autumn poems. Eight Poems in Autumn is a poem by Du Fu, which was written in the first year of Dali (766), that is, three years after the Anshi Rebellion. The book style of Huai Su's post is not yet mature, and his heart is also in the stage of hesitation. For a "wild fox Zen" or a "base chicken", Huai Su's cursive script is beyond recognition. The calligraphy lines of Baqiu's poems are bloated and contain cowardice. In order to pursue the effect of "single book", it seems far-fetched and gives people the feeling of procrastination. Whether it is starting, holding or collecting a pen, it is far from the threshold of Jin people.
Huai Su was a rebel. From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, the calligraphy atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty advocated statutes. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy was sought after by Emperor Taizong in the early Tang Dynasty, and people at that time were even more eager. Huai Su doesn't care about contemporary art trends. He made more explorations on "one stroke" and inherited the calligraphy traditions of Zhang Zhi, Cui Gui, Du Du and Wang Xianzhi. If Huai Su's calligraphy in his youth depends on artistic intuition. Then his artistic exploration after the age of 30 is in the artistic tradition. The historical tradition of China's calligraphy is the brushwork inheritance in the history of China's calligraphy, and the brushwork law is the "core secret" of Wei and Jin calligraphy.
Grandfather: Yue Qian, a native of Tang Gaozong, was once the magistrate of Quwo County, Weizhou.
Grandfather: Qian Hui, appointed as the magistrate of Guangwu County, Yanzhou.
Father: Qian Qiang, Zuo Wei has a long history.
Mother: Liu
Uncle: Qian Qi (722-780), born in Wuxing, is one of the ten gifted scholars in Dali.
Uncle: Shi, monk, calligrapher.
Cousin: Wu Tong, a native of Qiantang, was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
Huai Su practices bananas.
Huai Su's spirit of studying hard and practicing hard is amazing. Because he couldn't afford to buy paper, Huai Su found a board and a disc and painted it with white paint to write. Later, Huai Su thought the lacquer board was smooth and not easy to ink, so he planted more than 10,000 plantains on a wasteland near the temple. When the banana grew up, he picked the leaves and spread them on the table, waving at the post. Because Huai Su practiced calligraphy day and night, the old banana leaves were peeled off and the lobules were reluctant to pick, so he thought of a way to stand in front of the banana tree with pen and ink and write to the fresh leaves, even if the sun shone on him like a frying pan; The biting north wind cracked his hands and skin, but he kept practicing calligraphy regardless. He kept writing about one place after another.
Crazy jump.
Huai Su and Zhang Xu are generous and frank, informal, and especially like what is in the cup. It is said that Zhang Xu's "Drunk and Crazy" was written, or he dipped his head in ink to write a book. When I woke up, I thought God could not be restored. That one called Zhang Dian. " Huai Su was drunk nine times a day, and people often called him a drunken monk. He used to be in dozens of whitewashed corridors in the temple. Every time I feel angry after drinking, I write an urgent book on the powder wall, which is like a snake and stormy. The walls are strewn all over the place, like thousands of troops in Ma Benteng on the battlefield. Therefore, people call Huai Su a "madman". It is said that Huai Su and Zhang Xu are "crazy chasers".
Watch Gong Sundaniang sword dance.
In the Tang Dynasty, Gong Sundaniang was a famous female swordsman in Kaiyuan, and her disciples were also good at sword dancing. Huai Su saw Gongsun's swordsmanship and was greatly inspired. As a result, his "Wild Grass" enhances its high return on items in the distribution of pictures and the repetition of brush strokes; Structurally, it also strengthens the rhythm of light and heavy twists and turns, ups and downs. His fame is getting bigger and bigger.
Drunk monk
Although Huai Su is a monk, he doesn't stick to monk rules. He likes drinking very much. When he is drunk, he writes on walls, clothes and utensils. He said: "Drinking nourishes nature, and cursive writing broadens the mind." Therefore, people call him a "drunken monk".
Bizuka
Huai Su devoted himself to copying the running script and cursive script of Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Zhang Xu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and never stopped, specializing in it for a long time. Because of long-term intensive research and hard training, bald pens are piled up and buried under the mountain, which is called "pen burial" in history.
Mo Chi
In Huai Su, there is a small pond next to the tomb, which is often washed with black inkstone water and named "Mo Chi".
Future generations commemorate Huai Su Park.
To commemorate Huai Su, Huai Su Park was built in Xiaoshui Road, Lingling District, Yongzhou City today. There are historical sites in the park. Huai Su became a monk and planted bananas to practice calligraphy. According to Lingling County Records, Lu Tian 'an was destroyed by soldiers in Renzi year of Xianfeng, and Han Yang, the magistrate of a county, presided over the reconstruction in Renshou year of Tongzhi. There is a main hall, a banana pavilion on the top, a drunken monk building on the left, and a statue of Huai Su. A place behind buddhist nun is engraved with the word "inkstone spring", which is where Huai Su grinds ink to get water. There is a "Bizuka" tower in the right corner, where Huai Su's bald pen is buried. More than seventy paces north of An 'an, there is Mo Chi, the place where Huai Su washed inkstones.