The hard pen writing method for Jingye Sitian's calligraphy is as follows:
The same horizontal and vertical fan format as calligraphy, but the size is slightly smaller and can be used on A4A3 or normal letterhead. Banners: Banners are made of long rice paper that is fully open or half-folded (half-cut or half-folded) with straight calligraphy. Couplet: Two opposite banners with upper and lower couplets written respectively, also known as couplets, antithetical couplets or couplets.
Nave: Banners with the paper fully opened or slightly smaller than fully opened and hung alone or together between the couplets. Dou Fang: Cut rice paper into a shape of about eight squares (about 1 foot square). Plaque: Also known as horizontal banner, the banner is framed or engraved on a wooden board and hung on the wall. Strip screen: Use nave, banner and other similar size materials to write a group of works, according to the length of the poem.
Fans: The size is fan-shaped, and there are wan fans and folding fans. They can also be framed or rolled into volumes. Album pages: Small works are framed for easy reading, combined into an album, and opened into album pages. The contents are either coherent with each other or stand alone.
Original text: "Thoughts on a Quiet Night" by Li Bai
The moonlight shines brightly in front of the bed, which is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown.
Vernacular translation:
The bright moonlight shines on the window paper, as if there is a layer of frost on the ground. I couldn't help but raise my head and look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window that day. I couldn't help but lower my head and think about my hometown far away.
Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts" was created in a Yangzhou hotel on September 15, the 14th year of Kaiyuan (726) by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Bai was 26 years old. At the same time and in the same place, there was also a song called "Traveler's Feelings on an Autumn Evening". On a night with few stars, the poet looked up at the bright moon in the sky. Feeling homesick, he wrote this famous poem "Thoughts on a Quiet Night" that has been passed down through the ages and is well-known at home and abroad.
The first two sentences describe the poet's momentary illusion in the specific environment of a foreign country. Anyone visiting a foreign country will have this feeling: being busy during the day can dilute the sorrow of separation, but in the dead of night, homesickness will inevitably arise in the heart. This is especially true on moonlit nights, especially autumn nights when the moon is like frost.
The word "suspect" in "Suspect is frost on the ground" vividly expresses that the poet woke up from sleep and mistook the cold moonlight shining in front of the bed for thick frost covering the ground. The word "frost" is used better. It not only describes the brightness of the moonlight, but also expresses the coldness of the season. It also highlights the loneliness and desolation of the poet wandering in a foreign country.
The last two sentences deepen the homesickness through the depiction of movements and expressions. The word "wang" echoes the word "suspicious" in the previous sentence, indicating that the poet has turned from daze to sobriety. He stared at the moon eagerly and couldn't help but think that his hometown was also under the shining of this bright moon at this moment, which naturally led to The ending of "bow down and think about hometown".
The action of "lowering the head" depicts the poet completely in deep contemplation. The word "thinking" leaves readers with rich imagination: the fathers and brothers, relatives and friends in the hometown, the mountains, rivers, plants and trees in the hometown, the lost years and past events, are all missed. The content contained in the word "thinking" is really too rich.
A short four-line poem, written in a fresh and simple way, as clear as words. The composition is meticulous and profound, and it can be sung without any trace. The content is simple, yet rich; the content is easy to understand, yet inexhaustible. What the poet did not say is much more than what he has said, which embodies the wonderful state of "nature" and "no intention of work but no lack of work".