The Cold Food Observance Festival— third most important calligraphy in the world
Arthur
Su shi
Su Shi (1037-1101), courtesy name Zizhan, nicknamed Dongpo Jushi, was born in Meishan, Sichuan, and the eldest son of Su Xun. Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1057). During Shenzong’s time, he served as a member of the ancestral hall Wailang, who knew Mizhou, Xuzhou, and Huzhou. Because he opposed Wang Anshi’s new law, he wrote poems to slander the imperial court and was exiled to Huangzhou. Shangshu, later relegated to Huizhou and Danzhou (Hainan Island), and finally returned to the north, died of illness in Changzhou, pursued the posthumous posthumous name Wenzhong, and together with his father Xun and younger brother Zhe were called Sansu.
Background of Composition
It is a masterpiece of Su Shi’s cursive script. It is a poem of amusement, a sigh of life that Su Shi made on the occasion of the Winter Eclipse in the third year of his deportation to Huangzhou. It is a poem that expresses Su Shi’s melancholy and loneliness at this time. It is in this mood and situation that the calligraphy of this poem is inspired. The calligraphy of the entire poem is luminous and luminous, and the momentum is unrestrained, without the brushstrokes of an absurd rate. The poem is also known as the “third most important calligraphy in the world,” and is one of the finest of Su Shi’s calligraphic works.
The Cold Food Observance Festival, Su Shi, 1503
Work Appreciation
The Cold Food Observance Festival is the most classic work of Su Shi, which is unintentional and is known as “the third line of calligraphy in the world”, and this work embodies three characteristics of Su Shi’s calligraphic techniques
Practical writing skills
Su Shi began to write brush characters since he was a child, so his basic skills are no longer a problem, and his ability to control the brush stroke is absolutely first-class.
Broad and flat style innovation
Su Shi’s script is basically a wide and flat style, with a low left and high right, and a left and dense right, and many fat and thick dots, which is an innovation in the shape of the character
The high unity of the rhythm of emotion, literature and book
This post is a highly unified rhythm of emotion, poetry, and writing, and has become a masterpiece for the ages, which is the most enduring place of the cold food post, and the charm of calligraphy