"Huangzhou Cold Food Post" is a plain ink script, 34.2 cm in width and 18.9 cm in height, with 17 lines of running script and 129 characters. It consists of two five-character poems. The general idea is: Since I came to Huangzhou, there have been three Cold Food Festivals. Every year, I regret that spring has left in a hurry, but unfortunately, the departure of spring does not require people's condolences. This year's spring rain has been continuous, and the weather has been depressing for two consecutive months, just like the bleak spring cold in autumn. While lying in sorrow, I heard that the crabapple flowers had faded, and the petals that had fallen after the rain looked red and messy on the mud. The beautiful flowers withered after being damaged by the rain, as if they were carried away by a strong person in the middle of the night, leaving people helpless. How is this different from a sick teenager whose hair has turned gray after he got sick?
In spring, the river rises and is about to soak into the door. The rain shows no sign of stopping. The small house is like a fishing boat, drifting in the vast mist. The kitchen was empty, so I had to cook some vegetables and burn them with wet reeds in the broken stove. I didn't know what day it was, but when I saw a crow carrying paper money, I realized that today was the Cold Food Festival. I want to go back and serve the imperial court, but my family is nine deep and out of reach; I want to go back to my hometown, but my ancestral graves are thousands of miles away; I originally wanted to imitate Ruan Ji and cry when the road is over, but my heart feels like ashes and cannot be revived.
Su Shi was born in 1037, with the courtesy name Zizhan and Hezhong, and his nickname was "Dongpo Jushi". The world called him "Su Dongpo". He was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, lyricist, poet, and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was one of the eight great poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties and a representative of the bold and unconstrained poets.
Su Shi’s poems, lyrics, fus, and prose are all of extremely high achievement. He is also good at calligraphy and painting. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of Chinese literature and art. He is also recognized as the most outstanding person in the history of Chinese literature and art. One of everyone.
His prose and the famous Northern Song writer Ouyang Xiu are called Ou Su, his poems and the famous Northern Song poet Huang Tingjian are called Su Huang, and his lyrics are called Su Xin and the famous Northern Song poet Xin Qiji. His calligraphy is ranked among the four great calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty: Su, Huang, Mi and Cai. His paintings created the Huzhou School of Painting and can be called the master of a generation of painting schools.
One of Su Shi's representative works of calligraphy, "Huangzhou Cold Food Calligraphy", his brushwork may be clear and vigorous, or calm and frustrated. The fonts gradually increase from small to large, from thin to thick, and there is a kind of slow and rapid rise , a rhythm that ends suddenly.
The artistic conception of "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" is ups and downs, fast and steady, full of joy, and completed in one go. Su Shi embodies the changes in mood and emotion in the poems in the changes of pointillism lines, either front or side, changing and disconnecting smoothly, completely natural. The characters are also strange, big or small, sparse or dense, light or heavy, wide or narrow, staggered and scattered, random and strange, and ever-changing.
Su Shi once said: I can't create the original meaning of calligraphy, but I can only guess at the dots and paintings. He also said: Innocence is my teacher.
"Huangzhou Cold Food Post" cleverly integrates poetry, painting and calligraphy, perfectly embodying Su Shi's "I can't create original calligraphy, so I have to make dots and paintings at will" and "self-made". Come up with new ideas and don’t practice the essence of the ancients.”
After the birth of the poem "Huangzhou Cold Food Post", it went through several cycles and reached the hands of Zhang Hao, the magistrate of Yong'an County, Henan. Because Zhang Hao was familiar with Huang Tingjian, one of the "Four Scholars of Sumen", in 1100, Zhang Hao brought his poem manuscript to Qingshen County, Meizhou, Sichuan to meet the famous calligrapher Huang Tingjian.
When Huang Tingjian saw the manuscript, he was very impressed. He also thought about his mentor Su Shi who was exiled to Hainan at that time. He couldn't help but feel excited, so he happily wrote and wrote on the manuscript: Dongpo's poem Like Li Taibai, I am still afraid that Taibai will not go anywhere. This book combines the writing styles of Yan Lugong, Yang Shaoshi and Li Xitai. If we try to restore Dongpo, it may not be as good as this. If Dongpo saw this book, he would laugh at me for calling me a Buddha in a place where there is no Buddha.
Huang Tingjian's Analects of Confucius is precise, his calligraphy is wonderful, his spirit is vigorous and his pen is strong, which is breathtaking. It is a perfect match when juxtaposed with Su Shi and Su characters.
Later, connoisseurs of all ages highly praised "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" and praised it as a masterpiece. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Yan, a famous politician and poet, wrote in a postscript on a separate page after the poem: The old immortal's writing style is exquisite, as bright as the sky, and the clouds are as beautiful as the sky.
Since then, the poem manuscript "Two Poems about Huangzhou Cold Food" has been called "Tie". Because of the praise and praise from various schools, the world collectively called "Huangzhou Cold Food Post", "Lanting Preface" by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and "Nephew Sacrifice Manuscript" by Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty as "the three major running scripts in the world", or "Huangzhou". "Han Shi Tie" is "the third running script in the world".
Some people compare the "three major running scripts in the world" and say: "Lanting Preface" is the style of a refined scholar, "Memorial to Nephew" is the style of a wise man, and "Huangzhou Hanshi Post" is the style of a bachelor. Talented style. They are comparable one after another, each leading the way, and can be regarded as three milestones in the history of Chinese calligraphy.
Later, there were many seals on this post: some were Tianfu’s treasures, imperial prizes, divine products, Qianlong Chenhan, Qianlong Chengxin, etc.; there were also Xue Ding Books, Xue Ding, Xue Ding Wang Shijie The names are Yi Lin Shouzhi, Donghu Chang, Yiyuan Yi Zhen, etc.; there are also Tianli Zhibao, Yuan Wenzong, Tutie Mu'er seals, etc.
There are also several seals: Langjia, Chengde Rongruo, Chengzi Rongruo, Rongruo calligraphy and painting, Langjia mountain people, Langjia Zhenshou, divine products, etc.; Rongzhai Qingwan, Rongzhai and other seals ; Xianchang seal; several gold seals belonging to Jingxing Weixian, Xiaoru'an Moyuan, Jingxing Weixian, Jingxian Jianzang, Yuxuan and so on.
Other seals include: Beiping Sun's seal; Jiaqing imperial treasure; Jinghu South Road transfer envoy seal, Song official seal; Zhang's treasures, Beiyan Zhang's collection; Hanmutang, Yan Shiqing Yin et al. Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher and painter in the Ming Dynasty, also wrote a postscript praising:
I have seen no less than thirty volumes of Mr. Dongpo's original works for the rest of my life, and I must take this as my first guide. It has been copied and engraved in the Xihongtang post. Dong Qichang's view and title.
On the eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong personally wrote a postscript on the back of the post: "Dongpo's calligraphy is bold and elegant, and he is empress Yan and Yang." This volume was written by the day he was banished to Huangzhou. Later, there was a valley that collapsed to the extreme. It is said that it is better to be better than to be unintentional. Poe's poem on calligraphy says: If you can't understand its meaning, it is often said that you can't learn it. Another saying goes: Reading thousands of volumes will lead to enlightenment. If you only find it among the dots and paintings, you will miss it far. Qianlong Wuchen Qinghe Yueshang Huanyushi.
In order to highlight the past, Emperor Qianlong specially wrote the four words "The Aftertaste of Snow Hall" at the beginning of the volume. Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, the "Huangzhou Hanshi Tie" was taken back to the inner palace and included in the "Sanxitang Tie", which shows how precious it is.
"Huangzhou Cold Food Post"