National Exhibition of Cao Zhang's Calligraphy Works?

Cao Zhang, one of the traditional calligraphy styles, is an early cursive script, which began in the Qin and Han Dynasties and evolved from

National Exhibition of Cao Zhang's Calligraphy Works?

Cao Zhang, one of the traditional calligraphy styles, is an early cursive script, which began in the Qin and Han Dynasties and evolved from a cursive official script to a standard cursive script. Cao Zhang is the predecessor of "Modern Grass", and the difference between Cao Zhang and "Modern Grass" is that it retains the brushwork of official script, and the upper and lower characters are independent but basically unconnected. There are also excellent Cao Zhang calligraphy works in the national calligraphy exhibition. Let's watch it together. The following is what I arranged for you. I hope it works for you!

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? Brief introduction of Cao Zhang's calligraphy

Cao Zhang is a calligraphy style that evolved from seal script to official script. It belongs to a link in the process from the embryonic stage to the standardization of cursive script. Zhang Huaiguan in Tang Dynasty called it "the victory of official script", which evolved from the simple writing of official script. It is a cursive script of official script or a combination of official script and cursive script. It can also be said that Cao Zhang is a script with the significance of official script.

Cao Zhang was not created by one person at a time. It evolved from Cao Li in Qin Dynasty. After a long period of popularity, Cao Zhang was generally formed between the Western Han Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, and flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty. It became a mature and perfect calligraphy style, representing the face of cursive art from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty for more than 400 years. By the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the running script, regular script and cursive script, as new modern writing styles, were fully mature, and the official script and its popular style, Cao Zhang, were gradually replaced.

At first, the font "Cao Zhang" was only called "cursive script", but after the appearance of "Cao Jin", it was renamed "Cao Zhang" to show the difference. Its name has always been different. It is said that the name of the emperor Zhang loved it, or it was used to write the memorial at that time, or to write the urgent chapter when he was in office. None of them are accurate. From the original meaning analysis of the word "Zhang", its exact meaning is Zhang, Gui and Zhang, which includes the meaning of statutes. After the formation of the new cursive script in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the old cursive script was called "Cao Zhang" one by one because of its strict laws, while the new cursive script was called "Cao Jin". Therefore, it is quite appropriate to call the standardized and organized cursive script at that time "Cao Zhang".

"The Zhangcao we are talking about today contains two meanings:

First of all, the folk customs in Cao Zhang are usually called primitive state, which is characterized by simple strokes and strokes originated from Zhuanli. Although the writing method has been gradually standardized, the interest in strokes is still in the immature primary stage, such as the cursive ink in Ping Fu Tie, Bai Ji Tie and bamboo slips. Its most fundamental brushwork basically continues the straightforward description of official seal regular script, and shows the characteristics of dragging and twisting in the process of brushwork. Pay attention to the delay of stippling lines, the agility and change of words, and crisscross, which is often very interesting. The arc from left to right is used more, and the whole has a simple and colorful feeling. Some people call these plays Cao Chuan, Cao Li and Cao Li. Generally speaking, these book traces should be called the products of cursive seal script or official script, or the embryonic form of cursive script. They are the oldest cursive forms, the source of Cao Zhang's art and an important part of Cao Zhang's art.

Second, Cao Zhang, which is strictly regulated, basically shows a horizontal trend, and every word has obvious twists and turns. Although it is regarded as the grass of official script, its maturity and rigor have obviously evolved into a new style of calligraphy. We can only recognize its kinship with Lishu from its obvious and exaggerated twists and turns. This kind of works is represented by the imperial portrait urgent chapter, and later calligraphers such as Song Ke and Zhao Ziang all took this method as their Sect. Apart from twists and turns, standardized Cao Zhang has rarely seen traces of official script. With the help of a pen, regular script is becoming more and more mature, and the structure of words is more rigorous and exquisite, almost the same as running script. "

Because of the appearance of paper, the writing mechanism of bamboo slips was lost, originally buried underground, and the origin of Cao Zhang was gradually forgotten. Facing the huge new Cao Zhang resources, research, integration, digestion and re-creation are the new mission of contemporary Cao Zhang cursive artists.