Tsinghua and distinguished professor of Peking University invented ugly books and growling books. Why are Spring Festival couplets so ugly that you can't understand them?

As the Chinese New Year is coming, there is a very important custom in China, that is, every household will stick Spring Festival couplets on the doors and windows, which means good luck and good luck in the coming year.

Therefore, since ancient times, Spring Festival couplets have been paid more attention to, requiring neat antithesis, auspicious and festive language, and also paying attention to magnificent pen. It's best to put a pair of Spring Festival couplets on the wall to make tourists from all directions shine. This is the best Spring Festival couplets.

However, with the development of new culture in recent years, people's horizons and aesthetics have become richer. I also put a lot of thought into the Spring Festival couplets.

There are all kinds of fonts printed directly, and there is a colorful piece of paper. The contents of Spring Festival couplets are also varied, more for fun and excitement than for celebration.

I still remember when I was a child, my uncles who wrote well in calligraphy in the village must be the busiest around the Spring Festival. Every household is lined with red paper, asking the elderly to help write Spring Festival couplets.

At that time, no one dared to write it himself. If the handwriting is too ugly, it will be laughed at if you stick it on the doors and windows for a whole year.

But now there is a calligrapher who is particularly famous in China. His calligraphy is not as clear and beautiful as when he was a few years old, but it is extremely popular in the calligraphy world.

If you just write and draw by yourself, this master is still distinguished professor of Peking University, Tsinghua and other 16 universities. He even teaches students and even takes master students.

Just misleading other people's children can bear it. After all, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. But the owner is not satisfied.

In recent years, he has been fascinated with writing Spring Festival couplets and started to brush his hands from time to time. But his Spring Festival couplets are so ugly that most people simply can't accept them, let alone put them up for the New Year.

The master we are talking about is Zeng.

Master Ceng Xiang was once regarded as the representative of ugly books by many traditional calligraphers because of his unique calligraphy characteristics. If you take his works to prove it, it seems that this title is really no problem.

Master Ceng Xiang is a hard man to discipline. He once said that his calligraphy is the pursuit of creation, rather than ignorant learning and liking the ancients. This is why he invented such a unique way of writing.

Speaking of which, we only heard that Master Ceng Xiang's calligraphy is very distinctive, but we don't know what it is like.

His handwriting is crooked, more regular than cursive, and scribbled than regular script. The font size and shape are different, and it looks like a dancing spider, which is very exciting.

Perhaps it is precisely because of Master Ceng Xiang's unique calligraphy that he has become a rising star in the field of calligraphy. After decades of accumulation, he is quite famous.

There are so many titles on his head that he can bend his neck.

Director of China Academy of Fine Arts Bookstore.

Director of the Exhibition Hall of China Painting and Calligraphy Institute.

Master tutor of China Academy of Arts.

Deputy Director of Youth Working Committee of China Calligraphers Association.

Vice President and Secretary General of Beijing Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Association.

He also served as distinguished professor in Peking University, Tsinghua University, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other 16 universities.

Look, just take off a hat and ten shadows are afraid to pick it up. Teacher Ceng Xiang wears it openly.

After talking about Mr. Ceng Xiang's calligraphy and topics, we began to formally observe the Spring Festival couplets written by his old man's house.

Everyone knows what a normal Spring Festival couplets look like, so what is Teacher Ceng Xiang's Spring Festival couplets like? Chances are, after reading it, you will find, Wow, this is the Spring Festival couplets? Are you kidding?

Yes, Mr Ceng Xiang's Spring Festival couplets are as casual as his writing. It doesn't matter if you don't know, it doesn't matter if you don't know, it doesn't matter if you don't know, it doesn't matter if you don't know.

Even if you can't recognize a word, even if no word is normal, even if a pair of Spring Festival couplets makes people look like children draw them casually. None of this matters.

Most importantly, it is also a pair of red and black Spring Festival couplets.

If someone hangs the Spring Festival couplets written by teacher Ceng Xiang during the Spring Festival, it is uncertain whether they can make money, but it is inevitable to ward off evil spirits. This looks like a Taoist priest who is too drunk to draw.

It's not that we don't advocate personalized calligraphy, nor do we disapprove of Ceng Xiang's achievements in calligraphy. It's just that no matter how unique your personal knowledge and accomplishments in calligraphy are, it's your freedom, no matter what.

However, if such calligraphy is used to write Spring Festival couplets, it should have been solemn and festive, which seems a bit inappropriate.

Of course, if Mr. Ceng Xiang is writing to mail his own home, of course, we will have no problem. However, if it is written to attract people's attention, or if it is just written to give away or sell, maybe ordinary people like us can't accept it.

In fact, there are quite a few calligraphers who are unique in calligraphy like Mr. Ceng Xiang. Before that, there was a calligrapher who was proud of writing a big brush, and there was also a screaming calligrapher who imitated Mr. Ceng Xiang's grandstanding. Seeing him write a word, people with a bad heart may be scared on the spot.

Yes

Teacher Ceng Xiang and the teacher who writes big characters can at least see what they are writing. Master Shoushu, where is the writing? He is using a brush as a mop, drawing paper as a floor and mopping the floor. I also want to dance a great god while writing and cheer myself up.

Of course, it is impolite to say that Mr Ceng Xiang is the inventor of ugly books and growling books. Seeing that so many people have invented his calligraphy form, it is getting worse and worse. I wonder if Master Zeng is happy or sad?

Calligraphy is a serious industry, which allows individuality, but cannot tolerate reducing calligraphers to clowns who perform jokes.