What is the function of inscriptions in calligraphy works? What is the difference between Yazheng in the instruction letter and the inscription?

A good calligraphy work includes two parts: content and postscript, which can be understood separately. Among them, "inscription" means inscription, that is, the year, month, day, name and poem written on the back of calligraphy works, and "inscription" refers to the seal stamped on the back of the inscription. These three parts are very important. They form a whole and are indispensable. The content is the witness of calligrapher's cultural cultivation and literary talent. After all, an excellent calligrapher is first and foremost an excellent scholar, who should be familiar with all kinds of writing styles. His writing content is all his own poems inspired by generate and infected with his mood. It has identity and uniqueness. If he writes the same thing for the second time, it is self-copying.

Inscription plays a finishing touch on the content of the text, proving who wrote the word, for whom, and the reason and purpose of writing the word. Seal plays a role in increasing the recognition of works, adjusting the focus of works and increasing the visual aesthetic feeling of works. Divided into name stamps and leisure stamps. The name stamp is usually covered under the title, and the leisure stamp is mostly covered in the space between lines of the text. The more leisure stamps are stamped, the more it proves that the creator attaches importance to this work. Inscriptions and seals are important parts of calligraphy works. When calligraphy works are put into the art market as commodities and stop buying and selling, if there are no inscriptions and seals, it will definitely affect the buying and selling, and even be regarded as "fakes" and cannot be sold.

Calligraphy works with many inscriptions and seals often attract the attention of collectors, and an ideal transaction price can be invented in the art market. There are many ways to inscribe, which are mainly divided into single paragraph, double paragraph and long paragraph, and each paragraph has a fixed writing method and format. A single paragraph is only engraved with the artist's name or font size at the back of the work. For example, when Wu Changshuo finishes writing a word, he only writes the name Wu Changshuo, or the font names such as Cang Shi, Laojiao and Cangshuo are all single paragraphs. The double paragraph is to inscribe the collector's name at the back of the work, also called the "upper paragraph", and then the author's name is also called the "lower paragraph", and then connect the two names in one sentence to form a complete sentence. For example, Qi Baishi wrote an inscription for Mr. Xu Beihong in June.

Long paragraphs refer to titles with relatively many words, some of which are even more than the contents of calligraphy works. The long form contains both the name of the collector and the name of the creator, and also explains the timing, purpose and significance of creating this work, which has a strong emotional color of the creator. Some excellent paragraphs can even be regarded as a beautiful article with both sound and emotion, which is a comprehensive embodiment of calligrapher's literary talent, knowledge, thought and personality. The wording of inscriptions in calligraphy works is also very elegant. When writing letters to different people, you must use agreed words, otherwise you will make jokes.

The most common words are "seal script" and "Yazheng". Let's talk about the difference and usage of these two words in detail. "Entrustment" and "elegance" are both modest words and typical written language. What * * * has in common is that the causal relationship in writing this work is indicated in the title. "Letter of entrustment" has no emotional color, just as people usually explain the ins and outs of a thing. They are entrusted and asked by the other party to write a word, either to the other party or to sell it to the other party. There is no relationship between the writer and the trustee, and there is no distinction between respecting the old and loving the young, so that they can't know each other, and a third party takes the lead in handling this matter.

"Yazheng" has many meanings, including the meaning of "instruction book", and its part of speech is also very elegant, focusing on the relationship between the author and the collector, including the meaning of respect for the collector. Writers and collectors can only use "elegance" if they are at least equal. If the collector is the superior and subordinate of the writer, you must use "elegance", otherwise it is disrespectful. The use of "Yazheng" is to hope that collectors can point out the shortcomings in calligraphy works after they get the works. The writer humbly asks the collectors for advice, expressing his double recognition of the Tibetan family's products and knowledge, and is willing to take the collectors as their role models. Words with similar meanings to "elegance" include: elegance, integrity, elegance and love, kindness and storage, kindness and storage, and so on. If we use words such as respect, respect, military, platform, etc., modesty has a stronger meaning, which is a kind of goodwill, recognition and encouragement. I am flattered to clarify that collectors cherish my works. Obviously, in this case, the status and influence of collectors are far higher than that of writers, and writers have an intention to please collectors.

Calligraphy is the quintessence of China and a very important branch of traditional culture. Calligraphy, which seems to be just written on paper, contains many cultural elements in practice. Real calligraphy works are all poems created by calligraphers, such as Preface to Lanting Collection, Sacrifice to Nephew, Cold Food Post, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, Song Fengge Poems, etc. , are beautiful poems and essays written by the author under the control of a certain emotional state, just expressed in calligraphy. If you don't understand etiquette and culture, then you will definitely be inaccurate in the wording of the title, and it is easy to make jokes because the words don't convey the meaning.