Chapter 80 calligraphy

Li Shutong studied under Tang Jingyan in Tianjin when he was young, and learned to write small seal inscriptions and Han Li stone inscriptions in the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods.He believes that seal characters are the foundation of official script, running script and regular script. Only by learning seal characters well can one know the origin of each stroke of Chinese characters.He has to write at least 500 characters every day. After laying a solid foundation, he will learn to write official script, and then enter Kai, Xing, and Cao styles. After Li Shutong converted to Buddhism, he devoted himself to studying the Zen theory of Lu Sect and put aside almost all his artistic expertise, but he could not give up calligraphy.Before he became a monk, his calligraphy style was beautiful, vigorous and unrestrained; after he became a monk, it gradually became elegant and light, and his works in his later years were more rigorous, clear, simple and serene.Calligraphy has also become one of the methods for him to make connections with Buddha and attract sentient beings.

When talking about Hongyi's calligraphy in his later years, Ye Shengtao said: "Master Hongyi's calligraphy in recent years is said to be close to that of Jin people. However, I can't tell which one I imitated. I don't know calligraphy, but I like his calligraphy very much. If you ask Why do I like his writing, I can only answer intuitively, because it is full of flavor. Looking at the whole picture, it is like a gentle and humble gentleman, neither arrogant nor humble, with a pleasant face, calmly discussing the truth there.... Not at all Reserved and talented, kung fu is beyond the pen and ink, so the more you look at it, the more interesting it is."

Ma Yifu said in "Three Hundred Postscripts of Huayan Jilian": "Looking at the master's book today, it is precise, rigorous, clean and wonderful, just like Xuan lawyer's writing. Master Gai studied law in depth, and he wrote it in Nanshan and Ganoderma lucidum, all of which are clarified. Internal smoke The power is revealed naturally, and those who do not have eyes cannot know it." "The calligraphy of the master is derived from the "Zhang Menglong Monument". When he is away from the dust in his later years, and the publication is outstanding, it is blindly peaceful, and it is considered a masterpiece in calligraphers."

Liu Zhiping, a disciple of Li Shutong, said: "The calligraphy of the first teacher is the most precious crystallization of his life's works of art. It has reached the realm of returning to the basics and returning to the truth, and the perfection of the fire. This kind of character must be calm and calm, and then it can be carried on the wrist, penetrated into the brush, and passed on to the paper, so as to have the charm of restraining the spirit and hiding the edge." Li Shutong pushed the art of calligraphy in ancient China to the extreme, "sincere and perfect, as natural as nature". His calligraphy is regarded as a treasure by the world. Lu Xun, Guo Moruo and Xu Beihong all have Li's calligraphy.Liu Zhiping even regarded the teacher's calligraphy as his life. During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Zhiping once untied his clothes and leaned on the box with his body to shield the teacher's calligraphy in the box from wind and rain, and was dying of the disease.