Chapter 46 calligraphy

Liu Shipei is famous for his "bad letters". Zhou Zuoren recalled: "When Uncle Shen (Liu Shipei) wrote an article, he really wrote a thousand words, with careful notes and quotations, clear and logical, and no bad articles, but the writing was terrible, almost It’s similar to children’s tracing red, and they don’t know the order of strokes. ——Students in the northern study often call catchphrases, such as the word “Yong” and shout: “Point, horizontal, vertical, hook, pick, split, pick, press.” But he didn’t care about these things at all, and he just kept connecting them for convenience, so it was almost impossible to write. Among the liberal arts teachers of Peking University at that time, in terms of bad letters, Uncle Shen was the first, and I was the second. name."

One day, Liu Shipei was chatting with Huang Kan, and he complained about being poor for no reason. He thought of his body, lamented that he was not on holiday, and suddenly came up with the idea of ​​selling calligraphy, so he asked Huang Kan seriously. And said: "The beauty of my book is only known by Zhang Taiyan." Huang Kan had already worshiped under Liu's family at this time, thinking that Liu's calligraphy was not flattering, so after a long time, he said: "You only need to write Liu Shipei three times. A word is enough to sell." When Liu Shipei was teaching at Peking University, one time, Chen Duxiu, the dean of liberal arts, went to attend a class. After a class, Liu Shipei only wrote the word "日" on the blackboard.For this Chinese character called "日", Liu just drew a circle on the blackboard with a dot in the middle.Chen Duxiu laughed it off.

Mr. Tu believes that whether a person has aura or not can be reflected in a person's handwriting; Su Dongpo's sloppy brushstrokes are honest and honest, and Liu Shipei's ink is dry and haggard, which is a short-lived appearance. Although Liu Shipei's handwriting looks like a child's book, but because he died young at the age of 36, his handwriting is rarely handed down to the world. Wu Yanfu, one of the "Four Princes of the Republic of China", Zhang Shizhao's father-in-law, once kept a gift fan written by Liu Shipei.