This post is two poems from Li Dongyang's "Seven Character Poems in Seal Script". Source: Anonymous "Imitation of Xia Gui's Pictures of Fishing and Recreation on the Autumn River" in the Ming Dynasty, collected by the Freer Museum of Art in the United States.
Li Dongyang, courtesy name Binzhi and nickname Xiya, was born in Chaling, Huguang. He has been studying Chinese writing since he was a child. When he was 4 years old, he was able to write in large Chinese characters with his father in the capital. He was regarded as a child prodigy. Because his family had been in the military for generations, he joined the garrison in the capital and was a member of the Jinwu Zuowei family. The chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet.
Li Dongyang is good at seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script, and is particularly accomplished in seal script and official script. He was a calligrapher during the transition period from Taige style calligraphy in the early Ming Dynasty to Wumen calligraphy in the mid-Ming Dynasty. Li Dongyang's calligraphy has broken away from the constraints of the Taige style in the early Ming Dynasty and played a role in inheriting the calligraphy style in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
He was quite proud of his seal script. He said to himself: "After Li Si and Li Yangbing, I am the second best." He was one of the few seal script calligraphers in the Ming Dynasty. He was called "the first person in the Ming Dynasty" and had great influence on the seal characters of the Ming Dynasty. certain influence. His regular calligrapher, Fayan Zhenqing, was strict in his rules and his style was clear and unrestrained. He captured the essence and became his own style. He was the forerunner of Wu sect calligraphy.
Some calligraphers praised Li Dongyang, "Changsha Gongdacao is a unique skill in the Middle Ages! It is exquisite and flying, cannot be suppressed, and its pure and elegant color is like fine gold and jade, without the cancer of anger and violence, and its talent is clear and free of scum." Come out." Representative works include the seal script "Huaisu's Self-narrative Notes", the regular script "Sui'an Ming", and the cursive script "Zi Shu Poems", etc.
Li Dongyang's "Seven Character Poems in Seal Script"
Explanation:
I have been living in seclusion in Qingshan for ten years, and I am happy to have several East Lake houses. There are always white clouds outside the door
Eyes, this body is full of fishing boats.
I asked Tongjin where the boat was, and the willows on the East Lake were new in February. See you frequently in the world
In the painting, a branch was broken to send passers-by off.
Written by Li Dongyang in Changsha.
