Why is Yiying monument among the three steles of Confucian Temple the representative of Qili school? What's good about it?
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, calligraphy officially became an independent art form. During this period, the development of clerical script reached the peak, representing the highest achievement of clerical script. Among them, "Cao Quan monument", "Zhangqian monument", "xizhaisong", "ritual monument", "Shimen song" and other "top ten clerical script in the world" were all born at this time. Before that, it has been introduced from the perspective of calligraphy "Cao Quan monument", "Zhangqian monument", "ritual monument", "Shimen song", "xizhaisong" and "Shichen monument". If you don't see it, you can search relevant documents and videos on my home page.
"The world's top ten clerical script" have their own styles, which respectively represent the highest achievements of clerical script in different aspects. Today, let's analyze Yiying monument.
The Yiying monument was created in the first year of Yongxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty, i.e. in 153 ad, also known as the baishizuishishi monument, the Kongyu monument, the konghe monument, etc., with a height of 198 cm, a width of 91.5 cm, a thickness of 22 cm, no forehead, 18 lines of inscriptions, 40 characters per line, and the ritual Monument and the Shichen monument, collectively known as the "three monuments of Confucian Temple", is one of the landmarks marking the maturity of Han Li, and is also a representative of the Qili School of Han Li.
So why is Yiying monument so respected? What's good about it?
On the technique of writing
The "Yiying monument" has both the strokes and the circles, with rigorous stippling, varying degrees of severity, varying length, and endless changes. In the stippling, there are round points, square points, oblique points, horizontal points, skimming points, pressing points, etc., which are very rich. For example, the right point of the word "Qi" is like a circle, and the writing method is reverse front up, right, down, round, and then upward; The upper point of the word "Zhai" is the square point left by the side front; The middle point in the lower part of the word "Jie" is a triangle point, the exposed front is down, and the side front is right; The point of the word "Zhu", "please", "Yan" and "Ci" is the horizontal point, with the reverse front horizontal point, the exposed front point and the square head horizontal point.
Of course, there are many shapes and writing methods of stippling, from which we can see that Yiying monument is a representative of the maturity of Han Li.
In the horizontal painting (wave painting), it is thick and powerful, with twists and turns. In one point, compared with other clerical script works, the horizontal painting of this work is more rough and strong, and the horizontal painting of this work is also very rich, including straight horizontal, arch horizontal, sharp horizontal and square horizontal For example, the horizontal painting of the "big" character is straight and horizontal, and the strokes are started against the front and closed back to the front; The horizontal painting of the word "Zai" and "Ci" is arch horizontal, with an upward arch potential, and the length is uneven; The horizontal painting on the upper part of the word "Wang" and "Chang" is right sharp horizontal; The upper horizontal of the word "Xia", the middle horizontal of the word "Si", and the horizontal of the word "Shu" are all left sharp horizontal.
In addition to the above mentioned horizontal, there are many horizontal writing methods, such as square wave horizontal, circular wave horizontal, broken pen horizontal, oblique wave horizontal, out front wave horizontal, back front wave horizontal, short wave horizontal, small wave horizontal, etc., it can be said that in the works of clerical script in the past dynasties, the richness of writing is hard to get out of the right.
On the vertical painting, there are hanging needle vertical, exposed vertical, round foot vertical, square foot vertical, oblique foot vertical, right solitary vertical, vertical, phase back vertical, curved foot vertical, left foot vertical, light vertical, heavy vertical and so on. It can be said that the calligrapher included all the vertical paintings, reflecting the author's superb calligraphy skills.
In the pie painting, there are back to the front, out of the front, pick up the foot, square foot, oblique straight, vertical curve, and so on. Other strokes, such as strokes, fold, hook, and lift, are various and can be described as all encompassing. I won't repeat here. You can carefully observe the stroke writing of Yiying monument according to the calligraphy. It's almost impossible to find the same stroke.
On the knot
Solemn, fresh and lively. Most of the time, these two characteristics don't seem to be reflected in one work, and the two seem to be contradictory. But this is the strength of this work. As clerical script, the definition of clerical script determines the solemnity of the work. However, due to the use of a large number of strokes, the composition of each word is not rigid, but full of interest. It can be said that, on the whole, the work is solemn, but from a close look, especially when you appreciate each word, you will find its vividness. In other words, the seriousness of this work contains liveliness, and the combination of liveliness constitutes the seriousness of the work.
In terms of composition
There are many similarities between Yiying Monument and other clerical script works, such as the same as Zhangqian monument, and the same as the ritual monument, the word spacing is larger than the line spacing, giving people a sense of sparseness, and also the same as Cao Quan monument.
This work has always been highly praised. In the Qing Dynasty, Peng Shaosheng said: "this monument is the most outstanding one in the Confucian Temple." in the Qing Dynasty, Weng Fanggang called it "the most exemplary one in the Han Dynasty.".
