Exploration Of Meaning-advocating Factor In Tangkai

The regular script has been treated as the basis education of calligraphy and there are lots of people learn it.But there are few people can shortlist in the national exhibition.The article is aim to analyze and think over this phenomenon deeply.We live in a age of asserting personality and attaching freedom,many calligraphers think that it feels better to write cursive script than regular script which inhibits emotion expression.There are many factors,such as politics,religion and culture,promoting the regular script of Tang Dynasty from development to maturity.But this situation also places Tangkai in the cage of rule.Liangyan who lived in Qing Dynasty put forward an point that people in Tang Dynasty have rule-advocating.And this point turns into a conclusion.Nowadays,people choose Tangkai which has rigorous rule as beginning of calligraphy,but people too focus on pursuing form to ignore the meaning-advocating which is covered up by rule.Tangkai shows more interest in stippling,brushwork and structure and even creates personality charm and era aesthetic for calligraphy.This is different with meaning-advocating in Song dynastic.The rule master like Ouyang Xun and Yanzhen Qing have interesting calligraphy.Chu Suiliang is the most meaning-advocated calligrapher in the history,and he is the only calligrapher whose authentic work can spread in the world.His calligraphy is easy to master and fits contemporary aesthetic.All of this can tell us that only learning Chu's calligraphy can attract judges' attention in national exhibition.Thanks to the unearthed of Tang epitaph in recent years,people can know more about Tangkai in another way and have more materials about calligraphy,not just Four Great Poets of Early Tang Dynasty.Crisis is also vitality.Calligraphy movement in recent years constantly review people's opinion.Zhang Xuguang has ever put forward the slogan of activating Tangkai,but he didn't say the concrete methods to get rid of the embracing situation of Tangkai.As the saying goes,people can know gains and losses in front of the human.This article finds the shortages through referring some calligraphers' study experience,for instance,Sha Menghai,Shen Yimo and Bai Jiao.And then it gives advice form the aspect of calligrapher and government in order to call on people who from every field to push Tangkai into a peak of calligraphy art.