A Study Of Yang Jun’s Calligraphy

Yang Jun was a disciple of Wang Kaiyun,a famous scholar in Huxiang,who had great attainments in calligraphy,painting,epigraphy,poetry and so on.Good Book People said its:“Take the essence of the Han Stele,fully accept the “Shimen Song.”“There are gods under the wrist,ghosts under the pen,”“Li Zhuan Yang Fen.”.It played an important role in the history of Hunan calligraphy in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.The introduction of the article makes a brief collation of the current academic situation of Yang Jun,starting from his life and experience of learning books from his family,friends and teachers,etc.,through the on-the-spot investigation and sorting out the materials,this paper sums up the mental course of Yang Jun’s calligraphy practice and calligraphy viewpoint,and tries to give a fair evaluation to Yang Jun’s calligraphy practice works and calligraphy viewpoint and their influence and inspiration to the posterity.The main body of the article will be completed in five parts.First,the paper investigates the current situation of National Calligraphy and Huxiang calligraphy in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,and the social ecology of calligraphy at that time.By combing Yang Jun’s life,his family background and his learning process,we can show the influence of the rough life and the external calligraphy environment on Yang Jun’s calligraphy practice and thought.Secondly,explore the influence of Yang Jun and Wang Kaiyun,Li Ruiqing,Qi Baishi and Tan ze in the specific calligraphy community of Hunan,and study their communication,mutual discussion,mutual appreciation,mutual help,mutual influence.Third,the main analysis of the characteristics of Yang Jun’s calligraphy works,specifically divided into: dignified to the ancient Mao’s regular script,multi-stele collection of official script,the seal script to make the seal body of the Stele and the line of cursive script.Fourth,summarize the views of Yang Jun’s calligraphy.Yang Jun’s views on calligraphy are mainly based on the spirit of the thatched cottage,and his theoretical achievements are explained from the four main views on calligraphy: The view on tools,the view on learning calligraphy,the view on techniques and the view on connoisseurship.Among them,the view of tool is Yang Jun’s deep understanding of pen,ink,paper and Inkstone,the view of study of book is Yang Jun’s three experiences on the way of study of book,and the view of skill is Yang Jun’s understanding and application of writing,using pen and concluding words.The view of Connoisseurship and collection is Yang Jun’s hobby to connoisseurship and collection.Yang Jun’s view on calligraphy not only deepened his understanding of learning calligraphy through practice,but also gave a deep and simple explanation of ancient calligraphy theory.Fifth,combined with the analysis and research of the above chapters,summarize and evaluate the main historical contribution of Yang Jun’s calligraphy art and its enlightenment to contemporary calligraphy circles and individuals.Through the study of Yang Jun’s calligraphy art,the paper concludes that as a typical scholar calligrapher,Yang Jun was influenced by the great calligraphic thoughts of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,and was diligent in thinking in the unique soil environment of Hunan,good at learning,on the basis of thorough tradition,he walked out of a steady and simple,elegant and quiet way of calligraphy,in the end of the Qing Dynasty in Hunan calligraphy to make it become a typical significance,representative of calligraphers.