After a long and unfriendly discussion between Fang Yan and Fujino Saburo, they finally decided on the general rules of the calligraphy competition.
First, there is no language restriction.
Second, there is no limit on content.
Third, there is no limit to the writing style.
Yes, you can copy a long poem or write a single word. As long as it is what you are best at, it can be used as the entry.
Calligraphy has its own characteristics. Every word written by some people is very beautiful, while some people only practice one word for decades, but that one word is very popular and captures the essence of the art.
Does that mean that the calligrapher who wrote that word is no longer a calligrapher? Obviously not.
Today, calligraphy is the only thing that matters. Therefore, a long article is calligraphy, a short article is calligraphy, a sentence is calligraphy, and a word is also calligraphy.
The student sent by Wuren Junior High School was a boy named Ueno Daixiong, who was short and had a kind face. He looked more mature than the other students, and had a small mustache on his upper lip that was not in line with the image of a high school student.
Fang Yan paid special attention to the boy's hands. His hands were always clasped together and rarely moved.
stable!
Steady hands and steady handwriting.
Stability is the basis for writing good characters.
No matter you are pursuing structure or interest, stability comes first, so that the spirit will not be lost.
The representative sent by Zhuque Middle School was not Huang Haoran, but a tall and thin boy named Xiao Pinqing. The boy was about 1.7 meters tall, but he didn't have much flesh on his body. When he put on his clothes, his clothes were empty. If he didn't wear clothes, he would definitely look like a character in the extremely popular "Legend" game at that time - the Skeleton Elf.
Seeing the two contestants standing in front of the desk, many people immediately laughed.
"These two people have really unique looks----"
"Isn't this the real-life version of the two generals Heng and Ha?"
"If the flesh of both of them were evenly distributed, they could both be considered handsome men-----"
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Fang Yan also noticed this situation, thinking that in the movies and TV shows he watched before, those people who wrote beautifully were also good-looking. In the bamboo forest, under the plum tree, or in the attic in the snow, a handsome man in white stood in front of a stone table. At this time, the sound of the pipa sounded, and the man wielded his brush with ink, his pen like a swimming dragon.
The faster the pipa sounded, the faster the man's speed increased. When the pipa stopped, the man just raised his wrist to finish.
The environment is elegant, the artistic conception is unconventional, and the pipa is used as an embellishment. Coupled with this elegant and graceful young man, women are dazzled and can't wait to marry him, and even men can't wait to rush up and stab him twice and scold him, saying, "You are so pretentious, kid."
However, from what Fang Yan had seen and heard, most artists in reality didn't care about their appearance. Even if there were some good-looking ones, their scores would be greatly reduced if they wore clothes stained with ink or had long-ungroomed hair and beards.
Fang Yan felt that he should be excluded, but unfortunately he was not qualified to participate in this calligraphy competition.
Of course, the student group was a little better. Although Ueno Nobita and Xiao Pinqing both had distinctive looks, they looked very clean and tidy in their school uniforms.
In the calligraphy competition, the judges are still Lu Chaoge, Matsushima Ji and Duan Youjun.
Duan Youjun tapped the wooden fish in his hand lightly and shouted, "Begin."
After saying start, neither Ueno Nobita nor Xiao Pinqing started writing.
They were all grinding ink, and while doing so their eyes were looking at the white paper in front of them, as if there was some mysterious treasure hidden on the white paper.
Nobita Ueno was the first to pick up the pen and dip it in ink, then wrote on the paper with the tip of the pen: Swallow the sword and abandon the bow, and only watch this gust of fresh breeze.
Because Nobita Ueno wrote in Japanese characters, Fang Yan couldn't understand what the sentence meant.
However, from the structure of the characters, it can be seen that he used the famous Japanese style of writing, which is also the style of writing that Fang Yan mentioned as a unique creation of the Japanese.
The brushwork is elegant and the density is appropriate. The characters are connected in a line, like a black landscape painting blooming on white paper.
"He's a real talent." Fang Yan thought to himself. Even if the other party was a student of Wu Ren's inspection team, even if this person was his opponent at the moment, Fang Yan was still willing to give him such a high evaluation.
Xiao Pinqing was still grinding the ink, as if the ink stone could not be melted.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
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Duan Youjun gently tapped the wooden fish in his hand. When the wooden fish made sixty sounds, the competition time was over.
At the beginning, everyone was able to remain calm, but when the wooden fish was struck more than thirty times and Ueno Nobita had already handed in his name, Xiao Pinqing still didn't move, and the students in Class 9 became a little anxious.
They looked at Xiao Pinqing with anxious eyes, but for fear of disturbing Xiao Pinqing's ideas, no one spoke at this time to urge Xiao Pinqing to move faster.
When the wooden fish sounded forty-six times, Xiao Pinqing finally picked up his brush and dipped it in ink.
filial piety!
He wrote a big word "filial piety" on the white paper in front of him, and that was the only word.
He put the brush in the ink box, his forehead was covered with sweat, as if he had just run 3,000 meters.
He used Weibei script, which has rigorous strokes, simple and lively, rich yet rigid.
"Good. Good. Good." Fang Yan said the word "good" three times in a row.
Fang Yan himself also studied calligraphy, and to be frank, he was number one in calligraphy at Qingfeng Teahouse today.
It is precisely because he learned and studied characters that he was able to better appreciate the value and brilliance of the character "filial piety".
This has nothing to do with the relationship between teachers and students, and has nothing to do with national justice. It only has to do with the personal feelings of those who love calligraphy and their extreme pursuit of art.
Just like a woman seeing beautiful clothes, a man seeing a Ferrari, and a foodie seeing a banquet, when a person sees something unimaginable in his favorite field, he will exclaim in admiration as sincerely as Fang Yan did.
You know, Wei steles are mainly used in the fields of stele engraving, epitaphs, statue inscriptions and cliff carvings. Xiao Pinqing's ancestors made a living by polishing tombstones for others.
Xiao Pinqing's family had a lot of things except stones. Since he was very young, his grandfather, father, and brother had been grinding large stones into square or arched slabs in front of him, and then inscribed the names of filial sons, grandsons, sons-in-law, and nephews on the tombstones according to the list provided by the host family.
Perhaps due to long-term influence or family inheritance, Xiao Pinqing was interested in these big stones when he was very young. When he just learned to write, his grandfather gave him a small clock and a small awl and asked him to knock out the words he could write on the stone.
Because he had been grinding stones since he was a child, Xiao Pinqing's hands were very steady, which also cultivated his character of being meticulous in doing things and writing strokes carefully.
After years of practice, his Weibei calligraphy has become refined and spirited, and is well-known far and wide.
At the beginning, the customer asked his grandfather Xiao Changfa to carve the words. Later, the customer asked his father Xiao Deshui to carve the words. Later, the customer only asked Xiao Pinqing to carve the words. As long as Xiao Pinqing carves the words, the customer is willing to pay double the price.
Fang Yan first discovered Xiao Pinqing's talent when he asked his students to write a poem based on "A Farewell to Cambridge" and hand it in to him. Xiao Pinqing's poem was not worth mentioning, but his calligraphy made Fang Yan feel instantly amazed.
He had never thought that he could find someone among his students who could write so beautifully.
He immediately asked Huang Haoran to find Xiao Pinqing and took him for a walk on the campus tree-lined path for more than ten minutes. He asked all kinds of questions like a fanatical fan and finally learned the special reason for Xiao Pinqing's success.
Fang Yan encouraged Xiao Pinqing to keep up the good work and find more inscriptions and calligraphy to study, but to avoid imitating others, because Xiao Pinqing's calligraphy is now unique, and if he blindly learns from others' strengths, he may lose his own essence.
The reason why he asked Xiao Pinqing to study inscriptions and calligraphy was that he hoped to broaden his horizons and allow him to have a deeper and more mature understanding of his own calligraphy.
Xiao Pinqing nodded repeatedly, and was very pleased with Fang Yan's recognition and praise.
Later, he asked Fang Yan for advice on calligraphy many times, and Fang Yan told him everything he knew. He even went to his grandfather's house to get a replica of "Yuan Huai's Tomb Inscription" and lent it to Xiao Pinqing for appreciation.
Xiao Pinqing had written the word "filial piety" hundreds of thousands of times, and personally carved it on the tombstone thousands of times.
Filial piety is a Chinese tradition that gives people a sense of order and discipline. No one can disobey it.
However, filial piety also requires being flexible and thinking about what the elderly think and need.
This is not just a word, it is a picture of filial piety of descendants.
Therefore, Fang Yan couldn't help but say three good words.
Fujino Saburo was very dissatisfied with Fang Yan's behavior and said, "Teacher Fang Yan, this is a form of cheating and you are suspected of misleading the judges. If you make such an outrageous move again, the judges will declare us the winner."
Even Matsushima Ji was not satisfied with Fang Yan's performance. He frowned and said to Lu Chaoge beside him, "Isn't your teacher's performance a little too intense?"
This means that Fang Yan is just acting. Isn't it just one word? Is there any need to be so excited
Fang Yan apologized and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I really can't help myself. The words are in front of me, you are free to judge, from now on I will never speak again-----"
Fujino Saburo sneered and said, "Do you still need to criticize? It's clear now. Ueno Daisuke's handwriting is flowing like water, and each character is a rare masterpiece. The most valuable thing is that his layout is reasonable and the ink is evenly used. He can be called a master of his generation. In this round, of course, Wuren Junior High School has the upper hand. You can only write one character, and you dare to call it calligraphy?"
Fang Yan was furious, and he cursed, "Bullshit. Do you have any knowledge at all? Do you understand the subtleties of calligraphy? One word can't be called calligraphy? Just this one word can beat you by a mile------"
"--------" Fujino Saburo was stunned. Didn't you say you would never speak again
You liar!
(ps: Sorry, it took too much energy to write. It's a little late.) (To be continued)