Zhang Jizhi (1 186- 1263) is a descendant of Zhang Ji, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His father is also a calligrapher, and he is diligent in the study of Tang and Song Dynasties in Mochi, especially in Yan Zhenqing's legal style. Coupled with his love for Mifei, it can be said that traditional kung fu is quite profound.

Zhang Jizhi's book Du Fu's "Wei Yan Shuang Song Tu" is partly handwritten.

Maybe we don't know much about the relationship between calligraphy and painting in the Southern Song Dynasty, so we don't know much about Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy and painting.

If Zhang Jizhi didn't get inspiration from painting, he at least brought the spirit of painting to the creation of calligraphy. So we obviously feel that his calligraphy is very close to the charm of modern calligraphy.

For example, stippling changes very obviously. In short, there is a great contrast between light and heavy changes.

When the ink is dry and mixed with rice, the pen often dances with the ink, and it is suddenly connected and disconnected, and the charm is not diminished. Long live Gu Teng, autumn wind and spring rain.

Let me give you a typical example. Du Fu's Wei Yan Shuang Song Tu is a calligraphy masterpiece created by Zhang Jizhi at the age of 72.

The soul-stirring charm and painting texture of bone brush are very innovative and representative.

First of all, this poem by Du Fu is a poem praising the famous painter Wei Yan's painting of pine trees.

In 760 AD, in the first year of Shangyuan in Tang Suzong, Du Fu, who lived in Chengdu, met Wei Yan, a young painter from Chang 'an.

They met several times, and Du Fu appreciated Wei Yan's painting art.

Du Fu praised him for "Gu Song was painted by several people in the world, and Chen Hong was older than Wei Yan".

Wei Yan's painting level far exceeds his father's, so there is a hint that "Chen Hong is old and Wei Yan is less".

Among them, there is a poem describing the painter Wei Yan's pen and ink, praising the painter's pen for "white destruction of rotten bones and death, black falling on the moon and thunderstorm."

Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy completely uses the calligraphy art of killing rotten bones and dragons and tigers in white, and black into the thunderstorm, which reproduces the spirit of Du Fu's poetry and the painter Wei Yan's pen and ink.

This indirect artistic reference is very natural. Therefore, this calligraphy work is comparable to Mi Fei's Tiaoxi Poetry Post.

We can see that in this calligraphy work, Zhang Jizhi has a lot of freehand brushwork and thick and thin strokes, and his skills are extraordinary.

Flexible and free use of brushwork in Tang Dynasty is a tradition of attaching importance to calligraphy in Song Dynasty.

How to resemble Buddhism and how to make it is a subject of artistic innovation.

It takes laws and regulations to stand, and it takes violations of laws and regulations to stand. This is the measure of artistic innovation.

The reason why Zhang Jizhi has freehand brushwork is that he can walk his own way freely between standing and breaking.

Zhang Jizhi's innovation in calligraphy directly influenced the aesthetic purport of the integration of calligraphy and painting in Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty.

This picturesque pen can be said to be the most successful innovation in Zhang Jizhi.

Before the Song Dynasty, there was no such creative method as "painting into a book".

For example, there is a great contrast between the word "rot" and the word "dragon"

The vertical pen next to the word "rot" naturally gives birth to a dead pen, which adds a lot of imagination to the word "rot"

The word "bone" is also explicit! It's really interesting.

Below, we post the rest of Zhang Jizhi's Poems and Songs on Paintings by Drunken Du Fu for your complete appreciation. I won't go into details.

Appendix The Postscript of Du Fu's Poems and Zhang Jizhi's Books.

A few people in the world painted Gu Song. Bi Hong was old and Wei Yan was missing.

Zhang Jizhi wrote it at the age of 72. It was moldy when it rained. He danced with dragons, drank with guests and got drunk with Chinese opera books.