Wenzhengming’s regular script returns

[Wenzhengming Regular Script Returning to the Past]

Returning to the Past Page, Ming, Wenzhengming, paper, regular script, 13.7cm in length and 16.1cm in width
The signature: “On September 11, 1911, the letter in the boat in Hengtang was signed. It was eighty and two years old.”
“Xinhai” is the thirtieth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1551). Wen Zhengming was 82 years old
Returning Home is a famous chapter of Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, reflecting his mood after abandoning his official post and returning to the countryside. Wen Zhengming copied this poem more than once in his later years. It is not difficult to see the author’s peaceful mind in his later years from his repeated writing and deliberate and meticulous writing attitude
Although the author transcribes the long article in small script, it has no boundary, which shows its characteristics of simplicity, naturalness, elegance and ethereal flow. Although the strokes are from the Huangting Sutra and Le Yi Lun, which appear elegant and elegant, the square and tight structure of the body and the slender and elegant character style are also influenced by the European script. The size, spacing and movement of the whole text are all consistent, natural, refined and precise, which is especially rare for an elderly person. In Wang Shizhen’s Four Manuscripts of Yanzhou Shanren, Wen must write a regular script for daily classes in the morning and evening, which shows that he has accumulated profound academic skills
Compared with the volume of Fu on the Red Cliff before and after written by Wen in the Palace Museum, this work is a masterpiece of Wen’s small regular script, reflecting the author’s style of small regular script in different periods, although the style of writing is different due to different creation times
This page, together with the works of Zhao Mengfu, Deng Wenyuan and others, is included in the Book of the People of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. An Qi, a great collector in the Qing Dynasty, once collected it and included it in the volume of “Moyuan Huiguan”.