Shen Du’s four proverbs in regular script and seven verses in official script

[Shen Du’s regular script has four proverbs and seven verses in official script]

The four proverbs and seven verses in official script have two volumes, the Ming Dynasty, Shen Du’s regular script, the paper version, the regular script is 29 cm vertically and 14.5 cm horizontally; The official script is 23.2 cm vertically and 34.2 cm horizontally
Explanatory notes on the four pages of the regular script:
Proverbs: The movement of the people’s heart is based on words, and it is forbidden to be impetuous and arrogant. Ness is quiet and professional. Ness is the pivot. Prosperity leads to good, good luck and bad luck, honor and disgrace. But if it is called for, easy injury leads to death, pain leads to pain, self-willful disobedience, disobedience, illegality and immorality. Motto: A wise man knows what to expect, is honest in his thoughts, and a wise man encourages his actions, keeps them in his actions, follows the principles, and is rich. He is willing to avoid danger, and he is cautious and self-control. Habit and virtue are the same. Look at the maxim: The heart is empty, the things should be traceless, and the important things should be taken as the principle. Cover the front and move the middle. Control it outside and secure it inside. It is a long and sincere way to reply. Listen to the maxim: people have the Yi character, the nature of the original son, know the lure and materialization, and then perish its integrity. They have the foresight, know the end and have the determination, keep the evil in good faith, and do not listen unless you are polite
Each page is stamped with “Shen Du’s Seal”
The “four precepts” are the moral precepts developed by Cheng Yi, a master of the Song Dynasty’s Confucianism, according to Confucius’s “The Analects of Confucius · Yan Yuan No. 12”, “Don’t look, listen, speak and move without ceremony”. Zhu Xi’s “Records of Recent Thoughts”, Volume 5, “Cure”, contains: “Mr. Ichuan said that Yan Yuan asked for the purpose of revenge. The teacher said that not to look at, not to listen, not to speak, not to move, not to move, not to use the four body functions, from the middle to the outside, and from the outside, so to cultivate them. Yan Yuan asked for things to speak, so to enter into the saints. Later, those who learned from the saints, should be obedient and not lose. Because of the admonition, they should be vigilant.”
The works are bound by black silk, The regular script is tight and elegant, with the style of the Tang Dynasty, but not too sweet. It is the representative work of Shen Du’s “Taige style” calligraphy
Explanatory notes on the seven-legged poem page of the official script:
The crowing of chickens and the cold dawn of the purple road, and the warblers singing in the spring of the Huangzhou. The golden tower opens thousands of households at dawn, and the jade terraces hold thousands of officials. The flowers greet the sword and the stars set at the beginning, and the willows brush the flags and dew is still wet. The Phoenix Pond is unique in that it is difficult to sing a song in the spring. The clouds are deep and ancient
The signature is “Shen Du Li Gu in the cloud”. Seal “Shen Minze”
This page contains a poem by Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, entitled “Fenghe Zhongshu Sheren Jia Zhi to the Daming Palace of the Early Dynasty”. Shen Du is good at Li, but his works are rare. Yang Shiqi of the Ming Dynasty said: “Eight points are particularly ancient and have a clear Han meaning.” Looking at this work, the structure is square and neat, with fewer strokes and turns, and the posture and strokes are closer to regular script, which is also the main feature of the official script of the Ming Dynasty. The overall style and features are thick, simple, but slightly lacking in vividness
This volume was collected by Emperor Qianlong, Jiaqing and Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty. In 1922, the last emperor Pu Yi gave him a “reward for Pu Jie” and was taken out of the palace. The National Peiping Palace Museum compiled the “Four Categories of Lost Books, Calligraphy and Paintings in the Palace Museum” in the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934). In 1965, it was bought back by the Palace Museum
The first edition of Shiqu Treasure Collection.

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