Fu Shan’s Cursive Script of Meng Haoran’s Poems

[Fu Shan’s Cursive Book of Meng Haoran’s Poems]

Cursive Book of Meng Haoran’s Poems, Qing Dynasty, Fu Shan’s Book, paper, 28.2 cm in length and 394.8 cm in width
This volume records 18 poems of Meng Haoran, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, such as “Climbing Mount Xian with the sons” (the annotation of Meng Haoran’s poem volume in cursive script). The whole volume is composed of 114 lines, with three pages in total. At the end of the book, it reads: “Zhang Shanren Yue holds this paper to ask for a book, while he cherishes the remaining ink in the snow, and the 18 poems of Meng Haoran are related to it.” The paragraph is signed with “Mountain”, and the seal is “Fu Shan’s private seal”. This picture has no hidden seal, and the specific writing time is unknown
Fu Shan advocated in the art of calligraphy that “it is better to be clumsy than skillful, to be ugly than beautiful, to be detached than slippery, and to be honest than to be arranged”. This volume of calligraphy is unique in its length and style. The characters are not connected with each other. The knot and the characters are offset with each other. It is ancient and vigorous, but the strokes are connected continuously. It fully reflects the characteristics of Fu Shan’s calligraphy art and is also the best interpretation of his calligraphy aesthetics. This volume is regarded as the best work of Fu Shan’s cursive script, representing the highest artistic level of Fu Shan’s middle and late cursive script.