Wu Changshuo’s seal script eight-character couplet

[Wu Changshuo’s Eight-character Couplet of Seal Script]

The Eight-character Couplet of Seal Script, Qing Dynasty, Wu Changshuo’s book, paper, 172.5 cm in length and 36.7 cm in width
Interpretation:
When the flowers are spent, the carp and the silk symbolize the happiness of Ann Kennedy. Collect the characters of hunting tablet. At that time, Ding Si went to Chunshenpu for a few days before the flower season. Anji Wu Changshuo
This collection of stone drum couplets was written in the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917). Wu Changshuo was 74 years old. The strokes are thick and smooth, square and round, rich in changes, and full of simple, concise, solid and unbridled gold and stone. It is the best stone drum writing created by Wu Changshuo in his later years
The stone drum was carved by the State of Qin during the Warring States Period. It was named after its shape like a drum. It is also called the hunting tablet because the inscription records the hunting of nobles. There are ten stone drums, which are carved into one pre-Qin ancient song. The stone drum script is the text in the transition from the Zhou script to the small seal script. Its posture is grand and clean, its strokes are vigorous and lively, and its style and temperament are unique in ancient Chinese calligraphy. Because of the age, the handwriting is often worn out. The stone drum is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing (note: the exhibition site will change)
As another master of seal script after Deng Shiru, Wu Changshuo expanded Deng Shiru’s exploration field based on small seal script to Shang and Zhou large seal script, mainly focusing on stone drum writing. He broke the archaic idea that the Qing Dynasty pursued gold with the pen, and put the natural and flexible running script into the seal character. He expressed the strong and vigorous aesthetic taste of the three generations of characters from the two aspects of spirit and shape, and injected new breath into the ancient seal character.