The author used to study literature as his profession, dabbled in the ideological theory of three religions and nine schools of thought, and sometimes got some insights. Only the Taoist classics, because of their profoundness, seem true and unreal if they are referred to, and even wander around confused and difficult to understand. I have been staying at home for years. Because I have a close personal relationship with Zhang Yongliang, a lay disciple of Ren Farong, the director of Louguantai, I was lucky enough to take a photo with Ren Farong, accept the gift of interpreting Tao Te Ching, watch his original calligraphy and witness the trend of his brushwork. I was deeply impressed by Ren's elegant demeanor, profound thoughts and his calligraphy works.
I can also draw a duck. The way to learn, learn from others' strengths, learn from others' strengths, and form a family. I advocate that books should be quality-oriented, starting from the heart and starting from the spirit. I think learning from Ren Daochang's books is the right way, and I dare to think that it seems to be in line with my learning style. Shallow knowledge has come to life, and it has reached the point where I can't express my displeasure.
Ren Farong, like others, is pragmatic, diligent and doesn't take shortcuts. He studied literature and books from his grandfather since childhood, and began to learn various genres from Yan's style. His road is correct and his foundation is solid. Later, he took the opportunity of becoming a monk to study Taoism and devoted himself to the monument to the sages. For decades, he kept explaining the classics without washing the ink, and finally became a leading philosopher in the Taoist school. His theory is based on Laozi and Zhuangzi, inherited from the sages, and has unique views and unprecedented charm. His calligraphy works, because of the integration with Taoist thought, are also dazzling in the book forest, which makes the famous artists eager to wear and the later generations of literati eager to wear. The reason, I think, is that calligraphy and form can be imitated, but the mind, mind and temperament vary from person to person. Learners must observe its shape, understand its spirit, internalize it, integrate it into my chest, and then create something on the basis of inheritance. Today, Ren Daochang has exhibited a series of Mo Bao cases. Who can tell which is whose? . Undoubtedly, can it be considered as a kind of arbitrary calligraphy with strong Taoist charm?
This is based on quality, from the heart and from the heart.
Words are like people, words are like people. People's essential consciousness determines their speech behavior. Similarly, the calligrapher's moral cultivation determines his strokes, the skeleton of word formation, the layout of structure and the shade of pen and ink. Ren Daochang's books can reveal his broad mind, his moral concept of being kind and beneficial to many people, his profound knowledge of everything in the world, and his concern for right and wrong in the world. Tell a few examples and make some guesses for readers. A word "Tao", like a scholar, travels around the world in a gondola, or visits famous mountains and rivers, or worships philosophers and sages, explores the source of good and evil among the people, and the phenology of the four seasons in the north, south and east changes, and finally realizes Tao and makes it a positive result. The word "virtue" is like a yogi sitting cross-legged, quietly realizing the Tao, and taking advantage of it.
Looking closely at the word "three treasures", it can be understood that laymen value "jade", seek "shell" (money) and decorate it with "Er" (splendor), while Ren Daochang thinks that cultivating the mind, cultivating oneself and storing qi are the most precious things in life, which is the so-called three treasures of human beings.
From the word "He Xiang", it seems that a fairy family with a baby face and a beautiful face is a good man and a woman, who teaches and dispels doubts: people and birds are the same. If you want to fly high, you must first gather your head and store your tail. Xiu De is good, weak and backward. You know, quietism is promising. Only with full wings and both abilities can we gallop freely between heaven and earth.
There is a saying that there is water under it, which is indisputable. At first glance, the word "Xia" in Ren Daochang's book looks like a waterfall, which immediately reminds people of the elegant and free-spirited momentum contained in the famous sentence "Flying down three thousands of feet, suspecting that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days". Dare you ask whether it is Confucianism or Taoism? It is also associated with the waterfall couplet of master Xiang Xianyan and Xuanzong Li Chen in the Tang Dynasty: "Thousands of rocks and valleys spare no effort, and from a distance, whether the stream can stay, after all, the sea will make waves." Philosophy is self-evident; The deeper you read the classics, the clearer and more enlightened you will be. Only when we cross Qian Shan, go through thousands of difficulties and dangers, climb the peak and be condescending can we understand the endless truth of everything in the world.
Appreciating the profound connotation of Ren Daochang's calligraphy works, we can gradually understand the personality essence of Ren Daochang's "Tao".
"nothingness" is a piece of white paper called "nothingness", and the qi in the chest is called "emptiness". Once it is brewed, it is sent to the pen and dropped on paper, which becomes a truly spiritual book. This so-called virtual reality is actually derived from virtual reality, and it is also a fact that virtual reality and real reality coexist.
Natural, pure, simple and simple. No matter poetry, calligraphy and painting are the natural expression of the author's feelings, they should be unique, honest and pure. Don't get married and win prizes easily if you want to become famous. I have a lot of experience. If I have distractions when writing a book, most of my works are flawed, dirty, not to mention exquisite. However, Ren Daochang has a clean heart. As the name implies, his poems and documents integrate Tao's noble meaning into his calligraphy works, and with his childlike heart, he has created a series of books that express his simple and unpretentious personality.
"Quiet" and "quiet". Surrounded by bamboo trees and fairy tales, Louguantai is really a good place to cultivate one's morality and write books. Listen to the Taoist priest's macro-theory, and watch him throw pen and ink at the side of the case, and you will know that the Taoist priest is quiet and indifferent to life. This kind of tolerance is of course the best in Mo Bao. There is a saying in "inaction" Taoism: "Nothing can achieve great things". As a master of Taoism, Ren Farong's writing theory is doing nothing but doing something, doing nothing and using it. Most of its products are gifts, and those who meet with deliberate and promising needs often have to charge a lot of money for the development of Taoism to make up for the lack of funds for giving alms to students. This so-called "inaction" is a great thing.
"powerless" and "indisputable" Speaking of virtue, Shu Hongfan said: "Three virtues: one is rigid, the other is rigid, and the third is soft". Appreciating Ren Daochang's books, we can clearly understand his strong character of integrity, approachable, persuasive, weak and subtle, which runs through the pen and ink and has a magnificent posture; Its pen, virtual and real; Its ink color is suitable for shades; Its rhythm is dense and alternating; Its structure is uncompromising; Its rhythm combines rigidity with softness. Aren't these the embodiment of the spiritual connotation of Tao Te Ching?