"What kind of stone, what kind of poetry and words".

"What kind of micro-book content can reflect the charm and aura of the stone";

"What is the most beautiful position of the content of the micro-book on the strange stone, which can not affect the beauty of the strange stone, but also add the finishing touch to the strange stone, and play the effect of 'turning the stone into gold'"

…… These questions must be pondered repeatedly by Master Guan in the selection of stones and the reading of stones.

That piece of stone, or abrupt, or crystal clear, or moist like nephrite, or like a brocade, Master Guan always has to start playing and pondering or three or five days or one or two years, poetry and stone hearts are connected, when a tacit understanding is reached, the next pen is written.

When writing, look upright, hold your breath, stare at the tip, and write down word by word. The gesture is soft, the chapter is rigorous, and the pen style strives for harmony and unity.

Speaking of the experience of creating the strange stone microbook, Master Guan told Kowloon, "Since these stones that have been found through thousands of difficulties and dangers are all collected from the place where the epic took place, every time I find a 'pictographic' stone, I am always very excited and emotional, and I must often have a dialogue with the stone to understand the charm of the stone."

"When writing, the stone surface is uneven, the stone quality is also varied, to be familiar with the stone nature, all with profound skills and keen sense, it is best to write in one go, without pause.

"In addition, when writing, temperature, humidity, light, ink color, and the author's state of mind will obviously affect the 'quality' of the work. ”

In Master Guan's creative career of "Strange Stone Microbook", I have to mention the "Song of Westward Migration" collected by the China National Museum.

He used 56 strange stones representing 56 ethnic groups to write the "Song of Westward Migration" with more than 40,000 words.

This "Song of the Westward Migration" revisits the grand history of the westward migration of the Xibe people.

As early as when Master Guan was the secretary general of the Heilongjiang Xibe Literature and History Research Association, he had a whimsical idea: why not use strange stones as paper and use his own calligraphy foundation to show people the long history and culture of the Xibe people?

While thinking about what to write, he thought of "Song of Westward Migration", which is popular among the Xibe people.

More than 250 years ago, the Xibe officials and people were ordered to travel from Shenyang through Outer Mongolia to the northwest border, a place called Qapqar on the banks of the Ili River, to defend the frontier.

The westward migration took a year and a half, and the trek was 10,000 kilometers.

These Xibe officials have safeguarded the security and unity of the country with their blood and lives, and occupy a very important place in the history of the Xibe people.

In 1948, Guan Xingcai, an artist of the Xibe nationality, created the poem "Song of the Westward Migration", which reflected the historical facts of the Xibe people's "westward migration", with a total of 500 lines and more than 40,000 words.

In 1991, Master Guan decided to follow the migration route of his ancestors and re-follow the "westward migration route". From Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia to Xinjiang, it took 8 years, traveled thousands of miles, crossed the vast desert with wind and sand, walked through the long and mysterious Erguna River, and sprinkled the figure of this Xibe man who was not afraid of hardships and carried heavy burdens everywhere on the former "westward migration road".

On the way, he found more than 2,000 strange stones with ancestral information.

Eight years later, Master Guan used half a year to select 56 strange stones symbolizing 56 ethnic groups in China from the countless strange stones he quarried, and wrote more than 40,000 words of "Song of Westward Migration" on 56 strange stones in a micro-book as thin as corn, and recorded the westward migration feat of the Xibe people with micro-books.

He divides the poems into four parts: "Farewell to Hometown", "Difficult Journey", "Opening Up New Land", and "The Wind and Cloud in the West", and the words of each part are written on pictographic stones that have a certain echoing relationship with the words.

For example, he wrote a passage of "Prelude to the Westward Migration" on a piece of "stone axe" made by the ancients that he found on the way to the west, and this desolate and distant "stone tool" gave "Song of the Westward Migration" a deeper connotation, which is obviously irreplaceable by any paper.

What is even more profound is that Master Guan divided the poem of "Song of Westward Migration" into several parts, which were written on the strange stones found in the place where the historical facts took place.

According to the artistic conception of the text, the viewer can see the mountains, rivers, deserts, and ancient towns that the Xibe soldiers leaped on the way to the west, the neighing war horses, the mighty troops, and the Xibe soldiers who would rather die and finally fall on the westward migration road, and vividly set off the words on the stone surface with pictographic stones.

With people as a mirror, we can know the gains and losses; with history as a mirror, we can see the rise and fall, and with the stone as a mirror, we can understand life.

Someone in the industry commented on this masterpiece, "The Song of the Westward Migration, whose stone and words echo each other, is like a 'stone book' that records the history of national struggle." ”

This unprecedented feat of Master Guan has caused a sensation in the world of stone appreciation and calligraphy, and people appreciate Master Guan's dedication and creation to art, as well as his exquisite and elegant large-scale "strange stone micro-calligraphy" works.

This masterpiece is still preserved in the National Museum of China.

The birth of "Song of Westward Migration" is also the beginning of Master Guan's "Strange Stone Micro Book" becoming a comprehensive art category with calligraphy and stone appreciation.

Following "The Song of the Westward Migration", Master Guan's large-scale strange stone micro-books "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "Diamond Sutra", "Tao Te Ching" and so on came out one after another.

In addition to these large-scale micro-book works, there are also some small micro-book masterpieces such as "Red Cliff Nostalgia" and "Difficult to Walk", which have also won praise from the industry.

The stones that are ordinary in the eyes of ordinary people have become strange stones that can talk after Master Guan put his eyes on them.

The micro-book on the strange stone is beautiful and elegant, simple and unrestrained.

Take the work "Three Hundred Tang Poems" as an example, Master Guan wrote Tang poems on 320 strange stones, the large of which is nearly one square meter, and the small one is the size of a fingernail.

That strange stone has the river stone quarried from the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Nenjiang River, the agate stone quarried from Mount Tai, the Yellow Mountain, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the wood fossil from the desert, they are red, orange, blue, green, purple, white colors, or round and clean, or natural and simple, plus the beautiful micro book, it is really a beautiful text, the beauty of the stone complement each other, it is natural, all give people a beautiful artistic enjoyment.

Perhaps this is a kind of artistic conception that Master Guan is trying to create, "so that people can feel a big mountain when they see these strange stones, the existence of a nature, nature is the real master of art, the soul of the stone is the support of poetry, and the accomplishment of the micro-book is the sublimation of the stone." ”

In addition to writing micro-books on strange stones, Master Guan's craftsmanship also appears on purple sand, ceramics and other products.

He wrote the "Thirty-six Strategies" on 36 small purple clay pots, and his craftsmanship was exquisite. Many Yixing purple clay pot manufacturers have come to invite Master Guan to add the "finishing touch" to their products.

He also did his best to meet their demands.