Chapter 154: People in the Grass and Trees

No matter how busy you are, you can always have a cup of tea by your side, in addition to quenching your thirst, you can also nourish your heart - at a certain moment, such as sitting among the grass and trees, like returning to the ancient mountains and forests, feeling the breeze. A day with tea is a good time.

The word "tea" is "between the grass and trees" in terms of stroke composition. There is grass on the top, and there is wood below, and people can absorb the essence of heaven and earth among the grass and trees, which is the real secret of tea.

No matter how the outside world is, how the world changes, how the fate rises and falls, how life rises and falls, as long as a cup of tea in hand, people seem to have suddenly walked into the grass and trees, and there is a natural sense of retreat to the mountains and forests.

In addition to tea, Nong Tianyi also loves calligraphy and painting, and also enjoys spending those unforgettable moments with students.

There are four treasures in the study, called "pen", "ink", "paper" and "inkstone".

The pen is like a sword. The reason why I say this is because many people say that it was invented by Meng Tian, a general of the Qin Dynasty.

According to Han Yu's "The Biography of Mao Ying", it is recorded: "Emperor Qin made Tian (Meng Tian) give (Mao Ying) Tang Mu, and sealed the city, called 'Guanchengzi'", specially wrote such a text for the brush, indicating that the King of Qin loved the brush.

Meng Tian made a pen, and the general injected sword qi into a tube of pen, and the pen later became the sword of the literati. Then, later, many literati put pen to paper from Rong and it became less abrupt.

The ink is like smudged smoke written on paper. Those thousand-year-old ink, the new ink that has been developed, like the old man and the baby, each has its own wonders. The pen walks like a dragon and a snake, the ink is like scales, and everywhere it goes, it publicizes its thoughts. Nong Tianyi said that ink, which originally had a heart of grass and trees, was burned by fire, suppressed and buried, and gradually extinguished its arrogant arrogance, and walked warmly on rice paper.

Paper is the heart of the literati. It takes a year to make a good piece of paper. A virtuous person also needs to cultivate his self-cultivation throughout his life. Paper is used to carry the thoughts of pen and ink.

Nong Tianyi, pen and ink have the secret of their heart, and if they don't want to keep it, they have to confide in the paper.

The pen is made of bamboo, the ink is made of wood, and the paper is made of grass, in the final analysis, they are still relatives of the same clan, so they will not be so raw when they "get along" together.

Nong Tianyi has such a metaphor, the inkstone is the mountain on the desk. Since ancient times, literati have been attached to the landscape, and when their footsteps cannot follow their thoughts, they need to have something to compromise. The inkstone is used to compromise, in fact, the ink on the inkstone is also a purpose, the inkstone is the mountain, the ink is the water between the mountains, the benevolent person enjoys the mountain, the wise man enjoys the water, how good the taste.

Nong Tian often played with a treasure inkstone given to him by Uncle Qin Yuhe when he was a child, with auspicious clouds painted on it, and the book had words: Good is like water. In this way, he tried to speculate, can this be regarded as the voice of the inkstone?

The pen holder is a home where the pen can rest. Zhu Yizun wrote such a sentence in the "Pen Holder Inscription": "The pen is in the case, or the side or the side, the Jews have no etiquette, and the cylinder is bound, such as a guest at home, and the idle one can rest assured, and he will be innocent." "What a good sentence for "like a guest".

This sentence is exquisite, and there is a sense of belonging of "ship to dock and car to station". Such a complete home was hand-painted by the literati as "Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum", "Gentleman" and "Beauty...... It's all about your heart's demands and good wishes.

A pen holder is more like a piece of your own eaves! Nong Tianyi often thinks so.

The pen holder is the Haikou boasted by the literati. Can't move a mountain, the inkstone alone is not enough to Mingzhi, simply build a mountain for their own pen, the pen is tired, you can rest on the mountain, where is the pen tired, in fact, the literati's heart is tired, or the text is exhausted, so take a rest in the post station, and then go on the road, it is a good spring and autumn on paper.

There is also a pen hanger, which is a piece of equipment for pen fitness. Zhao Xihu of the Song Dynasty wrote such a sentence in "Dongtian Qinglu": "Wash the pen, insert it upside down, and the water flows downward, without damaging the heart of the pen." This is actually a kind of equipment for pen standstand, which is generally made into a small Bogu frame, Hui style building, and screen shape......

People must nourish the heart, the pen must nourish the body, a tube of bamboo pen, the hair on the top of the head is "wolf hair, sheep hair", with a long time, also need to be cleaned, to a handstand, the water goes with the hair, the pen is equivalent to a new hairstyle on the pen.

Howe is made of wolf fur. Hao is also like a pine, as if the green mountains sit in the arms, even if the snow is overwhelming, the green pine is still green, straight and straight, with the air of iron bones.

Nong Tianyi has imagined such a scene countless times: travel to ancient times, return to a certain study in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, a table, a chair, a pen and an inkstone, no need to add incense to the red sleeves, write his own inner sentences, when he is tired, he will rest at the desk, and in his dreams, there are also various monsters in the reading micro cottage talking to him.

Nong Tianyi's study is called "Grass and Tree Hall", which means that people walk among the plants and trees and take tea. It's a pun.

A cup of tea in the hand, a volume of books in the chest, pen, ink, paper and inkstone around the left and right, the "grass and wood hall" in the spring.

At this time, Nong Tianyi opened the question in the form of a question: What is the reason why Chinese calligraphy has become a highly expressive art form?

The students were talking about it......

Nong Tianyi went on to say that, in fact, the objects in the world are only the material for modeling, and Chinese characters are the material for modeling Chinese calligraphy. That is to say, calligraphy is only made of Chinese characters, and in this respect it is different from literature.

The stylistic potential of a text depends on the diversity of its constructing elements.

Nong Tian gave an example, saying that by analyzing the constituent elements of Chinese characters and their combinations, we can find that Chinese characters have both a variety of forms of pen shapes in terms of modeling potential, as well as a variety of relationships between pen shapes.

The students listened attentively and practiced from time to time.

Nong Tianyi opened his mind and said: The basic writing element that makes up the shape of Chinese characters is the shape of the pen. From the Shang and Zhou oracle bone inscriptions, Jin inscriptions to Qin Xiaozhu, as well as official scripts, regular scripts and their variant fonts Xingshu and cursive script, therefore, Chinese characters have a variety of pen shapes as writing elements, such as regular script has horizontal and vertical, apostrophe, 捺, dot and other basic pen shapes.

Another example is intersecting, distancing, connecting, and changing, such as flowing clouds.

These are the various strokes of Chinese characters, and the relationship between them, which has become the basis for the rejuvenation of the style, and at the same time shows the unique modeling advantages of the Chinese character form.

The students were empowered.

At this time, Nong Tianyi said that the way Chinese characters are constructed is flat. The combination of a relatively independent part and another part in a Chinese character is oriented to the two directions of the plane, up and down, left and right.

From the outer outline, the Chinese character shape resembles a "square"; From the perspective of internal structure, there are various ways to combine the various parts of Chinese characters, such as left and right, up and down, left, middle and right, upper, middle and lower, encircled, and semi-encircled, like an unpredictable military formation.

Nong Tianyi said in an accentuated tone, this structure is very important, you must comprehend it with your heart and practice diligently.

The students nodded their heads and said, "Chinese characters are so varied!"

Nongtianyi, people must have a smell of grass and trees among the grass and trees, and natural things are the best.