Cai Yu

Cai Yu

Cai Yu? He is a writer, calligrapher and calligrapher of Ming Dynasty, and one of the ten talented scholars of Wumen. Jiukui, also known as zuoxuzi, was born in Linwu mountain because he lived in Dongting Xishan, Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He learned from the pre Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. He thought highly of himself and wrote Dongting records. He wanted to compete with Liu Zongyuan. He is good at calligraphy. He is good at regular script and line writing. He uses his bare pen to drive his strength and his posture is complete.

Personal experience

Cai Yu lost his father when he was a child and was taught by his mother. At the age of 12, he can write and write, full of strange spirit. After a while, I finished reading all the books at home. Later, he learned from Wang Zhen. In 1534, at the age of 64, he was awarded the title of Confucius in Nanjing Imperial Academy. Three years later, he retired to Xishan and died in Dongcai's former residence. At the age of 71, he was buried in guduishan ancestral tomb. Wen Zhengming wrote an epitaph for him. Cai jiukui's statue praise stele, written by Cai Yuci, praises him for "being a little lonely and capable of writing, being Chinese but not popular, being inferior in rank and looking forward to prosperity, and being a lame scholar".

Wang Chong, one of the three schools of Wu school, was a teacher of Cai Yu in his early years.

Personal achievement

Calligraphy

Cai Yu mainly lived in the three dynasties of Hongzhi, Zhengde and Jiajing. He was famous in the world with the famous "Wumen gifted scholars" Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming. His calligraphy is especially good at upright and running script. He writes "with a bare brush, with a perfect posture.". Li Rihua said that he was "elegant and elegant when he was visiting books". Taking the Jin and Tang Dynasties as an example, Wang Chong went to Xishan to study books for three years and was deeply taught. Cai Yu is the author of shushushuo.

There are few authentic works of Cai Yu, so they are more precious. The original works include linjiejin poem, the running script of the 15th year of Jiajing (1536) in the Ming Dynasty, baozhushuo volume, youjinling poem fan page, the regular script of the 6th year of Zhengde (1511), lunshu French volume (also known as shushushuo) in the 14th year of Jiajing (1535) in the Nanjing Museum, and the running script fan in the Shanghai Museum. Among them, shushushuo is not only a precious authentic work of calligraphy, but also a treatise on ancient calligraphy, mainly on the way of "using pen".

He put forward the principles of dealing with all kinds of opposite factors, such as "Duan" and "Lian", "Xu" and "Xu", "Qi" and "Zheng", "Shu" and "Mi", "Hua" and "Du", which are full of philosophical thinking. Therefore, Lu Shihua called shushushuo in his book the record of calligraphy and painting seen in Wu and Yue Dynasties: "it covers the discussion of books in the past dynasties, participates in and sticks to the middle of each other, expresses his own opinions, discusses the correctness and comprehensiveness, and makes ancient sentences and strange words. Together with Ouyang's eight methods and Guoting's Shupu, it is immortal. "

literature

Cai Yu's poems are similar to those of Li He in the pre Qin and Han Dynasties. He once said, "my poems are from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but now it's Li He Ye." Cai Yu has many poems, including Linwu, Nanguan, Taisou waishi and so on.