It’s not a trivial matter

Author: Erzi Congzhou

It’s not a trivial matter

Compared with the "Chunhua Pavilion Tie" engraved by the ancestors of the Northern Song Dynasty, although Prince Cheng's Lin Tie is a complete version of ten volumes, it is still not large enough.

However, being able to see the "Chunhua Pavilion Stickers" written in black and white on paper is a unique experience for Zhou Zhi, who is used to seeing rubbings and high-definition photo albums of rubbings.

No matter what technique is used, there is still a difference in charm and soul between a rubbing book and a work written with a brush.

This difference is reflected in the details, even if it is filled in with the double hook method of "lower authentic works", even if it is sketched by a master like Feng Chengsu, the Shenlong version of "The Preface to the Lanting Anthology", which is known as the best running script in the world, is in some cases

Words such as "Zhi", "Zuo", "Wei", "Yang" and "Jin" still leave flaws in the double hook method.

Therefore, the feeling of appreciating the master's copy and appreciating the double-outlined version are different.

To put it bluntly, no matter how well the double-hook outline is done, it is still a "piracy"; however, no matter how poorly a famous artist's copy is done, it is still a "creation". This is the most essential difference between the two.

Therefore, appreciating the double-hook outline filling is more about appreciating the frame structure, and the brushwork can also be understood. However, just like the stele rubbings, it requires expert analysis and explanation to help you get started.

It is much better to write calligraphy by a famous person, especially for those who have a foundation in calligraphy. When appreciating their calligraphy, they can imagine how they write and copy the rhythm of their writing in their minds.

, just like listening to a moving piece of music or reading a timeless poem, it is a very rare spiritual enjoyment.

If the calligrapher and the appreciator are of the same origin, it will be easier for them to agree with each other.

For example, Prince Cheng's calligraphy style was most influenced by Zhao Mengfu, while the rhyme of Zhao style followed the two kings, but the knotting of characters followed the calligraphy of Song Dynasty calligraphers.

Cursive script was most influenced by Zhang Zhi and Huai Su, calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty. Huang Tingjian, who happened to be copying by Zhou Zhi, was also most influenced by these two people.

Therefore, Prince Cheng's calligraphy is very easy to understand for Zhou Zhi. Qi Lao originally asked him to read and observe Prince Cheng's calligraphy more.

As a result, once the post was opened, it could no longer be closed.

Seeing that it was nothing serious, Li Qiyan coughed lightly and closed the post on his own initiative: "There will be more opportunities in the future, and there is plenty of time to take a look at it. Let's move to the restaurant first and chat while eating."

Speaking of drinking morning tea, this is also a unique food culture in Guangdong and Hong Kong. Hong Kong-style tea restaurants are more influenced by the west wind, so many ways to drink black tea have been developed, such as milk tea and iced black tea, which are the best among them.

Teahouses in the Mainland drink more Pu'er, oolong and white tea. Although the two later learned from each other, in terms of authenticity, Hong Kong-style teahouses are still authentic to milk tea, while Cantonese-style teahouses still drink Pu'er and other traditional Chinese teas.

typical.

However, domestic tea restaurants have not yet become popular in China, and the sophistication and variety of morning tea snacks in Guangdong today cannot be compared with those in Hong Kong.

One source of Hong Kong’s tea culture is the British black tea culture. The British ruled Hong Kong for nearly a hundred years and brought their black tea drinking habit to Hong Kong.

In upper class society and high-end hotels, drinking afternoon tea is a very popular activity. Driven by afternoon tea, Western-style snacks are becoming more and more sophisticated.

This tradition is actually an improvement of the so-called "upper class" fashion in Hong Kong Island at that time by shrewd Hong Kong businessmen. In addition to introducing black tea into restaurants, there are also various classic Chinese and Western delicacies.

For example, egg tarts and pineapple buns, as well as mala cakes and honeycomb cakes from Southeast Asia.

Li Qiyan's morning tea was made by a master who didn't know where he hired it. An elderly man was responsible for serving the food and taking care of the guests.

However, the old man was dressed in traditional Chinese clothing with white inside and black outside. He had a frown on his eyebrows and deep nasolabial folds. He had a grimace on his face no matter what.

And no matter how the host and guest chatted and laughed, he remained unsmiling, as if he was not interested in anything other than arranging the food on the table, pouring tea and serving porridge.

The tea Li Qiyan prepared for everyone today is naturally not a black tea that is not on the table, but it is obviously specially arranged to use Dahongpao from the Fujian area in the mainland.

The refreshments are the most distinctive dim sum in Guangdong and Hong Kong, including shrimp dumplings, shrimp rice rolls, crispy barbecued pork buns, carrot cakes, salt and pepper duck chin, steamed chicken feet with black bean sauce, steamed pork ribs, etc.

But Zhou Zhi’s favorite is porridge, beef porridge with eggs, fish fillet porridge, lean pork liver porridge, lean meat porridge with preserved eggs, seafood porridge, red dates and bird’s nest porridge, etc.

Director Wang is older and has something on his mind, and drinking morning tea itself is more of a "social activity" than really for you to eat.

But Zhou Zhi didn't think so, especially because the old man's ability to observe words and emotions was really top-notch. He figured out Zhou Zhi's hobbies in a few seconds, and handed bowls of various delicious porridges to Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi also welcomes all comers. The portion is small anyway, usually only three or four spoons per portion. With just this snack, it’s really a feast to your heart’s content.

This way of eating even made Director Wang feel a little embarrassed, but Li Qiyan was very good at talking and smiled at her: "We have three sons in the family. The eldest has gone to the other side of the ocean and can no longer be taken care of. The second and third sons stay in Hong Kong Island.

I want them to eat with me whenever they have time."

"When you eat with young people, you will eat more without realizing it." Li Qiyan said with a smile: "Isn't this considered a way to maintain health?"

"We have too little porridge in Sichuan. Meat porridge is usually used for health maintenance after childbirth or recovery from illness." Zhou Zhi raised a small porridge bowl that can be held with three fingers: "But I have a classmate who is very clever.

Her sausage and bacon porridge is one of a kind.”

"After reading the letters from Brother Qi and Brother Wang, I said that you are going to do something big, so that all Chinese character input methods around the world use the same character library, and it needs to accommodate up to 70,000 Chinese characters?"

"Yes, Mr. Li, I came to Hong Kong with Aunt Wang this time. In addition to discussing the issue of the two "Chunhua Pavilion Posts", I actually have one more thing to ask for, and that is to ask Professor Li Leshan to introduce me to the Unicode membership.

people."

"I don't know much about the specific matters." Li Qiyan said: "But I had a phone call with the boss last night and I heard that you have stored more than 40,000 standard dot matrix characters and are even about to develop a scanning analysis program and fonts for the fonts.

Generating program, he was extremely shocked by your progress and has now boarded the plane back."

"Are all high school students in mainland China already so good?"

Zhou Zhinan smiled and said: "Actually, I just proposed an idea and wrote a little bit of the original program. But the real hard work, which is the dot matrix manuscript of more than 40,000 words, was actually done by the person I just mentioned.

It was handwritten by a friend who was good at porridge."

"Is your friend a girl? This is really ingenious." Li Qiyan praised: "If it can make the boss of my family sit still, then it will not be a small matter."
Chapter completed!