Relationship between the Sealing and Transcribing System in theImperial Examinations and the Changes of Calligraphy inInterest and Charm in the Song Dynasty(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2015年06期
- Page:
- 131-
- Research Field:
- 宋代文化与艺术研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Relationship between the Sealing and Transcribing System in theImperial Examinations and the Changes of Calligraphy inInterest and Charm in the Song Dynasty
- Author(s):
- TAO Xiao-jun; WANG Han-wei
- Keywords:
- Song Dynasty; sealing and transcribing; calligraphic style
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- With the establishment of the sealing and transcribing system, the influence of the quality of calligraphy on the success in the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty was greatly reduced in comparison with the Tang Dynasty. However, the calligraphy characteristics of esteeming norm in the Tang Dynasty and valuing meaning in the Song Dynasty were not the result of the implementation and application of the sealing and transcribing system in the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty. The pursuit of “meaning” in the Song Dynasty was actually based on “norm”. What exists between “meaning” and “norm” is not an ideological opposition between free creation and restricted creation, or a calligraphic opposition between running and cursive scripts and regular script, but a developmental relationship of expanding new space on the basis of existing experience. The different artistic pursuits of the calligraphers in the Tang and Song dynasties and the different zeitgeists embodied in the calligraphic works most probably resulted from the different social positions and spiritual states of the literati.
Last Update: 2015-12-15