Wang Duo Calligraphy Series 10 - (Volume 1) (Complete 5 volumes)

Author: Wang Duo (Qing Dynasty)
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Wang Duo (1592–1652), styled Juesi, styled Songqiao, also styled Chian’an, and alias Yantanyusou. Born in Mengjin (now Mengjin, Henan). His early life was extremely impoverished, living a life of "not being able to afford two bowls of porridge in a day." In the second year of the Ming Tianqi reign (1622), he passed the imperial examination and was successively promoted to Minister of Rites. Wang Duo lived in a chaotic era with a turbulent career. In 1644, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and the Ming Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide on Jingshan Mountain. Ma Shiyin and others enthroned the Prince of Fu in Nanjing, appointing him as Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion. After the Ming fell, he surrendered to the Qing, who granted him the positions of Minister of Rites and Academician of the Hongwen Academy, and later elevated him to Grand Guardian of the Crown Prince. Wang Duo, once a Ming dynasty court official, became a new noble of the Qing court. In the eyes of Ming loyalists who upheld integrity, he was despised as a traitor, and thus he remained melancholic. After the Qing took over, Wang Duo served as an official for eight years and died of illness in his hometown in the ninth year of the Shunzhi reign. Wang Duo's calligraphy primarily drew from ancient model scripts, learning from the past. The ancient scripts he repeatedly studied and practiced included the Chunhua Pavilion Scripts, the Shaoxing Mi Scripts, the Jiang Tie, the Tan Tie, the Da Guan Tie, and the Baojin Qi Fa Tie, among others.