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Title
The Cold Food Observance (寒食帖)
Subject
Ancient Calligraphy
Chinese Calligraphy
Calligraphy Masterpiece
Famous Calligraphy
Running Script (行書）
Song Dynasty (宋朝)
Su Shi (蘇軾)
Description
The creator of this piece of calligraphy, Su Shi, was accused of literary slander and banished to Huangzhou (黃州) when he wrote this piece of calligraphy. He created this piece during his 3rd year of exile, during the Han Shi Festival (literally Cold Food Festival), expressing his feelings of loneliness and melancholy.
This is a piece that combined poetry with calligraphy. It was written by Su Shi when he was in political trouble and demoted and dispatched to serve as a minor official in Huangzhou. The bleak weather and the Hanzi Festival only added to his melancholy. The strong emotions underlying the piece are comparable to the feeling embodied in the Wang Xizhi's Lanting Xu (蘭亭序) and the Yan Zhenqing's Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew (祭侄文稿).
Hanshi Festival (寒食節) is an ancient traditional Chinese festival celebrated for three consecutive days starting the day before the Qingming Festival (清明節) which falls on 4 or 5 April.
This is a piece that combined poetry with calligraphy. It was written by Su Shi when he was in political trouble and demoted and dispatched to serve as a minor official in Huangzhou. The bleak weather and the Hanzi Festival only added to his melancholy. The strong emotions underlying the piece are comparable to the feeling embodied in the Wang Xizhi's Lanting Xu (蘭亭序) and the Yan Zhenqing's Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew (祭侄文稿).
Hanshi Festival (寒食節) is an ancient traditional Chinese festival celebrated for three consecutive days starting the day before the Qingming Festival (清明節) which falls on 4 or 5 April.
Creator
Su Shi (蘇軾)
Date
Song Dynasty (宋朝)
Rights
National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院), Taipei (臺北市)
Relation
Ode to the Red Cliff (赤壁賦)
Format
Handscroll
Ink on paper
34.2 x 199.5 cm
Running Script (行書）
Language
Chinese
Type
Calligraphy
Identifier
thecoldfoodobservance
Calligraphy Item Type Metadata
Transcription
自我來黃州 已過三寒食
年年欲惜春 春去不容惜
今年又苦雨 兩月秋蕭瑟
臥聞海棠花 泥汙燕支雪
闇中偷負去 夜半真有力
何殊病少年 病起頭已白
春江欲入戶 雨勢來不已
小屋如漁舟 濛濛水雲裏
空庖煮寒菜 破竈燒溼葦
那知是寒食 但見烏銜紙
君門深九重 墳墓在萬里
也擬哭塗窮 死灰吹不起
右黃州寒食詩帖二首。
年年欲惜春 春去不容惜
今年又苦雨 兩月秋蕭瑟
臥聞海棠花 泥汙燕支雪
闇中偷負去 夜半真有力
何殊病少年 病起頭已白
春江欲入戶 雨勢來不已
小屋如漁舟 濛濛水雲裏
空庖煮寒菜 破竈燒溼葦
那知是寒食 但見烏銜紙
君門深九重 墳墓在萬里
也擬哭塗窮 死灰吹不起
右黃州寒食詩帖二首。
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