颜真卿《自书告身墨迹》书法续考——与曹宝麟先生商榷

A Textual Research into Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy in Certificate of One's Own Writing

唐代著名书法家颜真卿的《自书告身墨迹》的作者问题 ,一直是书法史学界悬而未决的疑案。流行的旧说认为 :按常理此帖属政府所颁官员身分凭证 ,必当为省吏所出 ,而“自书”之后流传已久 ,见于历代书法史著录 ,其来有自。经缜密的考证 ,从该帖书法风格、笔法、结构等具体问题入手 ,指出该帖笔法中之缺口勾 ,暗过等笔法为颜真卿晚年书法技法的重要特征 。

The authorship of Certificateof One's Own Writing by Yan Zhenqing,the well_known calligraphist in Tang Dynasty has been a pended question for the historians of calligraphy.The old prevailing saying holds that it should be written by a provincial official since it is an identity certificate bestowed by government.And that it is Yan's own writing has been a prevalent belief,but the saying of“one's own”appear in all the contents of the calligraphy history spanning over different dynasties. Through careful and meticulous textual research and on the basis of its style,strokes and structures,some strokes typical of Yan Zhenqing in his old age are discovered and they cannot have been imitated by others.The piece of handwriting is done by Yan Zhenqing himself under specific historical conditions.