徐元文感蝗赋行书手卷释读

Xu Yuanwen's Free Style Handwriting "On Locusts"

徐元文《感蝗赋》行书手卷，纸本，长133、宽25．5厘米，启首处钤有“嘉庆御览之宝”朱文印、“石渠宝笈”朱文印、“宝笈三编”朱文印、“三希堂精鉴玺”朱文印、“宜子孙”白文印、“蒋祖诒”白文印、“毂孙鉴藏”白文印，赋文后附有姜宸英、万斯同、尤同、万言、徐秉义、朱彝尊、曹寅等徐元文门生、故旧、亲友的14通题跋及缪荃孙、梁鼎芬等人于光绪二十九年(1903年)后题写的8则跋语。

Calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty Xu Yuanwen's poem 'On Locusts' riles at corrupt officials by exploiting the locust disaster. His friend Jiang Chenying and Wan Sitong wrote a postscript to the poem. Despite his hidden criticism of the political situation at the time, he still won the confidence of the Qing emperor and was entrusted to supervise the compilation of the 'History of the Ming Dynasty'. The free style calligraphy by Xu was collected into the three volumes of book on calligraphy. The work features the characteristics of Xu' s calligraphy and traces its origin to Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang.