“隶变”与汉代隶书艺术的辉煌成就

“Libian” and the Brilliant Achievement of Lishu Art in the Han Dynasty

隶书是古文字长期变化发展的产物,它进一步突破"象形"拘束而抽象化,拓展了书法的用笔变化和字结构的空间安排。隶书在汉代达到成熟,成为全社会的通行文字。现代遗存的汉隶主要有碑刻和简牍帛书两大类,碑刻尤其是东汉中后期的名碑是历代传承有绪的隶书艺术典范,而近现代出土的简牍帛书则呈现出一个更加广阔的隶书艺术世界。隶书在东汉末年逐渐走向衰微,清代隶书随学术风尚转变而复兴,总体成就直接两汉。

Lishu （a style of Chinese calligraphy） was the product of long-term changes in the development of ancient Chinese characters;it made a further breakthrough from the shackles of“pictographic”and thus became abstract, and expanded the variety of brushwork as well as the spatial arrangement of Chinese character structures. In the Han Dynasty, lishu reached maturity and became the prevailing character of the whole society. In modern times, remains of lishu of the Han Dynasty can be classified into two types, inscriptions and bamboo slips＆amp;silk manuscripts. In addition, inscriptions especially the famous steles in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty with clear smriti clues are the apotheoses of lishu art, while bamboo slips＆amp;silk manuscripts unearthed in modern times show a broader world of lishu art. Lishu gradually declined in the late Eastern Han Dynasty; however, it revived in the Qing Dynasty with the transition of academic habits and achieved another great success second to the Han Dynasty.