墨法詩四首 The 4 poems

【作者介紹】

吳志淳，生卒年不詳，約生活在元末明初。字主一，安徽廬州府無為州人。元末歷任靖安、都昌二縣主簿。奏除待制翰林，為權幸所阻，後避兵亂舉家遷移豫章，再遷浙江鄞縣東湖。入明後不仕。工草書篆隸，亦能詩。與劉基、高啟齊名。

Inside Story

The four poems applied plenty of examples to make judgments on well-known calligraphers and their works. They are rather difficult to understand for readers of nowadays. The “A Jung” appeared in the last poem denotes Wang Jung of Jin Dynasty, who had earned fame with remarkable intelligence since he was a child; people called clever kids by “A Jung” since then. Here means the value of the well-known calligraphies preserved by historians needs to be appraised by intelligent kids.