From January 8 to 28, 2021, the Fifth National Exhibition of traditional Chinese calligraphy was held in China Railway Qingdao World Expo City. The exhibition is co sponsored by the Chinese Calligraphers Association, Shandong Federation of literary and art circles and the Publicity Department of Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is the highest level professional "National Exhibition" undertaken by Qingdao for the first time since the new era. It is well prepared, with wonderful contents and novel forms, and has attracted much attention. This exhibition is also a cultural feast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 130th anniversary of the founding of Qingdao. It is of great significance and far-reaching influence.

"Zhengti calligraphy" is defined as "official Zhengti calligraphy" in the history of calligraphy, including seal script, official script and regular script. It naturally has elegant and upright style. It has been inherited and developed for 3000 years. It has always been the cornerstone of calligraphy and the eternal pursuit of the aesthetic of the times. The National Exhibition of authentic calligraphy is one of the highest level single exhibitions sponsored by the Chinese Calligrapher Association. After years of continuous exploration and innovation, it has become a high-end authoritative platform for gathering the majority of calligraphers, launching high-quality products and talents, and focusing on showing the artistic level of contemporary authentic calligraphy. It is of great significance to advocate calligraphers to immerse themselves in calligraphy, deeply study authentic calligraphy, and promote the development of contemporary calligraphy in China It is of great significance to construct the style of the times in the inheritance and development.

It is reported that the exhibition took more than half a year to prepare and received 17409 works, including 10027 regular script, 4915 official script and 2467 seal script. After strict evaluation by the jury, 293 pieces of authentic calligraphy were selected for exhibition. These works are pure in style, high in style and diverse in style, which reflect the deep understanding and excavation of traditional classics by the calligraphers, represent the overall level of formal calligraphy creation at the present stage, and reflect the artistic style of contemporary formal calligraphy and the aesthetic value of the times. They can make everyone fully feel the artistic charm of calligraphy and the spirit of upright calligraphy, upright innovation and high spirited The spirit of the times.

In order to enrich the form and connotation of this exhibition, the exhibition site also broadcast the special publicity films of "deep love of mountains and seas, calligraphy Qingdao" and "calligraphy Shandong, calligraphy world" for the first time, which more intuitively showed people Qingdao's long history and culture, profound calligraphy heritage, as well as the regional calligraphy style with mountain and sea characteristics created in recent years. At the same time, the children from Lanting primary school on the west coast of Qingdao, a school with Wang Xizhi's calligraphy characteristics in Shandong Province, presented an elaborate writing performance for the exhibition. In the elegant music melody, they held a brush in hand and showed their dancing posture. They wrote the eight characters of "deep mountain and sea love, calligraphy Qingdao" in seal script, official script, Wei tablet and Tang Kai, which added a new look to the exhibition What kind of vitality and vitality, but also for the inheritance and development of calligraphy into more fresh blood.

China Railway · Qingdao World Expo City, as the support unit and venue of the Fifth National Exhibition of traditional Chinese calligraphy, has a deep relationship with traditional Chinese calligraphy. The venue is only 20 kilometers away from the discovery site of "Langya carved stone" which is the only Qin Zhuan relic. The design of the International Exhibition Center adopts "Langya terrace" as the modeling intention, and the ancient architectural modeling of the International Conference Center also integrates the architectural features of the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the overall planning, layout and design concept, it skillfully reflects the long history of the Yazheng culture of the Qin and Han Dynasties, adding more depth to this authentic calligraphy exhibition And the charm of Boya.

(correspondent: Zhong chenxuan, Xu Yongchao)