解缙（1369-1415）字大绅，又字缙绅，号春雨，又号喜易。江西吉水人。幼颖敏，二十岁中进士，授庶吉士，仕至翰林学士，兼左春坊大学士，太祖甚爱重，常侍御前，主持撰修《永乐大典》。这是我国最大的一部类书。在世界文化史上,《永乐大典》被誉为编纂最早、规模最大、内容最广的百科全书。解缙不仅学识渊博,才华横溢,而且为人耿直,刚正不阿,不畏权贵。他屡次上疏,针泛弊政,弹劝奸馁小人,由此导致他一生坎坷,时而得宠,时而失宠,时而升迁,时而贬滴,直至遭人构陷，惨死狱中。
解缙在诗歌、书法、散文等方面也很有成就。他下笔不能自休。尤工五言诗,现存诗五百余首。他的古体歌行,气势奔放,想象丰富,逼似李白,而律诗绝句,亦近唐人。他又擅长书法,小楷精绝,行草皆佳,用笔之精妙,出人意表。他的著作有《白云稿》、《东山集》、《太平奏疏》等。现在留存下来的有《解文毅公集》十六卷及《春雨杂述》一卷、《古今烈女传》三卷。后人对他一生的评价是:“节千秋壮,文章百代尊。”邹元标《解春雨学士旧墓》)。
其草书开晚明狂草先河。明何乔远《名山藏》曰：“缙学书得法于危素、周伯琦。其书傲让相缀，神气自倍。”足见解缙书法的成就。
Xie Jin, "An Anecdote of Song Zhaoheng Palace Examination (宋赵恒殿试佚事)" Cursive script on paper, 20 cm in length and 86 cm in width
Shanghai Museum Collection (click to enlarge). Image courtesy of Kejia
Explanation:
宋真宗采賈誼置器之說試進士讀至蔡齊赋有安天下意歎曰此宰相器也凡貢士富赐第者考定必召其高第數人並見參擇才質及至齊衣冠伟然進對有法天于以為無能過者遂以第一赐之缙紳書
Jie Jin's cursive script, learn from Huai Su. The first three lines of this volume are slightly restrained, and from the fourth line onwards, they become more fluid and unrestrained. The brush is vigorous and vigorous, the front is changeable, the frustration is round, and the brush is free and easy. The ink is thick and dry, the ink color is as dark as lacquer, and the ink rhyme is flying, adding more elegance. Xie Jin's cursive script is well-known in the history of calligraphy, and it keeps pace with the three Songs (Song Ke, Song Guang, Song Su) in the early Ming Dynasty.
At the end of this volume, the seal of Qin Zhu's "曰藻珍玩" is at the bottom of the volume. It was once collected by Miao Yuezao, a connoisseur in the Qing Dynasty. (Zhu Hengwei)
