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The Modern Reception of Medieval Moya

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This presentation looks at the modern reception of Zheng Daozhao's epigraphy, a group of four 6th-century inscribed landscapes in Eastern Shandong province. Zheng's œuvre was appreciated in 19th century essays (by Ruan Yuan, Bao Shicheng, Yang Shoujing, Ye Yangchi, Kang Youwei) for its ethereal/spiritual quality and mild brutalism. By looking at the reference calligraphic models and the vocabulary used by modern essayists, one realizes that the calligraphic qualities of Zheng's interventions are largely a recent construction. In fact, the attribution of the carvings is problematic, with dimensions, depths and strokes shapes varying greatly from one inscription to another. Zheng's motivations – at the intersection between funerary and religious concerns – and the tension between his public persona and private self are still debated too. The individual appropriation of a mountain in medieval China, in-between imperial sacrifices or mausolea in the previous era, and institutionalized sacred Buddhist or Taoist sites in the next, offers a parenthesis where modern sensibilities can dwell. Indeed, the materiality of writing and the personality of the writer are two aspects that modern calligraphers need to address, two aspects that oriented their quest for alternative models in the history of calligraphy. However, the mountainous sites themselves were not much visited or commented upon directly, they circulated mostly in the shape of rubbings, which were also brought to Japan by Yang Shoujing. They were widely diffused, but on-site visits had to wait until the 1980s, when groups of Japanese calligraphy amateurs even financed the heritagization of the sites.

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hal-04558848 , version 1 (25-04-2024)

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Lia Wei. The Modern Reception of Medieval Moya. AAS2024 - Annual Conference, Association of Asian Studies, Mar 2024, Seattle (USA), United States. ⟨hal-04558848⟩
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