The only railway station has typos. Why can it be recognized in calligraphy?

Nowadays, high-speed rail has become a beautiful business card for China, and it often contracts projects all over the world to spread China's technology. China's railway operating mileage is as high as 14 1400 km, of which high-speed rail reaches 36,000 km, ranking first in the world.

At the same time, as the first contact place for foreign tourists, the railway station is a well-deserved city business card. In order to impress people, various areas are also built with great momentum. At the same time, the long railway station is a witness of history.

For example, Lanzhou Railway Station, built at 1952, was built earlier and witnessed the rise of Lanzhou. After many renovations, it is now very magnificent, but his word Lanzhou has been criticized by people and is the focus of discussion among netizens, because it seems to be a typo, which can be regarded as the only misspelled railway station in China.

First of all, according to the current writing standards, the bottom horizontal is the longest, and the middle horizontal is the shortest, which is consistent with the situation that the top is small and the bottom is large, which is very stable and practical, while the top horizontal of the blue characters in Lanzhou Station is the longest, and the middle bottom is the shortest, which is almost the same.

Moreover, the word "Zhou" in Lanzhou has a vertical hook. If you put it in the usual exam, it will definitely be judged as a typo, and netizens also think that as Lanzhou with a long history, it is very inappropriate to typo at the most conspicuous railway station. Is this word really wrong? It's been hanging for decades.

The writing of this word is not from the hands of ordinary people, but from the hands of calligrapher Mr. Zhang Bangyan. Known as the father of bamboo slips, he first proposed the calligraphy of Han bamboo slips, which was very influential in the book world. He copied Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy and created it himself.

His copy of Han bamboo slips in Wuwei is considered to be a rare masterpiece and is collected in the museum. Such a talented person will never write typos at will, which really meets the requirements of calligraphy.

It's just that China's calligraphy has a long history, and there are many factions with different meanings. What is his intention in writing Lanzhou like this? This is an inscription about the history of Lanzhou and Lanzhou Station.

Lanzhou, known as Jincheng in ancient times, is an important location of the Silk Road. People lived here thousands of years ago and its historical background is very rich. Now it is also an important industrial city and transportation hub in northwest China. Such an ancient city with great historical, cultural and industrial achievements can naturally enrich its profound meaning in Chinese characters, and the top and horizontal length of blue characters are magnificent. Shouldn't a thousand-year-old city show its personality? Show the achievements over the years.

In addition, when the status word ends with a hook, calligraphy pays special attention to the three processes of starting, writing and collecting, which meets the requirements of collecting the pen before returning, showing a subtle and meaningful artistic expression effect. Moreover, the propaganda of the blue word seems to be somewhat restrained, and this kind of relaxed writing is very attractive.

And why do you want to say the inscription of Lanzhou Station? Zhang Bangyan was invited to write an inscription for Lanzhou Railway Station in 1980s, and published simplified characters in 1964 and 1986 respectively. Therefore, when Zhang Bangyan wrote Lanzhou Railway Station, China's simplified characters were still in the stage of popularization.

Moreover, Zhang Bangyan's calligraphy was originally intended to write traditional Chinese characters, but it was only after being asked to use simplified Chinese characters that this writing method was adopted. Moreover, you will find that these two characters actually form a whole, that is, a blue word is wide and narrow, and a posture word is narrow and wide, forming a harmonious whole, which meets the writing requirements of calligraphy.

In fact, how to treat such a problem? Calligraphy always seems to be a little different from the standard writing method. For example, the inscription of Xiamen University is missing a point, and the learning words are not covered, but it was written by the literary master Lu Xun. This kind of writing is also taken from Wei and Jin dynasties, which is full of reason. The door is like a bow, which means respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching, while learning words without a cover means that learning is endless.