当代中国书坛活跃着一批中年书法家,他们人数不多,年龄大约在三十五岁到五十岁之间,少数人略为超过上限或下限。他们有自己比较丰富的生活经历,有自己对传统的理解,有自己的风格。他们开始学习书法的时间是五十年代后期或六十年代前期。那是一个政治运动极为频繁的时期,文学艺术几乎无不受到各种运动的影响,唯一的例外就是 Contemporary Chinese calligraphers are active with a group of middle-aged calligraphers, who are small in number. They are between the ages of 35 and 50, with the minorities slightly exceeding the upper or lower limits. They have their own rich life experience, have their own understanding of the traditional, have their own style. They started studying calligraphy in the late fifties or early sixties. It was a time when political movements were extremely frequent, and literary arts were almost invariably influenced by various movements, with the only exception being