曹娥碑 The epigraph of Tsao-eh

【作者介紹】

董其昌，字玄宰，號思白、思翁，別號香光居士，松江華亭人。明代書法家。兼工楷、行、草書，形成生拙秀雅的書法風格。在書法理論上，他強調書法貴有古意，認為書法必須熟後能生，即以生拙之態來掩飾技法的嫻熟，藉以表現書法的「士氣」。

Inside Story

Tsao-eh is a poem of recording the filial virtue of Tsao-eh who jumped into a river trying to find his father. It is said that Tsao-eh’s father got knocked into water by waves while rowing a boat against streams on the day of Dragon Boat Festival. His body was unable to be found for many days. Tsao-eh, then at the age of fourteen, called her father’s name while walking along the river for seventeen days and finally she jumped into the river. Five days later the body of Tsao-eh holding her father’s merged out of the water.