书法的价值判断,因当前时代处于转换时期,又因书法界的十分活跃,变得更为复杂而有现实意义。这里先谈一件小事:曾经有位青年,拿着一大堆‘字’向我诉说,评委们对他的作品有两种截然相反的意见:一种嫌其‘保守’,一种指其‘激进’,评定时仅以一票之差落选。我先对他说,一般用于政治上的‘保守’与‘激进’的词汇运用到书法上是不妥的。艺术上的‘旧’和‘新’要看在什么意义上运用,并 The value judgments of calligraphy have become more complicated and realistic because of the transitional period in the current era and the very active calligraphy community. Here’s a trivial matter: once there was a young man who told me with a bunch of ’words’ that the jury had two diametrically opposite opinions on his work: one is too conservative and the other ’Radical’, the assessment was only one vote of the difference. I first told him that it is inappropriate to apply calligraphy to the ’conservative’ and ’radical’ terms commonly used for politics. Art in the ’old’ and ’new’ to see in what sense, and