In the contemporary, what it means to be a calligrapher? How to be a calligrapher? What should a calligrapher who is being between the tradition of calligraphy and contemporary changes do for self-identification and fuzzy values? Roughly, the basic point of it starts from the questions mentioned above. It means to think about a contemporary and also self-related way to interpret 王鐸、方以智and 劉咸炘 the representatives of Syncretism, and “problematize” the calligraphers. Therefore, it attempts to start from the Kungfu theory of a calligragher (similar to Michel Foucault’s Technology of self), and try to emerge the thinking trace of Calligraphy-Dao. As the thoughts, it would be metaphysics, and also appear the fuzzy relationship to Calligraphy-Dao.
However, to the literacy of the subject, it remains to consider about the calligrapher’s contemporary Kungfu theory and the background problem of the contemporary world. On the other hand , it means to thinking about the contemporary restatements between subjects and the traditions from the subject identification problem of the era. To overview, it should be opened to “ our impense”, on the other side, it needs to avoid the mighty ideology. Therefore, the conversation could be held between calligraphy and the contemporary, the contemporary would also listen to the state of calligraphy.
The thoughts of contemporary literature and culture theory of calligrapher is not extended, even not started in contemporary calligrapher issue. As to it, it would be a beginning of the inquiry, or a thinking record to targeted questions. There would be no ideal model or statement, it would try to set up questions by thinking, and attempts to extend the questions to connect the subjects to the contemporary model. As to the thinking and practice, it closes to a kind of self-Kungfu learning. As for being” Inner Sageliness and Outer Kingliness", the potential of Calligraphy-Dao would start after the culture-crossed criticism.