Enchanting Calligraphy VI: The Complete Song Ci - Volume One
Some art does not compete on speed or volume. It takes time as its ink and life as its paper, stroke by stroke, tracing the most honest relationship between a person and the world.
Enchanting Calligraphy, Volume Six, is Lillian Don's latest and most ambitious work since her acclaimed first five collections. This volume takes the complete lyrics of the Song Dynasty-ci poetry-as its foundation, woven through with over sixty years of calligraphic mastery. Delicate and powerful, lyrical and bone-deep, each character carries the weight of a lifetime's practice. To open this book is not only to encounter Song poetry-it is to witness a calligrapher in dialogue with poets across a thousand years.
Ci poetry is the most humanly intimate form in the Chinese literary tradition. The melancholy of Li Qingzhao, the expansiveness of Su Dongpo, the grief of Xin Qiji, the longing of Liu Yong-voices from a millennium ago move again through Lillian's brush, transformed into visible lines, tangible ink. She makes each character breathe. She lets the white space glow. She gives every poem a new life on paper.
Lillian grew up in a literary family in Taichung, Taiwan, where her father, grandfather, and mother were all accomplished calligraphers. Immersed in this tradition from childhood, she studied under master calligrapher Wu Jianlun and has devoted over six decades to the art. Years of living abroad enriched her practice, adding a quality that only accumulated life experience can produce-a suppleness and wisdom that lifts her work above mere technique. Her Song ci carry both the deep roots of tradition and the warmth of a singular life.
Since 2017, Lillian has shared her calligraphy daily on Facebook, Weibo, WeChat, and Twitter, drawing millions of followers and tens of millions of views. Her works are held in the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress and have been exhibited widely across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This sixth volume marks another milestone in her creative journey-and another step on the long road she has committed to: bringing Chinese calligraphy and culture to the world.
As one of her readers wrote: "She makes the ink breathe, and the white space glow." Six volumes is not repetition-it is deepening. Each collection breaks new ground; each page holds greater stillness. In this volume, she turns to the complete canon of Song ci, offering the fullest possible tribute to that golden era of Chinese verse, and the most heartfelt gift of ink and brushwork to every reader who loves Chinese culture.
Whether you are a calligraphy enthusiast, a student of Song poetry, or simply someone seeking a moment of quiet in a noisy world-this book opens a door. Step through it, and find in the meeting of brush and paper a place where the centuries dissolve, and the heart comes to rest.
《墨染芳華》第六冊，以宋詞全本為題，將李清照的悽婉、蘇東坡的曠達、辛棄疾的悲憤，盡收於董楊麗蓉逾一甲子的筆墨之中。她的字不帶匠氣，有骨有情，讓墨色呼吸，讓留白生光。翻開此冊，千年詞境，躍然眼前。
