④此去西游，没有想过走“玄奘西天取经”的路径，而是性情所致，仰慕庄周的心志，给自己一些华丽豪迈的梦想，让生命摆脱贫寒，摆脱“有用”事功，化作鲲鹏，哪怕苍穹有千难万险，畅意一回天地遨游，完成对自己贫困而又短暂生命的另一种成全。
⑤途中有时乘车，有时徒步，无论车上、徒步，不时画些苍山、小人、小景；一张又一张，激励怦荡着我小小的心灵；一步又一步，用小小的躯体丈量过攀登西岳这条千古励志之路；一脚又一脚，丈量过长江黄河的发源地巴颜喀拉山的缺氧况味。真真切切体会到遗世独立、羽化登仙的欣慰！
Postscript

①When I was young, my mom often told me that her father was great and good at writing painting and poetry. The village folks seeked him for help, and he was always willing to help. So he had a good popularity. Mother said that two of my three uncles studied abroad and enjoyed a rich family which held nearly three hundred hectares of land. Mother is good-looking and smart. She said that she could recite after my uncle read three times. Yes, now she can also recite the books uncle learnt during his childhood. But mother couldn't read, because my grandpa didn't let girls go out. Until the age of 18 my mother mattied my father. In the past people stressed a perfect match. My grandfather Zou jingshun was more capible than my maternal grandfather. Father was much richer than the family she was in before with the land of family and the facade room in the street. After the year of 1950 ,mother said that the family suddenly lost everything.
②Unfortunately ,my family was so poor that we did not know where our next meal comes. Mom said I was gaunt, even couldn`t had the voice of crying because there is no strength. Although I was vulnerable, my strength on Graffiti was endless. I remembered events early and often ran to uncle`s home watching him priaticing the calligraphy and painting when I was four or five years old. My uncle was a teacher who often taught me painting and calligraphy and sent me bush and pigment.
③When I was twelve years old, I came accidientally from my uncle into contact with the book present note and translation of Zhuangzi written by Chen guying. It was hard to understand, but the thought of Zhuangzi “ People who indulge in the material desire cannot talk with him” and cognition about his poverty in the mountain and timber ----“The people with lofty ideals are not afraid of life on poverty but what they are afraid is spiritual down” supported me and warmed my desolate heart. That summer holiday I sold the only most expensive property of our home, a seventy percent new bicycle. With the money I went to the west, and zhuangzi became the invisible wings in my heart. I went like him to "communicate alone with the sprite of heaven and earth".
④This west travel, I did not think of going with the path of "the jurney to the west of Xuanzang”, but But caused by temperament. I admired the Zhuangzhou`s will that gave ourselves some gorgeously heroic dream, let the life go out of the poverty, got rid of "useful" complex, and then became the kunpeng. Even if there were numerous difficulties and fangers in the sky, I would like to swim between the sky and earth, finishing another help to our short and poor life.
⑤We alternated the cars and foot during the way. No matter by car or hiking, I still drew some mountains, people and sceneries, one painting after another, swinging with my little incentive heart; Step by step, with little body I measured the eternally spiritual Mountain Hua road; Foot after foot, I measured the sense oxygen of birthplace of the Yangtze riverv BaYanKaLa mountain. I was personally on the sence and experienced the pleasure of Isolated on feather fairy!

①日月如梭，转眼间来到了1977年，邓小平领导的中国改革开放，大学制度也由推荐改为考试。我有幸考入美院，毕业后国家分配到漯河大学执教。当时该校的创始人杨清振先生首任校长，他博学多思、求真务实。极富有人格魅力。在校时常聆听他的教诲，难忘的是，他谈“儒学”授我以使命，教我在社会人格中自我实现，以身践行。谈“道学”授我以羽翼，教我在自然人格中自我超越，让心遨游远方。
②再后来，时间到了1985年，我有幸获得全国第二届神龙大奖赛的金奖，其后，调入河南省书画院，常常聆听陈天然，李自强老师的教诲，以及谢冰毅，王宏剑，李云亭等同道的指教。1999年入文化部重彩画高级研究班学习，受教于中央美术学院教授蒋采萍先生、胡明哲先生，日本东京多摩美术大学教授上野太郎先生及国内外诸多名家。2002年——2006年入美国纽约大学，潜心研究西方艺术理论（此间涵盖艺术批评，艺术历史和艺术哲学）。
③我特有兴趣普桑对古典的寻求，温克尔曼的新古典意念，柏拉图、亚里士多德对美的理念，达文西、杜勒所建立的绘画条例，狄德罗对同时代者艺术的描绘，康德、黑格尔至尼采、海德格的德国审美哲学，德拉克洛瓦、波特莱尔之鼓励浪漫精神，马克思主义的艺术观，心理学者佛洛伊德、拉岗之自心里学角度探究艺术家，以至近代弗兰卡斯托、沙皮罗、达米施、葛林伯格等人对艺术的新观点。
④在西方生活的十多年里，不仅让我亲近、享受了异国的风土人情及文化，而且还绘制了大量的异国风景系列作品。
⑤常言道，人在异乡倍思亲。此间，由于和亲人离多聚少，虽不至于“西风，古道，瘦马，断肠人在天涯”，但在夜深人静时往往泪水绵绵，情丝不断，由此画了为数不少的爱系作品。
⑥为了留记我的心励路程，对二十多岁时画的仿古山水以及飞鸟、人物、动物由编辑也少量的录入了书中。下面谈谈书法作品，谈及书法，历史上，喜爱、陶醉、迷恋书法的人比比皆是。毛泽东，乾隆，宋徽宗，武则天，唐太宗等帝王们无不花大心力练习书法。李世民习字手肿臂疼，日理万机时还念念不忘王羲之书法妙不可言，居然苦心为其作《传论》。大文学家、史学家欧阳修自谓“自己一生喜爱做的事很多，时至晚年百厌不为，唯愈久益深而爱者，书也”。

①Sun and the moon went so fast, and it came to the year 1977. Deng xiaoping lead the China's reforming and opening and the university system was also transformed from the recommendation to the test. It was fortunate to be admitted to artistic academy and was distributed to teach in Luohe University. At that time, the foundation of the university Mr.Yang qingzhen held the position of president. He learnt and thought more and pragmatic enjoying a good popularity. In the school I often listened to his teachings. It was unforgettable that he talked about "Confucianism" giving me mission, teaching me self realization in social personality and practicing in body and that talked about "the doctrine of Daoism" awarding me the wings, teaching me improve myself in the natural personality and letting my heart roaming far away.
②Later, the year 1985, I was lucky enough to win the golden medal as the second in the  national Shenlong championship. Then, I was transferred to a Calligraphy and Painting institution of Henan province and often listened to instruction of Mr. Chen Tianran, Mr. Li Zijiang together with the teaching of like-minded Mr. XieBingYi, Mr. Wang HongJian and Mr. Li Yunjing. In 1999, I studied at the ministry of culture heavy-colored painting seminar, educated by professor Jiang Caiping, Mr. Hu Mingzhe of central academy of fine arts and professor Ueno tailong of Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan and also many famous celebrity at home and abroad. During 2002-2006, I was concentrated on the study of the western art theory in the New York university (covering art criticism, art history and art philosophy).
③I had special interests in Poussin`s exploration about old fashion, new classical ideas of Winkelmann, idea of beauty by Plato and Aristotle, a painting regulations of Leonardo and Abdul, the contemporary art Diderot described, the German aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Hegel to Nietzsche and Heidegger, the encouragement of spiritual romance by Della Crowe watts and potter Lyle, the marxist artistic perception, the thought of Psychologist Freud and Lacan that explore artists from psychological aspect, even the modern neodoxy of art of Franca Stowe, Shapiro, Damisch, and Greenbergwas green etc.
④The ten years` western life not only let me be close to and enjoy the local conditions and customs of the exotic culture, but also made a lot of series of exotic scenery works.
⑤As the saying goes, In foreign country more than ever we thought of our dear relatives faraway. During that time, we're together much less than we're apart. Although it did not reach the degree of "west wind, ancient road, thin horse along with tears of someone at the edge of the world”, but my tears often fell at night. Due to constant affection silk, I drew a lot of works about love.
⑥In order to record my heart excitation journey, the painting of archaize landscape, people, animals and birds drawn when I was 20 yeas old were also recorded a small amount in my book. Next let me talk about calligraphy works. Referring to the calligraphy, people loved, was intoxicated with and madly clung to calligraphy in history can be found everywhere. The kings like Mao zedong, Qian Long, Emperor Huizong of Song, Empress Wu and Emperor Taizong of Tang etc. flowered big heart on practicing calligraphy. Li shi-mm`s hand was swollen and arm hurt caused by practicing penmanship. With all the work required to run a country, he still remembered Wang xizhi`s incredibly wonderful calligraphy and unexpectedly went all out to make the " biography theory" for him. Great writers and historians Ou Yangxiu called himself that "I myself love to do a lot things, but they all annoy me when I was old. The only deep joy is the book".

①可书法是苦命的，她比起音乐，绘画的路径狭窄得多，但书法又是幸运的，她展现在黑白之间的天地是如此的广阔。记得一位西方哲人说过，如果说世界的艺术在东方，东方的艺术就在中国，中国的艺术就是书法；如果说真书是顶皇冠，那么草书就是这皇冠上的明珠！的确，原来只求以形迹表达音义的字，既能很好地为实用服务的同时，千百年来成了举世无双唯中国所独有的特殊艺术，这看似简易之事，其实，书法是一种精神内涵丰富，文化品位很高，极具强大魅力的人间艺术。为此，几十年来，无论风华月夜，无论酷暑严寒，因为爱我从无间断过对她的苦心研练、执着追求！在此我要特别感谢我的启蒙老师启功先生，先生对我说，习字要先从晋字始，其后再涉入别体。几十年对甲骨、金文、大篆、小篆、隶书、汉简、魏碑、章草、唐楷、狂草等等多有涉猎，我尤其钟情于章草那结体的韵美及格调之典雅。

②唉，生命有限，流光苦短，几十个春秋以来，虽然苦行僧般毕业于美院，并入政府画院参加国家级画展、书展，多次获奖再多次国内外办个展以及被多家新闻媒体专题采访、报导等等，名堂搞尽……！最终选择美利坚合众国，定居纽约，慢慢等老！！人生如梦，过眼云烟啊！

③在此，特别感谢：河南美术出版社；感谢：为此书提供资金的邹争红老总，张玉阳老总；感谢：所有购买收藏过我作品的世界各地的先生们女士们以及所有机构、展览馆、博物馆、会所等；感谢：曾经培育，影响，帮助过我的师长前辈，同行，同窗以及我的学生；感谢：我的父母、兄姐、我的儿子、儿媳为我的付出；感谢：我所有的亲人，朋友们……！

④蓝天  合掌

①However the calligraphy was hard, she was much more narrow when compared to the path of music and painting. Meanwhile, the calligraphy was also lucky because she showed the heaven and earth so vast between the black and white. I remembered the words of a western philosopher, if the world`s art was in the east, then the oriental art was in China and the  Chinese art was the calligraphy；If ZhenShu is the crown, then the cursive script was the pearl in the crown! Indeed, the word using appearance to express phonetic significance before not only could oeffer the practical services, but also became the world`s unique features of China's special art in thousands years. This looked easy. In fact, the calligraphy is a kind of human art with abundant spirit connotation, high cultural grade and the most powerful charming. Therefore, for decades, no matter the moonlit night or extremely hot or cold weather, I never stop my hammering away at her and persistant pursuit on her because of love. Here I would like to thank my enlightening teacher Mr. Qi Gong. He said to me, practicing penmanship should start with Jin word, then involved in other scripts. Several decades, I was invovled in oracle bone inscriptions, Bronze inscription, large seal script, small seal script, clerical script, bamboo slips, wei rubbings, zhang cao, Tangkai, unconstrained and many other parts. While I especially loved the beautiful struction and the i elegant style of Zhangcao.
②Well, life is limited and time is short. Dozens of springs and autumns, although I was graduated from beautiful courtyard like an ascetic and entered the painting academy for government taking part in the  exhibition, book fair and winning many prizes in foreign office. I was also interviewed by several news media. The tricks has down……! Finally, I chose the USA, settled in New York and wait becoming old slowly. The life like dream, temporary!!!!!
③Here, I would like to show my special thanks to: henan art press, to: managers, Mr. Zhang Yuyang and Mr.Zou Zhenghong who offered the fundings for the book, to: all the ladies and gentel men around the world who bought my works and the institutions, exhibition hall, museum and club house, to: my teachers predecessors, counterparts and schoolmates who fostered, influenced and helped me together with my students, to: my parents, brother, elder sister, my son and daughter-in-law who made efforts for me, to: all of my family, my friends... !
                                                               ④Blue sky  He zhang

品读蓝天

①与蓝天大姐相识两载，相见几次，相知如故，可谓神交！
②承蒙大姐厚爱，专程来觅古居欣赏其大作，嘱托观感，吾惶恐之至。吾虽浅识，但大姐之作给我的震撼是难以忘怀的。那是一种什么样的感受呢？
③心灵之洗涤，精神之释放，世外之超脱！
④身居于闹市之中，逍遥于天地之间。大姐就如她的名字一样圣洁，脱离世间凡俗，值于云海间，伴我笑苍生，豪爽之气令人过目不忘！
⑤一幅幅作品似一曲曲埙乐旷阔远古，不知不觉间令观者跨越了时空，回到那个遥远的时代，忘却烦扰事，神游苍茫间！于日月宇宙间轮回，独与天地精神之往来！置身悬崖间，品诗论道，我本无颜面，苍生是吾心！

⑥笑看世事繁华，我自神游蓝天！女儿情怀，丈夫气概！积墨众峰处，悠悠是我心！

⑦时而乘物游心，时而情意绵绵，笔墨乃心灵之轨迹，精神之再现。豪放之处见细腻，神游之心溢笔端！我喜欢大姐之神，之气，之志，之概，之心！ 庄子曰：人生虚己以游世，其孰能害之？人生在世，不计名利，只是游世，不亦乐乎？观蓝天大姐之作，恍如世事之外，没有纷杂烦嚣，有的是精神物外的愉悦！

⑧纵观蓝天大姐之作，从古到今，从传统到现代，从笔墨到色块，从绘画到书法无不精到，可见其潜心数载之心血，恢宏之气，感人肺腑！

⑨“至人无己，神人无功，圣人无名。”蓝天大姐周游全球，不慕功名利禄，潜心于蓝天白云之上，可敬，可叹！
                                     ——杨继磊于郑州                                          2012年6月28日

Taste the blue sky

①I have known sister blue sky for two years and met several times as bosom friend, just like God deliver!
②Thanks to her great kindness, I come all the way here just to visit the old residence and enjoy her works, I greatly fear to her entrust impressions. Although my knowledge is shallow, the elder sister works give me unforgettable shock. what kind of feeling is it?
③It is the catharsis of minds, the release of spirit and the beyond of the world.
④Living in a busy street, I am free and unfettered between the heaven and earth. Sister is as holy as her name, separating from the world, living between sea and cloud, staying with my people smile,  the gracious ambition is unforgettable!
⑤Like one after another Xun musics, works series are wide and ancient, unconsciously make viewers across the space and time and then back to that distant times,you can forget bother things and travel between boundless! In the cycle of the universe, alone and the spirit of the heaven and earth with! Between the cliffs, you can taste the poems and talk about the Dao , I have no face but the whole is my heart!
⑥I travel around the blue sky by myself through smiling and seeing the prosperious things! Daughers sensation and husband’s spirit! Living in all the peak places, long is in my heart!
⑦Sometimes traveling around by heart, sometimes say more by feelings, words are the path of the heart and reproduction of the spirit. The exquisite can be seen in the bold and unconstrained place, the wondering heart can be overflown from the top of the pen.I like the verve, the spirit, the mettle and  the heart of the elder sister! Chuang tzu said“traveling the world in your kenotic attitude , who can harm you? Living in the world life, you  should exclud the fame and fortune, just to travel the world , isn`t it happy? Viewing the great works of sister blue sky, as if I am outside of the world, there in no distracting and annoying, just for the cheerful spirit!
⑧Throughout her great works, it is very precise and penetrating from past to present, from tradition to modern, from ink to color piece and from painting to calligraphy, you can visible the efforts with several years great concentration, the grand ambition is very touching!
⑨“To people without himself, the God without the fame and the Saint without anonimity.” Sister blue sky travels around the world, not for fame and fortune but for researching on the blue sky with great concentration. How honorable and regrettable!
                                            ——Yang Jilei written in Zhengzhou cit              On June 28, 2012

人性的回归
    

 谢冰毅(河南省书画院院长)

和蓝天结识已有20多年了，亲眼目睹了她的发展历程，她是一个多才多艺的书画家。年轻时候她的作品充满着激情，峥嵘的线条间有着一种大江东去，一发不可遏止的豪情。线条和墨块之间的纠缠、争斗、揖让之中充满了艺术家的灵感。那时候的她，追求的是一种人生的激情和艺术的豪迈。
近些年来，随着岁月的增加她的作品又发生了根本性的变化，尤其是出国以后，常年在国外的生活拓展了她的视野，壮阔了她的心胸使她能够站在世界的高度观察、思考。
西方艺术的震撼和东方艺术的蕴藉使她逐渐领悟到艺术的真谛，进而对东方文化和哲学有了深刻的反思，在她的作品之中充满了东方人对天、地、人的认识，一种对大自然的回归。
这些追求体现在这些新作之中，西方艺术的理念、现代艺术的熏陶和后现代艺术的震撼都在这些作品里面得到了展现。所以说她的作品里面既有西方的形式，又有着东方人对田园生活的回归；既有大自然的千变万化，又抒发了她个人对东方哲学的反思。既有着佛家哲学的禅思，又有着中国人对“道”的追问。什么是“道”，庄子说道无处不在。何为佛？佛祖说无忧是佛。庄子说：“水静犹明，而况精神”？水在什么时候能照到天地万物呢？只有在一种情况下，就是水安静的时候。参破世界至理，需要的是理性，需要的是清明，需要的是心静，需要的是对天、地、人、万物的明思和彻悟。
所以说她的作品是自己心灵的写照，也是这么多年来她的精神在宇宙上的幻化，近些年来，她的书法作品在豪放之余又有了新的追求，作品由繁到简，由博转约，由激情转为淡定，由豪放转为自然。这也是她多年的生活经历所感悟到的，使她现在的作品含蓄、内敛、耐品耐读。我们期望她在艺术的道路上走的更远、更高，我们期望她有更多更新的作品问世。
  2012年8月1日与河南省书画院

  The Return of human nature

I have known Lantian,who is versatile calligrapher,for over 20 years and witnessed the development process of her life.When she was young,her works is full of passion,which has the mighty river flows eastward and irresistible emotion between the towering lines.Entanglement and between the conflict are full of artistic inspiration between the lines and ink.Then it was at that time that she pursue the life of passion and heroic art.
As time goes by,her works has changed fundamentally in recent years.Especially after her going abroad,the life abroad has expanded her horizon and opened her mind,which made her be able to sand at the height of world to observe and think about the world.
The shock of the Western art the connotation of oriental art make her realize the essence of art gradually,and thus a profound reflection on Oriental culture and philosophy,her work is full of the cognition of Oriental heaven,earth and human,which results in the return of nature.
These pursuits reflected among these new works,The concept of Western art,the influence of modern art and the shock of postmodern art in these works had been demonstrated.So her works has both the western form and return of the Asians on the pastoral life,both the ever-changing nature and the expression of her personal reflection on Eastern philosophy and both the Buddhist philosophy of Zen  and a questioning of the Chinese people on the Taoism.
So her works is the portrayal of her mind and the metamorphosis of her spirit in the universe for so many years.In recent years,her calligraphy works is uninhibited and also has some new pursuit,Her works turns from complicated to simple,from plentiful to little,from passionate to calm,from bold to the natural.This is what she have realized because of her life experiences of many years,now her works are subtle ,reserved and resistant to read.We look forward to the advent of her more and newer works,and expect ht road of her art go further and longer.