Zhao Mengfu was an influential calligrapher in the early Yuan Dynasty. According to the original biography of Yuan Shi, "Meng Zhi's calligraphy is the highest in ancient and modern times, so its title is the world", which shows its admiration. He is an accomplished calligrapher who combines Jin and Tang calligraphy. Contemporary calligraphers hold him in high esteem, and some later generations listed him as one of the four masters of regular script "Yan, Liu, Ou and Zhao". Dong Qichang, a painter and calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, believed that his calligraphy was directly oriented to Jin people. Zhao's success in calligraphy is inseparable from his ability to absorb others' long-term punishment. Later generations, many people studied Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy, and Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy was very popular in Korea and Japan.
The characteristics of Zhao Ti regular script can be summarized as follows:
First, on the basis of inheriting traditional calligraphy, Zhao simplified the complex and turned the past into the present. His brushwork is neither vague nor mysterious, and the brushwork path of starting, transporting and collecting pens is very clear, which makes it easy for scholars to understand and follow.
Secondly, the appearance is round, the bones and muscles have connotation, its stippling is gorgeous and vigorous, the structure is broad and beautiful, and the stippling echoes closely. Soft outside and rigid inside, beautiful figure and strong skeleton. Scholars not only learn its shape, but also learn its spirit;
Third, the pen is square and square, and the lines are taken. When writing Zhao Ti, stippling needs to be round and colorful, but the structure of white cloth should pay great attention to being square and rigorous, horizontal and vertical, flat and stretched, and the center of gravity is stable. Only in this way can we grasp the characteristics of Zhao Ti. In addition, when he writes regular script, he uses running script slightly, which is one of the characteristics of Zhao Ti.