When Huai Su was ten years old, his parents couldn't stop him. After entering the Buddha, he changed his words to conceal the truth, and was called "Lingling monk" or "Shi Changsha" in history. The family is poor and can't afford paper, so we have to practice calligraphy on the walls, clothes, utensils and banana leaves of the temple; In order to practice calligraphy, I also made a paint tray.
When Huai Su was young, calligraphy was "not learning the ancient". According to the inheritance of China's brushwork, he is still "illegal" and still dissociated from orthodox calligraphy.
In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), in his later years, Huai Su went to Li Bai to write poems. They are similar in temperament, and Li Bai loves talents and wrote a cursive script for him.
In the first year of Tang Baoying (762), Huai Su set out from Lingling, took Wan Li Road, visited his teacher and friends, and passed through Hengyang and Ketanzhou.
In the first year of Tang Baoying (763), Huai Su began to go north to Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan).
In the first year of Tang Dali (766), Huai Su wrote eight autumn poems. The book style of Huai Su's post is not yet mature, and his heart is also in the stage of hesitation. Whether it is starting, holding or collecting a pen, it is far from the threshold of Jin people.
In the second year of Tang Dali (767), Huai Su went south to Guangzhou to learn painting from Xu Hao. When Xu Hao went to Guangzhou as the secretary of the Secretariat, the purpose of this trip was not achieved. In the winter of the same year or in the spring of three years, Zhang Qian returned to Beijing as the son of Prince Zuo Shu, so Huai Su went to Beijing with Zhang Qian. I was lucky enough to see the works of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and I also enjoyed the Cao E Monument. I spent about five years in Chang 'an and Huaisu.
In the spring of the third year of the Tang Dynasty (768), Huai Su "took a xizhang to China to meet contemporary celebrities" and toured the landscape with Wang Yong and others in Hengyang. At that time, Zhang Qian, who was demoted as the secretariat of Tanzhou (Changsha), returned to the DPRK to resume his post, and Huai Su joined Qin with his companions. After entering Beijing, he met Zhang Xu's disciple Wu Tong and worshipped him as his teacher. Wu Tong explained to Huai Su the miracle of Zhang Zhi's Linchi, Zhang Xu's cursive script and Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy. When he left, Wu Tong taught Huai Su the word "enlightenment".
In the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty, Huai Su's mother was very ill and went back to her hometown to visit at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, waiting for the decoction. Huai Su returned to Beijing after his pilgrimage.
In the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty (772), around September, Huai Su returned to his hometown, bypassed Luoyang, the capital of the East, and visited Yan Zhenqing. [4] Yan Zhenqing taught Huai Su "twelve strokes", that is, "pointing horizontally, pointing vertically, both at the international level and near the international level", and told Huai Su that he had traveled to Chang 'an in his twenties and studied under Zhang Xu for two years, but his brushwork was slightly unstable. Yan Zhenqing also wrote "Preface to Master Huai Su's Cursive Music" for Huai Su.
In the 11th year of Tang Dali (777), on August 6th, he wrote a self-narrative post. This article sums up the main deeds of his life. In Autobiography, Huai Su left room for several important people who taught him art.
In the third year of Tang Zhenyuan (787), Huai Su and Lu Yu met. Lu Yu wrote Biography of Monks in Huai Su, which is the first-hand information for studying Huai Su.
In the 15th year of Tang Zhenyuan (779), Huai Su returned to Lingling and wrote "Qianzi Grass".
Spent his later years in Baoyuan Temple in Chengdu, Sichuan. In the fifteenth year of Tang Zhenyuan (799), he died of rheumatism.
Excerpt from Baidu