Mi Fei was born in the Northern Song Dynasty. The first name was Kun, and later it was changed to Kun, with a character seal. Since his real name is Mi or Qian, he is a native of Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and he is also a descendant of Hai Yue and Huo Zheng. Calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in Northern Song Dynasty, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, are called Song Sijia. He used to be a school book lang, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Originally from Shanxi, he moved to Xiangyang, Hubei, and then settled in Runzhou. He can write poetry, is good at calligraphy and painting, and has accurate appraisal. Calligraphy and painting are unique, creating a landscape of Midian. He is a painter, appraiser and collector.
He has a strange personality and crazy behavior. When he meets a stone, he calls him his brother and worships him, so he is called Mi Dian. Song Huizong was appointed as a doctor of calligraphy and painting, also known as Mi Xiangyang and Mi Nangong.
Mi Fei's calligraphy and painting has its own style, including dead wood and bamboo stones and unique landscape paintings. He is also quite accomplished in calligraphy. He is good at seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. And he is good at copying ancient calligraphy, reaching a chaotic level. His main works include Poems of Multi-Scenery Buildings, Poems of Hongxian County, Inscription of Mountain Research, Life of Bai Zhongyue and so on.
Mifei's character evaluation
1, True Training Naivety: Mi Fei advocates refreshing spirit and integrating personality thoughts into calligraphy works.
2. Homogeneity of flesh and blood: Mifei pays attention to the control of line shape, and pursues the uniform and complementary lines of flesh and blood, showing an ideal state.
3. Unique knotting method: Mi Fei advocates that the glyph structure should be arranged according to its own characteristics to avoid uniformity.
4. Calm and Happy: Mi Fei's calligraphy works are characterized by leaping, calm and happy, and are widely recognized by later generations.
Mi Fei's calligraphy has a far-reaching influence on later generations, and his innovative spirit and distinctive calligraphy style are highly praised by later calligraphers. Dong Qichang, a painter in Ming Dynasty, even listed Mi Fei as the first calligrapher in Song Dynasty. Mi Fei's calligraphy works are not only of high artistic value, but also an important reference for studying calligraphy in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mifei.