What are the characteristics of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy?

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy is characterized by square structure, light strokes, vigorous brushwork, straightness, openness and vigor. Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy style is called "Yan Ti", and it is also called "Yan Liu" with Liu Gongquan, and has the reputation of "Yan Liu Jin Gu".

Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy Works

Yan Zhenqing's existing calligraphy works include: multi-pagoda monument, Yanjia temple monument, monument, Magu fairy altar, nephew monument, Bo monument, seating post, painting praise and so on. He and Liu Gongquan, another calligrapher famous for regular script in Tang Dynasty, are called "Yan Liu".

Many works are said to have been handed down 138 kinds. The regular scripts that are valued by later generations include Duobaota Monument, Oriental Painting Praise Monument, Magu Fairy Altar, Guo Monument, Yan Monument and Miao Monument.

These inscriptions are regular script, with personality and characteristics, and have a positive but not correct momentum, but the strokes are horizontal and thin, vertical and thick, and the feet are too weak. When learning, we should seek its charm instead of simply pursuing the shape. His running script "Ji Ming's Nephew's Manuscript" is a work of grief and indignation, and it is called the second running script in the world. Running scripts include "Contending for Seats" and "Poems by General Pei".