What is the style of calligraphy in Song Dynasty?

Calligraphy in Song Dynasty is "respecting meaning" and emphasizing cursive script. For regular script, it is far worse than cursive script because calligraphy is more important than inscriptions, and it is precisely because of cursive script and emotional indulgence that a tacit understanding can be reached. One of the most remarkable differences between Song Dynasty calligraphers and previous calligraphers is the unity of poetry and painting. As a result, great changes have taken place in the personality temperament of calligraphers, who generally put their own explorations and propositions in the field of poetry and painting into the concept of calligraphy art. Several important flag-bearers of calligraphy in the Song Dynasty-Su Shi, Huang, Mi Fei, etc.-were all like this, and then their views influenced the whole era and formed the overall style of an era.

Song dynasty is also the first time to summarize and sort out the previous generation of calligraphy completely. Although Jiangnan had previously ordered Xu Xuan to collect the book "Sheng Yuan Tie", which contained the calligraphy of Shi Er, the custodian of ancient and modern law posts, and the calligraphy of Zhang Zhi, Cui Yuan, Zhong Wei You, Wang Xizhi, Yu Liang, Emperor Taizong, Xuanzong, Liu Gongquan, Huai Su and Huairen in the Han Dynasty, and ordered Wang to write the "Jianye Tie" ("Sheng Yuan Tie") in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It is precisely because of the systematic collection and arrangement that the calligraphers in the Song Dynasty found their own way of development.

Calligraphers in the early Song Dynasty included Xu Xuan, Guo Zhongshu, Ju Zheng, Li Jianzhong, Ji Feng, Yao Xuan and others. Li Jianzhong is the best among them.

To be a typical representative of the calligraphy style in Song Dynasty, we should also consider Huang, Mi, Su and Cai, especially the first three figures.

There were many calligraphers in Song Dynasty, such as Evonne, Cai Jing, Cai Bian, Wen Tong, Qin Guan, Lu You, Mi Youren, Shi, and so on. In particular, Su Shunqin (1008~ 1048) and Tongshan (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu) were famous for their beautiful words. Excellent grass method, not inferior to predecessors. Sue's autobiography is an old biography of his family, and the first paragraph of the long volume has been broken. The first six lines of the existing autobiography are supplementary books of Zimei.