1. Ouyang Xun (AD 557-641), courtesy name Xinben, was born in Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan). He was a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He once served as the prince and led the order, so people Call him "Ouyang Shugeng". In the Sui Dynasty, Ouyang Xun's calligraphy enjoyed a high reputation. In the Tang Dynasty, Ouyang Xun, who was nearly seventy years old, was still teaching calligraphy at the "Hongwen Museum".
2. Ouyang Xun studied Wang Xizhi's calligraphy in his early years. It is said that he paid a lot of money to buy the "Zhigui Tu" used by Wang Xizhi to teach his children to practice calligraphy, and he copied it day and night and studied it assiduously. Another time when he went out with Yu Shinan, he saw a stele written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty. He sat on the ground and carefully observed, traced and studied next to the stele for three days. This shows Ouyang Xun's deep interest in calligraphy.
3. Later, he extensively studied the tablets and stone carvings of the Northern Dynasties, and at the same time absorbed the strengths of some local calligraphers, and then integrated them into the official script style to form the "European style" that is "strong, dangerous, and strict" (Also known as "Shuo Geng Ti").