"Today's World"? Issue 09, 2005? Comment: Professor Liu Xianyin's calligraphy is rich in connotation. It not only pays attention to the elegance and purity of calligraphy, but also has certain cultural implications, reflecting the author's beautification of Chinese characters. and stylized, conveying an elegant charm. The artistic style of calligraphy is the artistic characteristics and creative personality displayed by the artist in his creation. It is reflected in the unique overall style of the work and the unique realm created by it. It is the result of the calligrapher's artistic personality. Due to their different life experiences, artistic accomplishments, personal characteristics, aesthetic tastes and personalities, calligraphers have their own characteristics in the choice of calligraphy style and expression techniques, thus forming different artistic styles. Style can also best show a person's temperament and spiritual outlook. This is also a high-energy reflection of thousands of years of traditional culture accumulated in the minds of calligraphers, reflected in the subtleties of the lines, giving people infinite reverie. Hegel said: "Style generally refers to the individual characteristics of an individual artist that fully reflect his personality in terms of expression methods and twists and turns of style." Liu Xianyin's calligraphy is thick and powerful, with a strong epigraphic flavor, which is an inadvertent revelation of his cultural connotation, artistic accomplishment and calligraphy skills. The appreciation of calligraphy is not only to appreciate the ingenuity and skill of the stippling, structure and composition of the works, as well as the inheritance, school and style, but more importantly, to feel the calligrapher's temperament, emotion and aesthetic pursuit through the works. Calligraphers create with their hands and thoughts, while appreciators rely on their eyesight to discover the life and soul contained in the dots and whites of the canvas. Appreciating calligraphy works requires not only a macroscopic grasp of the work, such as momentum, expression, and whiteness, but also detailed observation, such as the use of brushes, ink, structure, lines, etc. First of all, observe the quality of lines and the author's use of pen, ink and brushwork when creating. Secondly, observe the structure of Chinese characters combined with lines and dots, and observe the interest and philosophy of artistic modeling. Third, appreciating Bubai includes knotting, moving Qi, and composition. Fourth, observe the spirit, that is, the spiritual temperament, style and charm of the calligraphy works. Expression is a faithful record of the author's spiritual realm and is closely related to the author's emotion, character, and cultivation. Excellent calligraphy works must be beautiful in form and spirit, and have both form and spirit. Appreciators must understand the posture and capture the spirit. In short, Liu Xianyin's calligraphy has a simple and elegant aesthetic pursuit, which is thought-provoking. Calmness and profundity are the temperament and spiritual outlook reflected in his works.