Dong Qichang's calligraphy is easy to find on the Internet because of its outstanding achievements.
Tell you something about China's paintings and calligraphy in Ming Dynasty:
Early Ming Dynasty: Calligraphy only followed the tradition of the Yuan Dynasty, and has not yet formed its own characteristics. At that time, there were three famous calligraphers, namely Song Ke, Song Cong and Song Guang, Zhan Xiyuan and Du Huan. The honest and frank and skillful calligraphy of Zhan Xiyuan during the Three Song Dynasties paved the way for Taige style.
Mid-Ming Dynasty: Literati calligraphy resurfaced, and calligraphers turned their interest to ancient calligraphy. For example, Li Dongyang studied Yan Zhenqing and Li, Wu Kuanxue Su Shi, Shen Huang Tingjian, Zhang Bi and Zhang, Zhang Xu and Huai Su. On the basis of inheriting excellent traditions, their calligraphy pays more attention to the beauty of form and the expression of personal feelings. Finally, Wumen calligraphy appeared in Suzhou, and its representatives were Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Wang Chong.
Late Ming Dynasty: There were many calligraphers with unique styles and outstanding achievements. Such as Xu Wei, Xing Dong, Dong Qichang, Mi, Huang Daozhou, Ni, Wang Duo and Fu Shan. Xu Wei expressed his anger in his chest in cursive script. Followed by Xing Dong, Dong Qichang and Mi. Xing Dong extensively studied the calligraphy of famous artists in Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties, and left many works that copied ancient posts. His calligraphy is vigorous, steady and mellow. Ray's book has a unique style. He found a new way outside the calligraphy of Jin and Tang Dynasties, and used it for many purposes, giving people a strange feeling. Mi, a descendant of Mi Fei in Song Dynasty, specializes in rice characters, and his brushwork is calm and vigorous. He was famous for his calligraphy in the north for 40 years. In addition, there are Zhao Huanguang, who created Cao Zhuan, and Song Jue, who specializes in official script. But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang was the most influential one, creating a generation of calligraphy style.
Dong Qichang also made great achievements in calligraphy, calligraphy and cursive script, forming a beautiful and elegant calligraphy style. On calligraphy theory, he emphasized that calligraphy is expensive and has ancient meaning, and thought that calligraphy must be mature before it can be born, that is, to cover up the proficiency of techniques with a clumsy attitude to show the "morale" of calligraphy. He attached great importance to the calligrapher's cultural and artistic accomplishment, advocated reading more books and getting close to the original works of the ancients, and emphasized reading thousands of books and taking the Wan Li road to improve artistic understanding. These are all related to the theory of North-South School in his painting theory. Dong Qichang created a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic and elegant style. In addition, Huang Daozhou's stubbornness, Ni's new metamorphosis and Wang Duo's and Fu Shan's calmness in the late Ming Dynasty all reflected the great changes in the book world during the period of 10 ~ 20 years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, which continued until the early Qing Dynasty.
Hard pen was not popularized in Qing dynasty, so people still wrote with brush. The calligraphy style is nothing more than seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Nothing else. Just like what Cao Zhang, Bo Jin and Cao Cao can't fall into these categories.
In all dynasties, these fonts existed side by side as long as they were created. But in some times, there are mainstream fonts in this era, which is a fact.
For example, regular script and epigraphy were more popular in the Tang Dynasty. Calligraphy, as one of the six subjects in institutions of higher learning in the Tang Dynasty, requires candidates to "write beautifully in regular script". Three of the most famous characters in the four regular scripts are from the Tang Dynasty. In addition to these three, Chu Suiliang and Yu Shi Nandu are masters of regular script.
As for the Qing dynasty, as far as I know, there are two situations.
1, in the officialdom of Qing Dynasty, a kind of cabinet-style characters was mainly popular, which was actually regular script, but the writing style was delicate, smooth and plain, and there was no personality. Have you ever seen the word ganlong? I have seen it in Xi 'an Beilin, which is a typical pavilion. Some people say that Qianlong's poems and books are unique. I'm dizzy. Needless to say, poetry is really not so good. Kangxi loved Dong Qichang's calligraphy and even admired Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy. Both Dong and Zhao's ci poems are beautiful and mellow. Many people accuse Zhao Mengfu of bad conduct, unfaithfulness and injustice, all from his words. The emperor likes it, and everyone in the world should follow suit. Yongzheng's handwriting is really good. Later, the imperial examination required to write this word. Think about it, once it became an education system, it didn't spread quickly. So pavilion style was very popular in Qing dynasty, especially in Qianlong period. Why the pavilion? There must be this question. Ah, it's a long story. I suggest you go online and have a look. There should be an introduction. Generally speaking, apart from the emperor's preferences, from a philosophical and historical point of view, it was the literary inquisition and cultural oppression in the Qing Dynasty that suppressed people's thoughts and made their personality not publicized. The government is also happy to see such a scene. Everyone is tactful and overstaffed, so the words are like people. Art is only a form of expression, but it has its inherent philosophical reasons.
2. It is also the prevalence of pavilion style. Many calligraphers with real brains and thoughts in the Qing Dynasty hated the situation at that time. Moreover, because of the literary inquisition, many scholars can't engage in other knowledge, so they have to do textual research and textual research on stones, and the words engraved on the stones are official seals. Therefore, it was in the Qing Dynasty that many thoughtful calligraphers advocated returning to nature. On the contrary, many people wrote seal script, official script and inscriptions in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty. And more successful. Deng is one of the representatives.
Other fonts are not unheard of, but there should be two mainstream fonts. One is the sleek and charming style based on Zhao Mengfu's ci, which is popular in pavilion style, and the other is the simple and vigorous font based on stele study. In terms of time allocation, the former should be earlier and the latter should be later.