The characteristics of Yan Zhenqing's regular script, and the key points when copying the ritual tablet.

The characteristics of regular script:

Yan Zhenqing innovated the ancient law with his own aesthetic habits and unique tolerance and mind. Yan Zi is generous and generous. In the early days, Fang Bi was the protagonist, and he put pen to paper sideways. Later, it was changed to a round pen to hide the head and protect the tail. Judging from the knot, most of them are around, tight outside and loose inside. Mi Fei's Haiyue Book Review said: "You are as unreasonable as Xiang Yu, and you are determined to win, and you are also unreasonable." A regular script is quite masculine, which not only sympathizes with individual talent, but also represents the prosperity of the store. As Fan Wenxiang's "A Brief History of China" said: "Ou, Yu, Chu and Xue in the early Tang Dynasty were only the inheritors of the book style of the two kings, and Yan Zhenqing in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was the creator of the book style of the Tang Dynasty. "Yan Zhenqing's regular script, especially the regular script after the year of India, has formed a paradigm, and there are many learners in later generations, and there is even a saying that" learning books should be learning Yan ",so people call it Yan Ti.

Key points of replication:

Yan Zhenqing's brushwork is even and hidden, just inside and warm outside, and his writing is tortuous, round and powerful. However, it will be better to add a little bit of your own feelings when copying, and you should also integrate your own experience when learning calligraphers' words, so that you can have your own style. Otherwise, it is meaningless to copy all the time without highlighting your own calligraphy style.

Yan Zhenqing (August 23, 709-784), whose real name is Chen Qing, nickname is Xianmenzi, alias is Fang Ying and Wanzhao (now Xi, Shaanxi), and his ancestral home is Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong). Yan Shigu V was a famous minister and outstanding calligrapher in Tang Dynasty.

In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734), Yan Zhenqing was a Jinshi, who was appointed as the censor and moved to the palace to assist the censor. Abandoned by Yang, an important minister, he was demoted to the plain satrap, and was named "Yan Plain". During the An Shi Rebellion. The rebels fought against the rebels. After Tang Suzong acceded to the throne, he worshipped the Minister of Industry and became a consultant in Hebei. To Fengxiang, he was awarded the title of minister of constitution, and later moved to imperial doctor. When Tang Daizong was an official, he went to the official department of Shangshu Province, and a prince and a surname named him Duke Lu, which was called Duke Yan Lu in history. In the first year of Xingyuan (784), he was framed by Qilu, the prime minister, and sent to Li Xilie, the leader of the rebel army, to complain. He refused the thief in awe and was finally killed.