Calligraphers and their seal scripts in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Yang Ningshi, who is good at writing, writing and cursive writing, has a unique and heroic style. He studied under Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, and traced back to the Wei and Jin Dynasties calligraphy according to the development of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty. He broke the strict laws of the Tang Dynasty, combining the structure and brushwork of regular script, running script and cursive script with seal script and official script, creating a new look of seal script and official script implied by seal script, line script and Cao. Make his calligraphy closer to the Wei and Jin dynasties. On the basis of him, the calligrapher of Song Dynasty formed a style of respecting the mind with the characteristics of the times.

Both the Southern Tang Dynasty, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Western Shu, which is located in Sichuan and Sichuan, have a relatively stable period, and the conditions are superior to those of the Central Plains. Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, also has good calligraphy. According to legend, he can write books with the pen of war, and he can bend the pen, so he is called Jin Cuodao. Some people say that he does not use a pen to write big characters, but uses silk instead of a pen, which is called a "golden book". Guan Xiu, a native of West Shu, is called Jiang Ti and cursive script.