1, gambling is the master of many families. In Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy, we can see the calligraphy characteristics of many famous people, and these characteristics can also be well reflected in Zhao's works. This is not a simple combination, but an organic combination of these calligraphy features, just like cooking. Only by making full use of ingredients can we make the most delicious dishes.
2. The foundation is very solid. Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy is suitable for calligraphy lovers to copy after laying a solid foundation. Zhao Mengfu was born in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, calligraphy and painting became a little grandiose and skillful, but they lost those basic things. On the basis of learning from the characteristics of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu reformed it and became more retro, paying attention to basic application.
3. Combination of form and meaning. The greatest feature of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy is the combination of form and meaning. His calligraphy combines form and meaning very well. Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy combines the advantages of predecessors' calligraphy and pays attention to the combination of form and meaning, which makes calligraphy have its own meaning and rhyme.
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Zhao Mengfu, Zi Ang, Han nationality, is a Taoist named Song Xuedao, a Taoist named Crystal Palace (referring to Taoist Shuijing Palace), and a middle-aged Ou Bo who worked for Meng Zhen. Xing Wu (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province) was originally from Lanxi, Wuzhou. From the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, he was an official, calligrapher, painter and writer, the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu.
Zhao Mengfu was clever from an early age. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, he joined the army as Zhou Zhen's secretary. After Song died, he abdicated as an official, and he ordered people many times. It was not until the 23rd year of Yuan Dynasty (1286) that he was recommended by Cheng Jufu, an imperial envoy from Taiwan, that he arrived at Dadu to see Yuan Shizu and was named a doctor of the Ministry of War.
Since then, he has successively served as Bachelor of Jixian County, General Manager of Jinan Road, Confucian scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Bachelor of Hanlin and Doctor Rong Lu. From sai-jo to Wu zong, ren zong and ying zong, they are all admired. He gradually retired in his later years and sought help for six years (13 19) due to illness.
In the second year of Zhi Zhi (1322), Zhao Mengfu died at the age of 69. Wei Guogong and posthumous title were named "Wen Min" and later generations called "Zhao Wenmin".
Zhao Mengfu is well-read and proficient in China's classical poems, temperament and appreciation. In terms of calligraphy, he is good at official script, running script and small script, and his calligraphy style is round and beautiful, so he is called "Zhao Ti".
He is also called "Xian Zhao" with Xian Yushu, and "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan; His paintings have a wide range of materials, comprehensive techniques and exquisite landscapes, flowers and birds. He advocated learning from the ancients, emphasizing "the same origin of painting and calligraphy", and advocated changing the institutional style of the Southern Song Dynasty Painting Academy, which had been popular for a long time, and creating a new situation of painting style in the Yuan Dynasty. He is a leading figure in the painting circle of Yuan Dynasty, and has the reputation of "the crown of Yuan people".
His painting, calligraphy and painting thoughts have a far-reaching influence on later generations. In addition, his poetic style is graceful and graceful, and he also dabbles in seal cutting, so he is known as "a round Zhu Wen". There are works handed down from ancient times, such as Song Xuezhai Anthology.