The calligraphy works of the four major calligraphers include the nephew memorial manuscript, the Duobao Pagoda Stele, the cold food calligraphy, and the Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription.
1. Manuscript of Nephew Memorial
One of Liu Gongquan's representative works is "Mysterious Tower Stele". His regular script is mainly based on Ouyang Xun's brushwork. Some strokes are closely interspersed, making the entire font appear broad and open, with thin strokes and sharp edges and corners.
2. Duobao Pagoda Stele
"Duobao Pagoda Stele" is one of Yan Zhenqing's early works and one of his famous works. The writing is respectful and solemn, showing Yan Zhenqing's superb calligraphy skills and spiritual temperament.
3. Cold Food Post
"Han Shi Post" is Su Shi's masterpiece in running script. This poem is a sigh of life written by Su Shi during the Cold Food Festival in the third year after he was demoted to Huangzhou. The entire calligraphy is unrestrained and unique in style, and is known as "the third running script in the world". It expresses the loneliness and melancholy that Su Shi felt when he was wandering in Huangzhou.
4. Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming
Ouyang Xun's representative work is "Jiuchenggong Liquan Ming". His calligraphy is mostly regular script, but it also has some flavor of Beibei. His brushwork is solid and powerful, his bones are rugged, both powerful and delicate, and his fonts are slender, creating an original "European style" style. This work can be called a model of regular script.
Font types of calligraphy:
1. Running script
"Xing" means "walking", which is reflected in its intermediate between regular script and cursive script. It's not as sloppy as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. In essence, it is the cursiveization of regular script or the regularization of cursive script. There are two types: running regular script and running cursive script. Those with more regular script than cursive script are called "Xing Kai", and those with more cursive script than regular script are called "Xing Cao".
2. Regular script
It gradually evolved from official script and became more simplified. The horizontal and vertical script was improved in the Han Dynasty by using official script font as regular script. The calligraphy style is now called regular script. Regular script is characterized by regular and neat fonts, horizontal and vertical strokes, and a clear structure. It is a basic font for calligraphy. Regular script is widely used in calligraphy art and is a basic component of calligraphy art.
3. Cursive script
It was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script. Cursive script is a type of Chinese character font that has the characteristics of simple structure and continuous strokes. Cursive script has the characteristics of easy writing. There are Zhangcao, Jincao and Kuangcao. Feeling beautiful in the madness.