Suo Jing's Calligraphy Art

Suo Jing's calligraphy works spread to later generations include Ode to a Teacher, Yueyi Tie and Jizhang. In the Song Dynasty, the famous "Spring Pavilion Post" also collected eight lines of Suo Jing's "Mo Yao Post" and four lines of "July Post". His calligraphy has a great influence on later generations. Ou Yangxun, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, paid the most attention to statutes in his life and refused to recommend the ancients easily. On one occasion, after seeing the tablet written by Suo Jing, he actually lay under the tablet, rubbing his hands day and night, reluctant to leave.

Suo Jing's calligraphy is simple and profound, with simple connotation, simple as Han Li, turning like grass and full of momentum. It has always been called a masterpiece by calligraphers. Liang Wudi Xiao Yan praised his words as "powerful and dangerous". A vigorous place is like a sudden wind, and the stork flies first; Dangerous places are like solitary pines in snow-capped mountains and dangerous rocks in glaciers. Huang Valley also praised his calligraphy as "short and long, sincere and unattainable". Some people compare Suo Jing's ci with Zhang Zhi's ci, saying: "Being excellent is not as good as Zhang Zhi;" "Wonderful, not as good as Zhang." The calligraphy of the two masters is different.

Suo Jing is an important figure in the cultural history of China. He is the grandson of Zhang Zhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his calligraphy is deeply influenced by Zhang Zhi. He is famous for his cursive script, especially Cao Zhang (Cao Zhang is the cursive script of official script). During the period of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, he and another great calligrapher, Wei Guan, worked in Shangshutai. Wei Guan is the Minister of Chinese Books, and Suo Jing is the Minister of Chinese Books. Because of its unique style in calligraphy art, it was known as "a set of two unique skills" at that time. It is said that their calligraphy has a deep relationship with Zhang Zhi. Later generations commented: "If you get Boying (Zhang) tendon, you get Boying meat".