Huai Su is best at writing small grass and big grass fonts, and his representative works are "The First Grass in the World" called "A Thousand Letters of Small Grass" and so on.
Huai Su (737-799), a native of Lingling, Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan), was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He was famous for his "wild grass" and was called "the sage of grass" in history. Since childhood, he has become a monk, and after meditation, he likes calligraphy. As well as Zhang Xu, they are collectively called "Dianzhangkuangsu". Huai Su's cursive script is thin and vigorous, flying naturally, like a whirlwind of showers. Although his calligraphy is capricious and ever-changing, he has the statutes. Huai Su and Zhang Xu formed the two peaks of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty, which were also the two peaks in the history of cursive writing in China. The calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation include Autobiographical Notes, Thousand-Daughter Notes, Bitter Bamboo Shoots, Notre Dame Notes and Essays on Books.
Huai Su's Xiao Cao Qian Zi Wen, as a classic handed down from ancient times, was first discovered by scholar Huang Jinxiang in March 217. This "Thousand-Character Text" was originally a pasted paper (white linen paper), each page was 26.8 cm in length and 13.5 cm in width; There are 9 pages ***42 lines (half of the original script), with 53 words. The envelope outside the post was inscribed by the old collectors as eleven characters: "Huai Su's Biographical Ink" cursive thousand words ". Now it is hidden by Mr. Huang Jinxiang. This "Thousand-character Essay on Grass" is the only work of standard grass in Huai Su. It has the reputation of "a word is worth a thousand dollars" in ancient times, so it is also called "a thousand-word post", which is "the first grass in the world" and contrasts with its first cursive script "Self-narrative post". There are several hidden prints in the post. When you open the whole post and overlook it, the handwriting as big as nails is dynamic and pleasing to the eye. Throughout the grass, the pen is thin, elegant and elegant; Echoing up and down, the spirits are flying in one breath. Huang Tingjian, one of the "Song Sijia", praised in "The Inscription and Postscript of the Valley": "Huai Su's cursive twilight is a long history (referring to Zhang Xu). . 。” This statement pointed out that Huai Su was in good health in his later years, so that he could write such a high-level masterpiece for future generations to admire and admire!
Huai Su's "Thousand-character cursive script" is similar to his "self-narrative post", and it is free, vigorous and elegant, which fully shows Huai Su's mastery of cursive script, and it is one of the most standard models for writing cursive script in calligraphy circles at present. Huai Su's grass works, whether historical or documentary, are the only original works handed down from generation to generation. This is a genuine "Golden Paste", which has always been a masterpiece that painters and collectors have been dreaming of. Now, the effect of rubbings on the original Huai Su grass is as good as that at home and abroad. It can be said that the original is as beautiful as the inscription, which is the first precious material to study Huai Su grass in China. . . (Note: The picture below shows the rubbings of the original paper copy of Huai Su.)