Mrs. Wei (Wei Shuo, AD 272-349) was born in Nanhe, Anyi, Hedong (now Xiaxian North, Shanxi Province), the wife of Li Ju, the satrap of Ruyin, and the disciple of Zhong You and Wang Xizhi. Representative works include "Bi Tu" and "Ming Ji Tie".
His ancestor Wei Guan (220-29 1) was an important official in the late Cao Wei period during the Three Kingdoms period. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, both he and Suo Jing (239-303) were good at cursive writing, so they were called? A set of two wonderful? It is said that their calligraphy has a deep relationship with Zhang Zhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
When Mrs Wei was young, she was eager to learn, especially the art of calligraphy. She took the calligraphy of Zhong You, a great calligrapher at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the imitation object, learned the true story and grasped the essentials, especially the official script. The Outline of Calligraphy, compiled by Zhang Yanyuan, a calligraphy theorist in the Tang Dynasty, describes Mrs. Wei as follows: the brushwork is in Zhong You, and the Zhong You method is integrated into one furnace. ? Although Mrs Wei inherited Zhong You's style, on the basis of Zhong You's thinness and flying, she introduced femininity brought by being a woman, revealing a graceful and neat charm. Her calligraphy works have a feminine beauty unique to women, which makes people can't help but admire.
Mrs. Wei not only has great achievements in calligraphy art, but also has her own theory in calligraphy art theory, which has been deeply studied. Mrs. Wei wrote "Pen Diagram". In the book, she proposed for the first time, what is the beauty of calligraphy? Why not use a pen first? In order to warn everyone, learning calligraphy should be traced back to the source, learn from the ancients, and oppose that practice makes perfect, and learning is not supported, so that learning is unsuccessful with half the effort.