The story of calligrapher Yan Zhenqing The story of Yan Zhenqing learning calligraphy

Story 1 Censor Yu: When Censor Yu Yan Zhenqing was the supervisory censor, he once inspected Wuyuan. There was an unjust case in the area that had not been resolved for a long time, and the weather was dry. After Yan Zhenqing vindicated his injustice, it rained heavily. The people in Wuyuan called it "Yu Shi Yu".

Story 2: The impeachment of the county magistrate: When Yan Zhenqing, the impeachment magistrate, visited Hedong, he wrote to Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Longji to impeach Shuofang County Magistrate Zheng Yanzuo. Thirty years after his mother died, Zheng Yanzuo had not buried her, so Li Longji issued an edict. Order Zheng Yanzuo not to be employed for life. Everyone who heard about this was frightened.

Story 3: Unyielding to the powerful: Ji Wen, a cruel official, framed Song Hun, the censor Zhongcheng, because of his personal grudge, causing him to be demoted to Hezhou to serve. Yan Zhenqing said: "How can you want to harm the descendants of Song Dynasty just because of anger?" During the Anshi Rebellion, Yan Zhenqing, who was the imperial censor, still abided by etiquette and impeached Cui Yi, the minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Li Heji, the admonishment doctor, and Du Yuhou of Guangping Palace. Chongsi and others made all officials obey the law and observe etiquette. In his later years, because of his outspokenness, he offended prime ministers Yuan Zai, Yang Yan, Lu Qi and others one after another, and was eventually killed for this.

Yan Zhenqing was an outstanding politician and calligrapher in the mid-Tang Dynasty. The "Yan Ti" regular script he founded is known as the "Four Masters of Regular Script" together with Zhao Mengxu, Liu Gongquan and Ouyang Xun, and is also known as the "Yan Jin Liu Gu" together with Liu Gongquan. He was upright, sincere and honest, not inferior to the powerful, unyielding in his desire to flatter others, upright and upright, famous for his righteousness and righteousness, and finally died to clarify his ambition.