Yan Zhenqing, a native of Tang Jing and Zhao Wannian, was a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty in China. An outstanding calligrapher in the middle Tang Dynasty. The "Yan Ti" regular script he founded together with Zhao Mengxu, Liu Gongquan and Ouyang Xun is called the "Four Books".
In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Yan Zhenqing entered the Imperial College and served as censor for four times, including the censor in the Prison Qiantang. Because I was lied to.
The powerful official Yang at the time was rejected and demoted to Pingyuan as the prefect, which was called "Yan Pingyuan". In the fourth year of Jianzhong's reign, he was framed by Prime Minister Lu Qi, who sent people to Li Xilie's uprising army to report him, but was killed by Li Xilie.
In the first year of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing was demoted for playing Prime Minister Yuan Zai. In April of the third year, he was changed from Jizhou Sima to Fuzhou governor. During his five years in Fuzhou, he cared about the sufferings of the people, attached great importance to agricultural production, and was enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings. At present, in view of the situation that the right path of the Fuhe River is blocked, tributaries are flooded, and farmland is flooded, people are guided to build a feldspar dam in the southern part of Biandanzhou, a small island in the center of the Fuhe River, to alleviate flooding and divert water to irrigate farmland during the dry season. In order to commemorate him, the people of Fuzhou named the Shiba Inu Qianjinpi and built a temple to offer sacrifices to the four seasons.
He is an honest official and tries his best to maintain normal social order. Yang Zhijian, a student from Fuzhou, is very poor but passionate about learning. His wife couldn't bear the poverty and asked for a divorce. Yang wrote a poem for his wife, which shows that she was determined to study but agreed to divorce. Yang's wife gave this poem to Yan Zhenqing as evidence of divorce. After Yan read Yang Guifei's poems, he sympathized with Yang Guifei's plight, admired Yang Guifei's spirit of hard work, severely punished Yang Guifei for her poverty, enriched his own pockets, gave her food and clothing, and kept Yang Guifei in the mansion. To this end, Yan also published "The Wife of Criticism". This judgment played a very good guiding role in the formation of good academic style and simple marriage customs in Linchuan.
He is a descendant of the Langya family of Yan Zhenqing, and his family history research is extensive and profound. Zu Yanzhitui was a famous scholar in the Northern Qi Dynasty and the author of "Yan Family Instructions". When Yan Zhenqing was a child, her family was short of paper and pens. He licked the loess water with a pen and practiced calligraphy on the wall.
His calligraphy style is called "Yan style", and together with Liu Gongquan, he is called "Liu Yan", and he is known as "Liu Yan Golden Valley". But Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was fat and stupid, and he was frustrated with his pen. The cutting-edge nature of calligraphy "Fei Bai Shu" is not obvious to Yan; Zhang Tang said: "Those with more bones and less flesh are called Jin Shu, and those with more flesh and fewer bones are called Zhu Mo." Therefore, Yan Zhenqing's achievements in the art of calligraphy are relatively low, But his rough calligraphy style shows the strength of a man.
Ouyang Xiu once said: "Uncle Yan is a loyal and benevolent gentleman, and his ending is dignified. People fall in love with him at first sight, but the longer he lives, the more lovable he becomes." Many people in the world have seen treasures. But they are not tired. Zhu was full of praise for this book: "The points are like falling stones, the paintings are like clouds, the hooks are like gold, and the arms are like crossbows. There is no public sacrifice." It had a profound impact on the development of calligraphy art in later generations. After the Tang Dynasty, many famous artists drew on the success of Yan Zhenqing's reforms. Especially grass, Su Shi's "Yan Ti Shu": "Poetry is like poetry, prose is like Goryeo, painting is like Wu Daozi, and calligraphy is like face. The changes in ancient and modern times are indispensable to the world."