What are the characteristics of Song Sijia's calligraphy?

Song Sijia is the collective name of four calligraphers, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang, in the Northern Song Dynasty in China.

Su Shi

Su Shi's book is impossible to create, and it is also troublesome to ask. "He focused on" meaning "and pinned his feelings on the lettering of books by" faithful hands ". Su Shi's writing seems plain and simple, but it has a mighty air of Wang Yang sea. Like his profound knowledge, dragons are unpredictable. ?

He is good at running script and regular script, and his brushwork is vigorous and natural, giving people the artistic beauty of "the breath of the sea breeze" and "the shape of ancient rocks" ? Su Shi's calligraphy is highly respected by later generations.

Huang tingjian

At the beginning of calligraphy, he took Zhou Yue as his teacher, and later adopted Yan Zhenqing and Huai Su. Influenced by Yang Ningshi, he was particularly good at "following the ancient destiny". His brushwork takes advantage of the situation and has a unique style.

Mi Fu

Mi Fei has his unique experience in the distribution, structure and use of calligraphy. The requirements are "stable, not strange, not old, not fat", which is probably what Jiang Kui wrote "no sag, no shrinkage, no going." That is, it is required to achieve unity in change and integrate opposing factors such as wrapping and hiding, fat and thin, sparse and dense, simple and complex.

In composition, attention is paid to the overall charm, the perfection of details, ingenious conception, changing with the situation in the writing process, and ingenuity.

Cai Xiang

Cai Xiang's calligraphy is vigorous and dignified, simple and graceful, and is unique. When I exhibited Cai Xiang's calligraphy, I suddenly felt a spring breeze on my face, full of gorgeous Wen Ya breath. Cai Xiang's calligraphy was highly respected by his contemporaries and enjoyed a high reputation. Su Dongpo and Ouyang Xiu were the first people to appreciate his calligraphy.

Extended data:

Song Sijia's achievements are mainly reflected in running script, in addition, it is also composed of regular script and cursive script. Mi Fei has a small number of seal script and official script, but it is not commendable.

As far as regular script is concerned, Cai Xiang is the first person in Song Sijia. Its face is very similar to that of Yan Zhenqing, and it is permeated with a lot of popularity, so it has no advantage over Tang. When Yan writes a book, there are many things that he doesn't care about. When Cai Xiang wrote a book, he paid attention to it. When Su Shi wrote big characters, he used Yan Zhenqing, squashed the font, and paid attention to the ideological hypertrophy.

Huang Tingjian's Yi Qi Si Bei is similar to Chu Fa, but slightly scattered. Mi Fei has not been handed down from generation to generation in block letters. Block letters "holding words to the Empress Dowager" are intended to be preserved between Europe and Chu, which is quite commendable.

As far as cursive writing is concerned, Huang Tingjian is the most accomplished in Song Sijia. Su Shi and Mi Fei despised Zhang Xu and Huai Su as "calligraphers" and thought that they regarded calligraphy as a career, which violated the purpose of entertaining themselves and lost the elegance of the forest, "just like a prostitute smearing green and red". Su Shi's cursive script is extremely rare, with thin and smooth lines, and his confidence in creating running script is swept away.

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