Appreciation of Liang Hu's Works

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were countless wars and people were in panic, so people really didn't care about art; But calligraphy inherited the torrent of the late Han dynasty, and everyone came forth in large numbers. Among the three countries, Wei is the most powerful, followed by Wu and Shu. Liang Hu was an outstanding calligrapher in Xudu at that time.

Liang Hu's books are rarely preserved because he lived in wartime. His book "The Great Wei was ordered to make the summer in the region, the harmony between man and nature, and the prosperity of the world" is a rare and exquisite masterpiece. The traces in the book are dignified, vigorous, vigorous and weak-willed, which fully embodies the accuracy and transcendence of the eight-point book and fully proves the grandeur and grandeur of the characters in a good book. Far more than Shi, Zhong You, Han Danchun, and others in the same period, it is not a loss for the love of books. The palace titles are mostly written by books, and the plaques are the legends of books.

Liang Hu's book "Da Ren" is carved with brushwork, cut with a pen, crisp and neat. His books are painted horizontally and vertically, with many folds at the beginning and end, and occasionally distorted; The pen is strong, the middle section is slow and the front is magnificent. The corner of the stroke shoulder is square and rigorous, with clear ups and downs, and it is relaxed and ready; For example, the words "salty" and "harmonious" in the text, the book is full of pictures, and the pen is round and healthy. It is necessary to be disciplined and bold. For example, the words "Zhao", "Yun" and "Xia" in the text are not just a garden pen on the whole, but their simplicity lies in fierceness and their change lies in founder. [Wei Chu at the end of Han Dynasty] Calligrapher Liang Hu

In his life, he not only stepped into the officialdom in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but also experienced the merger and war in the early years of the Three Kingdoms. He served as the secretariat of Liangzhou, and then returned to the court as a servant. During the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was promoted as the minister of selection (in the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, the Ministry was renamed as the official department, which was in charge of the selection of personnel and officials), and he worked beside the emperor, so he was a temporary power figure. Liang Hu studied hard as a teenager and liked calligraphy since childhood. The court recommended Xiao Lian, and he entered the capital and was appointed as a Langguan. Soon he entered Hongdumen (the highest institution of learning at that time) to study, and Liang Hu's profound calligraphy skills were laid at that time. Master Liang Hu studied eight-part essay from Professor Shi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Eight is divided into official script, also known as "separation of official script" and "separation of official script", whose name began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Shi is addicted to alcohol, and he is unrestrained after drinking, writing on walls or typesetting. Liang Hu never misses the opportunity for the teacher to spend money after drinking. Every time he drinks, Liang Huan has to prepare more word versions for the teacher, and then take back the teacher's drunken calligraphy works and carefully study the frame structure of each word. Through diligent study and hard practice, he basically mastered the writing techniques of stone, thus making great progress in calligraphy, and was "famous for writing eight points" and eventually became a famous calligrapher. Compared with mentoring, the master is good at small characters, but good at big characters. Their calligraphy is "Rowen is full of tiger vibration and tension". In "shine on you is Better than Blue", Gu Liang is more incisive than the teacher's handwriting, crisp and neat, dignified in character, full of strength, vigorous in brushwork, depressed in will, and Fang Bi is a round pen, sharp and plain, and changeable in founder, which fully embodies the skill and transcendence of stereotyped writing, and fully confirms the grandeur of Chinese characters in a good book. Later generations (Wei Heng's Four-body Book Potential) commented that the formation of stereotyped writing style was due to Liang Hu, who played a connecting role. The reason why Emperor Ling of Han promoted Liang You as an anthology of history books is that his calligraphy attainments are one of the important factors, and Emperor Ling of Han likes his calligraphy very much.

Because Liang Hu was a senior minister of the previous dynasty, Cao Cao decided to make him a Luoyang order, and later served as a fake Sima of Cao Weijun (that is, Sima's deputy). Cao Cao is a calligrapher who loves ancient books. He often hangs banners written by Liang Hu in his account or nails them on the wall to watch. In Cao Cao's view, Liang Hu's calligraphy skill was better than his teacher Shi, so most of the court inscriptions at that time were Liang Hu. Liang Hu had become an outstanding calligrapher at that time, and most of the inscriptions on many famous buildings were written by Liang Hu. Because of the war years, there were not many books written by Liang Hu. Masterpieces handed down from generation to generation include Confucius Temple Monument, Confucius Temple Monument, Confucius Temple Monument and Zen Table. When the Three Kingdoms split, the ministers of the Han Dynasty went their separate ways. When he went to Yuan Shu, Liang went to Shu, and Liu Biao went to Jingzhou. After Cao Cao of Wei captured Jingzhou, he immediately summoned Liang Hu and treated him as a distinguished guest. Because Liang Hu was a senior minister of the previous dynasty, Cao Cao decided to make him a Luoyang order, and later served as a fake Sima of Cao Weijun (that is, Sima's deputy). Cao Cao is a calligrapher who loves ancient books. He often hangs banners written by Gu Liang on his account or nails them on the wall to watch. In Cao Cao's view, Liang Hu's calligraphy was better than that of his teacher Shi, so most of the court inscriptions at that time were Liang Hu. Liang Hu had become an outstanding calligrapher at that time, and most of the inscriptions on many famous buildings were written by Liang Hu. Because of the war years, there were not many books written by Liang Hu. Masterpieces handed down from generation to generation include Confucius Temple Monument, Confucius Temple Monument, Confucius Temple Monument and Zen Table. Liang Hu is an important school in the development and evolution of official script in Wei Chu at the end of Han Dynasty, and the inscriptions handed down from generation to generation have become a wonderful work in the treasure house of China calligraphy art.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was the first prosperous period in the history of calligraphy in China, and it was also an era with many famous calligraphers in Gansu. Weeding sage Zhang Zhi, Asian sage Zhang Chang and Cao Zhang all passed through Suo Jing, and Liang Hu's eight-part essay reached a high level.