Huang Tingjian is good at running script and cursive script, and his regular script is also unique. Scholars particularly admire Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface". There is a poem praising Yang Ningshi, which illustrates his deep understanding of the practice of "Lanting Preface": "Everyone in the world has learned Lanting Noodles, and they want to exchange for mortal bones without golden elixir. Who knows that Yang Fengzi of Luoyang went to Wusi Lan to write." This cannot be without his deep understanding of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy study.
The formation of Huang Tingjian's regular script calligraphy style can be attributed to the fact that he saw the "Crane Inscription" on the cliff in Jingkou and continued to imitate and cultivate his own style. Huang Tingjian’s teacher had a misunderstanding about "The Inscription of the Crane", that is, he regarded "The Inscription of the Crane" as written by Youjun, and he believed it deeply, so he devoted himself to studying it. However, it can be regarded as a mistake, which promoted the formation of Huang Tingjian's calligraphy style of spear and euphorbia, slow and slow, and vigorous. From an objective point of view, Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo are calligraphers in the history of Chinese calligraphy who transcended the calligraphy style of the Tang Dynasty 800 years earlier than the Qing Dynasty and went back to the pre-Tang Dynasty stele tablets or combined stele and inscriptions. As for the origin of Su Shi's calligraphy style, we can get a clear answer by comparing his representative work "Han Shi Shi Tie" with Luoyang's "Twenty Products of Longmen". Huang Tingjian clearly claimed to follow the example of "Qihe Ming".
Huang Tingjian’s cursive script was learned by people from around the world. Su Shi regarded Zhou Yue's calligraphy as "dangerous and inferior", while Mi Fu commented on Zhou Yue's calligraphy as "vigorous and sharp." Huang Tingjian later expressed his views on Zhou Yue's calligraphy after his thoughts on calligraphy and calligraphy matured in an essay on calligraphy: "Wang Zhulin's "Lanting" and "Le Yi Lun", Zen Master Buyong and Zhou Sanqi's "Qian Wen" ", all of them are wonderful, and at the same time they are very good at using the pen. If you have thousands of books in your mind and don't follow the busy life, then the book will not have a bad rhythm, and it will surpass Li Xitai and Lin Hejing. As for those who have bad rhyme, Zhou Yue is all the fault of Qu Nong's poor performance."
Undoubtedly, Huang Tingjian's profound understanding and mastery of cursive calligraphy should be "obtained by Zhang Changshi and Zhang Changshi." "Seng Huaisu and Gao Xian's ink marks are a glimpse into the beauty of brushwork." He wrote in "Postscript to Junxuan Poems": "In recent times, scholar-bureaucrats rarely have access to the ancient method, but they twist the pen left and right, so they call it cursive script. I don't know that tadpole, seal script, and official script agree with the same method. For hundreds of years, only Zhang Chang Shi, the mad monk Huai Su of Yongzhou, and the rest of them were able to understand this method. Su Caiweng had some enlightenment but could not fulfill his sect."
The maturity of Huang Tingjian's cursive writing also benefited from it. Comprehension of the external skills of his book. In addition to the above-mentioned "In the boat of Xian Dao, I have watched people rowing for many years, and the people are pulling out the oars, and I feel that I have made little progress, and I am happy with what I have gained, and I often use my pen." Sitting in Yisi Hall in the evening, I feel like I am getting help from the mountains and rivers. However, I haven’t drunk any alcohol for the past fifty years. When doing things, the tools are not good, and the writing is always hesitant, so the plan can no longer be like writing when drunk. "Zhang Xu and Huai Su both used drunkenness to enter a state of irrational selflessness and madness, and they were often unpredictable. Test and master. Huang Tingjian does not drink alcohol, and his writing is all based on understanding in his mind and using his mind to write. However, due to his wonderful enlightenment through Zen meditation, even though he uses his pen with much rationality, he can still open and close, gather and disperse, and enter the realm of free expression. In comparison, his writing style is more calm and elegant. Even though it is full of ups and downs, he can still leave wherever he goes and go wherever he leaves. Huang Tingjian's "All Venerable Posts" and other cursive calligraphy of Buddhist scriptures are those who truly understand their wonderful principles. It is precisely because of this that Huang Tingjian created another new realm of Chinese cursive script.