What are the characteristics of the overall style of calligraphy in the middle and late Ming Dynasty?

Early Ming Dynasty: basically inherited the typical calligraphy style of Yuan Dynasty; Shen Du's Jing Zhai Zhen Juan represents the highest level of exhibition hall style. His brushwork is vigorous and superb, his words are even throughout, his ranks are neat, his manners are rich and harmonious, and his ending is elegant and graceful.

Mid-Ming Dynasty: Jiangsu and Zhejiang's economy developed gradually, and culture became the core area of calligraphy. Some literati are indifferent to the promotion of literati. They are good at literature and art and gradually become painters with certain professional characteristics, making a living by selling calligraphy and painting. This inevitably led to some changes in his creative purpose and style pursuit, the elegance of "literati" gradually weakened, and the wind of "different and strange" gradually rose. For example, Wang Chong pursues a kind of elegant and clumsy interest, writing clumsily with rhyme, "seeing beauty in clumsiness" and "seeing elegance in clumsiness".

Late Ming Dynasty: The political and cultural struggle within the country became increasingly acute, the personality liberation thought derived from psychology prevailed, and the external military pressure gradually increased, which greatly affected people's psychology and further affected literary and artistic activities. Because of this, great changes have taken place in the field of calligraphy. The wild style of calligraphy has become the mainstream of calligraphy development, and some people call it wild school.