1. Wang Xizhi
Representative works: "Lanting Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Ye Tie", "March 3rd Orchid Pavilion Poetry Preface", etc.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into a collection and wrote a preface to describe the incident of drinking Qushui and express the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is the "Preface to the Lanting Collection". He also wrote a "Preface to the Lanting Collection". Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty admired him so much that he personally wrote the "Biography of Wang Xizhi" in the "Book of Jin" and praised him as "perfect and perfect". Copy copies were also given to dignitaries and close ministers, and they were buried with the original works.
2. Huang Tingjian
Representative works: "Yuzhang Mr. Huang's Collected Works", "Valley Piano Fun", "Songfeng Pavilion Poems", etc.
Huang Tingjian ( August 9, 1045 - May 24, 1105), courtesy name Luzhi, nicknamed Shangu Taoren, later nicknamed Fu Weng, a native of Hongzhou Fenning (now Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province), a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty , the founder of the Jiangxi Poetry School, which flourished for a time, and together with Du Fu, Chen Shidao and Chen Yuyi, are known as the "one ancestor and three sects" (Huang Tingjian is one of them).
3. Ouyang Xun (European style)
Representative works: "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription", "Huangfu's Birthday Stele", "Huadu Temple Stele", regular script "Orchid Pavilion" "Thousand-Character Essay in Running Script" and so on.
Ouyang Xun was proficient in calligraphy, and together with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, he was known as one of the "Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty". Because his son Ouyang Tong was good at calligraphy, he was known as "Da Ou" in history. The calligraphy in Ping Zheng was in danger, and it was named "European Style"
4. Yan Zhenqing
Representative works: "Ode to the Portrait of Dongfang Shuo", "Induction Monument of the Duobao Pagoda of Qianfu Temple in Xijing, Tang Dynasty", "The Story of the Immortal Altar at Magu Mountain in Nancheng County, Fuzhou, Tang Dynasty", "The Secret Monument of Protector Yan Gong in the History of the Governor of Langkui Prefecture", "Ode to Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty", etc.
Yan Zhenqing (709-709) August 23, 784), named Qingchen, nicknamed Xianmenzi, nicknamed Yingfang, was born in Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi), and his ancestral home is Langya Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong). A famous official and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, he was the grandson of the fifth generation of Secretary Yan Shigu and the younger brother of Situ Yan Gaoqing.
5. Liu Gongquan (Liu style)
Representative works: "Mysterious Pagoda Stele", "Shence Army Stele", "Liu Mian Stele", "Diamond Sutra Engraved Stone", "Li Sheng Stele", "Huiyuan Temple Bell Tower Inscription and Preface", "Feng Su Stele", "Fu Lin Stele", "Wei Gongxian Temple Stele", etc.
Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for his regular script. He first studied Wang Xizhi, and later studied the calligraphy of famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty. He absorbed the strengths of Yan Zhenqing and Ouyang Xun, incorporated new ideas, and created his own unique "Liu style", which is based on the strength of bones. He was good at being strong and healthy, and was known as "a man with strong muscles and willow bones" in later generations. He is as famous as Yan Zhenqing and is known as "Yan Liu". He is also known as the "Four Masters of Regular Script" together with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.