In the history of calligraphy in China, cursive script appeared before regular script and running script. At first, it existed as a universal writing with endless freehand brushwork, but later, the appearance and popularity of regular script made the world begin to pursue the practicality of cursive script and become artistic.
Huai Su became a monk when he was a child. He studied calligraphy very hard, and his bald pen became a hill, which also created a much-told story of Huai Su's "bald pen became a mountain". He had a big cursive script in his life, which was deeply loved by later calligraphers and even admired by Yang Ningshi, a great genius of the Five Dynasties. This calligraphy is his cursive "Biography of Wang Xizhi".
This work was written by Huai Su at the age of forty-nine. On the whole, the cursive script is skillful, with rounded characters, changeable postures, jumping and opening, while dragons and phoenixes dance. It can be said that it is bold and bold, magnificent, and people really feel the unrestrained beauty of a cursive script.
Main works:
1, "readme post"
The self-report post, a paper book, is 28.3 cm long and 755 cm wide; 126 line, ***698 words. Li Dongyang's seal script before the post begins with the words "hide the truth and tell a story". The original is now in the Palace Museum in Taiwan. Self-narrative posts are the representative works of Huai Su's cursive script.
2, "Cao Qian Zi Wen"
The original paper version of Huai Su's Thousand-Word Grass is also called the paper version of Thousand-Word Paste. After loading and old loading. Each page is 26.8cm vertically and13.5 cm horizontally; ***9 pages and 42 lines (the first paragraph of Zhou Xingsi's original text), with 530 words in existence and several printed posts, are very precious original calligraphy posts of the Tang Dynasty. Known as "the best grass in the world".
3, "Bitter Bamboo Shoot Post"
Bitter Bamboo Shoots, written by Cao Sheng Huai Su in Tang Dynasty, is the earliest Buddhist calligraphy related to tea, with a length of 25. 1cm, a width of 12cm and two lines of 14. Hidden in Shanghai Museum.
4. In books and posts
On the book post, cursive ink and paper, 38.5 cm long and 40.5 cm wide, 9 lines, ***85 words. Generally speaking, it inherits and develops Zhang Xu's cursive script, so it is called "following the madness".