On Li Yu's Jin Cuodao Style

Li Yu (937-978), the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, attached great importance to calligraphy and painting. His calligraphy was handed down by two kings, and it was called stirrup painting. He is good at running script and likes to write with that swaying brushwork. His name is Jin Cuodao. Writing big characters without a pen and rolling silk to write a book is called a tight book. His ink is rarely circulated, and a line of inscription and postscript in The First Snow on the River (now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei) by Zhao Gan, a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is regarded as its original work. He once produced the calligraphy works hidden in the secret room of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and ordered Xu Xuan to engrave it into a "Sheng Yuan Tie" for people to appreciate and study. This is the earliest known calligraphy post. Today no longer exists.