Mi Fei (mǐ fú),1051-107, formerly known as Kun, later changed to Mi, with a seal, was named Mi or Mi, who lived in Taiyuan and moved to Xiangyang, Hubei. Calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in Northern Song Dynasty, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, are also called "Song Sijia". He used to be a school book lang, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Mi Fei's calligraphy and painting has its own style, including dead wood and bamboo stones and unique landscape paintings. He is also quite accomplished in calligraphy. He is good at seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script, and is good at copying ancient calligraphy to the extent of "confusing the real with the fake". His main works include Zhang Jiming's Post, Li Taishi's Post, Zijin Research Post and Mo Dan Qiushan Poetry Post. Mi Fei's Shu Su Tie, also known as Imitation of Ancient Poems Tie, is the eighth running script in the world and is praised by later generations as the first beautiful post in China.
Mifei related introduction
Mi Fei is a descendant of Xi people, and the fifth generation ancestor is Mi Xin, an outstanding minister in the early Song Dynasty. Song Renzong Huang You Xin Mao (105 1) was born in Mi Fei in the third year. Mifei began to learn calligraphy at the age of seven or eight. The first teacher was Xiangyang calligrapher Luo Rang. Mi Fei worships the stone map (Chen Hongshou in Ming Dynasty). Song Renzong spent five years in Jiayou, wasting ten years. He wrote inscriptions, and Zhou Yue and Su Shi wrote posts. People say he has Li Yong's brushwork. In four years, Mi Fei left her hometown with her mother Yan, and came to the capital of song dynasty in Kyoto to serve Empress Yingzonggao.
In the second year of Song Shenzong Xining (1069), Song Shenzong succeeded to the throne. Because he didn't forget Mi Fei's mother Yan's old love, he became the secretary of the provincial school for Mi Fei, responsible for proofreading and correcting mistakes at that time. Song Shenzong Xining three years (1070), changed from secretariat to Lin Guiwei. In October of the eighth year of Zong Shenxi Ning (1075), Zong Shen served as the commandant of Lingui County and Hanguang County in the first half of the year, and worked in Changsha after October until the fifth year of Song Shenzong Yuanfeng (1082).
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mi Fei (Northern Song Dynasty painter).