I. Introduction to Liu Gongquan
1, Liu Gongquan (778 -865), Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), Han nationality. A famous calligrapher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, the younger brother of Liu Gongchu, the minister of war.
Liu Gongquan was a scholar at the age of twenty-nine. In his early years, he served as secretary of provincial studies and was incorporated into the Li Ting shogunate. In Mu Zong, Jing Zong and Wenzong Dynasty, he served in the official residence and grew up in North Korea. * * * During the Seven Dynasties, the official was the Prince, and he was named the Duke of Hedong County, and the official was the Prince Taibao, so it was called "Liu". Xian Tong VI (865), Liu Gongquan died at the age of 88 and was posthumously awarded as a prince.
Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for regular script. He first learned from Wang Xizhi. Later, he visited the famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty, learned from Yan Zhenqing, absorbed new ideas, and created his own "Liu Ti", which is famous for its strength and health, and later generations have the reputation of "Yan Gu". It is also called "Yan Liu" with Yan Zhenqing, and "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.
Second, the evaluation of Liu Gongquan by all parties
1: I saw the blue handwriting in the Buddhist temple and thought about it for a long time.
2. Liu Gongzhuo: My brother is painstakingly lonely.
3. Li Yu: Those who are good at dharma books have their own right army integration (Wang Xizhi) ... Liu Gongquan got the bone, but lost his life.
4. Cen Zongri: Liu Gongquan is very energetic, so like being a soldier in Yuanmen, health is new.
5, Fan Zhongyan: the pen to prolong life, Yan Gu. Scattered in the world, treasures are sacred.