Liu Desheng, a native of Yingchuan (now Yuzhou City), was a famous calligrapher during the Huan and Ling Dynasties in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The founder of running script calligraphy, because he created a "running script" font between regular script and cursive script, was also called "the originator of running script" by later generations.
Although Liu Desheng's calligraphy is primitive, it is beautiful and elegant, so simple. Rough strokes, avoiding the circle and leaving the square, and heavy book body, such as flowing clouds and flowing water, are very smart and are listed as "wonderful flowers" by future generations. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You and Zhao Hu of Wei were famous for learning German regular script. The two men studied the characteristics of Desheng calligraphy art and reached a higher level. Great calligraphers Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi have also studied Desheng's calligraphy, and they are very skilled and have reached a perfect height. Boju Guo Xue. Com pointed out that Zhang Huaiguan in the Tang Dynasty said in his book preface to harmonious books: "Truth is a few steps in detention, grass is a few steps in release, and those people in China and the West have something to do with books."