Zhao Mengfu, one of the four masters of regular script, was not from the Tang Dynasty.
Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), courtesy name Zi'ang, also known as Songxue, was a Songxue Taoist. He was born in Wuxing (now Huzhou, Zhejiang). After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu returned to his hometown and lived leisurely. In the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), Zhao Mengfu and more than ten people were recommended to Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. When he first arrived in the capital, Zhao Mengfu was immediately received by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty admired his talents and appearance, and two years later he was appointed as the fourth general. He is a straight bachelor of Jixian.
Zhao Mengfu is good at seal script, official script, Zhen script, running script, and cursive script, and is especially famous for his regular script and running script. Together with Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Ouyang Xun, they are called the "Four Masters" of regular script. Zhao Mengfu has many written works handed down from generation to generation, and his representative works include "Thousand-Character Essay", "Luo Shen Fu", "Dengba Stele", "Come Back and Come Back", "Lanting Thirteen Postscripts", "Red Cliff Fu", and "Tao Te Ching" , "Qiu E's Tombstone Inscription" and so on. He is the author of 12 volumes of "Notes on Shangshu" and "Collected Works of Song Xuezhai".
Introduction to the life of Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu was erudite and talented, good at poetry and prose, good at economics, good at calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, familiar with laws and regulations, and good at interpretation and appreciation. In painting, he created a new style of painting in the Yuan Dynasty, which was known as the "Crown of the Yuan Dynasty". His paintings draw on a wide range of materials and have comprehensive techniques, and are good at landscapes, figures, flowers and birds.
His calligraphy is based on Zhong Yao, "Er Wang", Li Yong, Zhao Gou, etc. He is good at seal script, official script, Zhen script, Xing script, and Cao script, and is especially famous for regular script and running script; his calligraphy style Emotional, graceful, neat in structure, and sophisticated in writing, he created the "Zhao style" calligraphy, and together with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan, he is known as the "Four Masters of Regular Script". In addition, Zhao Mengfu advocated following the example of the ancients and emphasized that "calligraphy and painting have the same origin". His thoughts on painting, calligraphy and painting had a profound impact on future generations.
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