China calligrapher of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The word boying. Dunhuang Jiuquan (now Jiuquan, Gansu) people. Born into an official family, his father, Zhang Huan, used to be too often clear. Zhang Zhi is good at cursive Cao Zhang. He changed the ancient cursive calligraphy of distinguishing characters and dividing strokes into a new writing style, which was original and influential at that time and was known as the sage of grass. Now there is no ink handed down from generation to generation, and only his August post is included in the Chunhua Pavilion post in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Zhi: Born in an unknown year, he died in Chuping, Xian Di for three years (about AD 192). He was born in Jiuquan, Dunhuang (now Gansu). He has a good command of English and is good at Cao Zhang. Later, he got rid of his old habits and preserved Cao Zhang's stippling and painting, which became a "modern grass". At the end of the book, he was called "Xue Cui (all)". The font was written in one stroke, occasionally interrupted, but the veins were continuous and even connected. Dan Wei, a calligrapher of the Three Kingdoms, called him "the sage of grass". Jin Wang's book only praised Zhong (Yao) and Zhang (Zhi) for Han and Wei calligraphy, but thought the rest were not satisfactory. It had a profound influence on the cursive scripts of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi.
Zhang Zhiqin's spirit of practicing calligraphy has become a historical story. Wei Heng's "Four-body Book" records: Zhang Zhi "Where clothes and silks are at home, you must write before you practice (boiling and dyeing);" Learn books in the pool, and the pool is exhausted. "Later generations called calligraphy" Linchi ",that is, from this. You Cao have the reputation of "sage of grass". At that time, people even cherished his Mo Bao to the point of "leaving every inch of paper". The evaluation is quite high, especially the cursive script.
Cao Sheng Zhangzhi
This grass is a kind of grass that inherits Cao Zhang, adapts to the development trend of official script opening, line style and shape change, further omits Cao Zhang's strokes and waves, and becomes more free and easy. The earliest modern grass master in China was Zhang Zhi in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Zhang zhi (? -about 190 to 193), the word Bomo, from Jiuquan, Dunhuang. He dares to innovate, omits the difficulties of Cao Zhang, shows the power of escape with smooth brushwork, and breaks the routine of Cao Zhang, thus creating the calligraphy style of "modern grass". Today's brushwork is natural, combining rigidity with softness, and appropriate density. Later generations listed Zhang Zhi as a "sage of grass". Even Wang Xizhi, the later "book saint", said that his cursive script was not as good as Zhang Zhi's.
Unfortunately, the original works of Zhang Zhi's calligraphy are rarely circulated. Only the Song Dynasty's Spring Pavilion Post contains two volumes and five posts by Zhang Zhi. Whether these are genuine or fake, there are different opinions, and it is still difficult to draw a conclusion.