Ink copy, no inscription. Running script. There are more than a hundred lines at the beginning and the end, and more than a thousand words before and after. This post is also one of the famous posts that has been widely circulated. This calligraphy was once owned by Wang Shen of the Song Dynasty, and later collected by Jia Sidao and others. It was placed in Xiang Yuan Bian Tian Lai Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty. It was owned by Anqi in the early Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and was copied on the stone. Later he entered the inner palace of the Qing Dynasty. Jing Puyi brought him out of the Qing palace and became a "Northeast product". Now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. This post is meticulous from beginning to end. The writing of each word can be seen from the strings. The pens are connected, turning freely, the momentum is through, the density is appropriate, the lines are elegant and straight, and the flow is smooth.
"A Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script"
Ouyang Xun's "A Thousand-Character Essay" can be found in three recorded books: one is "A Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script" written by Cai Xiang "Wen", one is the "Thousand-Character Wen in Regular Script" collected by Yang Wujiu in the early Southern Song Dynasty, and the other is the existing Thousand-Character Wen.
Only Wang Shen's postscript remains after the post: "Dongpo said, Ouyang led the official letter not because of the danger, but because he was at a loss what to do. The end of the flow reached the fifth surrender of the leader of the state of Li, and there was no room for action. The servant not only loved this comment, but also loved the magnificence of the writing, so he took it for himself. The master was sick of his good deeds, and he took pity on me even more, so he took it without rejecting it. "< /p>
Note: No matter from any aspect, the characteristics of this book are very similar to those of European characters. Among them, the word "书" was mistakenly written as "painting", and Li Yuan's word "Yuan" was missing a pen to avoid taboo. According to Chen Yuan's "Examples of Historical Taboos", the earliest examples of taboos and lack of writing among Tang steles were found in the "Stele of Taishi Kongxuan" presented to him in the first year of Emperor Qianfeng's reign. Yang Renkai concluded that this post was written by Ouyang Xun in his early years, so there was no need to avoid the taboo word "Yuan".
When referring to this post in Xu Bangda's "Essential Records of Ancient Calligraphy and Painting", he once pointed out that Huang Bosi said in the volume of "Dongguan Xu Lun" when discussing the thousand-character prose of Yu Shu: "There are Ou (Yang) in the world. ) "Qianwen" is a volume written by Shu Geng, which is a collection of his words. "I don't know if it is this volume.