Huang Tingjian: China calligrapher and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Lu Zhi was born in Fenning (now xiushui county, Jiangxi). In the third year of Zhiping (1066), he was a scholar and served as an official, scholar, a captain, minister, secretary and foreign minister in the official department. He once traveled under Su Shi's door with Qin Guan, Chao, and was called Su Shi's Four Bachelor's degree. Huang Tingjian is also a writer, good at poetry and a master of Jiangxi poetry school. He is the author of The Valley Collection.
Huang Tingjian's calligraphy was first learned by Zhou Yue in Song Dynasty. Later, influenced by Yan Zhenqing, Huai Su, Yang Ningshi and others, and inspired by the style of Yi He Ming by Jiao Shan, Huang Tingjian developed his own cursive style. Huang Tingjian's big-character running script is concise and powerful, and its structure is peculiar. Almost every word has some exaggerated long paintings, and he tried his best to send them out, forming a brand-new method of combining Chinese palaces and diverging on all sides, which had a great influence on later generations. The structure is obviously influenced by Huai Su, but the rhythm is completely different from that of Huai Su. Before him, roundness and fluency were the keynote of cursive script, while Huang Tingjian's cursive script was extremely dangerous in word structure and creative in composition. He often breaks the boundaries between words by shifting, making lines form new combinations and the rhythm changes strongly. Therefore, it has a special charm and has become an outstanding representative of calligraphy in the Northern Song Dynasty. Together with Su Shi, it has become the pioneer of a generation of calligraphy style. The so-called more artistic calligraphy in Song Dynasty by later generations is to change the style and structure of calligraphy and pursue the artistic conception and interest of calligraphy. Huang Tingjian, Su Shi, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are called Song Sijia.
Huang Tingjian has made some important comments on the art of calligraphy, most of which are scattered in The Valley Collection. He opposed to living on one's laurels, emphasized the spiritual inheritance of excellent traditions and the creation of individuality; Pay attention to the influence of mind and temperament on calligraphy creation; In style, he opposes originality and emphasizes clumsiness. These ideas can be confirmed by his creation.
Huang Tingjian's calligraphy is popular, and Xiao Zhuan's calligraphy is represented by Fang's epitaph, Wang's epitaph and Shi Yizheng's epitaph in Lunan. Calligraphy is fluent and elegant. The big-character running script includes Huangzhou Cold Food Poem Volume and Postscript, Fu Bo Shenci Volume, Songfengge Poem, etc. , are vigorous and calm, showing the characteristics of yellow books. Cursive scripts include Li Bai's Memories of Time Past, Zhu Shangtie and so on. With gorgeous words and elegant brushwork. While inheriting Huai Su's cursive script, it also shows the uniqueness of Huangshu. In addition, Huang Tingjian's calligraphy works include Tombstone of Boyi Shu Qi, Gongbei of the Ground Beam, Poems of Qingyuan Mountain, Longwang Temple, Ode to the Queen in the Title, etc.