The representative works of the four major calligraphers are: Su Shi's "Hanshi Calligraphy", Huang Tingjian's "Songfengge Poetry Calligraphy", Mi Fu's "Tiaoxi Poetry Calligraphy", and Cai Xiang's "Menghui Calligraphy".
1. Su Shi - "Cold Food Post"
"Cold Food Post" is also known as "Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post" or "Huangzhou Cold Food Post". It is a poem written by Su Shi and written in ink on plain paper. It is 34.2 cm wide and 18.9 cm long. It has 17 lines of running script and 129 characters. It is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
This post is a representative work of Su Shi's running script. This is a poem of excitement, which is the sigh of life written by Su Shi on the Cold Food Festival in the third year after he was demoted to Huangzhou. The poem is desolate and sentimental, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and loneliness at this time. The calligraphy throughout the text is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, without any rash strokes. "Han Shi Shi Tie" has a great influence on the history of calligraphy. It is known as "the third running script in the world" and is also the best among Su Shi's calligraphy works.
2. Huang Tingjian - "Songfeng Pavilion Poems"
"Songfeng Pavilion Poems" is a seven-character poem written by Huang Tingjian in running script, ink on paper, 32.8 cm in length and 219.2 in width. Centimeter, the full text contains 29 lines and 153 words, now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
This work was created by Huang Tingjian in his later years. The strokes throughout the book are vigorous and windy. It can be said that Huang Tingjian wrote so many works in his life, but "Songfeng Pavilion Poems" is the most famous. The wind spirit is free and flowing, the long waves are wide, the waves are ups and downs, and the twists and turns are full of charm. It is not less elegant than "Lanting", which is comparable to Yan's "Sacrifice to My Nephew". It can be called a masterpiece of running script.
3. Mi Fu - "Tiaoxi Poems"
The full name of "Tiaoxi Poems" is "Reporting Tiaoxi Operas to Friends of Poems", which was written by Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty. A work of running script calligraphy created in the third year of Yuanyou (1088). It is now collected in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
The writing in "Tiaoxi Poems" is vigorous, thick and fine, and the brushwork is coherent and free in vertical and horizontal directions. Mi Fu's use of brushes is rich and varied, which has a lot to do with the brushes he uses in painting. In the process of being good at using brushes, Mi Fu developed an elegant and heroic style and a calm and cheerful momentum. He pursues ups and downs of changes and is unique in his own way. Have attitude.
4. Cai Xiang - "Menghui Tie"
"Menghui Tie" was written by Cai Xiang in 1052. It is on paper, 22.7 cm long and 16.5 cm wide. Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.
"Meng Hui Tie" is Cai Xiang's representative work in regular script. It is based on "Lanting Preface" and incorporates Yan Lugong's honest and steady elements, and then magnifies the artistic connotation of the Song Dynasty's running script and ruler-slip calligraphy, making the art of calligraphy develop into a new era.