Comments on Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy

Here, I want to talk to you mainly about Zhao Ziang, a great calligrapher in the early Yuan Dynasty, who actually practiced Wang Xizhi's regular script and running script. We can often see these traces in his works. What is commendable is that he wrote a perfect regular script with Zhao Ti style on the basis of predecessors and combined with his own feelings of practicing calligraphy, which left a beautiful sample for future generations to write and inherit.

Zhao Ti's regular script is not absolute in form, but it is more appropriate to say that it is a running script. Zhao Ziang always applies the brushwork in running script to regular script, which makes regular script more chic and lively, which is one of the characteristics that distinguishes Zhao Ti from the other three regular scripts.

Speaking of it, the characters of these four famous regular script writers really have their own styles and lead the way. Among them, Zhao Ti is famous for his liveliness, while Liu Ti is famous for his thinness and hardness, which is different from the thin gold style and has strong personal characteristics. Yan Zhenqing's words are full of the mighty image of a military commander, and Gu Zhuo is full of fortitude. What about Ou Yangxun? His regular script is interesting, seemingly round, but there are many dangers. You can write it like this. I don't know if it's a gift or how hard he worked. In a word, this is a good word that people still applaud and move after thousands of years.

Most people begin to learn to write soft pen characters, mostly from regular script. Understanding the differences between these four famous figures will also help us choose the copybook that suits us. I hope my answer can help you.