Huai Su was an outstanding calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, known as "Cao Sheng" in history. The word Cang Zhen, the monk's name is Huai Su, the common surname is Qian, Han nationality, and he is from Lingling, Yongzhou (Hunan). He is the nephew of Qian Qi, one of the ten talented people in Dali. When he was a child, he became a monk and devoted himself to cursive writing after meditation. He is as famous as Zhang Xu, and is also called "Dian Zhang Kuang Cao", which formed the coexistence of two peaks of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty, which is also the two peaks in the history of cursive script in China. Huai Su's cursive script is thin and vigorous, flying naturally, like a whirlwind of showers. Calligraphy is ever-changing, ever-changing and has statutes.
He has contacts with many famous people such as Li Bai, Xu Hao, Wu Tong, Yan Zhenqing, Lu Xiang, Lu Yu, Dai Shulun and Su Xun. The most famous of his cursive works is Autobiographical Post. According to legend, the first six lines of this work were written by the collector (Song) of this post. Compared with those below the seventh line, there is a world of difference. When you open the whole volume and overlook it, the difference is even more obvious. The whole article is wild grass, with the pen in the middle and the vertical and horizontal oblique straight; Echo up and down, in one go.
What others say about Huai Su.
Huai Su is a leading figure in the history of cursive script in China after Zhang Xu, and also a leading figure in the history of calligraphy for thousands of years. Huang Tingjian, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, praised: "Huai Su cursive script has a long history in the next year. It is wonderful to cover it with fat and to hide it thinly. These two people are the champions of a generation of cursive scripts. " Mi Fei praised: "Huai Su grass workers are thin." Both of them clearly pointed out that the characteristic of Huai Su's calligraphy is "thin and powerful", and compared with the original "Thousands of Gold Seal" hidden by Huang Jinxiang, the owner of perceptual Zhai, this is indeed the case.
Xue, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, once pointed out: "Huai Su's Tang Dynasty was better, and the so-called brushwork was exquisite, elegant and natural, and unparalleled." On March 8, 20021kloc-0, Yongzhou Daily, Huai Su's hometown, published an article entitled "A Thousand-Word Grass Makes a Excellent Work, Punching in Yongzhou, Huai Su", which introduced in detail the calligraphy features of the original paper version of Huai Su's Thousand-Word Grass.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Huai Su (calligrapher of Tang Dynasty)