Calligraphy schools in Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties

The Sui Dynasty ended the chaos in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and unified China. Later, Tang Dou was a relatively stable period. The development of the South Railway North Monument went hand in hand with the Sui Dynasty, and the form of regular script was officially completed, occupying a position of connecting the past with the future in the history of books. Sui Kai inherited the evolution of Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. A new standardization bureau was established in the Tang Dynasty. There are inscriptions in the Sui Dynasty, mostly authentic, which are divided into four styles:

1, the tablet of Qifa Temple in Pinghe Ruding Road Tiger, etc.

2. Strict and strict prescriptions such as Dong's Epitaph.

3, deep and round, such as "Xin Xing Zen Master Taming" and so on

4. Xiulang is as exquisite as the "Longzang Temple Monument". The culture of the Tang Dynasty was profound and brilliant, reaching the peak of China's feudal culture. It can be said that books flourished in the early Tang Dynasty. There were more ink marks in the Tang Dynasty than in the previous generation, and a large number of inscriptions left precious calligraphy works. The calligraphy of the whole Tang Dynasty is the inheritance and innovation of the previous generation. Regular script, running script and cursive script all entered a new situation in the Tang Dynasty, with outstanding characteristics of the times, and their influence on later generations far exceeded that of any previous era.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was strong, and calligraphy took off from the legacy of the Six Dynasties. Everyone took Ou Yangxun as a regular script. Yu Shinan Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and Ouyang Tong are the mainstream of calligraphy. The general feature is that the structure is rigorous and tidy, so later generations have the saying of' heavy shelf in the prosperous Tang Dynasty', which was once honored as' the crown of calligraphy' and continued until the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Combining Confucianism and Taoism, Li Yong changed the right army to be unique. Zhang Xu and Huai Su pushed the performance of cursive script to the extreme with their drunkenness, Sun Caoshu was good at being elegant, and He and others also focused on creating reality. As soon as Yan Zhenqing came out, he accepted the ancient law in new ideas and gave birth to the new law outside the ancient meaning. Dong Qichang said that Duke Lu made great preparations for learning from books in the Tang Dynasty. Late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, the national situation declined, Shen Chuanshi. Liu Gongquan changed the model law again. Expose your thinness and strength. It further enriched the method, and in the Five Dynasties, it used Yan and Liu at the same time. When the two kings acceded to the throne, the flanks took a stance and made great efforts. Therefore, when they left the troubled times, they all fought alone in the image of Rao Chengping, which is also the light of Tang books. On the occasion of the Five Dynasties, crazy Zen became popular, which also affected the calligraphy circle. Although' crazy Zen calligraphy' did not show a large scale in the Five Dynasties, it did have a great influence on calligraphy in the Song Dynasty.

The art of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty can be divided into three periods: early Tang, middle Tang and late Tang. In the early Tang Dynasty, inheritance was the mainstay, statutes were respected, and the beauty of gold calligraphy was deliberately pursued. In the middle Tang Dynasty, innovation continued and it was extremely prosperous. Calligraphy also improved in the late Tang Dynasty.

There were six kinds of institutions of higher learning in the Tang Dynasty, namely imperial academy, Imperial College, Four Schools, Law, Calligraphy and Mathematics. Among them, it is a pioneering work in the Tang Dynasty to train calligraphers and calligraphers. Famous artists come forth in large numbers, Starlight Glimmer. Such as Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang in the early Tang Dynasty; Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan were both great calligraphers in the middle Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, there were Wang Wenbing's seal script, Li E's regular script and the charm of Yan Liu, the second king of Yang Ningshi. (1) Sui Dynasty to early Tang Dynasty.

Sui unified China and accepted the culture and art of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, politics flourished, and the art of calligraphy gradually emerged from the legacy of the Six Dynasties with a new attitude. In the early Tang Dynasty, regular script was the mainstream, and its overall feature was strict and orderly structure.

(2) In the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

Calligraphy in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, like the social form at that time, pursued a romantic way of getting carried away. Such as Wild Grass by Zhang Zuisu (Zhang Xu, Huai Su) and Li Yong's running script. In the middle Tang Dynasty, regular script made a new breakthrough. Yan Zhenqing, as the representative, laid the standard of regular script, set an example and became orthodox. At this point, China's calligraphy style has been completely determined.

(3) The legacy of the Tang Dynasty existed in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.

In 907, Zhu Quanzhong, the separatist, destroyed the Tang Dynasty and established Hou Liang, from which the later Tang Dynasty, the later Jin Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty and the later Zhou Dynasty were called the Five Dynasties. Due to the weakness and disorder of the country, culture and art are also declining. Although the art of calligraphy continued after the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the influence of war and fire, it formed a general trend of decline. During the Five Dynasties, Yang Ningshi's calligraphy was praised. In the five dynasties when calligraphy declined, his calligraphy was the mainstay. There are also outstanding calligraphers, such as Li Yu and Yan Xiu. At this point, the honest and rigorous style of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty came to an end. Later, Song Sijia followed suit and set off a new wave of the times.