Zi Ziang, Taoist Cedar, Taoist Crystal Palace, Huzhou (Xing Wu, Zhejiang). Descendants of Song Taizu's son, King Qin Fangde. In the Yuan Dynasty, he was awarded a bachelor's degree from Hanlin and a doctor from Rong Lu, and was named Duke of Wei. He is the author of Song Xuezhai Collection.
Zhao Mengfu was an influential calligrapher in the early Yuan Dynasty. "Biography of the History of Yuan Dynasty" records: "Meng Yi's calligraphy is the best in the world, so the book is the theme of the world." Praise. According to Song Lian, a scholar, Zhao's calligraphy learned Lingling's Eight Intellectuals in his early years, Zhong You and Fairy in his middle years and books in his later years. In addition, he also visited Dingding Monument in Yuan and Wei Dynasties, Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang in Tang Dynasty, which was a great achievement of predecessors. As Wen Jia said, "Gong Wei's calligraphy is superior to the ancients, and they are all imitations. "So, Zhao's success in calligraphy is inseparable from his ability to learn from other people's long sentences.
His representative works include: Qiu Ai Tombstone Inscription, Biography of Ji An, View of Blessing God, Danba Monument, Thirteen Postscripts of Lanting Post, Snow Clouds Post, Poems of Luoshen, Notes of Miao Yan Temple, etc.
Ji An biography:
By Zhao Mengfu. Lowercase. He claimed that the Biography of Ji An was a legacy of the Tang Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Feng Yuan commented: "This book, according to the European style, is fast and elegant, but it still has to be praised and written by himself." Ni Zan also said: "Zi Ang writes fine print, which is beautifully tied, and he hits hard with a pen. It' s really a shame for people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. " (Quoted from "Tree Algae"), the pen power is no less than Zhiyong and Yu Shinan, which is the best in my life.