Background information of Liang Hu

Liang Hu loved calligraphy since childhood, but he was struggling to find rare books and teachers to learn from. At that time, there was a great calligrapher, Shi Yiguan, who was the best at writing eight points. His book "is a word in size, but a thousand words in size, which is very impressive." Sometimes you don't take money to drink in a restaurant, because the book is on the wall, and the visitors will pay straight and count the money to destroy it. Every book needs to be cut and burned, and Liang You is beneficial to the hairpin, while the wine he drinks is drunk and steals his hairpin. " (See Wei Heng's "Four-body Calligraphy") Liang Gu used the method of "stealing" the hairpin, searched for Shi Yiguan ink, studied hard and practiced hard, and finally became a famous calligrapher.

Cao Cao is a poet and a calligraphy tomb, so he has many friends who engage in literature and calligraphy, including famous calligraphers Zhong You, Han Danchun, Wei Dan, etc., and his favorite is Liang Huan. It is said that Cao Cao hung Liang Hu's calligraphy in his tent or nailed it to the wall, enjoying it from time to time, thinking that his handwriting was better than his teacher Shi Yiguan's. Most of Wei's palace inscriptions are Liang Hu.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was an elected minister and served as the secretariat of Liangzhou. Attach Liu Biao first, and then return to Cao Cao. There is a Confucius Temple Monument today. His outstanding achievements in the eight-part calligraphy method have always been well received by calligraphy critics in past dynasties. Zhong You, Suo Jing and other nine people's eight-point books are listed as the top grade in Shu Pin Lun by Liang Yi Shouwu, while Liang Yi's book in Hou Shu Pin by Tang Li Sizhen is listed as the top grade, and Wei Xu's book Mo Yi Jiu Pin Shu is listed as the top grade.

few traces of Liang Hu's books have been handed down. Legend has it that when Wang Xizhi was studying books, he went to Xuchang to visit Liang Hu and Zhong You. It is said that some famous monuments were written by Liang Hu. Among them, Lishi said that the Temple Monument of Confucius in Lu was written by Cao Zhiwen and Liang Hu. Kang Youwei also thinks that this tablet was written by a stork. Ouyang Xiu of Song Dynasty said in "Postscript on June 1st": "The Monument to Wei Shouchan" was handed down from generation to generation as Liang Hu's book, but Yan Zhenqing thought it was Zhong You's book, so he didn't know which one was. "As for Wei Gongqing's Table of Honors, Tang Xianduo was passed down as Liang Gu's book, and today's people are either non-Gu's or Zhong You's readers, but who is unknown? There are also people who say that the Buddhist Monument was written by Wang Lang, written by Liang Hu and engraved by Zhong You, so it is also called the Three Wonders Monument.