Famous Ancient Calligraphers and Their Representative Works

Famous calligraphers in ancient times included Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Zhang Xu. His representative works include Preface to Lanting Collection, Manuscripts for Sacrificing Nephews and Four Sticks to Ancient Poems.

Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year) [1] was born in Linyi (now Linyi City, Shandong Province). He was good at calligraphy, Li, Cao, Kai and Xing, and was known as the "book sage". In the ninth year of Yonghe (353), he compiled and prefaced The Orchid Pavilion Preface, and wrote The Orchid Pavilion Preface, which was called "the best running script in the world".

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Yan Zhenqing (August 23, 709 -784), a native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi), was good at writing. Chu Suiliang was a beginner and later studied under Zhang Xu. Its regular script is dignified and majestic, and its running script is vigorous and powerful, creating a "Yan style" regular script. His work "The Manuscript for Sacrificing My Nephew" was drafted for the memorial service of my nephew Yan Jiming. Throughout the pen, I feel like a tide, the calligraphy is magnificent, and the vertical pen is bold and unconstrained. Known as "the second running script in the world".

Manuscripts for offering sacrifices to nephews

Zhang Xu Zhang Xu (685? -759? ), the word Gao Bo, the word Ji Ming, was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He is good at cursive writing and likes drinking. He is praised as "Zhang Dian" by the world, and his cursive script, Li Bai's poems and songs, and Pei Min's sword dance are also called "three musts". The work is full of strength, inclined downward, unrestrained and luxurious, with continuous brushwork, which is in danger of climbing over the eaves and walls.

Zhang Xu's works