What are the characteristics of calligraphy in the Southern and Northern Dynasties?

Since the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, there has been a scuffle between the five lakes and sixteen countries in northern China. Tuoba family unified the north and established Wei State. Later, it was divided into Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Zhou. This is the Northern Dynasties in history. For a long time at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the court paid insufficient attention to Chinese culture. It was not until Emperor Xiaowen of Wei moved to Luoyang that he began to advocate Chinese culture and worship Buddhism. Therefore, Buddhism, which was introduced into China from the Han Dynasty, gradually began to flourish, and the custom of building towers and statues began to prevail. At the same time, as an integral part of tombs, stone carvings have also been revived; Epitaphs also began to appear in large numbers. These changes provided a broad space for the development of calligraphy art. The Jin Dynasty moved south until its demise. From 365,438+07 to 420 and around 65,438+004, it was replaced by Song, Qi, Liang and Chen. This is the Southern Dynasties in history. The Southern Dynasties inherited the ethos of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, from emperors to ordinary people, they all liked calligraphy very much. However, stone tablets are very rare, and most of the calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation are letters and letters.

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