Ou Yangxun (557-64 1), Han nationality, was born in Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan) in the Tang Dynasty, and was one of the four masters of regular script. Liang Taiping was born in Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan) in the second year of the Southern Dynasty (AD 557), and his ancestral home was Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan).