Ou Yangxun has been very clever since he was a child. He can read several books, read classics and history, and is especially good at three histories. He first studied the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Liu Min, a famous calligrapher in the Northern Qi Dynasty.
"Zhong Ni Monty Tie" is 78 words with no seal. The calligraphy of this post is vigorous, Gu Zhuo, and it was once collected in the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Palace. It has Zhu Wenyin, Shao Yin and Zhu Wenyin on it.
After the Southern Song Dynasty, Jia Sidao, Guo Yuan Tian Xi, Xiang Ming Bian Yuan, Gao Qing Shi Qi and other celebrities, as well as the Qing government.
Guo Tianxi, a calligrapher in the Yuan Dynasty, once said: This book is vigorous and fierce, just like a halberd in an armory, and it is the first book in the world.
Later, Ou Yangxun began to gradually try to change his calligraphy font, became bold and unique, and finally became his own family. People call this font "European style".
I learned the application skills of brushwork from studying seal script, gained the charm of calligraphy in Linjin posts, and finally gained the soul of calligraphy by copying Sui steles. After a long period of summary and innovation, Ou Yangxun gradually formed his original new calligraphy style characterized by vigorous brushwork and steep structure. He pushed the regular script, running script and cursive script, which have risen and evolved since the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, to a new stage.
At that time, the appearance of European style was called a unique skill of calligraphy, and it was also called "the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty" with Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi. As long as people get the letters written by Ou Yangxun, they will copy them as a model, so his calligraphy has a great influence on later generations.