During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the society was in turmoil, and the study of Buddhism and Taoism to meet the needs of social consciousness flourished. The propaganda method of Buddhism and Taoism is to write scriptures as a great merit. Especially in Buddhism, whenever a new temple tower is built and a Buddha statue is shaped, literary scholars should be hired to write articles to instruct them. For a time, from the popular wind of erecting monuments in Han dynasty, it turned to Buddhism to build temples, towers and monuments. Although there are wars in the world, the psychology of seeking immortality by making statues is even more fierce, and the words and Buddhist names carved on stones are all over the ravine. Weibei came into being.
Weibei species:
Weibei can be roughly divided into four types: inscriptions, epitaphs, statues and cliff carvings. Calligraphy at this time is a transitional calligraphy system that connects the past with the future and opens up the future. Zhong Zhishuai said that Wei Bei "can see the old customs of Han and Qin dynasties from above, and can observe the habits of Sui and Tang dynasties from below." Wei Bei's calligraphy had a great influence on the formation of regular script in Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the process of innovation and change, calligraphers of past dynasties also learned useful essence from it.
Weibei style:
Wei Bei is a kind of regular script, which is called the three regular script fonts together with Wei Kai, Jin Dynasty regular script and Tang Dynasty regular script. Together with regular script, running script, cursive script, seal script and official script, it is called the six major calligraphy in China. Weibei has a variety of styles, simple and steep, comfortable and beautiful. Wei Bei inherited the tradition of Han Li and created a new style of Tang Kai, which laid a solid foundation for the structure and brushwork of modern Chinese characters.