At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was strong, and calligraphy took off from the legacy of the Six Dynasties. Everyone took Ou Yangxun as a regular script. Yu Shinan Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and Ouyang Tong are the mainstream of calligraphy. The general feature is that the structure is rigorous and tidy, so later generations have the saying of' heavy shelf in the prosperous Tang Dynasty', which was once honored as' the crown of calligraphy' and extended to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Combining Confucianism and Taoism, Li Yong changed the right army to be unique. Zhang Xu and Huai Su pushed the performance of cursive script to the extreme with their drunkenness, Sun Caoshu was good at being elegant, and He and others also focused on creating reality. As soon as Yan Zhenqing came out, he accepted the ancient law in new ideas and gave birth to the new law outside the ancient meaning. Dong Qichang said that Duke Lu made great preparations for learning from books in the Tang Dynasty. Late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, the national situation declined, Shen Chuanshi. Liu Gongquan changed the model law again. Expose your thinness and strength. It further enriched the method, and in the Five Dynasties, it used Yan and Liu at the same time. When the two kings acceded to the throne, the flanks took a stance and made great efforts. Therefore, when they left the troubled times, they all fought alone in the image of Rao Chengping, which is also the light of Tang books. On the occasion of the Five Dynasties, crazy Zen became popular, which also affected the calligraphy circle. Crazy Zen calligraphy did not appear on a large scale in the Five Dynasties, but it had a great influence on calligraphy in the Song Dynasty.
The art of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty can be divided into three periods: early Tang, middle Tang and late Tang. In the early Tang Dynasty, inheritance was the mainstay, statutes were respected, and the beauty of gold calligraphy was deliberately pursued. In the middle Tang Dynasty, innovation continued and it was extremely prosperous. Calligraphy also improved in the late Tang Dynasty.
There were six kinds of institutions of higher learning in the Tang Dynasty, namely imperial academy, Imperial College, Four Schools, Law, Calligraphy and Mathematics. Among them, it is a pioneering work in the Tang Dynasty to train calligraphers and calligraphers. Famous artists come forth in large numbers, Starlight Glimmer. Such as Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang in the early Tang Dynasty; Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan were both great calligraphers in the middle Tang Dynasty. Wang Wenbing's seal script, Li E's regular script and Yang Ningshi's "Two Kings Yan Liu" appeared in the late Tang Dynasty.