Wei Bei has the charm of regular script and official script. Some people say that Weibei is an ugly book. what do you think?

Weibei refers to the inscriptions and calligraphy works of the Northern Dynasties during the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-588 AD). The existing characters in Wei Bei are regular script, so these regular script inscriptions are sometimes called "Wei Kai". Weibei, also known as the North Monument, was the longest established in the Northern Dynasties. Later, "Weibei" was used to refer to the inscription calligraphy works of the whole Northern Dynasty, including the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the society was in turmoil and people lived in dire straits. 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.

Wei Bei's calligraphy technique is rigorous, simple and vigorous, full of volume, and has the charm of Li Kaizhi. Its calligraphy art is developed on the basis of Han Li and Kincaid, and it can be called the top grade in Han steles. Calligraphers in ancient and modern times gave the highest evaluation to this monument, which can be described as a monument to the unity of Han and stele.

Modern calligraphers admire Weibei, and there are many literati, especially in the north. Perhaps the strong and simple Weibei is in line with the generosity of northerners, and there are many people with high attainments.

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. Weibei showed some transitional factors in the development of official script to typical regular script. There were regular scripts in Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as Zhong You's "Xianbiao" and Wang Xizhi's "Huangtingjing", which were relatively mature regular scripts. However, after a large number of intellectuals in the Western Jin Dynasty followed the southern Jin Dynasty, the calligraphy style in the Northern Dynasties was quite different from that in the Southern Dynasties.

Wei Bei was discovered earlier, but it has never been taken seriously.