Mi Fu's representative works in regular script include "Poems of Duojinglou", "Poems of Hongxian County", "Yanshan Inscription", "Coral Tie", etc.
Mi Fu, originally named Fu, later changed to Fu, with the courtesy name Yuanzhang, and signed his name as Mi or Qian. He was a native of Xiangyang, Hubei Province. people. He was a calligrapher, painter, and theorist of calligraphy and painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. Together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi, and Huang Tingjian, he was known as the "Four Schools of Song Dynasty". He has attainments in calligraphy, painting, epigraphy, etc., with the highest achievement in calligraphy.
Mi Fu's "Coral Tie", also known as "Coral Penstand Picture", is a cursive calligraphy work on paper created by Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty, in his later years. It is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing and is a national first-class cultural relic. The content of this work is that the author showed off his collection to others and drew a piece of coral. If the painting was not enough, he also wrote a poem for the coral pen stand.
The explanation is as follows: Collect Zhang Sengyao, the king of heaven, with an inscription by Xue Ji. Yan Erwu, Le Lao Chu Yuan obtained it directly. Also included is Jing Wen's "Asking for Rituals", also a painting from the Six Dynasties. A branch of coral. Sanzhi Zhucaojinsha comes from Tianzhijie Xiangjia. On that day, I was blessed with a pre-named list, and I was ashamed not to have five-color pen-headed flowers.
Mi Fu's calligraphy is stable but not vulgar, dangerous but not weird, old but not dry, and moist but not fat. He not only requires unity in change, but also integrates opposing factors such as wrapping and hiding, fatness and thinness, sparseness and density, simplicity and complexity. In terms of composition, we pay attention to the overall charm and take into account the perfection of details. During the writing process, we change according to the situation and show unique ingenuity. Such a wonderful scene is vividly reflected in Mi Fu's notebooks.