Yang Xian's Calligraphy Style

Li Yang's wave strokes are often distorted, and they are often closed at the first stroke, leaving no waves. Instead of emphasizing waves, they highlight strokes, such as horizontal strokes and horizontal strokes. Moreover, from the perspective of Li Yang, the brushwork is vigorous and solid, and it slips at the moment when it comes out, and then the pen tip comes out quickly, leaving a hidden and dry head and tail. Thirdly, Yang Yisheng "studied official script, but he could see everything in the Han tablet". He wrote the tablet with the brushwork of calligraphy, but he didn't win purely by the masculinity of the Han tablet. There is a tendency to change rigidity into softness, to see rigidity in softness, to see softness in bending, and to be strong without losing strength.

Yang Xian's calligraphy belongs to Beibei School. Zeng studied calligraphy with Zang Shougong, a calligrapher, and studied official script seriously. He is famous for being everywhere in Han tombs. Because of his extensive methods, diligent practice, extremely skillful writing and obvious personal style. His official script is mainly the road to reward, ode to Shimen and ritual monument. In terms of font structure, he broke the habit of learning from Han steles, and tried to use the method of tightening up and thinning down, especially the strokes of skimming, pressing, long vertical, stretching left and right, waving and flying, so that the elegant and dignified Han steles could be quickly written and skilled. The style is thin and powerful, and it is tight in the sparse. His pen is bright and refreshing, and he uses more ink to change. He often used light ink and old ink to create, which was rare among calligraphers of epigraphy at that time. During Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods, his official script was the most prominent and had a great influence. It is worth mentioning that Yang Xian's running script is also distinctive in style and calm in stippling. Physical decline, slender shape, square and flat, tight, or discrete and changeable, try to avoid dullness. Its bold and elegant Qi Fei. Yang Xian's works spread widely, but the official script style had a great influence on the book circle in the late Qing Dynasty, even as far away as Japan. However, his books in his later years were decadent and lacked ancient meaning.