Mi Fu, a Chinese calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in the Northern Song Dynasty. A native of Wu, his ancestral home is Taiyuan. Zi Yuanzhang, named Xiangyang Jushi, Haiyueshanren, etc. He has great talent, poor character, and is obsessed with cleanliness. It was imitated by people from the Tang Dynasty and stored more rare stones. The world name is Mi Epilepsy. Calligraphy and painting are in a class of their own. Good at identification. He once served as school secretary, doctor of calligraphy and painting, and wailang of the Ministry of Etiquette. He is good at poetry and calligraphy, and is good at calligraphy styles such as seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. He is good at copying ancient calligraphy to the point of imitating the real calligraphy.
Mi Fu’s calligraphy has been admired by later generations since the Song Dynasty. His calligraphy is called "brush calligraphy", which means that his writing method is different from that of his predecessors.
Mi Fu's collected works were lost early, including twenty-six "Hai Yue Quotes", which were recorded on a piece of paper by his friend Zhang Jiafu and preserved in "Mozhuang Manlu" by Zhang Bangji in the Southern Song Dynasty. The core of Mi Fu's calligraphy theory is the innocent and natural way of using the pen. He explains the method of using the pen in a very vivid, vivid and easy-to-understand way. Mi Fu's calligraphy standard is to respect the Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. This is related to the fact that the Tang people valued regular script, but Mi Fu was not good at regular script. Therefore, his calligraphy theory mainly talks about the method of writing in Hanzha, including the weight of the pen and the size of the words between the lines. wait.