Zhang Xu befriended Li Bai and He Hao, and Du Fu listed him as the "Eight Immortals of Drinking". Zhang Xu is a master of cursive script with great personality. Because he is often drunk, clamoring for madness, then writing books, and even writing with his hair dipped in ink, he has the nickname "Zhang Dian". After Huai Su inherited and developed his brushwork, he was named after cursive script, and called it "Dianzhangzuisu" (or "Dianzhangkuangsu").
Zhang refers to Zhang Xu, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, who is always called Huai Su, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Diandian refers to the characteristics of Zhang Xu's calligraphy: enthusiasm, even madness. Drunkenness: refers to the characteristics of Huai Su's calligraphy: round and flying, ethereal and transparent charm. This idiom means that a person's character is outstanding and elegant to the extreme It is also used to praise that cursive calligraphy works have the charm of Zhang Xu and Huai Su.
Huai Su was an outstanding calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and was called "the sage of grass" in history. Influenced by Zhang Xu, Huai Su is called "Zhang Dian" in the world, "Drunkenness" with Huai Su, "Bachelor of Si Wu" with He, Zhang and Bao Rong, and "Eight Immortals of Drinking" with whom. His cursive script, Li Bai's poems and Pei Min's sword dance are also called "three musts".
Zhang Xu's cursive brushstrokes are wild and uninhibited, such as meteors in the horizon and running water in the mountains. Every stroke is unpredictable, just like a dance on paper, which can best show the natural beauty of calligraphy art and has eternal images. In other words, Zhang Xu's cursive script has a strong expressive force and sense of rhythm, and his calligraphy can give people a deep feeling.
Benefits of learning calligraphy:
1. Learning calligraphy contributes to health and longevity. By practicing calligraphy, you can exercise your physical coordination ability and improve your cultural and artistic quality. At the same time, calligraphy is also a self-cultivation activity, which can make people feel peaceful and open-minded.
2. By learning calligraphy, you can cultivate aesthetic taste. Chinese characters are beautiful in themselves, and the value of beauty can be felt through the art form of calligraphy. Calligraphy practice can cultivate aesthetic ability and discover beauty in life.
By practicing calligraphy, you can hone your will, cultivate good habits, exercise your willpower and improve your efficiency. Calligraphy learning needs perseverance, constant practice and perseverance.
The practice of calligraphy is a vivid and dynamic system, which always requires full attention and writes every word well. It requires the brain to direct the coordination between the hands and eyes, as well as the different movements of the hands and their coordination with the whole body.
5. Calligraphy practice can exercise thinking ability, help analyze and solve problems. By practicing calligraphy constantly, you can improve your artistic level, cultivate your concentration and artistic imagination, and enhance your thinking ability.
6. The love of China culture is the greatest advantage of writing calligraphy. By learning the stories of calligraphers of past dynasties, we can stimulate our interest in learning and cultivate our love for national culture.