Appreciation of regular script calligraphy
Running script calligraphy picture 1
Figure 2 Regular script calligraphy
Linear regular script calligraphy picture 3
Linear regular script calligraphy picture 4
Present situation of contemporary regular script calligraphy
Judging from a large number of epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty unearthed in the past hundred years, it is precisely because it has just degenerated from the official script and is in the primary stage of an official script that its appearance is changeable and interesting. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than a thousand kinds of inscriptions in the north, which are important materials for studying the method of opening letters. At the end of the Han Dynasty (the beginning of the 3rd century), Wei Chu produced regular script. According to the No.2 and No.3 documents unearthed in Mawangdui, what was written in the silk book at that time? The prototype of regular script? Has begun to take shape. Early regular script has a strong sense of official script. As we all know, Zhong You, the famous book of Wei, the originator of regular script, has a slightly flat lower case and a heavy and ancient stippling, which is very interesting. His representative works include the Declaration Form, the Recommended Season Table, the Force Life Table, the He Jie Table, and the Tomb-Tian Bing Xie Tie. In the Jin dynasty, following the legacy of Han and Wei dynasties, calligraphers came forth in large numbers, and the methods of opening letters became more and more perfect. Wang Xizhihe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty added losses to the ancient law and made bold innovations, making it the present style, creating models and rules for future generations, such as Huang Tingjing, Lun, and the monument to filial piety. And Xiao Wang also handed down the Thirteen Lines of Luo Shenfu. The famous North Monuments include Longmen Erpin, Zhang Xuan Epitaph, Zhang Menglong Epitaph, Gao Zhen Monument, Monument, Cui Epitaph, Monument, Diao Zun Epitaph, Jing Zhijun Epitaph, Sima Jing Epitaph, Kouyan Epitaph, etc. Until the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty was unified. Merging the north and the south in one furnace, opening the first book of the Tang Dynasty? . Famous inscriptions in Sui Dynasty include Longzang Temple Monument, Qifa Temple Monument, Dong Monument, Su Xiaoci's Epitaph, and Zhang Tong's Lady Taogui's Epitaph. These regular scripts are exquisite in brushwork and dignified and symmetrical in posture, which is very close to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty can be said to be the period when China's regular script reached its peak, matured and perfected. In a sense, the calligraphers of the past dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, although good at opening patterns, failed to jump out of the barriers of the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Regular script in Tang Dynasty can be roughly divided into three periods. In the early Tang Dynasty, regular script basically followed the calligraphy style of the two kings, advocating the beauty of thinness and hardness. Famous calligraphers include Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Zhongxing Period, with Yan Zhenqing as the representative. Calligraphers in the mid-Tang Dynasty advocated innovation, which was due to the ethos of the times, including the sculpture of Buddha statues and human aesthetics at that time. Yan Zhenqing was the most innovative calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. The third period is from Tang Daizong to Wenzong in the middle Tang Dynasty, with Gong Liu as the representative. His regular script is full of beauty and European strength, innovative, flattering and flattering, and wins by strength.
Generally speaking, the styles of regular script in Tang dynasty are different, but structurally, they can be roughly divided into? Draw a tight knot diagonally and then? Draw a wide knot? Both of them, in terms of style, have the beauty of solemnity, symmetry, coordination and harmony, which shows the perfection or maturity of regular script in Tang Dynasty.