Calligraphy in the early Ming Dynasty was greatly influenced by the Yuan Dynasty, which enveloped the calligraphy style of the Yuan Dynasty. For example, the famous "Three Songs" in the Yuan Dynasty, including Song Ke and Song Guangqi, were all influenced by Yuan Zaju people with skillful techniques and beautiful styles, which also gave birth to "Taige Style". By the time of "Er Shen" in Yongle, Taige had occupied a dominant position and became the mainstream style of calligraphy at that time.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the rise of "Wumen Calligraphy School", the calligraphy of Ming Dynasty began to have its own characteristics, and the calligraphy circle of Ming Dynasty, which was bound by the calligraphy of Yuan Dynasty for a hundred years, began to have new vitality. Literati calligraphy began to rise in the literati class, and a large number of talented painting and calligraphy artists emerged in Jiangnan, forming a relatively fixed style school.
Among them, the most influential is the Wumen Calligraphy School in Suzhou, which reached its peak during the periods of Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming, Wang Chong and Chen Chun through the efforts of Song Ke and Shen Zhou. At that time, there was a saying that "all calligraphy in the world is Wu".