The scripture written by Huai Su in cursive script is Forty-two Chapters.
Huai Su (737~799), known as "Cao Sheng" in history, was an outstanding calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. The word Zang Zhen, the monk's name is Huai Su, the common surname is Qian, Han nationality, and he is from Lingling, Yongzhou (Hunan). He is the nephew of Qian Qi, one of the ten gifted scholars in Dali.
Since childhood, he became a monk, devoted himself to cursive writing after meditation, and was as famous as Zhang Xu. Together, he was called "crazy element", which formed a situation in which the two peaks of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty coexisted, and it was also the two peaks in the history of cursive writing in China. Huai Su's cursive script is thin and vigorous, flying naturally, like a whirlwind of showers. Calligraphy is ever-changing, ever-changing and has statutes. With Li Bai, Xu Hao, Wu Tong, Yan Zhenqing, Lu Xiang, Lu Yu, Dai Shulun, Su Huan and many other celebrities.
The calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation include self-narration, a thousand-character essay on grass, bitter bamboo shoots, Notre Dame and on books.
when Huai Su was ten years old, his parents couldn't stop him. After entering Buddhism, he changed his word to hide the truth, and was called "Lingling monk" or "Shi Changsha" in history. Poor family, can't afford to buy paper, so we have to practice calligraphy on the walls, clothes, utensils and banana leaves of the temple; In order to practice calligraphy, a paint tray was also made.
when Huai Su was young, calligraphy was "not learning from the past". According to the inheritance of China's brushwork, he is still "illegal" and still outside the orthodox calligraphy.
His cursive works include Autobiographical Notes, Bitter Bamboo Shoots, Fish Eating Notes, Notre Dame Notes, Essays on Books, Thousands of Articles on Grass, Thousand Characters on Grass, Forty-two Chapters, Tibetan True Notes, Laws and Public Notes, Seven Notes, etc.