Who are the four great calligraphers in China?

The four great calligraphers in China generally refer to the founders of Yan and Zhao Kaishu: Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun and Zhao Mengfu.

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy is exquisite and good at it. Its regular script is dignified and majestic, and its running script is vigorous and powerful, which has created a "Yan style" regular script and has a great influence on later generations. He is also good at poetry, such as You, Ji, Wu, Ji, Lu Ji and Linchuan Ji, all of which have been lost. The Song people compiled Yan Ji.

Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for regular script. He learned from Wang Xizhi at first, and later visited the famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty. He absorbed Yan Zhenqing's strengths and new ideas, and created his own unique "Liu Ti", which was famous for its infinite strength and was later known as "Yan Gu". Inscriptions handed down from ancient times include diamond sutra, mysterious pagoda monument, Su Feng monument, etc. Cursive scripts include Fu, Sixteen Days Post and Insult Post.

Ou Yangxun is proficient in calligraphy, and he is also called "the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty" with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi. Calligraphy is in danger in Pingzhong, nicknamed "European style". Masterpieces: Regular script includes Jiuchenggong Li Quanming, Huangfu Birthday Monument, Huadu Temple Monument, and running script includes Zhong Nimeng's stickers and thousands of characters.

Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry, proficient in Confucian classics and learning, good at calligraphy, good at painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and strong in appreciation, especially calligraphy and painting. Zhao Mengfu is good at seal script, official script, original script, calligraphy and cursive script, especially regular script and running script. His style of writing is charming and elegant, with neat structure and skillful brushwork, which created the book of "Zhao Ti".

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Regular script, the word name, is also called regular script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

The appearance of regular script follows closely Han Li's composition and pursues the further development of formal beauty. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from wave to wave, and became "left" (dot), "sweep" (long left), "peck" (short left) and "lift" (straight hook).

Such as Wuwei medical bamboo slips and Juyan Han bamboo slips. Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model in fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used until modern times.

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