Liang: Preface to the Wild Goose Pagoda.
Later, important calligraphers were Sun and Li Yong. Sun is good at cursive writing, learning from Wang Xizhi and writing with a pen. His calligraphy is vigorous and powerful, and is considered as a typical genre of the cursive script of the two kings. The ink passed down from generation to generation has a book spectrum. Li Yong is a talented and prolific calligrapher, and his calligraphy works are mostly inscribed. His calligraphy is thin, vigorous and profound. His works include the tablet of Lushan Temple, the tablet of General Li Xiubei of Yunhui and the tablet of General Li Sixun of Yunhui.
The calligrapher of this period was Ouyang Tong, the son of Ou Yangxun. His calligraphy was both rigid and flexible, rigorous and elegant, with a slight implication. His works included "The Hidden Monument" and "The Epitaph of a Spring Child". He is good at cursive script, known as putting pen to paper, and his handed down works include the cursive script "The Book of Filial Piety" and so on. Lu Jianzhi is Yu Shinan's nephew. He studied calligraphy in Yu Shinan, and his handed down works include Ink and Wash. Another example is Zhao Mo's Gao Shilian, Wang Xingman's Zhong Liang Han tablet, Wang Jushi's brick tower inscription, Wang Zhijing's Wei Gong Li Jing tablet and many other calligraphers and their works have also made considerable achievements.
Tang Liyong: Li Sixun Monument to General Yunhui.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with the development of social economy and culture, the art of calligraphy has also undergone great changes and improvements. Calligraphy style tends to be vigorous from the early Tang Dynasty. At this time, Zhang Xu, Huai Su, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and other famous calligraphers appeared, who created a new situation of cursive script and regular script respectively.
Zhang Xu, also known as Zhang Dian, created the wild grass and was known as the sage of grass. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's poems, Pei's sword dance and Zhang Xu's cursive script numbers were three unique works. Its cursive script is ever-changing and does not deviate from the rules. He can also write very strict regular script, and his Preface to Langguan Shizhu is regarded as the official script of the Tang Dynasty. Huai Su and Zhang Xuhe are called "crazy people". Huai Su got Zhang Xu's brushwork from Yan Zhenqing and Wu Tong. His words are like a frightened snake, and Zhang Yu is raging. There are ink handed down from ancient times such as "self-narration", "bitter bamboo shoots" and "eating fish". Yan Zhenqing is an innovative calligrapher. His calligraphy is mostly centered, rich in structure and magnificent in Zhuang, which is called Yan Ti. He left the most inscriptions, and there are many kinds. For example, the word "multi-pagoda monument" is even and steady, beautiful and charming;
Inscription on the lower pagoda in Qingzhou
"Song Guangping Monument" is round, broad and spacious; "Li Yanqin North" is full of charm and wonderful pen; Ode to Zhongxing is rich in content and interesting. "Yan Jia Temple Monument" is solemn and vigorous, and the book is profound; The story of Magu Xiantan is quite extraordinary and looks very comfortable and harmonious. His manuscripts, such as "Letters with Guo Servant" and "Memorial to Nephew", are magnificent and become a model of calligraphy. Xu is a Li, and his works include Confessions of Zhu Juchuan, Bukong Monk Monument and Dazheng Zen Master Monument. Liu Gongquan is an important calligrapher after Yan Zhenqing. Gu is called Yan. Its words are vigorous and mellow, and its writing is rigorous. Inscriptions handed down from ancient times include Mysterious Pagoda Monument, Shence Military Discipline, Sage Merit Monument and so on. During this period, there was also a famous calligrapher, Zhong Shaojing, whose works included Ling Fei Jing. Su Lingzhi's works include Tian Renyi's Monument to Virtue and Politics and Ode to Yizhou's Iron Statue. In the Tang Dynasty, seal script and official script were also quite prosperous. The highest achievement of seal script is Li. Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy inscriptions are mostly sealed by him, which is called the beauty of Lian Bi. He was a beginner in Yishan Monument, but then he changed, opened and became his own family. His works include Three Graves, The Title of Prajna, Thousand Gua Monuments, etc. Others who are good at seal script are Li Lingsheng, Qu Huiwen, Yuan Zi and Tang.
There are many official scripts. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was famous as a good official, and his works "Shi Tai Xiao Jing" and "Ji Tai Shan Ming" had great influence. At that time, Han Zemu, Shi and Cai were called the four official books. Han Zemu has a tablet, a tablet of Zen master Dazhi and a tablet of Cai Pang. Other good officials include Lu Zangyong, Liang Yongqing, Liu□, Gu, Dou Quanhe.
In the late Tang dynasty, during this period, the country of the Tang dynasty gradually declined, and calligraphy was not as prosperous as it was in the early Tang dynasty and the prosperous Tang dynasty. However, the appearance of some calligraphers, such as Wang Wenbing's seal script and Li E's official script, was praised by later generations.
In addition to the ink and inscriptions of famous calligraphers mentioned above, there are a large number of epitaphs written by many unknown writers in the Tang Dynasty and Buddhist scriptures written by scholars, which are all important calligraphy materials. In the Tang Dynasty, calligraphy theory was more rigorous and perfect on the basis of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Sun's Preface to Book Spectrum is not only an excellent cursive masterpiece, but also a calligraphy theory work with dense thoughts and concise words. The preface starts with tracing the source, distinguishing the style of books, evaluating historical sites, describing brushwork, admonishing scholars and hurting bosom friends.
The profound meaning of calligraphy is comprehensively discussed from six aspects, which is regarded as the standard by later generations and has great influence. Zhang Huai's Yi Shu and The Tree's End are also very insightful. Zhang Yanyuan's Book Score is a collection of 1 in ancient calligraphy theory, which has a far-reaching influence on later calligraphy theory. A font of ancient Chinese characters. Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States. It flourished in the Zhou Dynasty. This is another monument in the history of calligraphy in China. The tripod attached to the bronze ware is intended to "make people know God's treachery", so it is a ritual vessel for religious sacrifice. Bronze inscriptions are also called Zhong Dingwen, Wen Qi and ancient prose. Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the inscriptions cast together with bronzes have stronger lines and are more pictographic. The earliest inscriptions are found on bronzes unearthed in the middle of Shang Dynasty. Although there are not many materials, they are all earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins. The Zhou Dynasty was the golden age of bronze inscriptions, with the most unearthed inscriptions.
The main existing works are: Tian Wuchan, Great Yu Ding, Pan Bi, Pan, Pan. Among them, Simu Wuding, Pan and Mao are the most famous and have the highest artistic achievements. Shou.