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Zhang Xu, a native of Wu, was born and died in an unknown year. He lived in the Tang Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods. The official Jin Wu has a long history and is called Zhang Changshi. Zhang Xu's cursive script is the best known, but he has been studying regular script seriously. At this point, the inscription of nirvana in fire Historical Records in regular script has been found. The exquisite regular script laid the foundation for the formation of Zhang Xu cursive script. Among the cursive writers in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu was the pioneer. His cursive script was praised by Han Yu, a writer in the late Tang Dynasty, as anger, embarrassment, poverty, sadness, joy, resentment, thirst, drunkenness, annoyance, injustice and agitation, so it must be developed with cursive script.
Zhang Xu's cursive script expressed his feelings in words. His works echo with extraordinary ease, endless twists and turns, rapid ups and downs, flying spirit and touching poems. "Wild Grass" Zhang Xu Tang Poetry and Song Poetry Li Bai, Pei? Sword dancing is called the three unique skills. Zhang Xu once taught Yan Zhenqing's brushwork, and Yan Zhenqing's evaluation of Zhang Xu's cursive script is: Zhang Changshi is elegant and magnificent. So it's called Zhangdian.
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Huai Su was another famous cursive writer after Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. He is from Hunan. He became a monk when he was young and liked calligraphy since he was a child. Huai Su studied calligraphy and devoted himself to it. In order to make progress in cursive writing, he left Hunan and went to Luoyang, Henan and Xi, Shaanxi to find teachers and friends.
Huai Su likes drinking. After drinking, he can take a pen. These words are like a rainstorm and a tornado. They moved round and round. These words have been changed a lot, but the brushwork has not been lost. At that time, Xu read Huai Su's Weeds and wrote two or three poems, praising him as a drunken epistolary writer, but he couldn't write it when he woke up. Therefore, people later called Huai an alcoholic.
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Poets in the Tang Dynasty praised the cursive scripts of Zhang Xu and Huai Su. When describing Zhang Xu in his poems, Gao Shi said: "Books are sacred; Drunk, still harsh. Xin Li wrote a poem to Zhang Xu: Sprinkle happiness on the wall and write like a meteor. Su Xun once said in his cursive "Huai Su" that the pen comes like a whirlwind. When drunk, his ears are more enthusiastic and fierce. These Tang poems depict the creation of cursive scripts by Zhang Xu and Huai Su, which have great influence on later generations. People use clicks as their names.