Known as the "three outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty".
Yu Shinan (July 1 1558-638) was born in Yuyao, Yuezhou (now Zhenming Hechang, Guanhaiwei, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province). Son of Li Yu, illegitimate son of Prince Chen, younger brother of Yu Shiqi, assistant minister of literature and history of Sui Dynasty. Calligrapher, writer, poet and politician from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and one of the twenty-four outstanding figures in Lingyange.
Yu Shinan is quiet and eager to learn. Chen, two generations of Sui Dynasty, was an official worshiper of a doctor and lived in a shed. After the demise of the Sui Dynasty, he was appointed assistant minister of Huangmen by Dou Jiande. After Li Shimin destroyed Dou Jiande, he joined the army in the south for Qin, archives and museums, and became one of the "eighteen bachelors" with Fang and others. During the Zhenguan period, he served as a writer, a secretary, a secretary supervisor and so on, and served as a magistrate of Yongxing County and a magistrate of Yongxing County, so he was internationally known as "Yu Yongxing and Yu Secret Supervisor". Although he looks timid, he is strong-willed, outspoken, and dare to remonstrate, which won the respect of Li Shimin. He is called "virtue, loyalty, erudition, literature, literature". In the 12th year of Zhenguan (638), Yu Shinan died at the age of 81. Posthumous title does history, presented "Wen Yi" and was buried in Zhaoling. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), it was painted like Lingyan Pavilion.
Yu Shinan is good at calligraphy, and he is also known as "the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty" with Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi. Japanese academic circles called Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan as "three masters in the early Tang Dynasty". Bei Tang Shu Chao was compiled by Bei Tang Shu Chao, which is considered as one of the four great books in Tang Dynasty and one of the earliest books in China. The original poetry collection has 30 volumes, but it has not been completely lost. In the Republic of China, Zhang Shouyong compiled the four-volume Mi Yu Ji Jian.
Yu Shinan's writing style is graceful and graceful, similar to Xu Ling's. Tang Taizong was advised not to write palace poems, but his poems were mostly written for catering, serving peace and feasting, with exquisite dictionaries and vague contents.
Yu Shinan's representative works include Out of the Castle, A Young Man's Field Trip, Hate Songs, A Series of Sending Bamboo to Linchi, Cicada, Offering Harmony and Responding to the Singing Method of Wei Wangjiao, etc. Among them, the last three poems are about bamboo, cicada and wind, which firmly grasp the characteristics of the object and portray it vividly. For example, the poem "Cicada" says that cicadas drink clear dew, which is the highest in the phoenix tree, and the sound is far away because of the high, not by the autumn wind, which means that a gentleman should be as high and far as cicadas, without relying on or being subject to other things. Its ability to describe objects and express feelings can be seen. When commenting on two poems about joining the army in Qing Dynasty, Shen Deqian said that this poem (cicada) "Sui Chen still exists physically, but he pursues the fine police and gradually opens up tang style".
Folding calligraphy
Yu Shinan's calligraphy has inherited the tradition of the two kings (Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi), and his brushwork is full of harmony and elegance. Together with Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, they are called the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty. Li Sizhen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, listed his books as "superior and inferior" and commented: "Xiao is scattered and scattered, and the grass is really obedient. For example, Luo Chun and Eric play marsh, so they are above Ziyun." Duane listed his official writings and running scripts as wonderful works, and called his book "Da Ling (Wang Xianzhi) macro-control, which contains five positive colors, looks and spirits, wisdom and courage." Spiritual practice is dangerous, everywhere; When I walk the grass, I am particularly biased. And their twilight teeth to escape. "
"Yu Shinan" says: "Yongxing () transcends it, writes like a god, never slacks off and is not ashamed of the world." Xuanhe thinks that the official script in his later years is the same as that of Wang Xizhi, and then talks about Europe and Yu, saying, "Yu is rigid and soft, showing his bones and muscles, and a gentleman hides things, and Yu is the best." Huang Tingjian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, praised his masterpiece "The Monument to the Confucius Temple": "The Yu Shu Temple was engraved and bought with 22 thousand gold."