Ou Yangxun (about 557-64 1) was born in Linxiang County, Tanzhou. Tang dynasty minister and calligrapher. Son of Ouyang Yao.
When Yang Di was in Sui Dynasty, Ou Yangxun became a doctor too often. In the third year of Wude, he took refuge in Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, and was named Taichangqing. Wude five years, Li Yuan as a teacher, moved Guanglu as a doctor, taught him, led the prince, and got a bachelor's degree. He was made a male in Bohai County and presided over the compilation of the Collection of Arts and Literature. Zhenguan died at the age of eighty-five.
Ou Yangxun is proficient in calligraphy, and he is also known as the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi. Because his son Ouyang Tong is good at calligraphy, the father and son are called Big Europe and Small Europe. Calligraphy is in danger in Pingzhong, which is called 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. He has his own unique views on calligraphy, including eight methods of calligraphy works, teaching strategies and thirty-six methods of brushwork. This paper summarizes the formal skills and aesthetic requirements of calligraphy, such as brushwork, structure and composition.
Huadu Temple Buddhist Pagoda Inscription, Yugonggong Wenyanbo Inscription and Huangfushengchen Inscription are called the first regular script in the Tang Dynasty.
Ou Yangxun's grandfather Ouyang Li successively served as ambassador, commander-in-chief of Hengzhou Military Region, general Annan and general Cheung Nam. Ou Yangxun's father, Ouyang Yang, joined the army with his father at the age of 20, and was brave and good at fighting. Later, following in his father's footsteps, he successively served as the commander-in-chief of 19 Kyushu Army and the secretariat of Guangzhou. In the first year of Chen Kaiguo, the emperor was honored as a general because he suspected that he had two minds.