The author of the third running script in the world is Su Shi.
The third running script in the world is Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry. Paper version, with 25 lines and 129 words, is the representative work of Su Shi's running script. This is a poem sent to revive, and it is a sigh of life caused by the Cold Food Festival in the third year of Su Shi's demotion to Huangzhou. The poem is desolate and affectionate, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and lonely mood at this time. It is in this mood and situation that the calligraphy of this poem comes out.
The whole calligraphy is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, and there is no shortage of pens. Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post has a great influence in the history of calligraphy. It is called the third running script in the world and the best among Su Shi's calligraphy works. As Huang Tingjian wrote after this poem: "This book is also written by Yan Lugong, Yang Shaoshi and Li Xitai, and it is not necessarily the same as this to try to restore Dongpo.
The three major running scripts in the world
Preface to Lanting, Manuscript for Sacrificing Nephew and Cold Food Post are called the three major running scripts in the world. The first two major running scripts have been handed down after their masters in past dynasties. Only the third largest running script, which has been displaced from place to place, was almost destroyed many times after several wars, drifted overseas, and was finally bought back by Chinese people, was able to return to the motherland.
Cold Food Post is also called Huangzhou Cold Food Post. It is 34.2 cm in horizontal direction and 18.9 cm in vertical direction, with 17 lines and 129 characters. It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. This book post is the third year that Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, was demoted to Huangzhou because of the Wutai Poetry Case. During the Cold Food Festival, he felt it and wrote two cold food poems to express his melancholy.
Both poems contain his lonely and helpless mood. It is in this mood and situation that the calligraphy of this poem comes out. The whole calligraphy is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, and there is no shortage of pens. Cold Food Poem Post has had a great influence in the history of calligraphy.