Zhang Xu was also full of ambition when he was young, and once worked as an official. Later, because of his frustrated official career, he drowned his sorrows by drinking all day long, and Zhang Xu loved calligraphy, so he often wrote cursive script crazily after being drunk. Zhang Xu's calligraphy works in his later years can be said to have raised the cursive art to a new height and created a magnificent and magnificent cursive art style. Although there are many works by Zhang Xu, most of them were destroyed by war or man-made in the change of historical dynasties, and only a few works were handed down from generation to generation. Up to now, four-character poems and stomachache stickers are more famous.
Four Ancient Poems are now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum and collected by the Ming and Qing court. There was a great controversy about the author of Four Ancient Poems in the early days. Some people think that "Four Sentences of Ancient Poetry" is the work of Xie Lingyun, while others think that the style of "Four Sentences of Ancient Poetry" is only in the Northern Song Dynasty, so it is considered to be a work of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, Yang, a connoisseur, published an article in the journal, arguing and expounding that Four Ancient Poems should be the representative work of Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty. Later, Yang's statement was always used, and Four Ancient Poems became one of Zhang Xu's representative works.
Let's start with Zhang Xu's "Abdominal Pain Sticker". Today, the original copy of Abdominal Pain Sticker has long since disappeared. The official collection is the carved stone tablet posted here, which is now in Xi 'an Beilin Museum in Shaanxi. There are only dozens of words in the whole post of Abdominal Pain Post, which is probably the content of Zhang Xu's diagnosis of abdominal pain. Although there are few characters in Abdominal Pain Post, it vividly shows the unrestrained artistic realm of the author Zhang Xu in his creation.