What does the statue of Wei Bei mean?

Weibei has a variety of styles, simple and steep, comfortable and beautiful. Famous ones include Zheng Wengong Monument, Zhang Menglong Monument, Gao Zhen Monument, Yuan Huai Epitaph and Zhang Xuan Epitaph, which initiated the rule of regular script in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In the middle of Qing dynasty, he advocated "respecting monuments and restraining posts", which broke through the bondage of "pavilion style". With the rise of inscriptions, the style of calligraphy has changed. Wei Bei inherited the tradition of Han Li and created a new style of Tang Kai, which laid a solid foundation for the structure and brushwork of modern Chinese characters. But there are many cliff carvings, which are carved directly on the stone surface, not the first book. Be careful not to exaggerate the knife marks when writing, so as not to form a habit.

Artistic feature

Wei Bei is a kind of regular script, which is called the three regular script fonts together with Wei Kai, Jin Dynasty regular script and Tang Dynasty regular script. In the development process from official script to typical regular script, Weibei showed some transitional factors. There were regular scripts in Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as Zhong You's "Xianbiao" and Wang Xizhi's "Huangtingjing", which were relatively mature regular scripts. However, after a large number of intellectuals in the Western Jin Dynasty followed the southern Jin Dynasty, the calligraphy style in the Northern Dynasties was quite different from that in the Southern Dynasties.

Most of the existing inscriptions in the Northern Dynasties are written by anonymous folk calligraphers, which is naturally different from the so-called "verve" calligraphy style of scholars in the Southern Dynasties. Zhong You and Wang Xizhi completed part of the process from official script to official script. The folk calligraphers in the Northern Wei Dynasty did not inherit too many achievements because of the Jin Dynasty's southward crossing, but followed the development track of the original folk calligraphy and evolved directly from the official script in the Han and Wei Dynasties.

Compared with the inscriptions in the Southern Dynasties, Liu Xizai, a book critic in the Qing Dynasty, thought that "the book in the south is Wen Ya, and the book in the north is vigorous"; Compared with Kincaid, Tang Kai paid attention to statutes, and his writing style tended to be standardized and unified, while Wei Bei used his pen freely, and his writing style followed the trend.