Ou Yangxun 1
Ou Yangxun was a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, one of the four masters of regular script, and one of the top ten calligraphers in China history. He is proficient in calligraphy and is good at regular script and running script. His regular script font is called "European style", which is not only vigorous in brushwork, but also elegant and generous in font structure, and is used by Fiona Fang.
2. Yan Zhenqing
Yan Zhenqing was also a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. His calligraphy was a beginner of Chu Suiliang, and later he studied under Zhang Xu. He is good at regular script and running script. His calligraphy style is strong, his stippling is rich and full, his structure is correct, his momentum is vigorous, and he has both form and spirit, which created a new style of calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty, called "Yan Ti".
3. Liu Gongquan
Liu Gongquan was a famous calligrapher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. His calligraphy is famous for regular script. He first inherited the regular script style of Zhong You and Wang Xizhi, and then absorbed the strengths of Yan Zhenqing and Ou Yangxun's calligraphy, combined with his new ideas, and created his own unique "six-body". His calligraphy style is vigorous, the structure is neat, and it is more symmetrical and thinner than "Yan Ti", so it is also called "Yan Liujin".
4. Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu was a famous poet, painter and calligrapher in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. He is versatile, not proficient in long poems, but good at painting and calligraphy. He is good at official script, running script, regular script and cursive script, especially regular script and running script. His calligraphy style is round and beautiful, the structure is neat, and the brushwork is vivid and natural, so he is called "Zhao Ti".
Representative works of four calligraphers
Ou Yangxun's representative works: regular script includes Jiuchenggong Liquan inscription, Huangfu birthday tablet, Huadu Temple tablet, and running script includes Zhong Ni Mengdiantie and running script with 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. Huadu Temple Buddhist Pagoda Inscription, Yugonggong Wenyanbo Inscription and Huangfushengchen Inscription are called "the first regular script in the Tang Dynasty".
Yan Zhenqing's representative works include Ji, Wu, Lu and Linchuan Ji, all of which have been lost. The Song people compiled Yan Ji.
Liu Gongquan has inscriptions handed down from ancient times, such as the Diamond Sutra, the Mystery Tower Monument and the Su Feng Monument. , and there are calligraphy and cursive script, such as Fu Shen Tie, sixteen-day gesture and insulting gesture. In addition, the ink "Zhao Meng Post" and "Wang Xianzhi Send Pear Post Postscript" have also been passed down from generation to generation. Liu Gongquan also works in poetry, and his poems are preserved in The Whole Tang Poetry and The Whole Tang Poetry.
Zhao Mengfu's representative works include Liu Tiqian's Wen Zi, Luo Shenfu and Danba North. There are many books handed down from ancient times in Zhao Mengfu, such as Luo Shen Fu, Tao Te Ching, Danba Monument, The Story of Rebuilding the Three Gates of the Xuanmiao Temple, Huanglin Pavilion Classic, Eleven Postscripts of Lanting, Four-body Thousand-character Writing and so on.