Inscription on the Dayuding Ding in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Dayuding Ding was a famous bronze ware in the Western Zhou Kangwang period, with an inscription on the inner wall of 291 words, which was rare among the bronzes in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Its contents are as follows: Zhou Wang warned Yu (the name of a person) that Yin died of alcoholism, while Zhou Dynasty was thrived on abstinence from alcohol, so Yu must try his best to assist him, honoring the moral policies of King Wen and King Wu. His calligraphy is rigorous in style, simple in shape and layout, with both Fiona Fang and pen, which has a strict and dignified artistic effect. It is the masterpiece of bronze calligraphy in the early Western Zhou Dynasty.
The inscription of Mao Gongding in the Western Zhou Dynasty is one of the most famous bronze wares in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was written during the Xuanwang period in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. The inner wall is cast with a long inscription of up to 498 words. Its content is that the king of Zhou was the Zhou office of Zhongxing, and he got rid of the accumulated disadvantages, and ordered Mao Gong, an important official, to help him faithfully to avoid the disaster of losing his country, and gave him a lot of goods. Mao Gong thanked Zhou Wang and made a tripod to remember it. His calligraphy is a mature Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscription style, with well-proportioned and accurate structure, vigorous and steady lines, appropriate layout and full of rational colors, which shows that the bronze inscription has developed to an extremely mature position.
The Western Zhou Dynasty's San Shi Pan is a bronze ware in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Its inscription structure is quaint, its lines are round and concise, and its center of gravity is low because of its horizontal position, so it is more simple and thick. Its "casting" feeling is very strong, showing a strong "golden taste", so it occupies an important position in the system of stele study. Hu Xiaoshi, a well-known modern calligrapher, commented: "The seal script was well prepared in the Zhou Dynasty, and its magnifications were Yu Ding, Mao Gong Ding, ... and the words were combined with the vertical trend, but the only one who was still horizontal was San Shi Pan.
Shi Guwen in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty carved stones for the State of Qin in the Warring States Period. There are ten * * * stone drums, which are shaped like drums. Each stone drum is engraved with a four-character poem and ten * * * poems, the content of which is to describe the hunting of the king of Qin, so the stone drum is also called hunting. The handwriting is worn a lot, and it is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Shi Guwen plays an important role in the history of calligraphy. Its font is typical of Qin calligraphy style, and it has a great influence on the appearance of Xiao Zhuan in the later Qin Dynasty. At the same time, its own artistic achievements are also very high. Its structure is even and square, with generous stretch, full and round lines and strong brushwork. There is no trace of pictographic pictures between the lines of Shi Guwen, which is a symbol structure composed of lines.
Xiao Zhuan. It is based on Jin Wen and Shi Guwen. As a representative of the famous calligrapher Li Si, Qin Taishan carved stones, which were highly praised by all dynasties. Qin dynasty is a period of change of inheritance and innovation. The Preface of Shuowen Jiezi said: "Qin Shu has eight styles, namely, the big seal, the small seal, the engraving, the insect book, the copying, the official book, the official book." It basically summarizes the face of the font at this time.
The appearance of Lishu is a great progress in the writing of Chinese characters and a revolution in the history of calligraphy. It not only makes Chinese characters tend to be square models, but also breaks through a single center in brushwork, laying a foundation for various calligraphy schools in the future. In addition to the above masterpieces of calligraphy, there are scripts such as imperial edict, weight, tile, currency, etc. in the Qin Dynasty, with different styles. Calligraphy in the Qin Dynasty has left a brilliant page in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Like the majestic Great Wall of Wan Li and the spectacular Terracotta Warriors, it is a pioneer and the crystallization of the infinite wisdom of the Chinese nation.
True calligraphy, running script and cursive script. This great era in the history of calligraphy has brought up two great calligraphy innovators-Zhong You and Wang Xizhi. They opened a new page in the history of China's calligraphy development. It has set an example of the beauty of real books, running scripts and cursive scripts. Since then, in all dynasties, and even in Japan to the east, scholars have always been patriarchal. Sheng called himself "two kings" (Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xianzhi), and even respected Wang Xizhi as a "book saint". Wang Xun (nephew of Xi) wrote a book of good deeds, and Bo Yuan Tie was handed down from generation to generation.
Wei Bei was the best calligrapher in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Wei Bei, a general term for the calligraphy of inscriptions and stone carvings in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, is a transitional period from official script in Han Dynasty to regular script in Tang Dynasty. Kang Youwei said, "Anyone who chooses a family in Wei Bei is an adult. It is beautiful to combine all the families. " In the early Tang Dynasty, several regular script writers, such as Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun and Chu Suiliang, directly inherited Zhiyong's brushwork from the Six Dynasties.
The culture of the Tang Dynasty is profound and brilliant, reaching the peak of China feudal culture, which can be described as "the book flourished in the early Tang Dynasty." There are more ink in Tang Dynasty than in the previous generation, and a large number of tablets have left valuable calligraphy works. Calligraphy in the whole Tang Dynasty inherited and innovated from the previous generation. There were Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji, Lu Jianzhi and other calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty, and then there were Li Yong, Zhang Xu, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, shihuaisu, Zhong Shaojing and Sun Guoting who were creative. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, and Li Bai, a poet, are also great calligraphers worth mentioning. Regular script, running script and cursive script all entered a new situation in the Tang Dynasty, with outstanding characteristics of the times and far more influence on future generations than any previous era.