For beginners to learn calligraphy, Yan style is the best choice
The features of Yan style are obvious and simple. The basic ones are thin horizontally and thick vertically. The overall font is rich and rich, making it easy for beginners to get started; while Liu style is right The requirements for strokes are higher. And in terms of later transformation, Yan Ti is easy to merge with other styles to form its own look; while it is easy to get stuck in Liu Ti and it is difficult to break away from its style.
Yan style is a font created by Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Together with Liu Gongquan, it is called "Yan Liu", and there is a saying of "Yan Jin Liu Gu". "Yan style" refers to Yan Zhenqing's regular script, which has a square and dense structure, light horizontal strokes and heavy vertical strokes, powerful and round thick strokes, and a solemn and vigorous momentum.
The font style of Tang calligrapher Yan Zhenqing. His calligraphy was first learned from Chu Suiliang, and later from Zhang Xu's calligraphy. His regular script is dignified and majestic, and his running script is vigorous and vigorous. This ancient method has been changed and is known as "Yan Ti" in the world.
Bai Sha's "Kang Youwei and His "Guang Yi Zhou Shuang Ji"": "If we say that before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the word 'Ti' meant calligraphy style, but after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it turned to mean personal style. For example, 'Yan style', 'Liu style', and 'Zhao style' are not three fonts, they just represent three different styles of calligraphy."
Lecture 8 of Lu Gengrong's "A Brief History of Chinese Calligraphy" ( 3): "Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was mainly guided by Zhang Xu, inheriting the tradition of Wang Xizhi, learning the characteristics of the four schools of early Tang Dynasty, and absorbing fresh nutrients from the calligraphy of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are choices and trade-offs when learning, which is the new calligraphy style of the Tang Dynasty The creator is called 'Yan Ti'."