1. Su Shi
His calligraphy absorbed nutrition from the "Two Kings", Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Chu Suiliang, Xu Hao, Li Beihai and Yang Ningshi, and made great efforts to innovate on the basis of inheriting the tradition. When talking about the process of his calligraphy creation, he said: "The method of writing words is not perfect, but I can't get it all." He added: "I can't make a book by heart, and I'm tired of asking for it." He focuses on "meaning" and sends his feelings to the stippling of the book by "Letter Hand". Su Shi's words seem plain and simple, but there is a mighty breath of Wang Yang. Just like his profound knowledge, the dragon changes unfathomably. He is good at running script and regular script, and his brushwork is vigorous and natural, giving people the artistic beauty of "the breath of the sea breeze" and "the shape of ancient rocks" Su Shi's calligraphy is highly praised by later generations. Huang Tingjian said in "Valley Collection": "His calligraphy is charming ... until the wine is drunk, he forgets the work, and the words are extremely thin ... As for the round pen and the rhyme, the article is wonderful, the loyalty is the sun and the moon, and the book is good, so it is the first to push (the Soviet Union)." Dong Qichang in Ming Dynasty praised him for "using the positive front completely, which is the Lanting of Po Gong". Handed down from ancient times, there are Qianchibi Fu, Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post, Dongting Spring Color Fu, Zhongshan Songlao Fu and so on.
2. Huang Tingjian
(A.D. 145-A.D. 115), whose name was Lu Zhi, was a Taoist in the valley, and his name was Fu Weng in the evening. He was also called Mr. Yu Zhanghuang, Han nationality, and was born in Fenning, Hongzhou (now xiushui county, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). A poet, poet and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School, and he, Du Fu, Chen Shidao and Chen Yuyi are known as "three schools of one ancestor" (Huang is one of them). Song Zhiping was a scholar in the fourth year (AD 167). Li Guan Ye Xianwei, Professor imperial academy from Beijing, School Booker Lang, Works Zuolang, Secretary Cheng, Fuzhou Biejia, Guizhou Resettlement, etc. In terms of poetry, he and Su Shi are also called "Su Huang"; In terms of calligraphy, he, Su Shi, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are also called "four great masters in the Song Dynasty". In terms of lyrics, although he was once called "Qin Huang" with Qin Guan, Huang's achievements in lyrics are far inferior to Qin's.
3. Mi Fei [fú]
(151-117), whose self-appointed name is either Qian, Fu or Fu. Calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in Northern Song Dynasty. Han nationality, originally from Taiyuan, Shanxi, once settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). Talent is high, characters are scattered, and they are so clean and addicted. Being served by the Tang people, they accumulate more strange stones. Calligraphy and painting are a family of their own. Can draw dead wood and bamboo stones, create new ideas, and draw landscapes, creating an ink painting Yunshan ink play, hidden by clouds, plain and naive. Good poetry, calligraphy, accurate identification. He is good at seal, official script, script, line and cursive script, and is good at copying ancient calligraphy, reaching the level of confusion. One of Song Sijia. He used to be a school book lang, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites.
He is called "Mi Dian" because of his eccentric personality and crazy behavior, and he is called "brother" when he meets a stone, and he worships him endlessly. Huizong was appointed as a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and was called "Minangong".
4. Cai Xiang
(112-167), whose name is Jun Mo, is of Han nationality. He was originally from Dong 'an Village, Fengting Township, Xianyou County, Fujian Province, and later moved to Cai 'an Village, Putian. He was a scholar in 13 (the eighth year of Tiansheng), and worked as a collator in the central government of the Song Dynasty, an admonisher, a historian and a historian. The pawn was given to assistant minister of does, posthumous title Zhong. He presided over the construction of Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, the oldest existing cross-sea beam-type stone bridge in China. Cai Xiang was honest, upright, faithful, knowledgeable and profound in calligraphy. In the history of calligraphy, he talked about the calligraphy of the Song Dynasty, and was known as the four great calligraphers, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai. Cai Xiang's calligraphy was self-contained with its profound dignity, simplicity and beauty.