Many calligraphers in modern times are greatly influenced by them. You can appreciate his personal style from the original paper version of Huaisu's "Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script"!
Huai Su is an outstanding calligrapher in Chinese history and has a profound influence on later generations. The paper version of Huaisu's "Thousand-Character Essay" has a free and sharp writing style, which is more powerful and natural than "On Calligraphy and Calligraphy". It is in an old frame and is a folded version of a classic from the Tang Dynasty. The paper is yellowed and infested with insects. The outer folded envelope contains 9 pages of sutra stickers, each page is 26.8 cm long and 13.5 cm wide. It is now collected by Huang Jinxiang, a calligraphy and painting scholar. Written in four or five lines on jade paper. There are five hidden seals on the front and middle pages, but the back pages have been lost. . . The characters are as big as fingernails, the pen and ink are bold and smooth, unpredictable, and the consistency is spectacular. In the Tang Dynasty, only Huaisu, Zhang Xu and Sun Guoting were among the top three famous cursive calligraphers. Their handed down works are very rare and precious! Yue Ke, the grandson of Yue Fei, called his cursive calligraphy "a powerful pen and a wonderful ink, conveying the true truth, and a taste of heaven." It was a masterpiece after Zhang Xu. This work is extremely precious. There was a saying in ancient times that "one word is worth a thousand gold", so it is also called "A Thousand Gold Tie" and has always been valued by scholars. In addition to the paper version "Xiaocao Qianwen" discovered by Huang Jinxiang, his authentic works handed down from ancient times include Huaisu's "Kusun Tie" collected by Shanghai Expo, and "On Calligraphy" collected by Liaoning Museum, etc.
Xiang Yuanbian, a famous connoisseur and collector in the Ming Dynasty, said: "When discussing books and posts, they are all out of the rules and absolutely crazy and weird. If they want to cooperate, it is like a contract with "two kings". There is no one." The pen has no origin, and I don’t know if there is a god under the elbow. They call it crazy, and it is almost impossible to understand it.” Here, it has been clearly stated that Huaisu’s brushwork has the characteristics of “two kings”, which shows that he is still an out-of-the-box artist. Moment of calligraphy everyone. In the Tang Dynasty, it was commented that Huai Su's cursive script had the potential to "scare snakes and flys, and cause sudden rain and strong winds", and Lu Yu also praised him as "having many ancient cursive scripts". From the perspective of graphology, Huaisu's calligraphy lines tend to be thin and strong in texture, which has a lot to do with his aesthetics of bitter cold meditation. Judging from the ink of Huaisu's "Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script" on paper, we can not only appreciate his skillful brushwork and the beauty of his lines that move the clouds and rain, and twist the pen to hide the edge, but we can also directly feel the author's emotion when writing. The inner temperament is amazing!
Only those who have actually seen Huaisu's original work can make a solid conclusion. For example, Zhu Changwen, a calligraphy theorist of the Northern Song Dynasty, called Huaisu's calligraphy a wonderful work in "Continued Book Break". Commenting on his calligraphy: "Like a strong man drawing his sword, the magic is moving." Yue Ke also wrote a poem to praise: "Pocs migrate to the sea, dragons and snakes rise from the land, wonderful thoughts are followed by the sky, divine bells and ghosts cry, hanging down in the hand, it is extraordinary The smoke is dazzling, the brocade is beautiful, and the light is shining. "Huaisu had a wide range of contacts in his life, and had unusual contacts with many cultural celebrities in the prosperous and mid-Tang Dynasty, such as Li Bai, Dai Shulun, Yan Zhenqing, Wei Zhi, and Qian. Celebrities such as Qi Qi, Lu Yu and Dou Ji all praised Huai Su's calligraphy creations in poems and articles. Because Huaisu's cursive calligraphy is exquisite and superb, it has always been cherished by collectors. There are over a hundred pieces of Huaisu cursive calligraphy collected by the Imperial Palace of the Song Dynasty alone. Unfortunately, most of them were destroyed by military disasters. It is reported that only a handful of people have discovered his handwriting in the past hundred years! In March 2017, scholar Huang Jinxiang discovered the original paper copy of Huaisu's "Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script" and praised: "The plain monk is unique, and the grass sage lasts for thousands of years. The reappearance of the divine work is a blessing to the country!" Because his calligraphy is inseparable from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The law and the writing style are always in compliance with the rules, which attracted the attention of calligraphers of later generations. Xian Yushu, a famous calligrapher in the Yuan Dynasty, also pointed out: "Huaisu abides by the law and has many ancient ideas." The great poet Li Bai praised his "cursive script in the world" in "Songs in Cursive Script"; Yan Zhenqing wrote "Preface to Songs in Cursive Script by Master Huaisu". He is the "Best among Monks"!