Which dynasty did Yang Ningshi belong to?
Yang Ningshi (873-954) was born in Huayin, Huazhou (now Huayin, Shaanxi). In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, he was the son of Prime Minister, calligrapher and assistant minister Yang She.
He was a scholar, an official secretary lang, and later an official in Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Five Dynasties. The official was Prince Taibao, known as "Yang". In 954, in the first year of Xiande, Zhou Shizong, Yang Ningshi died at the age of 82 and was posthumously given to Prince Taifu.
Yang Ningshi has always been regarded as an important figure in the history of calligraphy. Song Sijia was deeply influenced by it. His representative works include Jiuhua Tie, Ten Postscripts of Lu Hong Caotang, Immortal Living Method, etc.
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Yang Ningshi, a native of Huayin, Huazhou, was born in Du Jing and Bai Xu. Born in Xian Tong, Tang Yizong in 14 years, he died in the first year of Xiande, Zhou Shizong at the age of 82. (The history of the Old Five Dynasties is eighty-five; Chronicles of celebrities died in Xiande for two years at the age of 83. It is rich in literature and algae, which greatly promoted the promotion of Tang Zhaozong in the times. Liang Shi is the foreign minister who took the exam. At the beginning of teaching, Tang Tongguang was granted a doctor's license. During the Jin dynasty, he was an official with the minister of rites, and lived in the middle of Ilo, enjoying his wild escape and resisting many things. A talented person is duty-bound, but when he was in the Han Dynasty, he knew less about Shao Shi. Zhou Xiande was a prince of Taibao at the beginning and died in Luoyang, which was given by Prince Taifu. Be good at poetry and writing. The inscription on the blue wall of Luochuan Temple is almost partial. At that time, people called him Feng Tong because of his vertical birthday.
He first studied calligraphy from Ou Yangxun and Yan Zhenqing, and then from Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. He changed the Tang method and used a bold pen. Whether it's white cloth or knotting, it's refreshing. His representative works include Jiuhua Post, Ten Postscripts of Lu Hong Caotang, Immortal Living Method, Summer Hot Post and so on.
Jiuhua Post is his masterpiece and a gift written in lines. The content is about waking up after a nap, which coincides with the gift of leek. It is delicious, so I write to express my gratitude. The font of this post is between running script and regular script. Bai and Shu Lang, handsome and free and easy, won the brushwork of Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection. Lu Hong Caotang's Postscript of Ten Notes won the essence of Yan Zhenqing's Sacrifice to a Nephew, which was strewn at random, magnificent, simple and rich. Wild grass's immortal living method and summer hot posts are even more wanton, changeable, messy and twisted, and a sense of sadness about the current situation is vividly on the paper. Among cursive scripts, The Immortal Living Method always contains some running scripts, which were later called "Rain and Snow".
Yang Ningshi has always been regarded as an important figure in the history of calligraphy. Song Sijia (Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei, Cai Xiang) was deeply influenced by it.
Calligraphy achievement
Yang Ningshi lived in an era when the Tang Dynasty was about to perish, followed by the Five Dynasties War. This talented person is bound to become a freak, and even seek refuge through the illness of a madman, and the calligraphy art he uses to comfort his soul is naturally dignified. His running script expresses his spiritual personality, which can also be said to be the mark left on his spirit in this declining and chaotic era.
Masters Ou Yangxun and Yan Zhenqing both lived in seclusion. Yang Ningshi's works can still be seen on these walls until the Northern Song Dynasty. Huang Tingjian once said: "When I went to the capital and read Yang's books between the monk walls, I was fascinated." (Ma Zonghuo's Notes on Trees and Algae, Volume 8) Unfortunately, buildings cannot be preserved forever, and these wonderful traces of his calligraphy have disappeared with the passage of time. However, there are only four kinds of paper and ink preserved, namely, Jiuhua Post in regular script, Ten Notes on Hongcaotang in running script, Xia Ruo Post in running script, Immortal Living Method in cursive script, and several seal cutting posts such as Walking empty word. Judging from these works, there are regular script, running script and cursive script, and their styles have changed. This change, on the one hand, shows his artistic skill, on the other hand, it is also the natural diarrhea of his pretentious character. The content of these posts is either about fitness, or about love affairs, or about immortal Taoist priests. None of them are serious. Why? The times have changed, and the current events in the world are unspeakable and not worth worrying about, so he has to seek pleasure in the world outside the secular world.
It is said that Yang Ningshi's calligraphy art built a bridge between the peaks of calligraphy art in Tang and Song Dynasties. As far as the development of calligraphy art is concerned, there is the Song Dynasty. As for those who have studied Yang Ningshi since then, there are many people in that generation, but few people can get the essence from it.