Liu Gongquan is a summarizer and innovator of regular script. On the basis of learning and inheriting the regular script styles of Zhong You, Wang Xizhi and others, he read modern calligraphy, learned from Yan Zhenqing, absorbed his new ideas, and created his own unique "six-style" regular script, which was imitated by later generations and became one of the outstanding representatives of "Tang Shu Shang Fa".
There are only three steps:
Liu Gongquan visited Weiyang Palace Garden with Tang Wenzong. Wenzong stopped the car and said to Liu Gongquan, "There is one thing that makes me happy. Clothes used to be sent to border guards were often not timely, and now spring clothes are sent in February. " Liu Gongquan came forward to congratulate. The literati said: "I just congratulate you, but I can't express my thoughts clearly." You should write a poem to congratulate me. "
Imperial secretary urged him to read it to literate Sect himself. Liu Gongquan replied: "Although there was no war last year, I did not return this year. How can I repay the kindness of the emperor? I get spring clothes in spring. " The literati said happily, "Cao Zijian has seven steps in reciting poems, but you only need three.