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Zhao Mengfu has extremely high talent in calligraphy. In his early years, he wrote about Zhao Gou, and later studied "Two Kings". In his later years, he worked hard on Li Yong of the Tang Dynasty, and studied stone drum inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal scripts, and Zhangcao. He was known as "inspired by heaven's secrets. Once he learned it, he became like ". At the same time, Zhao Mengfu was also an extremely diligent calligrapher. It is said that he could write 10,000 to 20,000 words a day.
Zhao Mengfu’s writing is based on the academic and rational exploration and grasp of the regularity of Chinese character writing. His calligraphy often seems plain, but in fact it contains profound cultivation and extensive cultural connotations, which is difficult for ordinary people to learn deeply.
Even people like Dong Qichang did not take Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy seriously when he was young. It was not until his later years that he realized that he "began to understand the wonders of Wuxing (Zhao's hometown) calligraphy."
Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy The body is both good and the writings are numerous. Later Dong Qichang commented in the postscript of "Autumn Colors of Magpie Flowers" that Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy "has the style of the Tang Dynasty people but without the slenderness, and the majesty of the Northern Song Dynasty without the roughness", forming a unique "Zhao style" calligraphy style, which is praised as It is "surpassing the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, directing the right army" and "five hundred years, ten thousand miles in length and breadth, there is no such book".
The calligraphy styles that Zhao Mengfu achieved the most were running script and regular script. Qin Yonglong, the first director of the calligraphy department of Beijing Normal University, believes that "Danba Tie" is the most mature regular script masterpiece of Zhao Mengfu in his later years and a model for learning "Zhao style". The font of the post is square and steady, thick and round, with built-in strength. It is dignified and energetic, and the aura of transcendence can be seen in the regularity.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Zhao Mengfu
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