Before him, roundness and smoothness were the keynotes of cursive script. However, Huang Tingjian’s cursive script has a strange character structure and creative composition. He often uses displacement methods to break the boundaries between characters and form new lines. The combination of the rhythm changes strongly, so it has a special charm
Huang Tingjian’s attainments in running script and cursive script are extremely high. He is a master who studies the rules of concentration and spacing of Chinese character strokes. This is only true in calligraphy. It is unique in history.
Song Huizong loved calligraphy and painting and pursued art, but he was allowed to be in charge of the Northern Song Dynasty for 25 years, and eventually became the king of subjugation, achieving the infamous Jingkang shame in history, which is very similar to the abuses in various industries today. He is not worthy of his position and is just trying to do whatever he wants.
Song Huizong was famous for his thin gold body, but it was of no use. In the end, he was captured by the Jin army and tortured to death for nine years! There is a famous saying in the West: If you want to achieve peace, you must first prepare for war! If Song Huizong understood this truth, he would not have caused this hardship in the end!
Achievements in painting. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was good at painting flowers, birds and landscapes. With exquisite painting skills, rigorous brushwork and rich colors, he is in a style of his own. His handed down works include "Hibiscus Golden Pheasant Picture", "Auspicious Dragon Stone Picture", "Wanmei Mountain Bird Picture", "Listening to the Qin Picture", "Peach Dove Picture", "Quail Narcissus Picture", "Four Birds Picture", "Returning from the Snow River" "棣图" and so on.
When it comes to poetry, of course it’s Li Du. But in terms of calligraphy and painting, of course it is Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. In art, he is a peak that future generations cannot climb.
If you say that anyone after him has surpassed him in art, I have only two words to respond: Haha!
Flowers, birds, and figures also reached a peak. The paintings of the Song Dynasty became copies for later generations of painters and became one of the best eras in the history of Chinese painting. Huizong's contribution to calligraphy was the invention of thin gold calligraphy. This kind of calligraphy is highly decorative and is especially suitable for inscriptions on meticulous and heavy-color paintings. It is also very charming when written independently in calligraphy works.
The emperor who was idle in government affairs eventually suffered the most tragic Jingkang disaster in history. He was kidnapped by the Jin people and lived in the Jin country for nearly ten years, suffering physical and mental torture