Ou Yangxun, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Linxiang, Chenzhou (now Changsha, Hunan). He practiced calligraphy very hard, learned from others, mastered eight kinds of calligraphy, and became his own family, known as "European style". On one occasion, when he returned from a mission, he rode through a field and found a stone tablet written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Western Jin Dynasty, in the messy grass. He stopped to watch for a long time, unwilling to leave. After a few miles, I came back, dismounted and sat in front of the tablet to watch carefully, and realized the beauty of Suo Jing's cursive script. That night, he returned to his residence and stayed up all night thinking about the stone tablet he saw during the day. The next day, at dawn, he rode to the stone tablet again, trying to figure it out again and again, spreading out the papers and copying them one by one. In this way, he kept by the monument for three days and three nights, and he left happily until Suo Jing's cursive script was comprehensive and clear.
Ou Yangxun devoted himself to studying the calligraphy of "Two Kings"
Ou Yangxun was a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and he had a special liking for the calligraphy of the two kings (Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi). He bought Mo Bao of Wang Xizhi's father and son to study. One day, he saw the map of Gui Zhi that Wang Xizhi taught Wang Xianzhi. He bought it at a high price and kept it at home to watch and learn every day. He is often too happy to sleep all night. He studied it for a whole month until he understood the essence of Gui Zhi's diagram.
Ouyang Tong studies his father's books hard.