Qiu Xue's profile

Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang, Xue Qiao and Xue Ji (649-713) were the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty. They were born in Fenyang, Puzhou (now Fenyang, Shanxi), and their official rank was Prince Shaobao, who was called "Xue Shaobao" in the world. It's Wei Zhengzhi's nephew. From Wei, I learned the hidden dangers and calligraphy, and I learned to be diligent, so I wrote the world with good books. His books are more than those of others. Tang people said: "You can buy Xue without losing its festival", but "you are slim with a pen, and you are different from others". His younger brother Xue Yao studied with him, but he is thinner, which is the source of Huizong's "thin gold body". The representative work of his true book is "The Monument to Shin-shin Zen Master", which was carved in the time of the Empress of Wu (684-74). The stone has been lost for a long time. Only in the Qing Dynasty, He Shaoji kept the orphan of Song Dynasty, and now it has flowed into Japan.