First, the "two kings" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Father Wang Xizhi &; Son Wang Xianzhi.
Father: Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year), a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was known as the "sage of calligraphy" and was arguably the greatest calligrapher in China. His calligraphy is meticulous, studying body, imitating heart and chasing hands.
Learn from others' strengths, prepare its essence, and smelt it in one furnace, which has far-reaching influence. The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful. His son Wang Xianzhi is also a great calligrapher with far-reaching influence, collectively known as the "two kings".
Son: Wang Xianzhi (344-386), a Chinese official slave, of Han nationality. The seventh son of Wang Xizhi, a famous calligrapher and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was smart and studious since childhood, and was good at cursive and official scripts. He practiced calligraphy with his father since he was a child, and he was ambitious. Later, he took Zhang Zhi and made his own innovation. He is famous for his running script and cursive script, but he also has a deep foundation in regular script and official script.
Second, "Big and Small Ouyang"
Father Ou Yangxun &; Son Ouyang Tong.
Ou Yangxun (557-64 1), a native of Hunan, was a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and he was also called the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty with his contemporaries Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi. Because his son Ouyang Tong is also good at calligraphy, he is also called "Big Europe". Ou Yangxun's calligraphy is the perfect combination of inscriptions in the Six Dynasties. It is said that it is the most rigorous and neat, well-equipped, exquisite and vivid, and just right. It is called "the first regular script in the Tang Dynasty".
Son: Ouyang Tong (625- 69 1), minister and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Word teacher, Han nationality, from Ou Yangxun. Lonely in his early years, his mother Xu taught his father books. Regular script, the book is the father's method and steep, and the father and son are equally famous, numbered "Ouyang". Works handed down from ancient times include Taoist Monument, etc. Ouyang Tong worked on the model and got the essence of his father's method. In his later years, he was quite proud, with raccoon hair as a pen, rabbit hair as a cover and rhinoceros bone as a tube.