Yan Zhenqing (August 23, 709-784) was born in Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi) and Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong). Yan Shigu V was a famous official, calligrapher and secretary supervisor in the Tang Dynasty. He was once a famous painter such as Sun and Situ.
Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy is exquisite and good at it. Chu Suiliang, a beginner, studied under Zhang Xu and got his brushwork. Its regular script is dignified and majestic, and its running script is vigorous and powerful, which has created a "Yan style" regular script and has a great influence on later generations. Together with Zhao Mengfu, Liu Gongquan and Ou Yangxun, they are also called "four masters of regular script".
Together with Liu Gongquan, they are called "Yan Liu" and "Yangu". He is also good at poetry, such as You, Ji, Wu, Ji, Lu Ji and Linchuan Ji, all of which have been lost. The Song people compiled Yan Ji.
2. Liu Gongquan
Liu Gongquan (778-865), the word is sincere. Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province) was born. A famous calligrapher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, the younger brother of Liu Gongchu, the minister of war.
Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for regular script. He learned from Wang Xizhi at first, and later visited the famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty. He absorbed Yan Zhenqing's strengths and new ideas, and created his own unique "Liu Ti", which was famous for its infinite strength and was later known as "Yan Gu".
It is also called "Yan Liu" with Yan Zhenqing, and "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.
Inscriptions handed down from ancient times include Diamond Sutra Engraving, Mysterious Tower Monument and Su Feng Monument. Cursive scripts include posts, sixteen-day posts, insulting posts, etc. Zhao Meng Tie and Postscript of Pear Tie from Wang Xianzhi are both masterpieces handed down from ancient times. Liu Gongquan also writes poems. Complete Tang Poetry contains five poems, and Complete Tang Poetry contains one poem.
3. Ou Yangxun
Ou Yangxun (557-64 1), a native of Linxiang (now Changsha, Hunan) in Tanzhou in the Tang Dynasty, was a famous calligrapher and official in the Tang Dynasty, one of the four masters of regular script, the grandson of Ouyang Li, the general of South Liang Zhengnan, and son of the general, the southern Chen. He was born in the second year of Liang Taiping in the Southern Dynasties (AD 557).
Ou Yangxun, together with his contemporaries Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Qi, were called the four masters in the early Tang Dynasty. Because his son Ouyang Tong is also good at calligraphy, he is also called "Big Europe".
He and Yu Shinan were both famous for their calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ou Yu". Later generations see danger in Chinese books, which is the most convenient for beginners and named "European style".
Representative regular script includes Jiuchenggong Li Quanming, Huangfu Birthday Monument, Huadu Temple Monument, and running script includes Zhong Nimeng's stippling and running script with thousands of characters.
He has his own unique views on calligraphy, including eight methods of calligraphy works, teaching strategies, pen theory and thirty-six methods. The inscriptions on the stupa of Huadu Temple written by Buddhist monks, the tablet of Yu Gong Wen Yanbo, and the tablet of Huangfushengchen? Known as "the first regular script in Tang Dynasty".
4. Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu (f incarnation) (125410120 July-1322 July 30), born in Song Xue Road, Han nationality, also known as Taoist Jing Gong and Goulpeau, worked in Mengfu in middle age.
Xing Wu, Zhejiang (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) people. A famous calligrapher, painter and poet at the end of Southern Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, his grandson, a descendant of Qin Wang Zhao.
Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry and prose, familiar with economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and appreciation. Especially in calligraphy and painting. In painting, he created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people".
Zhao Mengfu is also good at seal script, official script, original works, calligraphy and cursive script, especially regular script and running script. His elegant style of calligraphy, neat structure and skillful brushwork created Zhao Ti Shu, which is called "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.