Yuan people's "retro" calligraphy style was conservative, which did not have a positive impact on Yuan calligraphy.
It was Zhao Gou who pioneered the retro calligraphy style in Yuan Dynasty.
Zhao Gou is good at calligraphy. He is good at truth, line and cursive. His brushwork is free and graceful, natural and fluent, and he is quite charming in Jin people. He is the author of Han Mo Zhi, and the ink handed down from generation to generation is Luo Shen Fu (cursive script).
In terms of overall layout and brushwork, Give Yuefei a Hand with the charm and wisdom of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, and it can be integrated to form its own style, showing a wonderful and elegant artistic style of "showing differences but independence".
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Personally speaking, Zhao Gou is actually an artist. He is proficient in poetry and music, good at calligraphy and painting, and his interest has always been in pen and ink. He is an emperor who is quite diligent in learning calligraphy. At first, he studied Huang Tingjian. Soon after he became king, he used yellow calligraphy, and later he used rice calligraphy. The book "Give Yue Fei a Hand" written in the seventh year of Shaoxing (1137) is a typical Mi Fei brushwork.
Later, he studied the "Two Kings", and his "Giving Yuefei a Zajuan" is an important symbol of the change of calligraphy style to the "Two Kings". He especially loved Preface to Lanting, "from the Jin and Wei Dynasties to the Six Dynasties, all the brushwork was copied". He also distributed a large number of copied works to ministers in the imperial court. Because of his status, his hobbies also influenced the book style of the Southern Song Dynasty.