Zhao Jiqi began to learn from Huang Tingjian, and later learned from Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and Xue Yao, mixing the strengths of various schools, learning from others and creating his own ideas. Finally, he created a unique "thin gold body", which not only has the feeling of "natural beauty, interesting beauty", but also has a strong personality color of "bending iron to break gold" It is characterized by thin and elastic strokes, sharp tail hooks and quick pen strokes. Characters are generally long and relaxed, with a sense of beauty, elegance, ease and ease, and are rigorous and meticulous from beginning to end. This kind of thin, crisp and elegant calligraphy style, with a side like orchid bamboo, requires high calligraphy skill, self-restraint and calm mind to complete.
Song Huizong's calligraphy is gentle and frivolous, which may be caused by the times and his own artistic accomplishment. However, its unique artistic personality of thin gold body is imitated by later generations. Not only created a huge calligraphy school.
Huai Su
He is the leader of a generation of coquettish cursive scripts in the history of calligraphy. His cursive script is called "crazy cursive script", and his pen is round and powerful, making it go round and round, unrestrained and smooth, in one go. He is as famous as Zhang Xu, another cursive writer in Tang Dynasty, and is called "Zhang Diankuang" or "Zhang Dian Zui".
Weeds is the expression of the peak of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty. The representatives are Zhang Xu and Huai Su.