The letter written by Ouyang Xun in "Ouyang Xun Huangfujun Monument" was from Linxiang, Hunan. He was quick and knowledgeable when he was young. He was Dr. Da Chang in the Sui Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Lei Lei was promoted to Shizhong, and later he was promoted to the official position of Yin Qingguang Shilu, Prince Ledeng Ling, Bachelor of Hongwen Hall, and was granted the title of Male of Bohai County. He was known as "Ouyang Ledeng" in the world. The two kings of calligraphy, seeing danger in the middle of the ordinary, wrote their own book, known as "European Style". Together with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, they were called the Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty. The main characteristic of European style is the thin and hard calligraphy method. It is said that the eight styles of European seal scripts, including large seal script, small seal script, Zhang Cao, Li, Xing, Fei Bai, Cao and Kai script, are all capable. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty commented: "Eight styles are powerful, the writing is strong and dangerous, and the seal script is especially fine." 》《Fei Bai Guan Jue, more noble than the ancients. "Li Sizhen of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Shuhoupin" that "the cursive script of Qianyang is difficult to be cool, like a drought-stricken dragon getting water, a greedy rabbit walking through its acupoint, and the writing style is too little." ” Su Shi of the Song Dynasty highly valued the small regular script of European scripts, and wrote: “Yang Shu’s regular script, Yan Jing stands out from the crowd, and he is especially good at small regular script. Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty loved European cursive script and said: "Cursive script in old age is wonderful and moving." "Among the eight styles of European books, only Kai and Xing are currently available. The representative works in regular script that have been handed down include the "Huangfujun Stele", "Huadu Temple Stele", "Jiucheng Palace Stele", "Yu Gonggong Stele", "Fang Yanpu Stele", etc., and the cursive ink "Zhang Hantie", "Bu Shang" "Tie", "Bushang Tie", "Meng Dian Tie", "Thousand Character Essay", etc.
The "Huangfujun Monument" is also known as the "Huangfu Birthday Monument", and its full name is "The Sui Zhuguo Hongyi Minggong Huangfu Bi Monument". Yu Zhining wrote the text in Ouyang Xun's regular script. The monument has twenty-eight lines and fifty-nine characters. The twelve-character "Stele of Hongyi and Minggong Huangfu of Sui Dynasty" in Eyang seal script. The existing Shaanxi Provincial Museum Stele Forest. The European style is mainly thin, strong and dangerous. This stele has the most distinctive features among all the European stele. It has lost all the appearance of the two kings and has a unique style. Sun Chengze of the Qing Dynasty recorded in Gengzi's Summer Days: "His writing has Han Chinese style of writing, and it is a book that is even more proud of itself." Wang Yuanmei said that compared with other monuments, it is particularly dangerous. "Yang Jing of the Qing Dynasty's "Xue Shu Yi Yan" said: "The European book "Huangfu's Birthday Stele" is the most dangerous, Zhang Huaiguan's "Shu Duan" said that it is as dense as an arsenal of spears and halberds, and so on." Weng Fang Gang of the Qing Dynasty even tried his best to lose the owner. Pay attention to this stele: "This is the first path that those who study Tang Kai script must take. If we don't start from this, how can the structure of the frame enter "Jiucheng" and "Huadu"?" This is Weng's bitter words. Can be used as a reference for beginners.