With the continuous development of the times, Chinese characters in our country are also developing and evolving. Since ancient times, China calligraphy fonts can be roughly divided into five categories, namely, running script, cursive script, official script, seal script and regular script. Among them, regular script fonts are neat and rigorous, and the strokes are concise, so even now, it is still in use, becoming the longest-used standard font in China history. One of the four famous regular script writers is Yan Liu Ou Zhao. So when it comes to the four masters of regular script, why is Yan Liu Ou Zhao, not tern Liu Zhao?
0 1 The so-called Yan Liu Ou Zhao refers to Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun and Zhao Mengfu. In fact, if you sort according to the life dynasties of the four people, what should the ranking be? Ouyang Liuzhao? . People who know something about history should know that Ou Yangxun lived in the early Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing lived in the middle Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongquan was born in the late Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Mengfu lived in the Yuan Dynasty. So, if it's in chronological order of four people, what is it? Ouyang Liuzhao? . Most people don't know why the four of them are not in chronological order, so right? Yan Liu Ou Zhao? The ranking is in doubt.
In fact, the ranking of these four people is related to China's imperial examination system. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, many famous scientific examination systems came into being, which was an important way to select officials in ancient China and remained in use until the Qing Dynasty. If you take the exam, you must do the paper, and you need to use calligraphy when writing the paper. As the saying goes? Like this? A good roll of noodles will leave an excellent impression. Even now, many teachers will emphasize the importance of keeping the papers clean before the exam. It is for this reason that a set of pavilion-style tutorials ranked by Europe and Zhao came into being.
Although regular script is neat and tidy, the written words are not necessarily beautiful, because the size and typesetting of words are also very important. Can you learn to practice facial expressions? Jim. Therefore, Yan Ti ranks first among the four. But Yan calligraphy is fat, and it will not look good after a long time. Therefore, we should learn from Liu Ti, because Liu Ti's calligraphy pursues character. However, the font with strong characters is not standardized in structure, and it needs to learn European style to make up for the defects. Because the European style is characterized by fairness, it ranks third Looking at plain fonts for a long time can easily lead to aesthetic fatigue, because Zhao Ti's calligraphy has the characteristics of running script and is more flexible. Finally, through continuous practice, China ancient literati finally summed up the best scroll font, which is the so-called pavilion, that is? O' Li Zhao noodles? .
In short, the ranking of the four masters of regular script is actually sorted according to the order in which ancient literati learned regular script calligraphy. Is this called? Yan Liu Ou Zhao? , not in chronological order.
The above is only the author's personal opinion, welcome to comment.