In calligraphy, Su Shi, Cai Xiang, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fei are also called "Song Sijia". It is the collective name of four calligraphers, Su, Huang, Mi and Cai, in the Northern Song Dynasty in China. These four people can generally represent the calligraphy style of the Song Dynasty and have the highest achievements, so they are called "Song Sijia".
Among them, Huangzhou's cold food poems are the highest representative of Dongpo's calligraphy art, and Huang Tingjian's small seal script is represented by Fang, Wang Elders' epitaph and Lunan's old Shi Yizheng's epitaph.
The characteristics of calligraphy:
On the surface, calligraphy refers to the statutes of writing. In life, the word calligraphy has the following meanings: first, it is synonymous with a written work or the floorboard of all written works; Second, an art category generally refers to the art of writing Chinese characters. Kang Youwei said in Guang Yi and Zhou Shuang: "Tang Yan is a structure, and Song and Shang Yi Qu", from which we can see that calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty pursued the highest and most rigorous statutes, and its calligraphy achievements were also the highest in the history of calligraphy.