The calligrapher who washes pens in Chengbei Bookstore is Ou Yangxun. The son of Ouyang Ai was a minister and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He was proficient in calligraphy. Together with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, he was called "the four great masters of the early Tang Dynasty" and posthumous title "European style".
Ou Yangxun is not only a great calligrapher, but also a calligraphy theorist. In his long-term calligraphy practice, he summed up eight methods of practicing and learning Chinese characters. Ou Yangxun's "teaching tactics" is a summary of his own experience in learning calligraphy, which more specifically summarizes the formal skills and aesthetic requirements of calligraphy, such as the use of pens, structure and composition.
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Ou Yangxun's calligraphy is based on the characteristics of regular script in Han Li and Jin Dynasties, and also draws lessons from the inscriptions in the Six Dynasties, so it is widely used by various schools. The main features of Ou Yangxun's calligraphy style are rigor, neatness, honest and frank and vigor. Although the glyph is a little longer, it is white, neat and rigorous, the middle palace is tight, the main pen is elongated, it looks bold and unrestrained, dense and well-organized, surrounded on all sides, exquisite and vivid, just right. The combination of stippling and painting, the structural arrangement, is that the middle of the plane is steep and powerful, and the fonts extend to the right, but the center of gravity is still very stable, without the feeling of inclination, which is interesting and dangerous.