During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, regular script was mature, and a group of outstanding calligraphers such as Zhong You and Wang Xizhi pushed regular script, a folk new book style, to a climax. After a hundred years of ethnic integration and cultural exchange, the calligraphy style of the Northern Wei Dynasty was integrated into the traditional culture of China with the elements of simplicity, lightness, boldness and boldness of nomadic people, among which excellent calligraphy works such as Monument to Zhang Menglong and Epitaph of Zhang Hei, etc. shined brilliantly in the history of calligraphy. This paper discusses the characteristics of calligraphy style in the Northern Wei Dynasty and its regular script style.
First, the origin of "Zhang Menglong Monument"
Zhang Menglong Monument was built in 522 years during the reign of filial piety in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is called the Qing Dynasty Monument of Zhang Fujun, the prefect of Wei County. Its monument is located in the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province, which mainly records the deeds of Zhang Menglong, the satrap of Lu County in Wei Dynasty, who founded the school. Its beautiful brushwork is a masterpiece in Weibei. So Kang Youwei said it was a monument.
The brushwork of Zhang Menglong's tablet contains many calligraphy style features such as the turning point of seal script and the opening of official script, but it is also a relatively mature regular script work, and this period is the period when regular script flourished. Dating back to the end of Han Dynasty, regular script, as a popular writing method of official script, spread among the people, and was improved by famous calligraphers such as Zhong You, Zhao Hu and Cai Yong, and became a statute. As for the specific time when regular script came into being, it is still inconclusive. Mr. Xu Senyu believes that "regular script, as a kind of writing, was close to maturity in the early days of the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty", while Guo Moruo pointed out: "Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the font gradually changed, and in the Tang Dynasty, it completely changed to the regular script stage." In a word, the birth of a new calligraphy style is bound to go through several stages of development and change. When official script was still widely used, this change had been carried out imperceptibly. In a large number of unearthed Han bamboo slips and cliff stone carvings, regular script strokes can be seen everywhere, such as Gulang Monument and Riding Longyan Monument.