Zhang Xu, a native of Wuxian County, Suzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, good at cursive writing and fond of drinking. Known as "Zhang Dian", he is called "Wu Sizi" with Huai Su, "Wu Sizi" with He, Zhang and Bao Rong, and "Drinking" with whom. His cursive script is similar to Li Bai's poems and songs and Pei Min's.
Zhang Xu's artistic style;
According to historical records, the most prominent feature of Zhang Xu's calligraphy style is "wildness".
On the one hand, Zhang Xu's escapism is manifested in his writing state. Influenced by Taoism, Zhang Xu pursued the same wild spiritual realm as Wang Xizhi and other Wei and Jin scholars. The characteristics of natural alcoholism further made Zhang Xu have the same spiritual orientation as Wang Xizhi, a book sage.
Therefore, as described in Li Jie's "A Gift to Zhang Xu" in the Tang Dynasty-"The top of the bed shines on Hu, which is called three or five sounds. Zhang Xu's living condition is very similar to Wang Xizhi's eating Wushisan in his belly bed.