Masterpieces of Four Great Calligraphy Masters

The representative works of the four great calligraphers are Sacrifice to My Nephew, Preface to Lanting, Cold Food Post and Ritual of Jiucheng Palace.

1, manuscript for offering sacrifices to nephew

"Sacrifice to My Nephew" is one of the representative works of Yan Zhenqing, one of the four great calligraphers. His running script has profound attainments and is known as "the second running script in the world". "Sacrifice to My Nephew" was created by him with grief and indignation, which showed his grief and mourning for the death of my nephew.

2. Preface of Lanting Collection

Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting is regarded as the best running script in the world. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style is displayed with smooth and broad strokes, and there are many works handed down from generation to generation, which have a wide influence. Wang Xizhi is the first master in the history of running script, and his Preface to Lanting is called the best running script in the world by later generations.

3. "Cold Food Post"

Cold Food Post is the representative work of Su Shi's running script. This poem is Su Shi's life sigh when he relegated Huangzhou to the Cold Food Festival for three years. The whole calligraphy is magnificent and unique in style, and it is known as "the third running script in the world". It expresses the loneliness and melancholy that Su Shi felt when he wandered around Huangzhou.

4. "Jiuchenggong Liquan Ming"

Ou Yangxun's masterpiece is The Inscription of Liquan in Jiucheng Palace. His calligraphy is mainly regular script, but it also has some flavor of northern monument. His brushwork is solid and powerful, his bones are rough, he has both strength and delicacy, and his fonts are slender, which has created the style of "European style". This work is a model of regular script.

The font type of calligraphy:

1, run the script

"Walk" means "walk", which is between regular script and cursive script, not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. There are two kinds: running scripts and running scripts. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass".

2. Regular script

It is a kind of simplified Chinese characters, horizontal Chinese characters and vertical Chinese characters gradually evolved from official script. It was improved in the Han dynasty by using the official script font as the opening method, and today people call it block letters. Regular script is characterized by regular font, horizontal and vertical strokes and sparse structure, which is a basic font of calligraphy. Regular script is widely used in calligraphy art and is the basic part of calligraphy art.

3, cursive script

It was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script. Cursive script belongs to a font of Chinese characters, which has the characteristics of simple structure and continuous strokes. Cursive script has the characteristics of simple writing. There are Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass. Feel good in madness.