The top ten classic copybooks in small letters are as follows:
1 Zhong You's "Recommended Season's Straight Table"
Recommended reason: The structure of "Recommended Season's Straight Table" is broad and broad, and its body is flat, which still has a sense of propriety. Although there are many immature places, the structure is not as neat as that of Jin and Tang Dynasties, but it is full of interest and wonderful, which is a microcosm of the evolution of Chinese characters from official script to regular script.
2 Zhong You's Manifestation Table
Recommended reason: Compared with other works in Zhong You, Manifestation Table shows a more mature posture and breath of regular script, both in brushwork and structure. The font is elegant, wide and flat, which fully shows the artistic characteristics of regular script that is maturing in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
3 Xi's On Le Yi
Recommended reason: If Zhong You's small script in the Three Kingdoms period was the embryonic stage of regular script, then by Wang Xizhi's On Le Yi in the Jin Dynasty, regular script had reached a mature stage, and the pen of Le Yi Lun was meticulous and the method of writing was mature. Shi Zhiyong thought that Le Yi Lun was the first official book of Wang Xizhi.
4 Wang Xizhi's Monument to the Filial Daughter Cao E
Recommended reason: The structure of the Monument to Cao E is flat. Compared with other small calligraphy works handed down by Wang Xizhi, the strokes of this monument are more stretched, which is more obvious in the horizontal and horizontal paintings as the main pen, and the meaning of official script is hidden between the strokes and the structure.
5 Wang Xizhi's Huang Tingjing
Recommended reason: Huang Tingjing is similar to Le Yi Lun in its overall composition, with vertical lines and no horizontal lines, clear vertical lines, but not very straight, with the shape of characters being arbitrary in height and width, and the connection between words being patchy.
6 Wang Xianzhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo
Recommended reason: Wang Xianzhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo (13 lines) is elegant in style and free and easy in brushwork, while Yang Bin's Tiehanzhai Book Number in Qing Dynasty thinks that "the beauty of words is beautiful and elegant, and it is unparalleled in running the world."
7 Zhong Shaojing's Ling Fei Jing
Recommended reason: The chapter of Ling Fei Jing is vertical and horizontal. Because of the size, length and uneven level of the whole word, it is dense and natural, and the whole word is taken care of from word to word and from line to line. The whole word is integrated. Although it is regular script, it has the smooth and elegant charm of running script, which is varied and interesting.
8 Zhao Mengfu's Biography of Ji An
Recommended reason: With regard to Biography of Ji An, Zhao Mengfu claimed that Biography of Ji An was a legacy of the Tang Dynasty, while Feng Yuan in the Qing Dynasty commented that "this book Jun Fang, although based on European style, is quick and elegant in writing, is still derived from books such as Painting Praise and Le Yi."
9 Zhao Mengfu's Tao Te Ching
Recommended reason: Tao Te Ching, one of Zhao Mengfu's representative works in lower case, was written in the third year of Yanyou (AD 1316) at the age of 63. Zhao Mengfu has written the Tao Te Ching in lower case many times in his life.
1 Wen Zhiming's Lisao Jing
Recommended reason: The style origin of Wen Zhiming's Lisao Jing is mainly influenced by Zhong You's Manifestation Table, Wang Xizhi's Huangting, and Ni Zan's style in Yuan Dynasty. The brushwork is steady and calm, and in the whole practice, the spirit of emptiness and shuxu emerges, especially when the pen is drawn horizontally, which is as fine as a needle tip.