1, Su Shi, Zi Zizhan, Dongpo Jushi, Meishan, Sichuan. A famous writer, painter and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. Poetry is one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties. He and his father, Su Xun, and his younger brother, Su Zhe, are world-famous for their poems, known as "Su San".
2. Huang Tingjian, named Lu Zhi, is a Taoist priest in the valley. Later generations called him Huang Gu, later named Fu Weng, and was from Fenning, Hongzhou (now Xiushui, Jiangxi). Poet and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty. Yingzong Zhiping was a scholar for four years.
3, Mi Fei, the word stamp,No. Xiangyang Man's, Haiyue Waishi, Lumen layman. Originally from Taiyuan, Shanxi, I settled in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Mi Fei is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, and his appraisal is accurate. He is a painter, appraiser and collector. He is second to none in Song Sijia. His writing style is bold and unconstrained, and his statutes are rigorous.
Cai Xiang was born in Xinghua. Tiansheng was a scholar in the eighth year, and served successively in the central government of the Song Dynasty as a proofreader of Guan Ge, an admonition institute, a history museum, an intellectual patent, a bachelor of Longtuge, a bachelor of Privy Council, a bachelor of Hanlin, a three-emissary, and a bachelor of Duanmingtang. , and served as a transportation ambassador in Fujian Road and a government official in Hangzhou.
Achievements of the Four Masters in Northern Song Dynasty
His achievements are mainly reflected in the running script, and there are also two styles: Kai and Cao. Mi Fei has a small number of seal script and official script, but it is not commendable. As far as regular script is concerned, Cai Xiang is the first person in Song Sijia. Its face is very similar to that of Yan Zhenqing, and it is permeated with a lot of popularity, so it has no advantage over Tang.
As far as cursive writing is concerned, Huang Tingjian is the most accomplished in Song Sijia. Su Shi and Mi Fei despised Zhang Xu and Huai Su as "calligraphers" and thought that they regarded calligraphy as a career, which violated the purpose of entertaining themselves and lost the elegance of the forest, "just like a prostitute smearing green and red". Su Shi's cursive script is extremely rare, and Mi Fei's cursive script is also rare. The lines are thin and oily, and the confidence in writing running script is swept away.