Huang Tingjian (1045-1105) was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. He specializes in both cursive and running script calligraphy styles.
Huang Tingjian's cursive style is unrestrained and unique, with distinct personality characteristics. His writing style is majestic, vigorous and powerful, showing strong vitality and creativity. His representative works include "Taibai Poems", "Fu De Gu Yuan Cao Farewell", etc.
Huang Tingjian's running script is smooth and elegant, with a fresh and refined atmosphere, and its poetic and artistic realm is superb. His running script is written with a fine pen, which is light and simple, and also incorporates the charm of cursive script. His representative works include "Eight Poems of Autumn", "Man Jiang Hong", etc.
Therefore, Huang Tingjian is known as the "two masters of grass and walking" in the history of calligraphy, and has a profound influence on the calligraphy world of later generations.