Who is Yan Zhenqing? What kind of person is Yan Zhenqing?

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Yan Zhenqing's story:

When Yan Zhenqing was three years old, his father fell ill and died. His mother had to take him back to his grandfather's house. Yan Zhenqing's maternal grandfather was a calligrapher and painter, and his mother was also a well-read person.

They saw that Yan Zhenqing was very smart, so they taught him to read and write. Yan Zhenqing is very attentive when she practices calligraphy, and she is never sloppy with her strokes, and she writes for most of the day. When the mother saw her son practicing calligraphy so hard, her heart was both happy and sad.

I am glad that my son will definitely have a good future in the future; The worry is that the family is not well-off, how can he have the spare money to buy paper for him to practice calligraphy? 3, Yan Zhenqing is very sensible, and when she saw that her mother was worried about having no money to buy paper, she quietly pondered it herself. One day, Yan Zhenqing happily said to her mother:

I have pen and paper that don't cost anything, don't worry! "Silly boy, how can pen and paper not cost money? ”

You see, isn't it? Yan Zhenqing held a bowl and a brush in his hand, and said happily, "This bowl is an inkstone, this brush is a pen, and the yellow mud in the bowl is ink!" "That'......Where is the paper?

Mother asked again. Yan Zhenqing pointed to the wall and said seriously, "This is paper."

If you don't believe me, I'll show you! ”

With that, he picked up the brush, dipped the bowl in the mud, walked to the wall and waved his pen to write. When the wall was full of writing, he rinsed it off with clean water. Then I wrote it again.

Seeing that her son had a good way to practice calligraphy without spending money, the mother smiled happily. Because Yan Zhenqing is studious, when he grows up, he not only has a good hand, but also becomes a knowledgeable young man.

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy characteristics: square and dense, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, wide and heavy, the pen is strong and round, and the momentum is solemn and majestic.

Yan Zhenqing has opened up a brand-new magnificent realm of calligraphy: in terms of characteristics, Yan's body shape is new, the law is severe, and the momentum is majestic and unprecedented. From an aesthetic point of view, the dignified beauty of the face and body, the beauty of masculinity, and the beauty of artificiality, the beauty of several beauties at the same time, is the rule for future generations.

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was mainly guided by Zhang Xu, inheriting the tradition of Wang Xizhi, and learning the characteristics of the four families of the early Tang Dynasty, and absorbing the fresh nutrition of calligraphy in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. There are choices and trade-offs when learning, and he is the creator of the new calligraphy style of the Tang Dynasty, called 'Yan Ti'.

Yan Shigu's grandfather, Yan Zhi, pushed the work book and was proficient in calligraphy. Since the Southern Dynasties, the ancestors of Zhenqing were mostly praised by the people of the time for the grass and seals. Among Yan Zhenqing's peers, such as Yan Yaoqing and Yan Xuqing, they are also highly accomplished in calligraphy.

Therefore, Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was deeply influenced, and the Yan family's calligraphy tradition was very motivating to him, and he even thought that "when it comes to the boy, Si Dao is mourned". Therefore, Yan Zhenqing set the goal of "being on par with the ancients" in calligraphy, and he had many thoughts, including the cautious liquid of the Yan family's calligraphy tradition.