What are Yan Yun's calligraphy works in Chunchi?

The calligraphy work of Yan Yun in Chunchi is actually a funny pictures circulated on the Internet.

The calligraphy "Clouds in Spring Pool" first flowed out of the WeChat circle of friends, and later spread widely on the Internet. According to netizens' research, these four words are not idioms describing the beautiful scenery of spring ponds, but a kind of vulgar words with irony, which were mistaken because the font is similar to the cursive "Spring Pond Rhyme".

Along with this "work", there is also a funny story: a township head asks a calligrapher for words. Unable to get rid of it, the calligrapher wrote four big characters as gifts. The township head can't read what is written. Calligraphers said it was "the rhyme of spring pool", and the township head happily hung the words on the wall.

Scope of application of cursive script

Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which was formed in Han Dynasty and evolved from official script for simple writing.

Although cursive script is a higher realm of calligraphy art, it is not practical writing. Because the glyphs are too simple and easy to be confused with each other, ordinary people can't appreciate them and can't identify the contents of cursive works. Especially the grass, ordinary people without calligraphy foundation are more difficult to identify, and it is easy to make jokes.

Writing plaques are almost all official script, regular script and seal script, and occasionally running script and cursive script plaques are rare. In addition, there are not many cursive scripts used to write Spring Festival couplets, mostly official scripts, regular scripts and running scripts. At present, cursive script is mainly suitable for calligraphy exhibition, collection and personal creation.