What are the characteristics of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy?

1. The pen is solid and the writing is vigorous, but there is no shortage of boldness and enchanting?

The initial formation stage of "Yan Ti" was before Yan Zhenqing was 5 years old. Works at this time, such as "Many Pagodas", can be seen from the writing style that Yan Zhenqing's main style is steady, strong, solid, vigorous and strong, and the structure of words highlights compactness, integrity and steadiness, and there are many clear and far-reaching features between the lines.

Yan Zhenqing also strives for a combination of boldness and enchanting. Every time he writes, he is vigorous and powerful, and his brushwork is enchanting. His main works are mainly real books and cursive scripts, and occasionally he dabbles in official scripts and seal scripts, but they are few. Yan Zhenqing started from the early Tang Dynasty, but he broke away from the old style of the early Tang Dynasty and stood on his own feet, which was deeply influenced by Zhang Xu. ?

2, accurately grasp the font writing, reflect the majestic font?

"Yan Ti" has both form and spirit and is maturing. From the age of 5 to 65, Yan Zhenqing, during this period, Yan Zhenqing pinned all his emotions on calligraphy, repeatedly scrutinized "Yan Ti", and demanded that his calligraphy should be tangible and spiritual, and practiced repeatedly, and finally achieved success. From the works of this period, it can be seen that he added the strength of the big shots, the center moved the pen, and used the technique of seal brush to turn the circle to the Tibetan front, just like the inkpad font.

the strokes form a round head and a thin tail, and the straight drawing highlights the momentum of the bow and arrow to be sent. Every word follows the writing method of horizontal thin and vertical thick, and the pen tip is thinned at the end of the hook, which highlights the strength. When writing si, we use the principle of twists and turns to write each kind of hook full, domineering, even radian, full and powerful.

When Yan Zhenqing writes folding pens, he adopts the style of lifting the pen and turning it secretly. Judging from the structure of the characters, the characters are atmospheric, plain and steady, and the font is rigorous. The achievements in calligraphy have reached a rare level. Yan Zhenqing has abandoned the previous style of regular script and created a bold and enchanting "face style".

3. The theme of calligraphy highlights philosophy and contains emotion in calligraphy?

in Yan Zhenqing's works in his later years, such as Yan Qin Li Bei, Yan Jia Miao Bei and Li Xuanjing, Yan Zhenqing mainly focused on putting fresh vitality in the old and spicy writing, making the writing full of vitality, making the writing sparse and dense, revealing the exquisite writing skills, and revealing his bold and unconstrained style in the vigorous and round calligraphy style.

In his later years, Yan Zhenqing showed his feelings and experiences about life in his calligraphy works, and made the philosophy of life and calligraphy coherently integrated, and vividly expressed it with the help of pen and ink, which made his writing full of vigor and vitality.

Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy works

1. The Manuscript for Sacrificing a Nephew?

This is the representative work of Yan Zhenqing's cursive script. At that time, it was half a century in Yan Zhenqing. There are people in calligraphy who say words as they are. Yan Zhenqing was born in a loyal family, and he is awe-inspiring. This spirit is also pinned on his calligraphy works.

From the time of drafting, after the later revision and improvement, it reflects the characteristics of Yan Zhenqing's writing conception, gives a detailed account of the beginning and end of the writing path, fully expresses his feelings in the writing, writes brilliantly, writes forcefully, highlights the characteristics, is comfortable and realistic, and does all the writing and receiving properly.

The whole article uses a round and strong brushwork, adhering to the circulation spirit of seal script. From the beginning to the end, although the ink in the writing brush is really re-inked when the ink is dry, the ink color starts to change because of the pause, and the ink is thick and light, but the whole article is completed in one stroke and the writing is smooth.

2. The Fairy Altar of Magu?

When Yan Zhenqing visited an ancient altar in Magushan, Nancheng County, he found the snail shell fossils in the soil. He felt it, so he wrote "The Fairy Altar of Magu Mountain in Nancheng, Fuzhou". This inscription is solemn and stern, vigorous and beautiful, which became another masterpiece of Yan Zhenqing in his sixties.

This work was written when Yan Zhenqing's regular script style was already accomplished. Later, Ouyang Xiu commented on this work, saying that this inscription is handsome and vigorous, with exquisite brushwork and powerful strokes. Later generations often praise this tablet as "the first regular script in the world".