Why is Zhang Xu called the "Grass Saint" and what are his masterpieces?

Zhang Xu was born in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. In his later years, Zhang Xu often wrote cursive works crazily after being drunk. He was the master of cursive calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Xu was respectfully called? Grass Saint?. Zhang Xu's more famous works include "Four Notes on Ancient Poems" and "Tie on Belly Pain". Let’s learn about it with the editor.

When Zhang Xu was young, he was also full of ambitions and once became an official. Later, because of his failure in his official career, he drank all day long to drown his sorrows and immersed himself in the sea of ??wine. Zhang Xu also loved calligraphy, so He often writes crazy cursive writing when he is drunk. Zhang Xu's calligraphy works in his later years can be said to have raised the art of cursive calligraphy to a new level, creating a grand and powerful cursive calligraphy art body. Zhang Xu has many works, but during the changes of historical dynasties, most of them were destroyed by war or man-made damage, and only a few of them have been handed down from generation to generation. Up to now, the more famous ones are "Four Posts on Ancient Poems" and "Tie on Belly Pain".

"Four Notes on Ancient Poems" is now collected in the Liaoning Provincial Museum and was collected by the court during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There was great controversy in the early days about the author of "Four References to Ancient Poems". Some people believed that "Four References to Ancient Poems" was the work of Xie Lingyun, while others believed that the style of "Four References to Ancient Poems" was only seen in the Northern Song Dynasty, so they believed It is a work from the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, the connoisseur Yang Renkai published an article in a journal, arguing and explaining that "Four References to Ancient Poems" should be Zhang Xu's masterpiece in the Tang Dynasty. Later, Yang Renkai's statement was followed, so "Four References to Ancient Poems" became Zhang Xu's masterpiece. One of the masterpieces.

Let’s talk about Zhang Xu’s “Belly Pain Post”. To this day, the authentic copy of “Belly Pain Post” has long been missing. The official collection is the engraved stone tablet of the post, which is now collected in Inside the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. "Tie of Belly Pain" contains only a few dozen words, which is probably the content of Zhang Xu's diagnosis for himself when he had a bellyache. Although "Tie of Belly Pain" contains only a few numbers, it vividly reflects the author Zhang Xu's unfettered artistic state during creation.