The Weng Fangchang Thought Research

Against the prevalence background of the calligraphy style of Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang, Weng Fangchang advocated the aesthetic outlook of showing respect for the traditional style, the simplicity and profoundness, thus starting the fashion of learning from the calligraphic style of the calligraphers in Tang Dynasty, especially Ou Yangxun,in Qian Long and Jia Qing times. Meanwhile, Weng emphasized again and again the Beibei (stone inscription of North Wei Dynasty) as the ancestry of Ou Yangxun and Zhu Suiliang's Kaishu (regular script), which played a certain progressive historical role in the formation of the style of stone inscription. However, Weng's advocating of taking the predecessors as masters had some defects which sticking to the old practice without yielding and distinguishing. Weng Fanggang had very close connections with his peers, such as Ruan Yuan, Yi Bingshou , exerted significant influences on the calligraphers at that time.