| This article made a full grooming on TAO Zong-yee's "the Highlights of Chinese calligraphy history" by four chapters, TAO's Life experience , research of versions, the value of "the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history" for Chinese calligraphy history , TAO's ideology about Chinese calligraphy. The special background of Yuan dynasty provided the time and space conditions for TAO Zong-yee to achieve "the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history". As a result of the impact of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, TAO Zong-yee's primary objective is to make "the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history "a book on language learning, rather than the history of calligraphy. The second chapter version research proved that the Tao Yi-kung photocopying is in line with the " the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history " which had been published in the ninth year of Hongwu period of Ming dynasty and had been collected by National Library of China. Although that TAO 's main purpose of writing the book of"the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history"is not for Chinese calligraphy, his full collation and collection of historical materials formed a book which is considered to be an important work for Chinese calligraphy history and provides comprehensive information for the Chinese calligraphy study of Yuan Dynasty or even before Yuan Dynasty. Both the number and the standard of recording calligrapher are unique. That Tao'calligraphy ideology reflected from" the Highlights of Chinese Calligraphy history "is impacted by Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. Tao'records of Khitan characters were the exclusive materials before the new Khitan characters were discovered in the fifties of the twentieth century. Tao's siddham! Collection and study of 12 Vowel and 34 Consonant is very important for the study of siddham!, because ,until now, the most famous expert on siddham! Jao Tsung-I is still researching on this subject, and the accurate number of Vowel and Consonant is still In debate. ?... |