The evolution of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty can be called a brilliant chapter in the history of Chinese calligraphy.In the flourishing Tang Dynasty,Tang calligraphy completed the transformation from Chongwang in the early Tang Dynasty to the establishment of its own calligraphy aesthetic paradigm in the flourishing Tang Dynasty.As a representative calligrapher of this period,Huai Su broke through the paradigm of the Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi and found a new way to form a completely different style of calligraphy.His representative work in his later years,The Thousand-Character of Cursive Script is plain and elegant,natural and ethereal,and is one of the most precious and standard small grass writing in ancient times.It really shows Huai Su’s state of“people and calligraphy are growing mature”.This article focuses on the study of the calligraphy style of Huai Su’s The Thousand-Character of Cursive Script.Firstly,provide a comprehensive understanding of Huai Su and The Thousand-Character of Cursive Script as the research background.Secondly,it analyzes the causes of the style of writing in The Thousand-Character of Cursive Script from three aspects: Huai Su’s era background,teachers’ inheritance,and cultural attribution.Thirdly,starting from the work itself,the author analyzes the techniques in three aspects: brushwork,word structure,and art of composition.Through comparative analysis,it concludes that their calligraphy style has three major stylistic characteristics: graceful and implicit clumsiness,ethereal and distant simplicity,and quiet and peaceful elegance.Finally,based on the calligraphy style of Huaisu’s The Thousand-Character of Cursive Script,the author conducted her own creative thinking and practice. |