Cursive Calligraphy of the most scribbling person in ancient calligraphy

? Zhang Xu (date of birth and death unknown) was a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty.

First served as Changshu Lieutenant, and later served as Jingu Changshi, known as "Zhang Changshi". His mother Lu was the niece of the early Tang calligrapher Lu Ganzhi, the granddaughter of Yu Shinan.

Zhang Xu was a free-spirited, open-minded and generous person, outstanding, talented and knowledgeable. He was friendly with Li Bai and He Zhizhang, and Du Fu included them in the "Eight Immortals of Drinking". He was a great personality of cursive writing, because he often got drunk and called for a wild walk, and then put down the pen into a book, and even dipped his hair into the ink to write, so he also had the elegant name of "Zhang Ban". Later, Huaisu inherited and developed his penmanship, also known as cursive, and called "upside down Zhang drunken Su".

Zhang Xu's character is bold, addicted to drinking, often in a drunken dance, and then return to the table, pen and ink,

a wave. Some people say he is rude, gave him a Zhang epileptic nickname. In fact, he is very careful, he believes that in everyday life touched things, can be inspired to write. Occasionally gained, that is, melted into their own calligraphy. At that time, as long as the people get his piece of paper, the word, are regarded as treasures, hereditary real collection.

Zhang Xu's calligraphy, the beginning of Zhang Zhi, two Wang all the way to the highest achievement in cursive.

History called "Cursive Sage". He himself to inherit the "two kings" tradition for pride, words have law, on the other hand, and follow Zhang Zhi cursive art, to create a dashing, unpredictable wild grass to, the shape of the world shocked. Legend has it that he saw the princess and the tambourine man fighting for the road, and heard the drum blowing and got the meaning of penmanship; in Yecheng County, Henan Province, he loved to see Gongsun Daniang dancing with the West River Sword, and got the god of cursive writing as a result. Yan Zhenqing had twice resigned from the government to ask him to teach penmanship.

Zhang Xu is a pure artist, he poured his emotions into the point of painting, as if there were no one else, such as drunkenness, such as madness. Tang Han Yu "to send high leisure on the preface" in the praise: "joy and anger, embarrassment and poverty, sadness, pleasure, anonymous, resentment, admiration, sound intoxication, boredom, inequality, there is a move in the heart, will be in cursive writing of the hair. Viewed in things, see the landscape, cliffs and valleys, birds and animals, insects and fish, flowers and trees, the sun, moon and stars, wind and rain, water and fire, thunder and lightning, songs and dances and battles, the change of heaven and earth, which can be happy and startled, a symbol in the book, so the book of the Asahi, the change of the ghosts and gods, not to be seen and known, and this is the end of his life and the name of the future generations." Xiong Bingming, "Theoretical System of Chinese Calligraphy" said, "Zhang Xu is a very important figure in the history of Chinese calligraphy. He created a limit to the development of the direction of free expression of the wild grass, if more free, the text will not be recognizable, calligraphy has become an abstract point of painting."

After Zhang Xu's death, everyone missed him. Such as Du Fu into the Shu, see Zhang Xu's ink, a lot of sadness, wrote a "Yang Supervisor in the temple to show Zhang Xu cursive map", the poem said: the man has been cloud dead, grass saint secret is hard to get. The poem says: "The person has already died, the secret of grass saint is hard to get, and I am so annoyed to see you, but my eyes are full of sadness. Li Chip said in his poem "Gift to Zhang Xu" that: the top of the dew is according to the bed of Hu, and the long call is three or five times. When he was excited, he sprinkled the plain wall and waved his pen like a shooting star. It can be seen that people have deep respect and love for Zhang Xu. Changshu people in honor of Zhang Xu, until today, the city's east gate near the square tower still retains a "drunken lieutenant street".

In the old days, there was a "Cursive Sage Shrine" in the city, and a couplet in the shrine: "The way of the book into the gods, the paper cloud smoke, today and tomorrow competing in the eight law; wine crazy called the Cursive Sage, full of rain and wind, the age of the appropriate laying of the three cups," expressing the people of Euphrates on the cursive saint of the deep reverence. Zhang Xu wash brush and inkstone pond was also retained for a long time, called "wash inkstone pond". Suzhou will build the Tang Dynasty Zhang Xu Cursive Sage Shrine. Located on the west side of Tang Yin's tomb, all the ancient building materials will be used to build the Grass Sage Shrine into a building similar to the Orchid Pavilion in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, to display Zhang Xu's achievements in the art of calligraphy, and to become a place for the literati at home and abroad to meet. The people of Suzhou are proud of the calligrapher Zhang Xu. Grass saint Zhang Xu is also the pride and glory of the Chinese nation. A