What are the famous ancient calligraphy fonts in China?

Yan Style, Liu Style, Zhao Style, Ou Style and Slim Gold Style.

1, Yan Style

Yan Style is a type of calligraphy created by Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. A font created by the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, and Liu Gongquan, jointly known as "Yan Liu", "Yan tendons and willow bones".

"Yan Style" is for Yan Zhenqing's Regular Script, the Regular Script is square and dense, the strokes are light and heavy, the strokes are strong and round, and the momentum is solemn and majestic.

2, Liu style

Liu style refers to the last great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, one of the four great masters of the Regular Script, Liu Gongquan (778-865), a general term for the calligraphy works of the characters.

Liu style to take even balance thin hard, after WeiBei chopped iron potential, point and draw the sharp and showy, strong bones, knotting tight. "His regular script, compared with the Yan Style, is a little even and thin, so it is called "Yan Tendon Liu Bone".

3. Zhao Style

The Zhao Style is the script of Zhao Mengfu, a calligrapher of the early Yuan Dynasty. The shape of the characters tends to be flat and square, Zhao Style has rounded strokes, while the intermediate frame is square.

Zhao Style is characterized by its broad brush strokes, downward strokes, and horizontal strokes, with the characters spreading horizontally. Borrowed from the running script, some characters are between the running and regular scripts, appearing to flow beautifully and movingly.

4. Ou Style

Ou Style, the originator of Ouyang Xun, was born in the first year of Yongding of Emperor Wu of Chen Dynasty (557) and died in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty (641), with the character of Xinben, who was a native of Linxiang in Tanzhou (present-day Hunan).

Famous for his regular and running script. He was the first great Regular Scribe in the history of calligraphy, and his script was called "Ou Style", alongside Yan (Zhenqing) Style, Liu (Gongquan) Style and Zhao (Mengfu) Style.

Ou Shi is a regular script created by Ouyang Xun, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, which is characterized by the use of both the square and the round, with the square as the main feature, and the strong, cohesive strokes. It is both interjectionally steep and rigorously neat. It remains steady in the interjections and sparse in the compactness.

5. Thin Gold Style

The Thin Gold Style is a typeface created by Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty, and it is a highly individualized style in the history of calligraphy, because it is different from traditional styles such as the Jin Regular Script and the Tang Regular Script, and its individuality is extremely strong, so it can be called an original creation in the history of calligraphy, and its masterpieces include Thousand Character Essay in Regular Script, and Lush Foliage Poem, and so on.

Skinny gold style of agile and quick strokes, handwriting thin and strong, to the thin and not lose its meat, its big words can be seen in particular the grace of the place. Because of its relatively thin and hard strokes, so the penmanship is exposed, you can clearly see the operation of the operation of the pen traces such as running Tidon, is a style quite unique font.

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