I remember that I loved writing calligraphy when I was a child, so my father took me to the bookstore to buy copybooks. I took a copy of Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Tower Stele", and Honda Hideaki's copybooks. When I was little, I didn't know calligraphy, so I thought Tian Yingzhang's calligraphy was more beautiful than Ouyang Xun's and Liu Gongquan's calligraphy. Just learn to write the so-called "Tian Kai". Fortunately, I didn’t study very hard. Not long after I studied, I met a calligraphy teacher. He told me not to learn Er Tian’s regular script (there was also Tian Yingzhang’s brother named Tian Yunzhang, known as “Er Tian”), but to learn Er Tian’s regular script. No matter how good you are, it's useless. It's easy to go astray. To learn calligraphy, you have to copy the ancient calligraphy.

Tian Yingzhang’s calligraphy

As I grow older and my understanding of calligraphy becomes more and more profound, when I come back to look at Tian Kai script, I can no longer see the beauty. A feeling. The ancients said: "If you look for the method above, you will get it from the middle; if you look for the method for the middle, you will get it from the bottom; if you look for the method below, you will get it from the bottom." That is to say, when learning calligraphy, you must learn the highest level, so that you can learn the middle level at the worst. If you study middle-level calligraphy, you can only learn a lower-level skill...

If you choose to learn Tian Yingzhang's Ou Kai, it will be like taking the next step, and getting the next step. . This point of view is very sharp, but it is also the common sense of many colleagues in the calligraphy field. If you don't learn the excellent Dharma calligraphy left by the ancients, it's really better to learn the regular script of a modern person than to directly learn the printed or Guange script. Of course, we should also thank Mr. Tian Yingzhang for promoting the cause of brush calligraphy and letting more people understand brush calligraphy. Of course, not learning Tian Kai does not mean that Teacher Tian Yingzhang’s calligraphy is not good. If you just want to practice good-looking calligraphy, you can learn it. If you want to explore the vast world of calligraphy, it is still recommended that you "take the best approach" and study more ancient inscriptions.

There are too many ancient calligraphers whose regular script is far better than Tian Yingzhang. This is an indisputable fact, and Tian Yingzhang himself will admit it. For example (we only talk about the Qing Dynasty) those who wrote very good regular script, such as Prince Cheng, Huang Ziyuan, Lin Zexu, Yao Mengqi, Wang Weixian, Chen Yichun, etc., all far surpassed Tian Yingzhang.

Today our protagonist is one of them, a person who writes European calligraphy to the extreme. He is Yao Mengqi, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty.

Ouyang Xun's "Inscription on Liquan in Jiucheng Palace"

Yao Mengqi came to Ouyang to Xun's "Inscription on Liquan in Jiucheng Palace"

Ouyang Xun's "Inscription on Liquan in Jiucheng Palace"

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Yao Mengqi came to Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace"

Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming"

Yao Mengqi came to Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace"

The "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription" written by Yao Mengqi is meticulous and has a perfect appearance and spirit. Unfortunately, Yao Mengqi's ink on "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming" no longer exists, and only the printed version has been handed down. After that, I will sort out all the "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming" written by Yao Mengqi separately for everyone to learn.