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Liu Gongquan (778-865), whose courtesy name was Chengxuan. A native of Jingzhao Huayuan (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province). A famous calligrapher and poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty, he was the younger brother of Liu Gongchuo, Minister of War.

When Liu Gongquan was 29 years old, he became a Jinshi. In his early years, he served as secretary of the Provincial School Secretary and was incorporated into the Li Ting shogunate. He served as an official official in the Muzong, Jingzong and Wenzong dynasties and stayed in the court. He served as an official for seven dynasties, rising to the rank of Prince Shaoshi, and was granted the title of Duke of Hedong County. In the sixth year of Xiantong (865), Liu Gongquan passed away at the age of eighty-eight. Received the gift of Prince Taishi.

Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for his regular script. He first studied Wang Xizhi, and later studied the calligraphy of famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty. He absorbed the strengths of Yan Zhenqing and Ouyang Xun, incorporated new ideas, and created his own unique "Liu style", which is based on the strength of bones. He was good at being strong and healthy, and was known as "a man with strong muscles and willow bones" in later generations. He is as famous as Yan Zhenqing and is known as "Yan Liu". He is also known as the "Four Masters of Regular Script" together with Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.

The handed down steles include "Diamond Sutra Engraved Stone", "Mysterious Pagoda Stele", "Feng Su Stele", etc., and the cursive and cursive scripts include "Fu Shen Tie", "Sixteen Days Tie", "Shame" "Xiang Tie" and so on. There are also ink "Mengzhao Tie" and "Wang Xianzhi's Pear Sending Postscript" handed down to the world. Liu Gongquan is also a poet. Five of his poems are preserved in "The Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and one poem is preserved in the "Complete Collection of the Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty".

Liu Gongquan-Baidu Encyclopedia