Mao Zedong's font is commonly known as "Mao Style".

Mao Zedong’s handwritten ancient poems have reached the pinnacle of calligraphy. Judging from the hundreds of authentic works, Mao Zedong's calligraphy and poetry are extremely harmonious and harmonious. They are bold, desolate, euphemistic and exciting, with wind and rain and thunder and lightning, water flowing and flowers blooming, heaven and earth liver and gallbladder, big swamp dragon and snake, broad mind and pure poetic sentiment. With the long-edged wolf-hair pen in his hand, Mao Zedong left behind the right path of the world, the spirit of men, the vision of clouds and water, and aesthetic ideals in the space of time and space. It can be said that Mao Zedong's calligraphy reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. Some people describe him as having the elegance of the "two kings", the handsomeness of Sun Guoting, the wild charm of Zhang Xu, the unbridledness of Huai Su, and the strength of Su Huang...

December 26, 1961 "Letter to Zang Ke's Family" and "Learning from Comrade Lei Feng" titled in 1963 are recognized as masterpieces of Mao Zedong's letters and inscriptions. "The Long March" and "Liupan Mountain" are masterpieces of Mao Zedong's poems and books. Mao Zedong's handwritten ancient poems are full of talent and talent, and their masterpieces should be highly praised by people all over the world.

In a word, Mao Zedong not only left the world with his poetry that is hard to find throughout the ages, but also left the world with the art of cursive writing that is hard to find through the ages. Let's come together to appreciate his wild grass art! In the nearly thirty years from 1949 to Mao Zedong’s death, calligraphy was basically ignored. People at that time were building a new China with great enthusiasm. Calligraphy is considered to be representative of old traditions. Interestingly, Mao Zedong himself was a very good calligrapher. His calligraphy is influenced by Huaisu Kuangcao and Beibei calligraphy, and is full of romantic temperament and leadership style. During these thirty years, China generally had three most famous calligraphers, Mao Zedong, Guo Moruo, and Shu Tong. Guo Moruo excels in cursive calligraphy and is a typical calligraphy talent among literati. Shu Tong is a senior military official and the first president of the Chinese Calligraphers Association in 1981. His calligraphy comes from Yan Zhenqing and He Shaoji, who are vigorous and bold.

Study and learn from a wide range of sources

In the process of learning calligraphy, Mao Zedong covered a wide range of research and study. During the Long March of the Red Army, he was at Loushanguan in the north of Zunyi County. He saw the three characters "Loushanguan" engraved on a stone tablet. Mao Zedong stayed in front of this stone tablet for a long time, sighing again and again. He thought about it over and over again, kept making gestures with his hands, and said in his mouth: "It's a pity that this tablet was made by a famous person from which dynasty, which generation!" He asked Chen Changfeng. What are you doing waiting for the monument to be carved at Loushanguan? Comrades could not answer. Mao Zedong explained: "Guan is an important fortress and is the passageway for entry and exit. Therefore, monuments, pillars and stones are often used as boundaries to distinguish and mark place names." ”

Indeed, Mao Zedong was never separated from the “Four Treasures of the Study” for a moment throughout his life, and his calligraphy attainments can be regarded as a generation.

In his later years, he loved to write poems in cursive

Mao Zedong's calligraphy has changed a lot from his student days to the 1950s and 1960s. This has something to do with his new pen, which makes the strokes more obvious and prominent. But the main reason is that his writing skills and fonts have changed. In addition to looking at the changes in Mao Zedong's font as a whole, another way is to look at his signature. Before 1943, the word "Mao" in "Mao Zedong" was usually written from the top, and then turned in one stroke. After 1948 and 1949, the character "Mao" was written in four strokes, first with three dots and then with a vertical hook. In the letter to Song Qingling or Ren Bishi in September 1949, among the three words "Mao Zedong", the word "Mao" changed little, but the word "Zedong" changed greatly.

After entering the city, Mao Zedong changed a lot. Although the work is still very busy, the objective conditions are much better than before entering the city. You can see the inscriptions of calligraphers of the past dynasties. At that time, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China specially purchased books and collected calligraphy for Mao Zedong, and collected hundreds of inscriptions and inscriptions of various kinds.

Part. In the 1950s, Mao Zedong wrote hundreds of ancient poems. He often wrote a poem five, six, six, seven, or even ten times. , and most of them are written in cursive script.

The best period of Mao Zedong's calligraphy was from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. For example, his poems and letters to Hua Luogeng and Zhang Shizhao were all very beautiful. Reading Mao Zedong's handwriting is a kind of enjoyment. After reading it, I still want to read it. I am inspired every time I read it. Mao Zedong's calligraphy is deeply loved by readers.