Tang Yan Zhenqing, "Yan Qinli Stele"

Author: Zhang Baijun
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: "The Calligraphy Practice Course for Famous Masters of Regular Script" is specially planned and edited for calligraphy enthusiasts who love regular script. Regular script is primarily a static script style, with its strokes, radicals, and structures having certain norms and relatively fixed patterns to follow. Therefore, many calligraphy enthusiasts regard regular script as the entry-level script for learning calligraphy, and many teachers also choose regular script as the first choice for teaching students. Many people have written regular script throughout history, leaving behind a wealth of calligraphy relics with great stylistic differences, providing ample choices for later learners. However, the famous calligraphy works that have had a profound impact on the history of calligraphy remain excellent models for study. Based on this consideration, this "The Calligraphy Practice Course for Famous Masters of Regular Script" selects eight works: the Northern Wei "Zhang Menglong Stele" and "Zhang He'nu Mausoleum Inscription," the Tang Dynasty Ouyang Xun's "Liquan Temple Stele," Chu Suiliang's "Yanta Holy Teaching Order," Yan Zhenqing's "Dabao Pagoda Stele" and "Yan Qinli Stele," Liu Gongquan's "Xuanmi Pagoda Stele," and Zhao Mengfu's "Miaoyan Temple Record." This course focuses on techniques, covering aspects such as strokes, radicals, structure, and layout of regular script. Its features are: first, enhancing editorial content. From the development and argumentation of the topic, the outline writing, the selection of authors, the choice of calligraphy book versions, the design of the cover and layout, the editorial team is fully involved and actively seeks advice from experts, striving to present high-quality content to readers. Second, improving writing quality. This course emphasizes making basic techniques comprehensive, microscopic, specific, and highly operational. The selected example characters are highly targeted, and the accompanying explanations are concise yet to the point. "Yan Qinli Stele" is a representative work of Yan Zhenqing in his later years. This stele features strong brushwork, elegant structure, a high, ancient, and vigorous style, and a dignified and majestic demeanor. When practicing, attention should be paid to its combination of round and square brushwork, as well as its structural characteristics of being loose inside and tight outside, and loose at the top and tight at the bottom.