Zhao Mengfu's Calligraphy: Shouchuntang - Complete Version

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Publish Date: 1991-03-01
Features: For anyone learning calligraphy, it is essential to start with regular script. For those studying regular script, they must choose to learn the four major styles: Ou, Yan, Liu, and Zhao. The representative works of these four styles of regular script are: Ou Yangxun's "Nine Dragon Pavilions," Yan Zhenqing's "Dapota Pagoda," Liu Gongquan's "Xuanmi Pagoda," and Yue Mengfu's "Shouchuntang." Therefore, these four calligraphy books have long been the textbooks for learning calligraphy, serving as popular and effective resources for both beginners and advanced learners. However, due to continuous chiseling and weathering over thousands of years, the ancient steles have become damaged, and even the best copies of these prints are not immune to errors. Mr. Huang Yang (Shuzhou) of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Research Society, deeply devoted to the four styles, visited all four steles, meticulously examined and verified the damaged parts, proving what the original characters were. He also extensively studied the calligraphy of the four masters, selecting characters with similar brushwork to fill in missing or heavily faded areas, integrating them seamlessly with the entire stele. For some missing characters in current calligraphy books, there were originally no missing characters, but they were mistakenly included due to residual traces in the original steles or prints. These have now been identified and removed. Conversely, some characters that were originally present in the steles but were deleted in previous editions have been identified and restored. Thus, the "Four-Deficiency Copy" of the four styles, combining academic research and practical value, is now presented for the first time. Because the "No-Deficiency Copy" embodies the essence of the four masters' calligraphy, it fills the gaps in the steles for the first time and restores their original appearance, making it highly valued by calligraphy scholars and eagerly welcomed by calligraphy enthusiasts!