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Shen Leping, deputy dean of the School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy of the China Academy of Art, deputy director of the Department of Calligraphy, professor and graduate tutor, copied the four Song families, analyzed the structural characteristics of calligraphy and calligraphy, explained in detail, and benefited people a lot.

The four Song families are the collective name of the four calligraphers Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang in the Northern Song Dynasty of China. These four people can roughly represent the calligraphy style of the Song Dynasty, and they have the highest achievements, so they are called "Song Sijia".

Cai Xiang, the word Junmo, Han nationality, Xinghua Junxian County, now Fengting Town, Qingzeting people. Famous calligrapher, politician and tea scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Xiang is an upright official, and he has political achievements everywhere he goes. When he was in Quanzhou, he presided over the construction of Wan'an Bridge Luoyang Bridge In Fujian, he advocated the planting of post road pine in Jianzhou, and presided over the production of Wuyi tea Xiaolongtuan. His book "Tea Record" summarized the experience of tea making and tea tasting in ancient times, and "Lychee Spectrum" was praised as the world's first work on fruit tree taxonomy. Cai Xiang works in calligraphy, the poems are wonderful, his calligraphy is dignified and dignified, simple and graceful, self-contained, one of the four Song families. There is "The Complete Works of Cai Zhonghui Gong" handed down.

Su Shi, January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101, the word Zizhan, also known as Hezhong, the number of Tieguandao, Dongpo layman, known as Su Dongpo, Su Xian. Han nationality, Meizhou Meishan (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), ancestral home in Luancheng, Hebei Province, famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi is a representative of the highest literary achievements of the Song Dynasty, and has made high achievements in poetry, poetry, prose, calligraphy, and painting. His poems have a wide range of themes, are fresh and vigorous, make good use of exaggerated metaphors, and have a unique style, and are called "Su Huang" together with Huang Tingjian; He is a representative of the bold faction with Xin Qiji, and is called "Su Xin"; His prose writings are rich and unrestrained, and he is called "Ou Su" together with Ouyang Xiu, and is one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi is also good at writing, one of the "Four Song Families"; He is especially good at painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones, dead wood, etc. There are "Dongpo Seven Episodes", "Dongpo Yi Biography", "Dongpo Yuefu" and so on.

Huang Tingjian, August 9, 1045 - May 24, 1105, the word Luzhi, the number of the valley road, the late name Fu Weng, Hongzhou Fenning (now Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province), a famous writer and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty, was the ancestor of the Jiangxi poetry school that flourished for a while, and Du Fu, Chen Shidao and Chen Youyi are known as "one ancestor and three sects" (Huang Tingjian is one of them). Together with Zhang Lei, Chao Buzhi, and Qin Guan, they all studied under Su Shimen, and were collectively known as the "Four Bachelors of Sumen". During his lifetime, he was as famous as Su Shi, and was known as "Su Huang". He is the author of "Words of the Valley", and Huang Tingjian's calligraphy can also be unique.

Mi Fu, 1051-1107, the first name Huang, later changed to Fu, the character of the chapter, self-signed name Mi or for Qian, Hubei Xiangyang people, when the people called Haiyue Waishi, and the number of bear descendants, fire is descendants. Calligrapher, painter, and theorist of calligraphy and painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi, and Huang Tingjian, he was called the "Four Song Families". He used to be a school secretary, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and a member of the Ministry of Rites. His ancestral home was Shanxi, and he moved to Xiangyang, Hubei, and later settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). Able to write poetry, good at calligraphy and painting, fine identification, calligraphy and painting into a family, founded the "rice point landscape". It is a calligrapher, painter, connoisseur and collector. Its personality is weird, the behavior is crazy, and it is called "brother" when it meets the stone, and it is worshipped, so it is called "Mi Dian". Song Huizong Zhao is a doctor of calligraphy and painting, also known as "Mi Xiangyang" and "Minan Palace". Mi Fu calligraphy and painting into a family, dead wood, bamboo and stone, landscape painting unique style characteristics. He is also quite accomplished in calligraphy, and is good at sealing, li, Kai, line, cursive and other calligraphy, and is good at copying the calligraphy of the ancients, reaching the level of chaos. His main works include "Duojinglou Poems", "Hongxian Poems", "Yanshan Ming", "Worship Zhongyue Destiny Post" and so on.

Chapter Introduction

Section I

Analysis of the structural characteristics of Cai Xiangxing's calligraphy, line letters, line calligraphy, line grass, and copy demonstrations respectively.

Section II

Mi Fu line book characteristics analysis.

Section III

Mi Fu cursive characteristics analysis.

Section IV

Analysis of Su Shi's ruler penmanship

Section V

Analysis of the penmanship of Huang Tingjian's small characters.