Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy works have high artistic value and historical value. His representative works include Yongle Grand Ceremony Volume I, Luoshen Fu, Tao Te Ching and so on. Among them, Yongle Dadian is the largest encyclopedia in ancient China. Its writing quality, font specifications and fine printing have reached an unprecedented height, and Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy skills have also been fully exerted.
Three characteristics of Zhao Mengfu's regular script
First, on the basis of inheriting the traditional calligraphy, Zhao Mengfu simplified the complex, turned the past into the present, used a pen without ambiguity, and the trajectory of the pen was very clear, which made it easy for scholars to understand and follow;
Second, the appearance is round, the bones and muscles have connotation, the stippling is gorgeous and vigorous, the knot is wide and beautiful, and the stippling echoes very closely. Soft outside and rigid inside, beautiful figure and strong skeleton. Scholars not only learn its shape, but also learn its spirit;
Third, the pen is round and square, and the flow belt runs. When writing Zhao Ti, stippling needs to be round and colorful, but the structure of white cloth should pay great attention to being square and rigorous, horizontal and vertical, flat and stretched, and the center of gravity is stable. Only in this way can we grasp the characteristics of Zhao Ti. In addition, when he writes regular script, he uses running script slightly, which is one of the characteristics of Zhao Ti.