He was a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. His calligraphy is famous for regular script. He first learned from Wang Xizhi, and later visited a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He absorbed the strengths of Yan Zhenqing and Ou Yangxun, absorbed new ideas and created his own unique Liu Ti. He is famous for his infinite strength, and later generations have a reputation for Yan. He is as famous as Yan Zhenqing and known as Yan Liu. He is also known as the four masters of regular script with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.

There are diamond sutra stone carvings, mysterious pagoda monuments and Su Feng monuments handed down from generation to generation. A person's calligraphy is inseparable from diligent study and hard practice. Liu Gongquan kept these requirements in mind and eventually became a generation of calligraphers. Our current regular script is also based on the "six-style", which is a summary and innovation of the font structure of ancient regular script, so it has been liked and respected by later calligraphers.

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Liu Gongquan is sincere. Jing is a local. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, he was an official, calligrapher and poet, and he was the younger brother of Liu Gongzhuo, a senior minister of the Ministry of War. At the age of 29, Liu Gongquan won the first prize. In his early years, he served as the secretary of the provincial school and went to Zhou Xia to listen to the teachings of the shogunate. In Mu Zong, Jing Zong and Wenzong Dynasty, he served in the official residence and grew up in North Korea. A total of seven dynasties, from the official to the prince, sealed Hedong county, with the prince Taibao as the official, so the world called it "Liu." In the sixth year of Xian Tong, Liu Gongquan died at the age of eighty-eight. Got a prince's last name.

Today, the first choice for people to learn calligraphy is still Yan, Liu, Ou, Chu, Yu and other calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty, especially a set of regular script norms founded by Liu Gongquan, which is still an example for people to learn. Liu Gongquan made outstanding contributions to the reform and development of calligraphy art, summed up the development of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty, and laid the foundation for the overall development of regular script.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Gongquan