Wang Xizhi (303-36 1), a Han nationality with few words, was originally from Linyi (now Shandong) and later moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He was a general of the Right Army and a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was honored as a "book saint" by later generations.

Representative works include: Le Yi Lun in regular script, Huang Ting Jing, Seventeen Guas in cursive script, Gua for Aunt in Running Script, Gua for Quick Snow Clear, Gua for Mourning, Preface to Lanting in Running Script, etc. Seriously study the physical condition, imitate the heart and pursue the hand, learn from others' strengths, and melt in one furnace to create a running script of "nature is natural, and God is abundant for generations".

Ouyang Xun

Ou Yangxun (557-64 1 year) was born in Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan).

Ou Yangxun is known as the first regular script in Tang Dynasty for his rigorous brushwork and precipitous brushwork.

When future generations see the danger of Chinese books, they should learn them first, and the name is "European style".

Yan Zhenqing

Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a minister and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Xiaolangdi (now Feixian County, Linyi City). His great-grandfather, grandfather and father all made official seals, and his mother Yin was also good at calligraphy.

Chu Suiliang was a beginner, and later learned Zhang Xu's brushwork. He also absorbed the characteristics of the four schools in the early Tang Dynasty and accepted the brushwork of Zhuanli and the Northern Wei Dynasty. He completed the vigorous and broad creation of colorful regular script, which set a model for regular script in Tang Dynasty.

Liu Gongquan

Liu Gongquan (778 -865), whose real name was Cheng Xuan, was a Jingzhao Chinese in the Tang Dynasty. He is a prince's official and is called "Liu" in the world. Because he was also named Duke of Hedong by the emperor, later generations also called him "Liu Hedong". He is a descendant of Yan Zhenqing, and later called them "Yan Liu", which became a model of calligraphy in past dynasties.

Mi Fu

Together with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Cai Xiang, they are called the four great calligraphers in the Song Dynasty. His paintings are good at dead wood and bamboo stones, especially ink and wash landscapes. It is very creative to express the changes of mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River with brush strokes, which is called the Yunshan of rice. Mi Fei's calligraphy ink handed down from generation to generation includes Mourning the Empress Dowager, Shu Su Tie, Tiaoxi Iron Stone, Bai Zhong Yue Ming Tie, Hong Xian Shi Juan, Cao Shu Jiu Tie, Duojing Lou Iron Stone and so on, but no paintings have been handed down from generation to generation. The book Mountain Forest Collection has been lost. His theory of calligraphy and painting has been dabbled and recorded in books such as History of Calligraphy, History of Painting and Zhang Bao.

Zhao Mengfu

Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry and prose, familiar with economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and appreciation. In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements in the Yuan Dynasty, creating a new style of painting, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". In painting, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo stones and pommel horses are omnipotent; Fine brushwork, freehand brushwork, turquoise, ink and wash, everything is fine. He occupies an important position in the history of calligraphy in China.

Huang tingjian

Huang Tingjian's calligraphy was first learned by Zhou Yue in Song Dynasty. Later, influenced by Yan Zhenqing, Huai Su, Yang Ningshi and others, and inspired by the style of Yi He Ming by Jiao Shan, Huang Tingjian developed his own cursive style. Huang Tingjian's big-character running script is concise and powerful, and its structure is peculiar. Almost every word has some exaggerated long paintings, and he tried his best to send them out, forming a brand-new method of combining Chinese palaces and diverging on all sides, which had a great influence on later generations.