The calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, with its vast meteorological scale, was an era of maturity in the history of calligraphy in its overall appearance. The calligraphy of this era has reached a state of perfection. In this era, in the field of Xiao Kai, everyone knows the "first Xiao Kai in the world" - the "Lingfei Jing", but since 1900, after the dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave was opened, a large number of hand-copied scriptures of the Tang Dynasty came out, including the famous Wu Zetian period of a volume of the Diamond Sutra.
On the left is the "Lingfei Sutra" written by Zhong Shaojing, and on the right is liu Hongjue's "Diamond Sutra", which was originally called the "Diamond Panruo Polo Honey Sutra", this sutra is the Wu Zetian period, when his mother wished for his birthday, he asked the contemporary imperial calligrapher Liu Hongjue to write, the writing is greasy and colorful, and the weather is broad, which can be called the crown of the Tang Dynasty Xiaokai.
Any kind of art form, meteorologically speaking, is a reflection of a person's mental state, meteorological people often do not look forward to writing, people who are cautious in life, the words written will not be wide open, we talk about "books talk about heart painting".
The history of Chinese calligraphy for more than 3,000 years, in each era, the weather presented by calligraphy is different, the production of large and small seals and the pottery text of the initial period, all have artistic expressions, that is the most natural meaning. During the heyday of calligraphy, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the class of readers was generally highly educated, and advocated the Wudou Rice Sect, coinciding with the chaos of the home country, which created a prosperous era of calligraphy. In the field of poetry, Mr. Qi Gong said that the poetry of the pre-Qin Dynasty grew out, the poetry of the Tang Dynasty was shouted out, the poetry of the Song Dynasty was conceived, and the later poetry was made, and the same was true from the calligraphy point of view, and any art form had its budding and development maturity. In calligraphy, the Tang Dynasty is extremely prosperous. This important time node is the Kaiyuan Tianbao year.
In the field of Xiao Kai, everyone knows the "first Xiao Kai in the world" - the "Lingfei Jing", but since 1900, after the dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave was opened, a large number of hand-copied scriptures of the Tang Dynasty came out, including the famous Wu Zetian period of a volume of the Diamond Sutra.
Before seeing this work, the "Lingfei Jing" can be described as the leader of the Tang Dynasty Xiaokai, but comparing the "Lingfei Jing" with this work, the "Lingfei Jing" is still a bit stagnant and stiff, and the warmth, mellowness and coherence of the gestures, including the magnificent face presented by the breath between the words, are also more than the "Lingfei Jing".
This small calligraphy written by Wu Zetian for his mother's birthday is really amazing, this work has been sealed in the Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave for thousands of years, and it is a real "national treasure-level calligraphy". We can't find out who Liu Hongjue was now, but what we do know is that at that time, the royal family had many royal "copying students", and these "copying students" represented the highest level of Xiao Kai in that era. This is true of the Lingfei Sutra, this is true of the Sutra of the Wheel king, and this is even more true of the Diamond Sutra.
After the Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave was inadvertently opened by Wang Daoshi in 1900, a large number of national treasure scriptures were later lost overseas, and this precious Diamond Sutra was now collected by the National Library by chance and has become its "treasure of the town hall".
This "Diamond Sutra" written by Wu Zetian's Liu Hongjue has reached the ultimate knowledge of Xiao Kai, with extremely delicate pens and changes in ink color levels, which is extremely enlightening for people today to write Xiao Kai.