Liu Gongquan (778–865), courtesy name Chenghang, was a Han Chinese from Jingzhaohuayuan (present-day Yaozhou District, Tongchuan, Shaanxi). A famous calligrapher and poet in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, he was the younger brother of Liu Gongqiu of the Bingbu Shangshu.
At the age of twenty-nine, Liu Gongquan entered the priesthood and the first, and in his early years served as a secretary to the provincial school secretary and was incorporated into the Li Ting shogunate. Yu Muzong, Jingzong, and Wenzong were officials of the three dynasties, and grew up in the middle of the dynasty. A total of seven dynasties, the official to the prince Shaoshi, the Duke of Hedong County, to the prince Taibao Zhishi, so the world is called "Liu Shaoshi". In the sixth year of Xiantong (865), Liu Gongquan died at the age of eighty-eight, and was posthumously awarded the title of Crown Prince Taishi.
Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for its calligraphy, he first learned Wang Xizhi, and later looked at the calligraphy of famous artists in the Tang Dynasty, absorbed the strengths of Yan Zhenqing and Ouyang Inquiry, dissolved the new meaning, and created a unique "willow body", with bone strength and strength, and later generations have the reputation of "Yan Jian Liu Bone". With Yan Zhenqing's same name, he is known as "Yan Liu", and together with Ouyang Zhenqing, Yan Zhenqing, and Zhao Mengfu, he is also called "the four masters of Kaishu". The inscriptions are engraved with "Diamond Sutra Carved Stone", "Xuanmi Pagoda Stele", "Feng Su Stele", etc., the line and cursive scripts include "Fu Zhen Ti", "Sixteen Day Ti", "InsultIng Xiang Ti", etc., and the inkblot "MengZhao Ti" and "Wang Xianzhi Sending Pear Ti Bao" have been passed down. Liu Gongquan also wrote poems, five of his poems in quan tang poems, and one poem in quan tang poems.
