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How is the word "tiger" written in the Year of the Tiger N?

The Year of the Tiger has arrived,

Here we extract some "tiger" characters from the inscriptions of the past,

Let's test it out

Can you tell at a glance which inscriptions are from?

Oracle

Yin Xu oracle bone script

Great Seal

"Mao Gongding"

"Scattered Disc"

《Stone Drum Text》

seal script

Qing Deng Shiru "Four-Body Character Poster"

Qing Deng Shiru "Seal Book four words lian"

Qing Wu Rangzhi

Qing Wu Changshuo

Modern And Contemporary Wang Fu'an", "Speaking of the Head of the Literature Department"

Letter of Submission

"Sleeping Tiger Di Qin Jian"

"Ejin Naju Yanqian Han Jian" Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms "Wang Ji Monument"

cursive

Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi's "Changfeng Ti"

Song Huang Tingjian, "Li Bai Recalls Old Travel Poems"

How is the word "tiger" written in the Year of the Tiger N?

Song Zhao Shuo, "Later Chibi Fu"

Yuan Deng Wenyuan "Urgent Chapter"

Yuan Kangli 巎巎 《述笔法記卷》

Yuan Xian Yushu "Cursive General Du Fu Wei Song and Poem"

Ming Zhu Yunming's "Record of Yueyang Lou"

Ming Xu Wei

Ming Dong Qichang

Ming Zhang Ruitu

Ming Wang Duo

regular script

Tang Yan Zhenqing's "Records of the Immortal Altar of Magu"

Tang Yan Zhenqing", "Zang Huaike Monument"

Yuan Zhao Mengfu "Zhang Liusun Monument"

Yuan Zhao Mengfu", "Huaiyun Courtyard Chronicle"

Ming Dong Qichang's "On Le Yi"

Qing Zhao Zhiqian's "496 Character Album of the Southern Tang Dynasty"

Line book

Song Su Shi

Yuan Zhao Mengfu "Before and After Chibi Fu"

Yuan Zhao Mengfu "Continued Thousand Character Text"

Ming Zhu Yunming's "Return to the Field"

And much more

It is often mentioned that "a tiger".

It is to write the whole "tiger" word in a row.

In fact, it is derived from the cursive "tiger".

The most famous is the Qing Dynasty Weng Tonggong's tiger,

The whole middle hall is a tiger,

The tiger at the bottom of the pen is angry,

It seems to show the author's excited expression when he takes off his towel and waves.

Qing Weng Tong Gong List Book "Tiger" 53cm vertical and 30cm horizontal

Qing Weng Tong Gong List Book "Tiger" Length 144.2cm Horizontal 65.5cm

Qing Weng Tong Gong List Book "Tiger"

Weng Tonggong (1830~1904), a native of Changshu, Jiangsu.

Qing Dynasty calligrapher.

The word Shuping, the number Song Zen.

Because it belongs to the tiger, after middle age, he often writes the word "tiger" to encourage himself.

Qing Ma Dezhao," A Tiger Character (Xi'an Forest of Stone Steles Museum)

Qing Cixi A Tiger Mirror Heart (Beijing Hanhai 2006)

Qing Guangxu Emperor "Tiger" Vertical Axis (China Guardian 2005)

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