Xu Hao (703–783), Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Zi Jihai, a native of Yuezhou (越州, in modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Few Ming Classics, when Emperor Suzong was appointed, zhongshu sheren, and four edicts were written by Xu Hao. Later, he entered the Guozi Sacrifice And successively served as a servant of the Ministry of Works, a waiter of the Bureaucracy, a scholar of the Jixian Temple, and a duke of the County.
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it advocated abundance and fertility, and calligraphy pursued a broad and gentle atmosphere. Xu Hao takes "fat strength" as the standard, emphasizing both abundance and bone strength, which shows the transmutation of the aesthetic thinking of calligraphy in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. For a long time before this, the book world was beautiful with "skinny and hard". Li Yong once praised the clouds: "Xu Jihai's book is as high as the spring clouds, there is no ladder to go up, the valley is deep, there is no path to find, and it is incomparable since the beginning of the new century." ”
Xu Hao's "Zhu Juchuan's Death" collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. This confession is clearly in March of 768 AD (the third year of the Gregorian calendar), with a total width of 27x horizontal 185.8 cm, white linen paper. This book is dignified and disciplined, with a continuous stroke and a painting, and it is written calmly and gracefully.
Xu Hao, "Zhu Juchuan's Death"
27×185.8cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
The Xuanhe Book Genealogy records three xu haokai books in the Song Dynasty, one of which is the "Confession of Zhu Juchuan". This inkblot was later passed on to Yu Shu and Zhang Sili in the Yuan Dynasty, and there was Zhang Yanbao. In the Ming Dynasty, it was returned to Han Shineng, and his son Han Fengxi, Dong Qichangba, was hidden in the Qing Dynasty at the places of Feng Quan, Song Xi, and Liang Qingbiao, and later entered the Qianlong Inner Province. This book is dignified and orderly, let people see, a formal rule, as a symbol of public power is very appropriate, on the other hand, the knot of the word, but not flat and unchanged, such as the "temple" under the word, the early word "ten" are placed in a skewed position, in the calligraphy stable, dangerous interrelationship, can be seen from this small example.
This was a letter of appointment (dispatch order) issued by the central government of the Tang Dynasty to the former Muzhou recorder and join the army, and the new position was Dali Commentator and concurrently served as the commander of Zhongli County (present-day Fengyang, Anhui) in Hao (Hao) Prefecture. Zhu Juchuan, a native of Jiaxing, coincided with the chaos of Anshi during the Tianbao years, lived in seclusion, studied learning, and later received the appreciation and recommendation of several important ministers of the imperial court and held public office. This epigraph is clearly in March of the third year of the Gregorian calendar (768).
Zhang Sili calligraphy inscription
Zhang Yan Calligraphy Inscription (1)
Zhang Yan Calligraphy Inscription (2)