Shoujinti is a font originated by Song Huizong, and it is a very unique font in the history of calligraphy. Because it is quite different from the traditional styles such as Jin Kai and Tang Kai, it has a very strong personality, which can be called original creation in the history of calligraphy. The representative works include "A Thousand Characters in Regular Script" and "Fangfang Poetry".

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Xue Yao in the Tang Dynasty was the ancestor of Shoujin. Xue Yao studied Chu Suiliang. He was thin and hard, with a fine pen and a smooth structure, but he was more dangerous and slender than Chu Shu. Instead of imitating the Book of Chu step by step, he made full use of it, created something, became a habit and became the last stream of the Book of Chu.

Preface to Shi Li's Summer Poems is Xue Yao's masterpiece and one of the inscriptions on the cliff of Shicong River. Shicong River Cliff Stone Carving is the largest Cliff Stone Carving in Henan Province. It was carved on March 19th of the first year, and it is divided into two parts: Poems on Summer Vacation and Preface to Autumn Banquet.

Both calligraphers are Xue Yao, whose calligraphy is thin and vigorous, and they are called "the father of thin gold body" by calligraphers of past dynasties. Xue Yao's calligraphy was later studied by Song Huizong, and finally created a unique "thin gold book" style.

Calligraphy characteristics

Thin gold book is a kind of font with quite unique style. This book is based on the image theory, and it should be slimming. Changing "gold" into "tendon" is a respect for imperial books.

Song Huizong's calligraphy strokes are thin and hard. He studied under Huang Tingjian at first, then under Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji and Xue Yao, and mixed with other schools to learn from each other's strong points and express their opinions, and finally created a unique "thin gold book" style, which had great influence.

Calligraphy in Song Dynasty is good at rhyme and interest, and Evonne's "The Book of Thin Gold" embodies similar aesthetic interest of the times, which is called "the beauty of heaven and bones is beautiful, and the interest is dull"; It also has a strong personality color, the so-called "such as bending iron and breaking gold." This calligraphy style has never appeared in previous calligraphy works.

Chu Suiliang's fine brushwork is only a small part of the same, but most of them are different. Compared with Xue Yao's ci in Tang Dynasty, it is the closest. Perhaps Evonne came from Xue Yao's poem Shi Li, but his writing is obviously much more mature than Xue Yao's. This is a very mature calligraphy style, and Evonne gave full play to its artistic personality.

This kind of thin, crisp and elegant calligraphy style, with a side like orchid bamboo, requires extremely high calligraphy skill and self-restraint, as well as a calm mind to complete. Of course, it is not easy for others to imitate.

There are many descendants who learn from his books, but few who get his bone marrow are like the morning star. Jin Zhangzong once wrote the famous calligraphy and painting of Song Dynasty in Ming Chang Neifu, like You Chuntu, the wife of Zhang Xuan, which was copied, with delicate brushwork and poor form and quality.