Appreciation of calligraphy "Chunhua Pavilion Tie" Volume 1


"Chunhua Pavilion Calligraphy" was compiled and published in 992 AD by Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty during the reign of Song Taizong. It is the first large-scale collection of famous calligraphy calligraphy in Chinese history. It was compiled and engraved in the third year of Chunhua, so it is Named "Chunhua Pavilion Tie". "Chunhua Ge Tie" is the oldest collection of Tie that has been handed down to this day, and is known as the "Bible" in the history of Chinese calligraphy. The so-called method calligraphy refers to the traditional French method. After tracing the ink of a famous ancient calligrapher with double hooks, it is carved on a stone or wooden board, and then printed and bound into a calligraphy.


In the third year of Chunhua in the Song Dynasty (992), Emperor Taizong Zhao Jiong ordered the ink ink from all dynasties stored in the inner palace to be released, and ordered the Hanlin scribe Wang to compile and copy the ink on the stone in the forbidden area, which was named "Chunhua Pavilion Tie". This post is also known as "Chunhua Secret Pavilion Fa Tie", referred to as "Ge Tie", and is a collection of posts, with a total of ten volumes. The first volume contains the writings of emperors of past dynasties, the second, third and fourth volumes contain the writings of famous ministers of past dynasties, the fifth volume contains the ancient texts of various families, the sixth, seventh and eighth volumes contain the writings of Wang Xi and the ninth and tenth volumes contain the writings of kings. Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty wrote in "Songxuezhai Collected Works and Postscripts to the Pavilion": "Taizong of the Song Dynasty... During the Chunhua period, he ordered the Hanlin Shishu Wang to write the book. He used the purchased books from the Three Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, compiled them into ten volumes, and copied them in the Secret Pavilion.