"Thousand-Character Essays in Cursive Script" was written by a wizened old man named Fu Shan who made a living by practicing medicine. He was the same Fu Qingzhu who proposed the "deafening and enlightening voice". His famous sentence is: "It is better to be clumsy than skillful. It is better to be ugly than charming, to be detached rather than slippery, to be straightforward rather than to arrange things.”
Fu Shan's glyphs are ups and downs, majestic vertically and horizontally, and are on par with Wang Duo, another master of the same generation who founded a sect of cursive script. Together with Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi, Li Yong and Yan Yuan, he was known as the "Six Masters of the Early Qing Dynasty". Liang Qichao said that his knowledge was "unmatched by anyone north of the river."
Fu Shan's works seem to have an invisible force pulling you. He gives you spiritual and personal inspiration. Under his hands, everything is a manifestation of the natural state and a rush of joy.
"Thousand-Character Essay in Cursive Script"
