Ouyang Xun (557-641), Han nationality, was born in Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan) in the Tang Dynasty. He was named Xinben and one of the four masters of regular script. Liang was born in Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan) in the second year of Taiping in the Southern Dynasty (557 AD), and his ancestral home is Linxiang, Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan).
Ouyang Xun, together with his contemporaries Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, were called the Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty. Because his son Ouyang Tong was also good at calligraphy, he was also called "Da Ou".
Both he and Yu Shinan were famous for their calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty, and they were both called "European Yu". Later generations saw that their calligraphy was extremely dangerous in the ordinary, and was the easiest for beginners to learn, so they called it "European style". His representative works in regular script include "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription", "Huangfu's Birthday Stele", and "Huadu Temple Stele", and in running script include "Zhongni Meng's Laying Ceremony" and "Thousand-Character Essay in Running Script". He has unique insights into calligraphy and has written calligraphy treatises such as "Eight Secrets", "Teaching Secrets", "On Using the Brush" and "Thirty-Six Methods". The "Inscription on the Relics of Zen Master Huadu Siyi", "The Monument of Yu Gonggong Wen Yanbo" and "The Monument of Huangfu's Birthday" are known as "the first regular script in the Tang Dynasty".
"Jiucheng Palace Liquan Inscription" Single Character
