Wen Zhengming's "Picture Notes of the Lotus Society"

"Illustrated Notes of the Lotus Society", paper, 25.5 cm in length and 9.8 cm in width. It is a masterpiece written by Wen Zhengming in 1530. Pu Ru inscribed, "This volume is precise and generous in structure, and it has the style of the Shanyin family inadvertently. It is also the best in public books." This work is a model of Wen Zhengming's small regular script, and it is of great significance for today's people to learn soft and hard pens. They all play a very good role model.


Wen Zhengming's small regular script is particularly fine and neat, mainly derived from Zhong Yao, Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, and Ouyang Xun. It is rigorous in law, vigorous in writing, dignified in posture, and has a delicate and elegant style. The small regular script in his later years after the age of eighty, especially See Kungfu. There are many handwritten calligraphy works handed down from his generation, including the "Back and Back Chibi Ode" in small regular script, "Scroll of Gu Chunqian Pictures", and "Album of Nine Songs of Li Sao Sutra"; in running script, there are the early "Nan Chuang Ji", the middle period "Five Kinds of Poems", and the late "Li Sao Jing". Xiyuan Poetry". All of his works are neat and neat, even when he was almost ninety years old. This is extremely rare among Chinese calligraphers.