Isn’t this the calligraphy of Zhao Mengfu?
Yes, many book friends’ first intuitive impression is of Zhao Mengfu.
However, this calligraphy is a full 500 years earlier than Zhao Mengfu's!
This document is calligraphy from the Dunhuang Scripture Cave.
It was one of the large quantities of calligraphy stolen by the Frenchman Pelliot in 1908.
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In terms of calligraphy brushwork and structure, it is indeed very "Zhao Mengfu".
And it’s Zhao Mengfu’s style
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A full 500 years too early,
Why does it look so similar to Zhao Mengfu’s later works?
This starts with Zhao Mengfu’s calligraphy methods.
Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty was one of the four masters of regular script.
It is said that he can write 30,000 words a day
It can be seen that Zhao Mengfu’s painstaking study is unparalleled.
Being able to create a generation of calligraphy style is not groundless.
Wu Rongguang said: Songxue Shufan’s three changes
Before Yuanzhen (1295, forty-two years old), he had not yet broken away from Gaozong's mold;
In Dadejian (1297, forty-four years old), he was appointed as a specialist in martial arts;
After Yanyou (1314, 61 years old), he became Li Beihai.
Regarding Zhao Mengfu’s apprenticeship with Li Beihai, Wang Shizhen said:
Although Zhao learned from Li Beihai, he did not have the "任" and "jin" of Li Beihai's calligraphy.
Yang Shoujing praised Zhao Mengfu very highly:
Zhao Mengfu studied the inscriptions and has the most preserved things.
And he also studied Li Beihai,
And it can reach higher than the people of Song Dynasty,
And they are better than the people of this dynasty.
