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Calligraphy of the Masters
- Master Calligraphers
- Steles
- Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy
- Calligraphy of poems
- Essays
- Calligraphy web sites
Masters of Calligraphy Go to: |Han |Jin / Sui |Tang |Song |Yuan |Ming |Qing | Dynasty
Alphabetic Listing:
- [Cai Xiang]

- [Chu Suiliang]

- [Dong Qichang] [Tung Chi-Chang]
- [HuaiSu] [Huai-su]
- [Huang Ting-jian] [Huang TienChien]

- [Jin Nong]

- [Kang Youwei] []
- [Li Bai] [Li Po]
- [Liu Gong Quan] [Liu Kung-chuan]
- [Liu Yong]
- [Lu Ji]

- [Mi Fei] [Mei Fei] (aka Mi Fu)
- [Ni Zan]

- [Ouyang Xun] [Ouyang Chu]
- [Pu Ru] [Pu Hsin-yu]
- [Qi Baishi] [qi baishi]
- [Sima Guang] [Si-ma Kuang]
- [Su Shi] [Su Dong-Po]
- [Tang Yin]

- [Tang Taizong] [Tang Tai-tsung]
- [Wang Duo] [Wang Du]
- [Wen Zhengming]

- [Wang XiZhi] [Wang Hsi-chih]
- [Wang XianZhi]

- [Wang Xun]
- [Wu Ju] [Wu Chu]
- [Yan Zhenqing] [Yen Chen-Ching]
- [Yu He] [Yu-Ho]
- [Yue Fei] [Yueh Fei]
- [Zeng Guofan] [Tseng Kuo-fan]
- [Zhao MengFu] [Chao Meng-Fu]
- [Zhang Xu]

- [Zhang Zhi]

- [Zhong Yao]
- [Zheng BanQiao] [Cheng Ban-Chiao]
- [Zhu YunMing] [Chu Yun-Ming]
- Emperor [Song Hui Zong] [Sung Hui-tsung]
- Emperor [Song Gaozong] [Sung Kao-Tsung]
- Emperor [Qing Gaozong] [Ching Kao-tsung]
- Emperor [Qing Qianlong] [Ching Chien-lung]
- Emperor [Qing Kangxi] [Ching Kangshi]
Over the thousands of years, the style of Chinese calligraphy has evolved continually. About 213 B.C., under the famous Chin Shih Huang Ti, who perpetrated the 'burning of the books', the Prime Minister Li Szu drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for the use of scholars. This is chuan-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there are five major styles of calligraphy:
| seal | clerical | cursive | regular |

(The Japanese calls these tensho, reisho, kaisho, gyosho, and sosho styles.)
It is remarkable that after two thousand years, all five styles of writings are still in use today.
A few arbitrarily selected works of the master calligraphers are presented herein.
Great Masters
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Han Dynasty |
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Jin Dynasty |
[Lu Ji] (261-303)
[Wang Xizhi][Wang Hsi-chih] (303-361)
None of his original works remain today. Some of his best writings were preserved on carved stone tablets, Stone rubbings taken from them have been reproduced and reprinted widely; they have been studied by generations of students and used as examples to learn and practice the art of calligraphy.
[Wang XianZhi][] Jin Dynasty
[Wang Xun][] Jin Dynasty (709-785)
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Tang Dynasty |
[Ouyang Xun][Ouyang Chu] Tang Dynasty (557-641) - Broad Sea Is Large
- 11 化度寺故僧邕禅师舍利塔铭
48 panels - (First Panel Enhanced)
[Yan Zhenqing][Yen Chen-Ching] Tang Dynasty (709-785)
[Li Bai][Li Po] Tang Dynasty
[Tang Taizong] Tang Dynasty
Huai Su [Huai-su] (725-785)
Written on the 10-th Month, 28-th Day, A.D.777
[Liu GongQuan][Liu Kung-chuan] Tang Dynasty(778-865)
[Chu Suiliang] Tang Dynasty
[Zhang Xu][Wu Chu]
- Song Dynasty
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Song Dynasty 宋四家﹕苏黄米蔡 |
[Wu Ju][Wu Chu] - Song Dynasty (960-1279)
- Seven-character Poem
Semi-cursive script, ink on silk hanging scroll. Palace Museum, Taipei
- Seven-character Poem
[Cai Xiang][]
- Cai Xiang One of 4 best of the Song Dynesty
[Su Shi][Su Shih] Song Dynasty (1037-1101)
[Huang TingJian][Huang TienChien] Song Dynasty (1045-1105)
Huang Tingjian Page

Song Dynasty (1080-1135)


Emperor [Song Gaozong][Sung Kao-Tsung] - Song [Sung] Dynasty (1107-1187)
- Imperial Order to General Yue Fei [Yueh Fei]
Standard and semi-cursive scripts, ink on paper. - Imperial Order to General Yue Fei [Yueh Fei]
An enlarged portion of above. - Imperial Order to General Yue Fei [Yueh Fei]
Another Order (original is lost)
- Imperial Order to General Yue Fei [Yueh Fei]
Yue Fei [Yueh Fei] - Song Dynasty (1107-1187)
- Give Back My Land!
Stone rubbing
- Give Back My Land!
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Yuan Dynasty |
- [Yu He][Yu-Ho] (14-th cent.) Yuan dynasty
- Thousand-character Essay.

Seal and clerical script. Ink on paper. Palace Museum, Taipei
- Zhao Mengfu
[Zhu YunMing] [Chu Yun-Ming] Ming Dynasty (1460-1526)
- Brief Bio
Tang Yin(1470-1523)
calligraphy
[Dong QiChang][Tung Chi-Chang] Ming Dynasty (1555-1637)
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Qing Dynasty |
Emperor [Qing Gaozong][Ching Kao-tsung] Qing dynasty(1711-1799)
- After Su Shih's Calligraphy. Semi-cursive script. Ink on paper. Hanging scroll.
Palace Museum, Taipei
- After Su Shih's Calligraphy. Semi-cursive script. Ink on paper. Hanging scroll.
Zeng Guofan [Tseng Kuo-fan] Qing[Ching] Dynasty (1811-1872)
Emperor Kangxi [] Qing Dynasty
Kang Xi
- Tong Guan Fang
Dedication of the Greatest Library in World's History
- - Portrait
Kang Yuwei (1858 - 1927) - Qing-Republic

Liu Yong
Qing Dynasty (1720-1809)
Pu Ru [Pu Hsin-yu]Qing Dynasty (1869-1963)
- Four Best Calligrapher of the Song DynastyFour Best Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
- Calligraphy Steles
- Oracle Bone Script
- Oracle Bone Scripts
- Earliest written scripts
discovered in Shangdong province reportedly 1,200-1,700 years older than oracle bone scripts. - Oracle script - by Du Feibao

- Four Treasured Supplies for a Scholar's Study Room
- Essays
- History of Chinese Calligraphy (in Chinese GB/BIG5)
- Appreciation of the Art of Chinese Calligraphy (in English)
- Very Early Origin of the written Chinese (Chinese in gif)
- Wang Xizhi's Lanting Xu By S.L. Lee(in English)
- New Trends in Chinese Calligraphy

- Photos
- Calligraphy sites

文房四宝 笔、 墨、纸、砚
- Introduction to basics
- Chinese Calligraphy Exchange
Excellent site by Keith Welch - Calligraphy at Asiawind
- Calligraphy Forum of China the Beautiful website
Discussions and news about calligraphy. You may post related comments and questions here. - Short biography [BIG5]
- Innovation of Chinese Paintings: Calligraphy
- Different Styles Excellent illustrations by E. Ching
- Calligraphy By Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Univ of Washington
- Chinese calligraphy - ancient Chinese Calligraphy, with history,instructions on Chinese writing







