50-word calligrapher's story

Huai Su became a monk when he was a child. He first studied Buddhist scriptures and almanac, and later paid attention to calligraphy.

Because he was poor and had no paper to write on, he planted more than 10,000 plantains in his hometown to paint, and used plantain leaves instead of paper to practice calligraphy, so he called his place "Green Temple". Lack of books is to draw a plate of books and a board, and the books are repeatedly worn out.

Calligraphy style

Huai Su learned Ou Yangxun's calligraphy in his early years, which made him irrefutable. In the countryside, he is even called a coin maker. After that, the brushwork is vigorous, the posture is healthy and slow, and the realm is different because of the mystery of the image and the charm.

Huai Su's temperament is unrestrained, not limited to fine lines, and he is self-satisfied. Therefore, people in the Tang Dynasty were called "drunken monks" because they drank to nourish their nature and wrote cursive scripts to enrich their ambitions. Whenever the wine is on, they meet the walls, clothes and utensils in the temple wall and write everything.

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Main work

His cursive works include autobiography notes, bitter bamboo shoots notes, fish eating notes, Notre Dame notes, essays on books, thousands of articles on grass, thousands of words on grass, forty-two chapters of scripture, Zang Zhen notes, Lu Gong notes, seven notes and Beiting cursive pen.

Commemoration of future generations

To commemorate Huai Su, Huai Su Park was built in Xiaoshui Road, Lingling District, Yongzhou City today. There are historical sites in the park. Huai Su became a monk and planted bananas to practice calligraphy.

According to Lingling County Records, Lu Tian 'an was destroyed by soldiers in Renzi year of Xianfeng, and Han Yang, the magistrate of a county, presided over the reconstruction in Renshou year of Tongzhi. There is a main hall, a banana pavilion on the top, a drunken monk building on the left, and a statue of Huai Su. A place behind buddhist nun is engraved with the word "inkstone spring", which is where Huai Su grinds ink to get water. There is a "Bizuka" tower in the right corner, where Huai Su's bald pen is buried. More than seventy paces north of An 'an, there is Mo Chi, the place where Huai Su washed inkstones.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Huai Su