Overview
Xiao Ziyun was a Calligrapher.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 487 to AD 549 子雲近出（南朝梁）Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 80, passages 335-339
Places and affiliations
- Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Lived underStrongly inferred · Book of Jin 80, passage 335
- At south of the Yangtze 江表 · Relation Active inDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 335
Learning and skills
- Skill calligraphy 書 · Level famous-but-weakDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passages 335, 337
Events and relationships
- Rose to fame south of the YangtzeScholarly · Calligrapher · At south of the Yangtze 江表Directly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 335
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment He recently emerged and monopolized fame south of the river, yet only achieved completed writing without a grown man's vigor: lines like spring earthworms, characters like coiled autumn snakes. · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 335
- Assessment His reputation exceeds his reality. · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 339
- Assessment His writing is like laying Wang Meng on the paper and seating hunched Xu Yan under the brush. · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 336
- Assessment Though one wear out a thousand rabbit brushes and exhaust ten thousand valleys' bark, his script gathers neither sinew nor bone. · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 337
- Assessment To spread beauty by this is an inflated, undeserved reputation. · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 338
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 335
References in the histories
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