Sui and Tang · Calligrapher and Official

Yan Zhenqing 顏平原

Attested AD 758 - AD 784

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yan Zhenqing was a Calligrapher and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 758 to AD 784 顏平原書風
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 152

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 152

Learning and skills

Skill calligraphy 書 · Level canonical-model
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 152

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 1 passage

書學顏平原、李北海，嘗曰：「古人用兔毫，故書有中線，今用羊毫，其精者乃成雙鉤。 He studied the manners of Yan Zhenqing and Li Yong of Beihai and once remarked, 'The ancients used rabbit-hair brushes, so their writing showed a central line; today we use goat hair, and only the finest work achieves the double hook.