A Study Of The Relationship Between Cai Xiang And Tang Xun

The Northern Song Dynasty is an era of "communicating with the world".This period has a wide range of contacts and involves a lot of content,which can truly reflect people’s lives in the Northern Song Dynasty.The friendship between Cai Xiang and Tang Xun is one of the aspects.Cai Xiang and Tang Xun are both literati and governmet officials who lived in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.The friendship between them was quite interesting.Both Cai Xiang and Tang Xun had the same hobby,such as collection,appreciation of Calligraphy and famous ink stone.The topic of this paper is mainly about the friendship between Cai Xiang and Tang Xin,but also involves the problems of staffs。Due to the open cultural environment of the northern song dynasty,literati had more opportunities to create ajd communicate in the art of culture.They not only do practice what the ancients called "the passage of words" in their lives,but also discuss their literary and artistic creation thoughts and aesthetic thoughts.From Cai xiang’s "big inkstone","far meng"and "si yong post",we can see he and Tang xun’s life in miniature.And analysis from the perspective of calligraphy culture,they are revealed on the importance of "people" in calligraphy creation,such as from the four mentioned in the article,play to the elegance of life,from the text books to use one theory book,which not only displays in Cai xiang and Tang xun,also in the northern song dynasty literati’s friends.In other words.it is a typical case of Cai xiang and Tang xun.Therefore,the social atmosphere of the scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty,the paper is about the background and reasons and history of Cai Xiang and Tang Xun.