North The Guanzhong Region Statues Study Of Calligraphy Art

The statue inscriptions in the Northern Dynasties have been carrying abundant information. It not only reflected the society, politics, economics and culture at that time but also importantly presented the complex national relationships under the influence of different religions. It has high value in calligraphy and art.This project analyzed the types and styles in art and calligraphy of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the central Shaanxi plain areas applying multidisciplinary knowledge and research methods in art archaeology, epigraphy, history, literature, philology, calligraphy and art on the basis of practical survey on the real statue steles of the Northern Dynasties in the central Shaanxi plain areas. The project advances " Chang’an calligraphy style" characterized as "ping hua kuan jie", which looks broad and strong and its horizontal stroke is evenly written from left to right and vertical stroke is straightly written from top to bottom; it has some similarity with official script that looks simple and pure and it is popular and general.The calligraphic development of statue inscription of the Northern Dynasties in the central Shaanxi plain is closely connected with the harmony and development of nationalities in the north of our country.Calligraphy of statue inscription is developed from "taking official script as regular script" to "taking regular script as official script", then it developed into being regular, neat, full and elegant. The development not only presents the increase in cultural quality of minor nationalities but also shows the national harmony and calligraphy of the South mixing together with the North. The Southern culture mixing together with the Northern culture laid solid foundation and did full preparation for the calligraphic unification of Sui Dynasty and the calligraphic prosperity of Tang Dynasty. In other words, without the mixture, there would be no the calligraphic prosperity of Tang Dynasty. Besides, the calligraphic style of Wei stele is formed primarily from "Luoyang style" and "Chang’an style" which are mutually affected and learn something from the Southern calligraphic style; the two styles begin essentially mixing together in Western Wei and mixed together comprehensively in Sui Dynasty, also promoted the calligraphic prosperity of Tang Dynasty.