The Study Of Yangbing Li's Life And Calligraphic Style

The paper mainly researches the characteristic style of Yangbing Li's Zhuan Shu, and collects and combs the related materials to look into the thinking and conception of studying calligraphy from many aspects and angles as far as possible, such as analysing a biographical note on the Yangbing Li, the social literature's background in Tang Dynasty, the overview of Zhuan Shu in early Tang Dynasty and the calligraphy's theory and conception handed down from his. Furthermore, the paper, firstly, also adopts the methods of analyses and comparisons (The style of Yangbing Li's Zhuan Shu is compared to the Zhuan Shu in Tang, Han and other Zhuan Shu's styles contemporary with Yangbing Li's) to clarify his Zhuan Shu's stylistic characteristic and the brilliant contribution in this area. Secondly, it demonstrates that it is the most important factor that the Yangbing Li's thinking and conception of studying calligraphy to form Zhuan Shu's characteristic style of his own. Lastly, it reaches a consensus on this issue that"Yangbing Li is the first one who revives the'Qin dynasty's Xiao Zhuan'after prime minister Si Li in Qin Dynasty".