The Success And Failure Of Yu Youren’s Standard Cursive Hand

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest, China did indeed slide into disarray, warlordism and insurrection. Unstable political situation also makes cultural elements becomes more and more active. Reform and innovation become the new term of the times. Calligraphy, as an integral part of a traditional culture, also faces a major decision in social and cultural transformation of cracks. After the Qing Dynasty, model calligraphy is weak, stele theory rise, the two factions of boom and bust coincides with the social and cultural pattern. Keeping pace with the times and developing innovation become more closely linked with calligraphy. During this period, Yu is active in calligraphy as an excellent pioneer and practitioner.Yu Youren is one of the leaders in contemporary calligraphy circles, known as the sage of calligraphy. He is a calligrapher combination of politician, educator, scholar and poet. So in order to study on his calligraphy, we must explore it in a multi-level, in many ways and in a multi-attribute. We cannot treat as the same for avoiding deflection. When he was a child, he has just begun to learn calligraphy. For this reason, his success didn’t happen overnight but base on combination of factors and his continuous exploration. Especially he created the standard cursive hand which did contribution to traditional Chinese culture and the innovations of calligraphy. Therefore this paper, standing in the position of the revolutionaries to study, focus on the reasons of its creation standard cursive hand and the influence of the established standard cursive script.This paper is divided into three chapters, The first chapter mainly study the cursive and origin of Yu standard. Starting from the background of the times, standing on the national demand and highly detailed personal beliefs, art and national politics gradually the standard cursive hand get along swimmingly with each other, the creation and development of the road, presents a quantitative change to qualitative art achievements. The second chapter focuses on the standard of cursive. To deeply analyze the inner process of the spread of Chinese culture. Then return to its influence on calligraphy and calligrapher’s contribution. A brief description of his step by step learning until the generation of "sage of calligraphy" experience. The third chapter critically read the fruit of the loss of standard cursive. The limitations of Standard Cursive art also indirectly limit its development. Yet there is a flip side to that. Even the saint is no exception. Through this study, let us know a better understanding of a good politician to make another interpretation of calligraphy, with a guard of national culture’s heart.