Auther：2023-07-10
The Lingfei Jing, known in full as the Lingfei Liujia Jing, is a small-scale ink text from the 26th year of the Tang dynasty (738), and is said to have been written by Zhong Shaojing. It was converted from a volume binding into a booklet of 10 pages, 43 lines, with about 17 characters per line, each page 20.8 x 8.9 cm, each character about 1-1.3 cm in size, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
This is a masterpiece of the Tang dynasty in the form of a small regular script. The brushwork is light and agile without losing its weight, and the structure is charming and graceful without losing its dignity, showing both the refinement and purity common to script writing and the elegance of the Erwang style of calligraphy. Dong Qichang's inscription comments on its exquisite brushwork, back to the wrist hidden front, to the essence of Zi Jing. Mr. Qigong evaluation of this post: from the calligraphic theory of the spirit fly, it is beautiful in the style of ancient interest, stretching in the group of the form, easy in the change of the brush, but has been expressed in the characteristics of the Tang calligraphy.
