Fu Shan’s Running-Cursive Writing Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

    Paper Scroll, 140cm×62cm
    Fu Shan （1607-1684）, courtesy name Qing Zhu, with style name Zhuyi Taoist or Shi Taoist, was a native of Yang Qu (today's countryside of Tai Yuan city, Shan Xi Province).
    Fu Shan was so knowledgeable. He was good at calligraphy and painting. He was a firm believer in the principle “to be dependable but skillful; to be common but grandiloquent; to be sectional but casual; to be genuine but arranged.” He always insisted “to be natural”. He used the big brush pen to write at his pleasure. His representative works were: Meng Haoran’s Poem, in cursive hand;  Drunk Wang Xizhi’s Poem; the Five Words a Line Poem(a poem written in rhyming couplets) in running script; the Cursive Hand Calligraphy, hanging scroll. He used the hair of the brush to stroke in a point (non- angular) mainly but the whole characters were square. The characters in his calligraphy were natural, vivid and clear; the whole calligraphy was full of strength, fluent and vivid.