There are 43 exquisite couplets in Zhiyong\’s collection, welcoming the spring and bringing blessings, good luck and peace!

Zhiyong, Chen , a monk in the Sui Dynasty, named Faji, surnamed Wang, from Kuaiji, good at calligraphy, especially cursive calligraphy. He is the seventh grandson of Wang Xizhi, and after Wang Huizhi, the fifth son of Wang Xizhi, he is known as \”Yong Zen Master\”. Legend has it that he had been studying calligraphy for 30 years, so he filled five large bamboo pens with used pen tips and buried them in the ground. People call the place the \”Tuibi Tomb\”. I have devoted myself to studying in the bookstore of Yongxin Temple for 30 years. Zhi Yongmiao passed down the family method and was very energetic. Few calligraphers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties came to study. A hundred years old is the end. Zhiguo, Biancai, and Yu Shinan all have excellent calligraphy skills in Zhiyong.

2025 Zhiyong regular script Spring Festival couplets

Zen Master Zhiyong is good at regular script and cursive script, and can pass on Wang Xizhi\’s style. In his later years, he used the literacy class \”\” \”Thousand-Character Essay\” as the content, he wrote more than a thousand copies in both genuine and cursive styles, and selected the most satisfactory 800 copies and distributed them to various temples in eastern Zhejiang. To this day, Zhiyong\’s \”Thousand-Character Essay\” is still in ink and ink. The engraving is also regarded as a model for learning calligraphy. Shi Zhiyong\’s greatest contribution was to teach the authentic Two Kings method to Yu Shinan, one of the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty, which influenced the calligraphy style of the Tang Dynasty. This is probably his ambition. His most famous calligraphy works are handed down from generation to generation. \”Zhencao Thousand Character Essay\”

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