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A Study of Monk Calligrapher Bianguang’s calligraphy and Poems on Calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty

  • Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
  • 2020, (85), pp.5-28
  • DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..85.202012.5
  • Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : November 10, 2020
  • Accepted : December 17, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Woo, Jae Ho 1

1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we extracted and analyzed the calligraphy works of Monk Calligrapher Bianguang(䛒光), who made a reputation by working in Late Tang Dynasty, and the poems of the time when he commented or sang the calligraphy of Bianguang and the evaluations of the past writers after Tang. Although Tang Dynastic achieved fame as Monk Calligrapher and Huaisu(懷素) and Gaoxian(高閑) are representative monks who still have a reputation today, the poems of contemporary writers who recited the calligraphy of Bianguang have been handed down in large quantities to this day after Huaisu. As the life of Bianguang overlaps with the chaotic end of Late Tang Dynasty, it is difficult to grasp the true face of his poetry and calligraphy, with his collection of poems and the collection of poems and calligraphic writings extolling the Bianguang calligraphy now leaving no trace until today. However, I summed up Bianguang's Cursive Style of Writing through the seven existing poems reciting the calligraphy of Monk Calligrapher Bianguang contained in Quantangshi(≪全唐詩≫). Successive to Monk Calligrapher Huaisu's styles, his calligraphy was natural without restraint, and it can be seen that he had never been shabby or paranoid because of his pliant and grandeur. This was also confirmed in the post Tang Dynasty assessments of Bianguang’s calligraphy.

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