Song Tuosun’s Calligraphy in Court

[Shupu of Sun Guoting in the Song Dynasty]

Shupu of Sun Guoting was carved in the imperial palace during the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1107-1110). Because the stone was placed under the Taiqing Building, it is also called “Shupu of the Taiqing Building”
The calligraphy manual was written by Sun Guoting in 687, and the essence of his calligraphy theory is concentrated in this book. The book is divided into two volumes. The second volume has been lost, and the main content of the first volume is about “moving the brush”. Its book is magnificent, with high tides, strong strokes, and uneven composition. It is the representative work of Sun Guoting. The ink is now stored in Taiwan’s Palace Museum
The Song Tuo Sun Guoting script collected by the Palace Museum is a fragmented version of the first volume, which is well copied, and the first line to the second line is 17 characters more than the ink, which can make up for the lack of ink. The original stone was lost early, and the extension is the only copy in the sea. The rubbings include postscript of Zhang Boying, Luo Dun [0148], Lin Zhijun, Ma Xulun, Qi Yanming, etc., and the seals of “Wu Naichen of Shimen sincerely treasures”, “Chen Shutong”, etc. A total of 14 pages, 8 lines per page, ranging from 10 to 14 words. The size of each page is 31 cm vertically and 22.3 cm horizontally
There are a lot of script engravings, of which “Xue Ke” and “An Ke” are more famous
This post is described in Song Chensi’s “Series of Precious Carving”, Ma Guoquan’s “Transcriptions of the Book”, Yang Zhenfang’s “Notes on Steles”, and Zhang Yansheng’s “Notes on Rare Steles”.

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