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Wen Zhengming Xingcao Thousand Characters 

Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), the first name Bi (also called Zuo Bi), the word Zhengming, the word Xing, changed the word Zhengzhong, the nickname Hengshan, was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu ). He was good at poetry, literature, calligraphy and painting, and was the master of the Ming Dynasty art scene. He is good at small script and Xing script. The small script is under the guidance of Yao and the two Wang. The Xing script imitates Zhiyong, The Preface of Jiwang Shengjiao, Su Shi and Zhao Meng, and the big characters imitate Huang Tingjian. Wen Zhengming Xingcao Thousand Characters is a masterpiece of Wen Zhengming”s cursive script, twenty-six meters in length and 200 meters in width, which has the precision of the pen and the stippling.