The Calligrapher — Yán Zhēnqīng 颜真卿
Tang master of robust regular script; co-creator of the enduring 'Yan style'.
Tang calligrapher (709–784), master of regular script/running script — the Tang moral paragon whose upright, muscular regular script became the model of Chinese integrity in writing. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
The form was two bamboo slips bound by a cord, 冊, the bound book itself. Scribes 注册 a household in the census rolls; a 画册 of maps guided a traveller. The annals were kept in 册 on the archive shelf. To read was to unroll the strips and count them one by one.
Common words & phrases
- 画册 picture album
- 手册 handbook · manual
- 注册 register
- 名册 register · roster
Read the story behind the character
A 手册 tells the machine's steps; a 画册 of the trip sits on the shelf. The clerk 注册 the birth, stamping the 名册. A phone backs up the photo 册 each night. The old 册 of deeds is scanned and filed; the bound slips become a PDF nobody opens.
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