Huang Tingjian (黃庭堅)

Huang Tingjian (黃庭堅)

Ancient Calligrapher

Chinese Calligrapher

Famous Calligrapher

Song Dynasty (宋朝)

Four Masters of the Song Dynasty (宋四家)

Huang Tingjian (黃庭堅) was a Chinese artist, scholar, government official, and poet of the Song dynasty. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher and is also admired for his painting and poetry. He was a younger friend of Su Shi (蘇軾) and influenced by his and his friends' practice of literati painting (文人畫), calligraphy, and poetry.

Song Dynasty (宋朝)

1045 - 1105

Su Shi (蘇軾)

Mi Fu (米芾)

Person

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Huang Tingjian was born into the prominent Huang clan, which had established residence in Jiangnan, south of the Yangzi River, just across the river gorge from the main turmoils and troubles of the Five Dynasties period. After his father's death, Huang Tingjian was sent to Anhui to be further brought up by his uncle. Huang Tingjian spent 7 years teaching at the Damingfu Imperial Academy in Hebei. Its location was in what is currently Daming County. Damingfu was then Northern Capital of the Song Chinese Empire, and not far from the militarily turbulent northern border with the rival Khitan Empire.In the early Winter of 1105, Huang Tingjian died in Yizhou.

1045

Jiangnan, Yangzi River (长江)

1105

Chinese artist, poet, calligrapher, scholar, a government official