Song Dynasty Research Paper

In Chinese five thousand years of history and civilization, Song dynasty is one of the hugest ships floating on this great river of history. Along with those emperors, people in song dynasty have created many significant innovations and inventions. During that 300 hundred years ruling, the ingenuity of Song people provided some of the most significant technological and conceptual advances in many fields such as arts, polymaths, engineering, and agriculture to Chinese culture and pushed human civilization forward to a new level. Emperor Huizong came to the Song throne in the first month of 1100, three months after his seventeenth birthday, and reigned almost twenty- six years, till the last month of 1125. (Emperor Huizong, preface) Emperor Huizong is not only one of the emperors in Song dynasty but also the emperor who leading Northern Song dynasty to the ruin. He may be the worst emperor among Song dynasty because of his useless in politics, extravagant and dissipated in his daily life during that 26 years’ reign. However, without those questions, emperor Huizong deserves his reputation as a talented artist who did not only impressed his contemporaries with his poetry, calligraphy, and painting but also sponsored and propelled the …show more content…
Like most calligraphers, Huizong could and did write in all the common scripts. Examples survive in cursive (cao), running (xing), and regular (kai) scripts. (Emperor Huizong, Crafting an Image as an Artist). Because of Huizong’s interest in art he had seen and judged many famous works, by blending traditional writing style and his unique concept, he had developed his own style of writing, which is called the slender gold calligraphy. Actually, emperor Huizong’s remarkably achievements in calligraphy let him be comparable as famous as Top four calligraphers (Su Shi苏轼, Cai Xiang蔡襄, Mi Fu米芾, Huang Tingjian黄庭坚) in Northern Song