An Investigation on the Jiangyou Land-deed Calligraphy of the Song Dynasty Stored in Mingzhitang
The newly published book"Annotations of Tablet Inscriptions of Song Dynasty in Mingzhitang—Land-deed"contains a large number of Song Dynasty land purchase certificates,providing new materials for the study of land-deed calligra-phy in the Song Dynasty.Upon examination,it is found that the writing art features of Jiangyou land-deed calligraphy in Song Dynasty are the most representative:forms and styles diversified,calligraphy art,fonts of voucher amount varied and text body blended,common words and mistakes occurred often etc.Though the systematic study of Jiangyou Land-deed in Song Dynasty,it is aimed to elucidate the development style of folk tablet calligraphy in the Song Dynasty,to promote the academic circle's cognition of the writing culture of land tickets.
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