... was Zhang Zhi (張芝) not Zhang Xu (張旭). Literature during or before the Tang Dynasty ... all misinterpreted this key phrase in that poem:杜甫《飲中八仙歌》:張旭三杯草聖傳。Zhang Xu, after several cups of wine, conveys...
"唐大曆七年(772年),九月左右,懷素返回故鄉,繞道東都洛陽南下,拜會顔真卿。 顔真卿把“十二筆意”即“平謂橫、直謂縱、均謂間、密謂際”等傳授給了懷素,並告訴懷素,他二十多歲時,曾游長安,師事張旭二年,略得筆法,自以為未穩。顔真卿並為懷素作《懷素上人草書歌序》。"(1,2) back to thesis or