Culture insider: 10 famous works by Chinese master calligraphers

Updated: 2014-06-11 07:10

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Top 7:Shu Su Tie by Mi Fu

Shu Su Tie by Mi Fu.[Photo/yueyaa.com]

This work, produced in 1088 when the calligrapher and painter Mi Fei from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) was thirty-eight, is a representative piece from the prime of his life. Eight poems composed by him were written on silk, into which the ruled lines are woven in dark threads.