What exactly does the Song Sijia refer to?

The four Song families are the collective name of the four calligraphers Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang in the Northern Song Dynasty of China. These four people can roughly represent the calligraphy style of the Song Dynasty, and they have the highest achievements, so they are called "Song Sijia".

Su Shi (1037-1101), the word Zizhan, the number of Dongpo layman, was a native of Meishan, Sichuan. Famous writer, calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. Poetry is open and bold, and it is one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Su Shi (1037-1101) was a native of Meishan (now Sichuan). He and his father Su Xun and younger brother Su Zhe are famous for their poetry and writing"Three Sus"。

Huang Tingjian (1045-1105) was a native of Luzhi, a native of the valley, and later generations called him the Yellow Valley, and the late name Fu Weng, a native of Fenning, Hongzhou (now Xiushui, Jiangxi). Northern Song Dynasty poet and calligrapher. In the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Yingzong (1067), he was a jinshi.

In the third year of Shenzong Xining (1070), Wang Anshi was the prime minister, and the implementation of the new law was fiercely opposed by the conservatives led by Sima Guang. Later, the struggle between the old and new parties intensified, and it continued until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. In this struggle, Huang Tingjian stood on the side of the old party, and although he did not actively participate in this struggle, his whole life was always involved in the whirlpool of struggle.

Mi Fu ((1051 1107)), the character of the chapter, the number of Xiangyang Manshi, Haiyue Waishi, Lumen Jushi. His ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi, and later settled in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu.

Cai Xiang (1012-1067), known as Junmo, was a native of Xinghua (now Xianyou, Fujian). In 1030 (the eighth year of Tiansheng), Jinshi successively served in the central government of the Song Dynasty as a pavilion surveyor, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, a direct history museum, a scholar of the Zhizhi Dynasty, a direct bachelor of the Longtu Pavilion, a direct bachelor of the Privy Council, a bachelor of Hanlin, a third envoy, and a bachelor of the Duanming Palace, and served as a transfer envoy of Fujian Road (now Fuzhou City, Fujian), and the governor of Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Kaifeng (now Kaifeng City, Henan) and Hangzhou. The waiter of the gift department is "loyal and favorable".

The collective name of the four calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang.