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Huaisu [Huai-su; xing Qian; zi Cangzhen]
(b Lingling County, Hunan Province; fl c. AD 730–80). Chinese calligrapher and Buddhist monk. He left home to become a monk while still young, taking the monastic name Huaisu, over his family name, Qian. Early devoted to the art of cursive script (caoshu) calligraphy, he initially imitated the style of his step-brother Wu Tong ( fl c. mid-8th century). Huaisu probably decided to become a serious calligrapher during the 760s, after his cursive script was praised by Wei Zhi (697–761), a court official in the Board of Civil Appointments. Between AD 767 and 769 Huaisu went south to Guangzhou (Canton) to request annotations on his works from the famous calligrapher Xu Hao (AD 703–82), then provincial governor. As a result, Huaisu’s reputation spread throughout southern China.
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