Introduction to the Shaoxing Rice Calligraphy Museum: In the eleventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1141), Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, collected all Mi Fu calligraphy and copied the royal seals "Shaoxing Rice Calligraphy" (also known as "Song Emperor Gaozong's Engraved Rice Yuan Zhang Calligraphy"). A total of ten volumes, it is the earliest collection of Mi Fu's calligraphy in historical records. The first gallery will re-engrav and display part of the Song Dynasty rubbings of "Shaoxing Rice Tie" originally collected in the Palace Museum, the National Library and the Shanghai Library, with a total of 20 works (including 6 in the gallery). The plaque in front of the museum is a copy of the calligraphy of Zhao Mengfu, a famous painter and master of regular script in the Yuan Dynasty.

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