黄庭坚最擅长的是草书。元符三年(二○○)二月,黄庭坚五十六岁时所书的草书卷跋有学书四十年之说,按此逆算,他开始学书当在十岁。这时他问学于淮南(今安徽省)叔父李常(公择),还受教于孙觉(莘老)。从此受李、孙的指导和感化。两人还向苏轼推荐了山谷。山谷年轻时候就好草书,开始师从周越。周越是仁宗时代知名的书家,当时向他学书者不绝。书风为传统的王羲之风。他从周越学习的二十年间,是接受越的书 Huang Tingjian is best at cursive. Yuan Fu three years (February 2000), Huang Tingjian fifty-six years old when the cursive cursive writings Postscript forty years, according to this inverse calculation, he began to study when the book was ten years old. At this moment, he asked Li Chang (Public Choice), the uncle of Huainan (now Anhui), and Sun Jue (Xin Old). Since then by Lee, Sun’s guidance and influence. They also recommended the valley to Su Shi. Valley young cursive script, began to learn from the more weeks. Zhou Yue Renzong era is a well-known calligrapher, was not to learn from him. Book style for the traditional style of Wang Xizhi. He learned more from the more than two decades, is to accept the more books