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Yunkai Qiang is also known as Meng Yu (courtesy name) and Old Fishman (pseudonym). Qiang was born in Jiangsu, China. He was the governor of Qingpu (in the province of Jiangsu) before the establishment…

Yunzhang Peng, known as Yong’e (courtesy name) and Xiaoyuan (pseudonym) was born in Jiangsu, China. Since Peng served as an imperial scholar in 1835, he had been assigned to several important position…

Li Chen, known as Lanfu (courtesy name), was a renowned scholar in the late Qing dynasty. Chen showed his talent in several fields in his early ages. He became a certified student and first-degree sch…

Yuanji Zhang, known as Xiaozhai (courtesy name) and Jusheng (pseudonym), was born in Zhenjiang, China. Zhang was a Hanlin Academy bachelor and a central figure of Hundred Days’ Reform (a national poli…

I had a sudden whim to write down a wish I pursued in my life and ask for comments from my elder cousin in Wu Qiao Zhuang. The text is related to a lifestyle I had now. I built an elegant house for se…

Shu Lin, known as Qinnan (courtesy name) and Weilu or Chunjuezhai zhu jen (pseudonyms), was born in Fujian, China. Lin was a renowned Chinese paleographer, painter and translator. Li read extensively…

Sanli Chen, known as Sanyuan (pseudonyms) was born in Jiangxi, China. Chen was a reformer, excellent poet and educator in the late Qing dynasty. He was an active member of Hundred Days’ Reform (a nati…

Zengxiang Fan (his original name is Jia Fan) born in Hubei, China is known as Fang shen (courtesy name) and Tianqin old man (pseudonym). He was an interim governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces, C…

Yuantao Zhao, also known as Songsheng (courtesy name), was a descendant of Mengjie Zhao (1254?-1322?, a renowned painter and art collector in Yuan dynasty). Zhao specialized in depicting pine’s twiste…

Handi Chen known as Fulu (pseudonym), was born in Hangzhou, China. Chen excelled in seal cutting and Chinese painting. He likes to collect different seals and draw dry wood, bamboo, and rocks. In addi…

To identify some ancient variant forms of Chinese characters is more difficult than to recognize ancient artifacts. It has been extremely challenging to find a person with this type of unique knowledg…

Xiaocang Zhu, known as Huosheng (courtesy name) and Qiangcun (pseudonym), was born in Zhejiang, China. Zhu is a renowned scholar, poet, and calligrapher specializing in running regular-script. He exce…

A dou-fang refers to a square paper for painting and calligraphy. The size is usually between one to four square feet. This scroll contains 3 pieces of dou-fang created by Puhsi Huang. 斗方為中國書畫形式之一, 是指…

Shu Li, known as Shihu (courtesy name), was born in Jiangsu, China. He was a descendant of “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou” (a group of eight painters known in Qing dynasty, who reject the classical pri…

Boying Zhang, born in Jiangsu, China, was a renowned calligrapher in the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. Zhang came from an academic and artistic family. Both his father and grandfather…

Liangji Hong, known as Zhicun (courtesy name) and Gengsheng Buddhist householder (pseudonym), was born in Jiangsu, China. Hong is a renowned litterateur, specializing in phonology, exegesis, history a…

Wang uses four stories to describe virtue of being a wife. 王翊學用四個故事描述古代婦德 The last name of Xuan Bao’s wife was Huan. She was also known as Shaojun. Xuan Bao was a student of Shaojun’s father. He was a…

Qichao Liang, known as Zhuoru, Renfu (courtesy name) and Jen-kung, Yin-ping-tzu, Yin-ping-shih-chu-jen (pseudonyms), was born in Xinhui , Guangdong, China. Liang was a renowned philosopher and politic…

In front of Zhao Mausoleum (the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang (599-649)), this horse is the second from the east. It has a bluish white and mixed color and was struck with five arrows. This is…

Xiaoxu Zheng, known as Sunkan (courtesy name) and also Haicang (pseudonym) was born in Fuzhou, China. Zheng was involved in political revolution of Qing dynasty. After collapse of Qing dynasty, he ded…