Zheng Xiaoxu

• Zheng Xiaoxu was a modern Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher. He was good at regular script, and one of the advocates of “Tong Guang School”.

• relevant artists

  • Bao Xi

  • San Duo

  • Chen Boqiao

  • Puyi

  • Zhang Shouyi

  • Xie He

  • Chen Banding

    Chen Banding, courtesy name was Jing Shan and Jing Lu, art name was Zhuhuan Jushi and Shen Weng, born in Shaoxing Zhejiang. He grew up in a poor family and moved to Shanghai to make a living in 1894, and through the introduction of an acquaintance, he met Ren Bonin and Wu Changshuo. He learned painting techniques from them, in addition, Wu Guxiang, Wu Shixian, Gao Yongzhi, Lu Lianfu and other scholars. He worked at the Peking University Library after 40 years old. Later, he became a professor at the National Beiping Art College. In the 1940s, he participated in numerous exhibitions and charities. Since the 1950s, he served as the vice director of the Beijing Chinese Painting Institute, the chairman of the Chinese Painting Study Group, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, the researcher of the Chinese Artists Association, the staff of the Central Literature Museum, the member of the Committee for Reforming the Chinese Written Language, the member of the Third China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the member of the Second, Third and Fourth of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was good at painting flowers and landscapes, calligraphy and seal carving. His well-known works are “Loquats of perpetual summer” and “Yellow flowers”.

  • Pu Ru

    Pu Ru was born in Beijing, the grandson of Prince Gong. He was good at painting landscapes, bird-and-flower, animals and calligraphy.

  • Ding Yanyong

  • Zhang Boying

  • Cao Rulin

  • Luo Zhenyu

    Luo Zhenyu, courtesy name was Shu Yan, art name was Xue Tang and Zhensong Laoren, born in Shangyu Zhejiang. He was good at seal script, clerical script, regular script and semi-cursive script, and he was the first person to write oracle bone script in calligraphy. He made some contributions, such as preserving emperor documents, researching and dissemination of oracle bone scripts in the Yin Ruins, compiling Dunhuang and Tang manuscripts, and researching Han and Jin Mokkan (wooden tablets).