Cao Hongxun (1846-1910), zi Zhongming, a native of Weifang, Shandong. In the second year of Guangxu (1876), he was appointed as the Governor of Shaanxi. Cao Hongxun is good at painting bamboo orchids in calligraphy, learning European characters, old Yi Hun Pu, and Gong Han Li. His calligraphy is swift and fast with his pen, dashing and refreshing, and his body is beautiful and staggered. Beijing's Forbidden City, Summer Palace and Weifang have left many ink stone carvings.
Cao Hongxun's book is draped across the "Ouyang Xiu Wuyan Poetry Group Jade Hall Tin Banquet", collected by the Palace Museum.
Interpretation: There is nothing to do in the best of the year, and there is a happy and fruitful year. Books open the secret house, feast clusters of English. On the Tomb of the Emperor of the Dao, the Sermon of the Emperor. Nine-fold multi-leisure, eight-body extreme research. The pen is full of strength, and the luxury is everything. Flying gold spilled, blessed with jade gongming. Sheng Ji revered Confucianism, and foolish subjects abused their favor. Only to be able to dance with the beasts, to hear the harmony of music. Courtesy of Cao Hongxun