Wu Changshuo (1844.8.1 – 1927.11.29) was a native of Yanwu Village, Xiaofeng County, Zhejiang Province (present-day Anji County, Huzhou). Wu Changshuo, along with XuGu, Pu Hua, and Ren Bonian, is known as the "Four Masters of the Late Qing Dynasty". Wu Changshuo was a famous painter, calligrapher and seal engraver in the late Qing Dynasty, and a representative of the "Houhai School". The first president of Hangzhou Xiling Printing Society. The first name jun, also known as Junqing, the word Changshuo, also signed Cangshi, Cangshi, many aliases, common ones are Cangshuo, Lao Cang, Lao Miao, Bitter Iron, Great Deaf, Stone Venerable and so on.
Wu Changshuo's calligraphy is mainly based on seal writing and grass, but the seal book has the highest achievements. When he was in his 30s, he began to study the Stone Drum Text, and he never quit for the rest of his life. His achievement lies in writing out his own unique appearance of the "Stone Drum Text", which is thick and magnificent, and has become a new realm of seal writing. Self-made and unique style. After the age of 60, the books are particularly exquisite, round and mature, tough and soft. Hi will be stone drum character collection writing couplet. In his later years, he used the seal penmanship as cursive writing, the pen gesture was galloping, vigorous and majestic, and it was not informal. "Xiling Seal Society" is an inscription written by Wu Changshuo at the age of 71 to commemorate the establishment of Xiling Printing Society, and the dictionary and calligraphy are excellent, which is a masterpiece of The small seal art style of Wu Changshuo's old period of calligraphy.
Today, we admire his twenty-five seal couplets.
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