Yi Shunding Kaishu "Four Mountains, One Road, Seven Words Link" on paper ink book 126.8x30.6 cm
Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yi Shun Ding (1858~1920) was a native of Longyang (now Hanshou, Hunan). Guangxu raised people in the first year. He was once appointed by Zhang Zhidong as the Chair of Scripture and History of Two Lakes College. After the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, he wrote to request peace talks. He went to Taiwan twice to help Liu Yongfu fight the war. At the time of the Gengzi Incident, he was transferred to Jiangchu, and then served as a Daotai in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places. After the Xinhai Revolution, he went to Beijing and gathered around Yuan Shikai's son Yuan Kewen (Hanyun), known as the Seventh Prince of Hanlu, with a group of scribes and celebrities who were the widows of the former Qing dynasty. Yuan Shikai was declared empress and served as the director of the Bureau of Printing and Casting. After the defeat of the imperial system, he indulged in the brothel of the song house. Gong poetry, paying attention to the skillfulness of workmanship, novel intentions, and Fan Zengxiang is called "Fan Yi", and he is the author of "Qin Zhilou Chronicle Poems" and so on.