Ni Yuanlu (1593-1644) was an official and calligrapher of the late Ming Dynasty. The character Ruyu, a piece of Jade Ru, the number Hongbao, Zhejiang Shangyu people. In the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1622), he entered the priesthood and served as an official to the household and the two shangshu of the ceremony. Li Zicheng entered Beijing and hanged himself. Fu Wang Yu Wenzheng. Books and paintings are all worked, taste the joy of writing text, with ink to make a halo, very green and elegant. The landscapes he painted, the mountains are rugged and rugged, the forests are lush and lush, and the fa likes to use large and small axes to split, and always disdains to draw the horns of the head to flatter people. Died at the age of fifty-two. Author of a collection of poems.
Ni Yuanlu's cursive writing uses pen edges to see the canghun, and sometimes mixed with thirsty pens and thick ink to contrast, the knots are strange and changeable, people have jokingly called "thorny somersabols", and its steep and vivid posture is portrayed vividly. The formation of his calligraphy style, in addition to his good at nourishing from the classics of the ancients such as Wang Youjun, Yan Lugong and Su Dongpo, lies in his "new theory" that makes him able to make new ideas.