Xu Wuwen (1931-1993), known as Yongnian and Jialing, was more obscure after the age of thirty due to ear diseases, and in his later years he was named The Candle Room. A native of Chengdu, Sichuan. In his early years, he studied at Chengdu Experimental Primary School, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Sichuan University in 1954, was first assigned to work at Southwest Agricultural University, and transferred to Southwest Normal University in 1955, teaching for more than 30 years.
Before his death, he was a professor of the Department of Chinese of Southwest Normal University, a master tutor of calligraphy and seal engraving and Tang and Song Dynasty literature, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Xiling Printing Society, the vice chairman of the Sichuan Calligraphers Association, and the honorary president of the Chongqing Printing Society.
He served as a member of the editorial board of the Hanyu Da Zidian, presided over the compilation of the "List of Ancient Chinese Characters", and edited the "Qin and Han Wei Jin Seal Li Glyph Table", "Jia Jin Seal Li Da Zidian", "Yin Xu Oracle Bone Calligraphy Selection", "Dongpo Anthology", "Xu Wuwen Calligraphy Collection", "Xu Wuwen Printing", "Xu Wuwen Papers", "Xu Wuwen Lin Zhongshan Wang Cuoding" and other works and academic papers have been passed down.
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Mr. Xu Wuwen has spent his life asking about hard work, not asking about harvest, studying unremittingly, persistent and tenacious; having a chaste spirit in it, but being peaceful and humble; having a broad and profound knowledge, self-service and thrifty and simple, with a noble, easy, and harmonious scholarly style.
Mr. Xu Wuwen is good at calligraphy seal engraving creation and academic research, and has made outstanding achievements in the study of classical Chinese literature, especially Tang and Song Dynasty literature; in the creation of calligraphy seal engraving, he has participated in successive national professional exhibitions, or served as a judge and academic committee member, forming his own healthy and fresh, mellow and neutral artistic style, with its high temperament and strong and healthy fresh, mellow and natural and swaying, and the artistic creation of the body and the long and exquisite and profound embodies his handsome and timeless life intention, bringing us infinite beauty.
Mr. Xu Wuwen's A (Bone) Jin (Wen) Seal is composed of zhenxing grass, especially the most exquisite works created by taking the Zhongshan King's Instrument And The Iron Wire Seal; the seal carving is beautiful and stable, and it is extremely powerful. Mr. Xu Wuwen's calligraphy and seal engraving art, because of his noble character, simple feelings, profound knowledge and profound and good personal cultivation, surpassed his peers and was different from other artists with similar styles, becoming China's first-class scholar-type artists.