Zi Binchen (邠臣), self-proclaimed Sheling Yishi, Cultivating The Sea Diver, Tang village chief history, etc. Calligrapher, patriotic poet. He was born in Nanmen, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province (present-day Shicheng District). At an early age, he was influenced by his father's erudition and ancient knowledge, and began to study Linchi at the age of 7. His works have been handed down as "Calligraphy Covenant", "Cursive Thousand Character Text", "Du Shi Xie", "Hui Qiu Tang Poetry Collection" and so on.
Song Cao Gong was good at poetry and books, and his talent was outstanding, but his career was not ambitious, and when The Southern Ming Was Shining, he was an official to the Zhongshu Sheren. In the fourth year of Qing Shunzhi (1647), Shi Pan and Li Yu of Yancheng Shusheng successively rebelled against the Qing, and the soldiers were defeated, and Song Cao was also subjected to Zhu Lian and imprisoned. After the release, he lived in The Tang Village outside the south gate of Yancheng, built a "vegetable garden" to serve the old mother, recuperated behind closed doors, and talked about art with friends. In the first year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1662), the emperor named him "Hidden in the Mountains and Forests", and he insisted on his mother and old resignation. Later Song refused to serve as an official of the Qing Dynasty several times and lived in seclusion. At the age of 59, the imperial court of the Qing government compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty, opened the Erudite Hongzi Department, and enlisted the famous Confucians in The Sea, when the attendant Yan Xun and the Inspector of Jiangsu Mu Tianyan jointly took the exam, and he refused to go.
In the 22nd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the governor of Liangjiang, Yu Chenglong, specially invited him to Nanjing, compiled the "Jiangnan Tongzhi", and the general school was in charge of his affairs. The Zhishu was compiled, Song Caojian did not leave a name, and in the end, the "Jiangnan Tongzhi" only signed Gongyi's name. Yu Chenlong respected his character and called him "Mr. Sheling". Yu Chenlong invited him out of the mountain, and finally made Song Cao end his seclusion career. In order to realize his ambitions in calligraphy, he resolutely left home and traveled to Jianghuai, Keweiyang, Runzhou, Kunshan, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, visiting teachers and friends, hanging ancient and seeking victory. In the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, he would take care of Yanwu, exchange poetry gifts, and become friendly. Over the years, he has feasted on the famous monuments of the north and south, sucked in the essence, realized the subtle, and integrated them, traded offs and discarded them, and found an authentic calligraphy path for himself.
In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, his calligraphy art had reached a perfect level. It is a year book into "Cursive Thousand Character Text", which is his representative work. The calligraphy is full of momentum, ups and downs, like clouds and flowing water, and indeed there is a great river rushing, a thousand miles of momentum. At present, the "Former Residence of Song Cao" contains "cursive thousand characters of literary stone carvings" for people to see (sometimes there are woodcuts, the old Tibetan Yancheng Tushi Temple, Daoguang Twenty-eight Years (1848), and his descendants are also engraved, and the double outline stones are embedded in the family ancestral hall).
In his later years, Song Cao's learning progressed with the years, and his calligraphy became more refined, and he wrote a treatise on calligraphy. The whole book contains 7 articles, including general theory and on cursive writing, and has incisive expositions on the main outlines of the study book, the text, and the various books of italics, lines, and cursive. He still lived a life of seclusion, traveling the mountains and rivers and entertaining himself with chanting and writing. The style of poetry prides itself on Du Fu, and the book will be Du's poems, and the foreign poems that are nostalgic for the words are left behind. The Collected Poems of Huiqiutang is the essence of his poetry and his representative work of poetics.
In the forty years of the Kangxi Dynasty (1701), he died of illness in the "Vegetable Ping Garden" at the age of 82. During his lifetime, he left a large number of calligraphy works, which were scattered in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and also collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing. These ink treasures show the characteristics of calligraphy in different periods of Song Cao. In today's Japanese calligraphy circles, there is an academic group that studies Song Cao calligraphy.