His grandmother's surname is Yu. After losing her husband at the age of 24, she took Shen Yihua's mother back to her family. Her great-grandfather's great-grandfather worked in the Qing court for generations. Yu Minzhong, the champion and minister of military and political affairs in Qianlong period, was his ancestor. Yu Minzhong was a scholar in the second year of Qianlong (1737), a bachelor of Wenhua Hall and minister of military aircraft. In the Qianlong dynasty, he was the first official in power among Han ministers. Yu Minzhong is good at calligraphy, and his calligraphy style is close to that of Dong Qichang. He was an influential calligrapher at that time. He and his descendants have been living in Liubukou, Beijing. Finally, the mansion was passed to Shen Yihua's great-grandfather and sold after the Revolution of 1911. At that time, his grandmother's family was in close contact with the Qigong family, and the communication between the two families continued after liberation until Mr. Qigong's death.
When he was a child, Shen's grandmother often took him home, and his wife often went to Shen's grandmother's house. Mr. Wang has always called Shen his nickname "peace" When people visit Mr. Qi's house in middle age, they still affectionately call him "Little Peace". Shen Yihua liked painting when he was very young, and Mr. Qi Gong gave him many paintings. Unfortunately, because Shen was too young to cherish, and because his family was too familiar with his paintings, he didn't take them seriously, so Xiao Heping used his calligraphy and painting as a model to spread thin rice paper on the original, so none of the calligraphy and painting that Mr. Shen gave him at that time was preserved.
In the 1970s, when Shen Yihua was in his teens, his grandmother once took him to a qigong home. Pointing at him, she said to Qi Gong, "Xiao Heping is bent on learning to write Chinese calligraphy now. What copybook do you think is more suitable for him? " Mr. Qi Gong thought for a moment and said, "There are no good copybooks in the market now. I have a newly written "True Grass Thousand Characters", with more than 2,000 words in two fonts. If it is suitable for copying, just give it to him. " Little Heping and his grandmother didn't expect that Teacher Qi Gong would willingly take the initiative to give him thousands of words that he had carefully created for seven days and seven nights. This book was often copied by Heping Xiao and collected by Heping Xiao for nearly 40 years. This "True Grass Thousand Characters" was written on the rice paper used to write calligraphy in those days. There are as many as 26 sheets of 52 pages of tissue paper. The whole book is full of vitality and vivid brushwork. It is one of the representative works of Mr. Qi Gong's real calligraphy and cursive script, which is extremely precious. Mr. Shen Yihua said that Mr. Shen's running script is very common, but there are few real books and few cursive scripts. I'm afraid this is the only thing in the world that can survive. This book "Thousand Words True Grass" not only represents Mr. Qi Gong's care for children, but also his wish to contribute to teaching and educating people, and also contains the deep feelings of Shen Jia and Qijia for many years.