When Deng was a child, his family was poor and his social status was low all his life. He said to himself, "I tried reading at the end of my youth and tried everything." When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, my heart was whispering and I took pleasure in books. At the age of twenty, my grandfather brought it to Shouzhou, and now I can teach me to be old. People don't treat each other like literati. " Such a "coarse cloth" with little reading has grown into a great artist by unshakable faith, tenacious will and hard exercise. After seventeen, he began to carve his own food with books. After the age of 30, through the introduction of friends, I gradually got to know Nanjing Meimei.
The three brothers and other friends have visited the rare epigraphy books collected by the Mei family, and each famous tablet has to be copied more than 100 times. Therefore, they are greedy from morning till night, laying a solid calligraphy foundation for seal cutting in the future. So at that time, people evaluated his four-body calligraphy as the first person in Qing Dynasty.
In Deng's time, Huizhou School and Zhejiang School occupied the altar of printing, but he was never satisfied with the achievements made by his predecessors. Based on his wealth and calligraphy, he achieved "the book is printed, and the book is printed from the book", which broke the traditional procedure of official seal cutting in Han and India, pioneered the use of small seals and inscriptions in seal cutting, broadened the scope of seal cutting and formed his own vigorous and graceful seal cutting. Deng's brilliance has always influenced Bao, Zhao, Hu Shu and others in the same period. Deng is an outstanding figure in the history of seal cutting development. Unfortunately, few of his original stones have been circulated in the world, such as Wanbaishan seal cutting, Wanbaishan seal, Deng seal and so on.