Lin Bu (967-1026), courtesy name Junfu, was a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). He lived in seclusion in the lonely mountains of West Lake, never married, loved planting plums and raising cranes, and called himself "Plum Wife and Crane Son". He was later posthumously named Mr. Hejing by Renzong.
Among the calligraphers of the early Song Dynasty, Li Jianzhong, Wang Zhu, and Li Zonge all adopted the style of the Tang Dynasty, and their calligraphy was famous for its plumpness. However, Lin Bu's personality was aloof and unconventional, and his calligraphy was not out of date. It has both the clear feathers of the crane and the sparseness of the plum blossoms.