Ruan Yuan's Calligraphy Works

Ruan Yuan (1764 February 21-18491.27), a native of Yizheng, Jiangsu Province, whose real name is Yuan Bo, abbot of Yuntai, Tang Lei, Yijing old man and gracious old man. Officials, scholars, exegesis and inscriptions in the middle of Qing Dynasty. He is a writer, sculptor and thinker. He has very high attainments in classics, mathematics, astronomy, geography, compilation, epigraphy, collation and so on. He is regarded as a veteran of the three dynasties, a minister of nine provinces, and a literati.

He has high attainments in classics, primary school, natural calculation, geography, epigraphy, collation and so on. When studying politics in Zhejiang, he revised the classics. He is good at epigraphy, respecting monuments and making biographies, and he has written Annals of Zhongzhou, especially two books: On the School of Calligraphy in the North and South and on the Postage of the North Monument and the South Monument. This idea had a far-reaching influence on the calligraphy circle in the late Qing Dynasty, and also established its position as a first-class theorist in the history of calligraphy.