He is the forerunner of China's New Culture Movement, an outstanding artist, educator, thinker and innovator, an outstanding representative of the combination of China's traditional culture and Buddhist culture, the most outstanding monk in the modern Buddhist history of China, and a well-known figure enjoying a high reputation internationally. Li Shutong, the master of "Twenty Earthshaking Articles", is a pioneer of splendid culture and art in many fields in China, who combines poetry, ci, books, paintings, seal cutting, music, drama and literature. At the same time, it has made creative development in education, philosophy, law, Chinese characters, sociology, advertising, publishing, environment and animal and plant protection, and human fasting experiments.
He pushed the ancient calligraphy art of China to the extreme. As a monk's calligraphy, Hongyi is different from some monks and artists in history, such as Zhi Yong and Huai Su. Although they are dressed in cassock, it seems that their life is not aimed at firm Buddhist belief and sincere and practical Buddhist practice. They are just artists who have been sent to a Buddhist temple. They "madly despise the world and gain true knowledge through drunkenness", which is completely the temperament and romance of artists.