Brief introduction of Hu Kun

Hu Kun (184-191), a Meng An, whose name is Ju Lin (Ju Yi Zuo Yi), was named Old Bow, Abandoned Bow, Not withered, and was also named Cui Ting Chang in the evening, a scholar outside the bamboo, and sent fishing in the South Lake in his later years. He was the owner of Baoguang Pavilion and had many paintings and calligraphy works. Tujia people in Zhouquan, Shimen (now Tongxiang), Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty. In the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1869), he was a scholar. Good at calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, and poetry. Yu Shinan and Liu Gongquan were beginners in calligraphy, and then he devoted himself to the Han-Wei Bei edition. Gu Zhuo was vigorous and quite skilled. The mountains and rivers are thick, and the pen and ink are boundless; Lan Ju is also very carefree. Good at printing, carving bamboo, and the reputation of printing management is comparable to that of Wu Changshuo. Although it is not as old as beautiful and elegant, it is extremely refined in carving bamboo and the skill of carving fan bones is no less than that of Cai Zhao.

In the early 195s, Shanghai Xuanhe Press published "The Prints of Four Masters in the Late Qing Dynasty", an anthology of four works by Wu Xizai, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshuo and Hu Yong. He is also good at carving bamboo and wood. He once carved the ancient calligraphy Preface to the Great Tang Dynasty, The Inscription of Liquan in Jiucheng Palace and The Story of Magu Xiantan on boxwood, all of which are concrete and subtle without losing their charm. There have been many kinds of fan bones carved, among which Wu Botao's "Late Cuiting Map", accompanied by Jiang Youjie's poems, is a collection of famous poems and paintings carved in one fan, which can be called three wonders. He is also good at stone carving. He once carved a stone tablet for Qiu Jin's tomb, a female Xia in Jianhu. Although Qiu Jin's tomb was destroyed before and after the Revolution of 1911, the stone tablet still exists on the back of the statue of Qiu Jin, a female Xia by Hangzhou Xiling Bridge. He also carved "Crepe Marble Protecting Stone" for Fuyan Temple, an ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River. In his later years, due to the case of Hu Chuanxiang, he took refuge in the Lotus Bridge at the south gate of Jiaxing and died here. Hu Kun's poems are elegant and unique, including "Late Cuiting Poems" and "Singing Grass in a Small Bo". There are "Late Cuiting Seal" (inscribed by Wu Changshuo) and "Late Cuiting Seal".