He is a native of Daozhou, Hunan Province. His real name is Zizhen, his nickname is Dongzhou, his nickname is Dongzhou Jushi, and his surname is Monkey Lao. He's representative works include Xi Daojing Shuo, Poems and Notes in the Cottage of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and Annotation on Exegetics, etc.
He has made great achievements in calligraphy. Every style of calligraphy was forged by the ancients, forming its own family. The cursive writing is particularly good. His regular script is broad and broad, but it is not sparse. At the same time, he also incorporated the characteristics of the Northern Dynasties' inscriptions, the dense calligraphy of Ou Yangxun and Ouyang Tong, and the styles of Epitaph of a Black Woman and Daoyin Monument, which made his calligraphy unique. He's small letters inherited the tradition of calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty, and his brushwork was meaningful. His cursive script combines seal script and official script in one furnace, which is prosperous and unique. His seal script, centered with a pen, can be mixed with official script, with cursive style and unique. He's calligraphy developed smoothly in his early years, wandering between Yan Zhenqing, Li Yong, Wang Xizhi and the inscriptions in the Northern Dynasties, with a sense of integrity; Middle-aged people are getting older, their brushwork is getting more and more calm, their pens are shaking, and their taste is mellow; In his later years, He's calligraphy has reached perfection. Du Fu's famous sentence "There are many celebrities in Jinan, and there are ancient pavilions on the right side of the sea" was written by him. The stone carvings that rebuilt the Lixia Pavilion still exist on the east wall of the Lixia Pavilion.