Liu Yong (1719~1804) Information about Liu Yong
Chinese name: Liu Yong
Alias: Chongru, Shi'an
Characters : Chongru
Nationality: Qing Dynasty
Ethnicity: Han
Place of birth: Panggezhuang, Zhucheng, Shandong Province (now part of Gaomi)
Date of birth: 1719 (the fifty-eighth year of Kangxi)
Date of death: 1804 (the ninth year of Jiaqing)
Occupation: calligrapher, painter, official
Main achievements: editing "Sikuquanshu", calligraphy art
Representative works: "Shi'an Poetry Collection"
Literary works: "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" Liu Yong? Bachelor of Qianlong Period of Qing Dynasty
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Liu Yong (1719-1804), also known as Shi'an, also known as Qingyuan, Xiangyan, Dongwu, Mu'an, Minghua, Riguanfeng Taoren, etc., was a calligrapher, painter and politician in the Qing Dynasty. A native of Panggezhuang, Zhucheng, Shandong Province (now part of Gaomi), his ancestral home is Feng County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu. In the 16th year of Qianlong's reign (1751), he was the second scholar in the second class and was the son of Liu Tongxun, a bachelor. From an official to a cabinet scholar, he is an honest official and has the style of his father. Liu Yong was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Qianlong's reign. He served as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a bachelor of Tiren Pavilion. He was good at Gongshu, especially in small regular script. Most of his handed down calligraphy works are running script. He died in Beijing on December 25, the ninth year of Jiaqing. Posthumously named Wenqing, he died at the age of 85.
Liu Yong is good at calligraphy and handwriting, especially small regular script. His calligraphy uses thick ink, rich and vigorous appearance, and has a unique style. He is a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, and is also regarded as a calligrapher by Yan Zhenqing and Su Shi. His calligraphy skills were first learned from Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty, and he established his own calligraphy style in his middle age. He took the Wei and Jin Dynasties as his master, and his calligraphy has a rich and ancient style. Together with Tie Bao, Weng Fanggang and Prince Cheng, they are known as the four major calligraphers of the Qing Dynasty.
When Liu Yong wrote the hand scroll of Du Fu's poems, he wrote it on water-red paper with golden flowers, which was very unique. The first poem is titled "Chicken Binding", which describes a servant tying chickens to sell in the market. It evokes the poet's thoughts on the relationship between humans, chickens and insects, and the content is quite interesting. As for calligraphy, the round and graceful fonts seem soft and boneless, but in fact they hide their strength in their rich appearance and are quite restrained. This is what the predecessors commented on Liu Yong's calligraphy as "needle hidden in cotton". .
After the age of seventy, he concentrated on the stone tablet calligraphy of the Northern Dynasties. His calligraphy uses thick ink, thick and rich ink, but the skeleton structure is very strong, combining both softness and rigidity, making it unique.