Mingrun calligraphy originated in Yanzhou City, Shandong Province, where Dayu was in charge of water control. Yanzhou has been a Buddhist holy land since ancient times, the thoroughfare of nine provinces and the throat of Qilu. It is located in Jining, Shandong Province, the hometown of Confucius and Mencius and the state of etiquette. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao set out for Yanzhou, where the poet Li Bai lived for 20 years. He got to know Du Fu, two of the most dazzling stars in China's poetry circles (his father was Sima Yanzhou at that time), and got together for drinking and writing poems in Shaolingtai (near the public security bureau in West Yanzhou today). This is a great blessing in poetry! 1935, Xiao mingrun was born in this city full of historical and cultural atmosphere. One mountain, one water and one saint, perhaps there were too many touching plots about art in this ancient city. Influenced by his ancestors, Xiao Lao fell in love with calligraphy as an artistic enjoyment. In his later work and life, a piece of rice paper, one stroke at a time, enhanced Xiao Lao's artistic feelings of "leisurely caressing seven strings of green flowers and leisurely watching bronze torches". However, Mr. Xiao Mingrun, who was born in a cultural holy land, made great contributions to Mo Bao culture in China for thousands of years. Mingrun calligraphy originated from the scholarly family, and famous artists came forth in large numbers. Xiao Mingrun is a descendant of Xiao Yan, the founding emperor of Southern Liang Dynasty. His ancestors had "three treasures complete" (the emperor gave him a flagpole, an inkstone and a copy of Xiao's genealogy).
Xiao's Genealogy records that Xiao was born in Yanjing, and his father was good at literature, music and calligraphy. The Xiao family moved to Yanzhou (to the west, Gubinyang became a new post station). After Xiao Wenlin became Wu, he was rejected by officials because of his untimely worldview, and lived in seclusion in the suburbs because of the prevalence of flattery. There is Confucius in the east and a small village in the west. There are photos in front, flagpoles in the courtyard, poems and books handed down from generation to generation, and later generations are talented. Xiao Mingrun can remember that there are many people in the family and there are stone lions sitting at the door. Gardens, pavilions and waterside pavilions, Confucian scholars talk about books and doctrines.
Influenced by his ancestors, Xiao Mingrun liked to write with a brush when he was studying in a private school, a primary school and a normal school. He never stopped working because there was no copybook to copy on the clipboard. I am studying Shi San Pan and Shi Guwen; Lishu mainly talks about Zhang Qianbei and Li Bei; Regular script studies the four books of the Tang Dynasty, running script studies Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting and Preface to Saint Education, as well as the running scripts of Wen Zhiming, Mi Fei, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengxiao. From Han Dynasty to modern times, cursive script was attached to famous stone tablets. Mainly engaged in planting grass for more than 20 years, coolies and grass teachers have studied more than 20 pieces. On the basis of mastering the brushwork and composition of these masters, he created his own works.