Auction information of Wang Hangshu's eight-character couplet

Wang Hangshu's eight-character couplet

Caption: Haiyue is ten rows and a half mountains, and Masha has a thousand shadow monuments. Yi Huairen came of age, and Guangxu was honored in October.

Seal script: Wang () seal script, Shi Wei historian (Zhu Wen) 1883 10 month book, written at the age of 38.

Payee: Mr. Huaiyi, that is, Fei Nianci. Fei Nianci (1855— 1905) was a calligrapher and bibliophile in the Qing dynasty. The word "Huaiyi" means "Huaiyi", which means "lixi" and "Ye Feng Old Man" at night. Jiangsu Wujin people. Guangxu fifteen years (1889), Jinshi. After the examination, he took the post of Guan Ge and was awarded editor by the Hanlin Academy. He was dismissed and sent back to Wuzhong, and became a teacher friend with Changshu Weng Tonghe and Qiantang Wang Mingluan, taking poetry and calligraphy as his career. It is similar to the age of Wen and Jiang Biao, and it is also similar. They both have sound libraries. He is the author of Back to the Ranch Collection.

Wang (1845- 1900) was born in Fushan, Shandong Province (now Fushan District, Yantai City). China modern epigraphy, Oracle Bone Inscriptions discoverer, patriot. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), he was a scholar, served by Hanlin, and offered drinks to officials. The draft of Qing history was circulated. Born in a feudal scholar-bureaucrat family. He inherited his family studies since he was a child. At the age of 6, he entered the Wangjiashu in Guxian Village, and at the age of 15, he went to Beijing with his father. He is smart and diligent, dabbles in book history and has a reputation for never forgetting anything. He devoted himself to the study of epigraphy when he was young. In order to find ancient cultural relics, he traveled all over Shandong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan and other places. "All books, calligraphy and paintings, three generations of bronze seals, and spring goods, stones and tiles, are treasured and secretly played." I visited Pan Zuyin and Wu Dafang, famous collectors and inscriptions at that time, and studied with them. He was a famous epigraphist at that time with books such as Han Shi's Records, Selected Works of Gu Quan, Records of Scholars in Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Records of Fushan Scholars. Wang 1880 (the sixth year of Guangxu) was a scholar, 1883 was edited by the Imperial Academy, and 1894 (the twentieth year of Guangxu) was promoted to assistant scholar. He taught in imperial academy three times and toasted imperial academy three times. "All the students are taught by hand, and they all encourage each other to learn." At that time, they were called "imperial examination champions". 1899 (25th year of Guangxu) discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions for the first time and divided its era into Shang Dynasty. This caused a sensation in Chinese and foreign academic circles, pushed the history of Chinese characters to the Shang Dynasty, which was more than 1700 BC, and created a new situation in the study of philology and history.