Mr. Shi Qi was born in Zaoqiang, Hebei Province in 1941 (the hometown of Dong Zhongshu, a great Confucian scholar in the Han Dynasty). He graduated from the Shanghai Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army in 1967 with a major in culture and art. He is a national first-class painter, a director of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles' Painting and Calligraphy Exchange Center, a director of the China Famous Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, a flower and bird painter of the China Three Gorges Painting Academy, a vice president of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Institute, a researcher of the China Contemporary Calligraphy and Calligraphy Celebrity Research Association, and