Wu Dacheng
Wu Dacheng (1835- 1902) was a famous epigraphy archaeologist and calligrapher in Qing dynasty. The first name is Da Chun, which was renamed to avoid Mu Zong's taboo. It is also known as Qingqing and Hengxuan, also known as Baiyun Mountain firewood, Lushai and Baiyun Temple Cluster. People from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Editor-in-chief, Shaanxi, Gansu. Taoist priests, officials of Taibu Temple, officials of Taichang Temple, political envoys of generals, officials of Shi Yu, the capital of Zuodu, and governors of Guangdong and Guangxi in Henan and Hebei. He participated in the left westward camp and helped Ming 'an to train in Jilin, so he participated in the negotiations on the Sino-Russian border and the Sino-Japanese peace treaty. During the Sino-French War, he would deal with Beiyang affairs. During the Sino-Japanese War, I was invited to participate in the war.
Wu Dacheng is good at the identification and textual research of ancient Chinese characters, as well as seal cutting, calligraphy and painting. Wu Dacheng's calligraphy is most famous for seal script. His seal script is very distinctive, combining the ancient seal script with the small seal script, and his skill is very deep, that is, he usually uses neat and exquisite seal script for it, with neat rules and unique feelings. In his early years, he learned a brief introduction to seal script from his father Wu Chu. After middle age, he devoted himself to ancient seal script and benefited from calligraphy. In Qin dynasty, he studied stone with Xiao Zhuan, and his calligraphy was like Li. Later, inspired by Yang Yisun, he combined Biography with inscriptions on bronze and wrote The Analects of Confucius, The Book of Filial Piety and Letters in this way. His seal script was uneven in size, elegant and simple, which was a creation at that time. He studied epigraphy deeply, which broadened his vision of pre-Qin characters and made his seal script draw a lot of nutrition from it. Wu Dacheng writes a brief introduction to seal script Wu Dayun and likes to use official script. His official script is horizontal and vertical, and he also carries the Fahan tablet. It is quite interesting for Huang Tingjian to learn Zeng Guofan in running script. Wu Daxiao is also famous for his poems and essays. He is the author of ten books, including Luzhai Poetry and Fu Collection, Notes on Ancient Books, Notes on Characters, Records of Luzhai Ancient Records, Textual Research on Ancient Jade, Experimental Examination of Weights and Measures, Hengxuan Collection of Jin Jizhi, Notes on Delimitation of Jilin, and Records of Sixteen Villages in Jin Fu.