Liu Yong (1720~ 1804), a native of Zhucheng, Shandong province, was a politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, and the eldest son of Liu Tongxun, the minister of war.
In the 9th year of Jiaqing (1804), he died at the age of eighty-five, and was posthumously awarded to Prince posthumous title Wen Qing. Liu Yong, with profound calligraphy attainments, was a famous calligrapher at that time and was known as the "Prime Minister of Thick Ink".
Anecdotes of characters
Liu Yong's former residence is located at the west end of Shilu Hutong (now Lishi Hutong) 129, and has now become a private house. There was a horizontal stone on the south wall of its street, engraved with "Mr. Liu Shi 'an's former residence". Shi 'an is Liu Yong's name, but this horizontal stone no longer exists. According to "Chronicles of Heaven" by Zhenjun in the late Qing Dynasty, "Liu Wenqing Gong's hometown is in the west of Hutong, north and south."
That is, Liu's mansion is located at the west end of Lishi Hutong, covering a relatively large area, with both north and south courtyards. According to "Miscellaneous Notes on Xiao Ting" written by Zhao Kuangyin, Prince of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty originally stipulated that the inner city was under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners, and Han officials lived in the outer city, but the emperor would specially allow some favored officials to live in the inner city and give them a house called "auspicious land". The house of Liu Tongxun and Liu Yong is a typical "gift".