Lu Qian
Lu Qian was born in Yuyao, Zhejiang in 1926. He was fond of calligraphy since childhood. In 1946, he went to Hong Kong to study under Yu Xueman. In 1953, he returned to Shanghai to engage in calligraphy education.
Chinese name: Lu Qian
Birthplace: Yuyao, Zhejiang
Date of birth: 1926
Date of death: 2009
Occupation: Calligrapher
Representative work: "Wang Xizhi's Selected Calligraphies from Orchid Pavilion"
I started learning calligraphy from Wang Xizhi's "Preface to Orchid Pavilion", and then became devoted to Wei stele and attacked Li, Xing, and Xing. Cursive writing. The freehand brushwork on the stele is earthy and clumsy, with a majestic atmosphere. The running and cursive scripts are based on the "Two Kings", mixed with Zhang Zhi and Huai Su's brushwork, which is vigorous and majestic. Mr. Lu Qian is a well-known hard-pen calligrapher at home and abroad. He is a well-known hard-pen calligrapher at home and abroad. He is more than seventy years old and still uses a brush to write on hundreds of inscriptions on inscriptions and a fountain pen on hundreds of inscriptions on inscriptions. Shanghai University Press published "Lu Qian's Fountain Pen Collection of Hundreds of Steles and Calligraphy", filling a gap in the history of calligraphy. He strongly advocates "inheriting and developing the calligraphy art of the motherland with pen calligraphy" and has authored more than ten kinds of correspondence textbooks such as "Wang Xizhi's Fountain Pen Copybook", "Yan Zhenqing's Fountain Pen Copybook", and "Lu Jian's Fountain Pen Copybook". Published "Selected Copies of Wang Xizhi's Lanting", "Selected Copies of the Han Cao Tablets", "Selected Copies of Epitaphs of the Six Dynasties by Wang Yuansi" and "Series of Writing Training for Primary School Students", etc. During his lifetime, he was the vice chairman of the Chinese Hard Pen Calligraphers Association, a member of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, a director of the Shanghai Seal Engraving Research Association, and a part-time professor of calligraphy at Shanghai Normal University.