Yi Bingshou was born in a scholarly family. He likes painting, and his works have four styles. His running script has the charm of Yan Zhenqing and has a wide range of ideas. It is also a hundred teachers who express their ideas and attract people's attention. His official script is the highest achievement, and he is one of the representatives of the revival of official script in the Qing Dynasty.
Yi Bingshou's official script absorbed the truth from the Han tablet and created his own face. The pen is firm and steady, with full and broad structure, vigorous momentum and elegant style. Yi's own summary is: "Founder, singularity, vertical posture, easy, less, virtual and real, fat and thin, extremely changeable, out of the wrist …". His couplets and plaques, from lines to structures, are very dense and scattered, with unique charm in strength, distinctive personality and horizontal and vertical. He used the brushwork of seal script to write official script, so the strokes were round, the thickness was similar, and there was no obvious wave. The composition is very distinctive, covered and supported by words on all sides, giving people a neat and rigorous decorative aesthetic feeling. Liang Zhangju commented that the bigger it is, the stronger it will be.
Yi Bingshou's official script is very different from traditional Han Li in strokes. He omitted the twists and turns of Han Liheng's paintings and replaced them with straight pens with little change in thickness. Han Li's flat knot no longer exists in his hands, leaving only a clumsy shape like a thick wooden building. However, this is not an artificial skill after poverty, but a variation after a deep grasp of Han Li's essence. Yi Bingshou understands the simplicity and sincerity of art, but he is deeply influenced by Confucian aesthetics. If he successfully designs a building structure, it will be similar to Ou Yangxun's regular script. If he has achieved miraculous results by reducing pen movements and simplifying lines, then he coincides with Badashan people. Yi Bingshou's calligraphy combines the inscriptions of Qin and Han dynasties, which is simple and vigorous, and "has a temple atmosphere", which has a lot of inspiration for calligraphy innovation in later generations.