Cai cài, initial c, vowel ai, four tones.
Y not Yōng y not ng, initial y, vowel ong, with tone.
Cai Yong (133- 192), the word uncle. Chen is a native of Pixian County (now south of Qixian County, Henan Province). In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a famous minister, writer and calligrapher, and also the father of talented woman Cai Wenji.
Extended Information Cai Yong refused to be recruited by the imperial court in his early years, and was later recruited as a member of the Situmao family. He served as Pingchang, Langzhong and Yilang here, and participated in the continuation of "The East View of Han Dynasty" and the engraving of Xiping Shijing. Later, he was exiled to Shuofang for crimes, and after many twists and turns, he took refuge in Jiangnan 12 years. Dong Zhuo came to power and called Cai Yong as a drink offering. Within three days, he successively served as an imperial adviser, calligrapher, minister of history, assistant minister and viceroy, and was named the township head of Levin, known as "Cai Zhonglang" in history. After Dong Zhuo was killed, Cai Yong was imprisoned for sighing in Wang Yun's seat, and soon died in prison at the age of 60.
Cai Yong was proficient in temperament and brilliant, and studied under the famous scholar Hu Guang. Besides studying Confucian classics and being good at ci fu, he is also good at calligraphy, seal cutting and official script, especially official script. He has the deepest attainments and has the evaluation of "Cai Yong's calligraphy is profound, refreshing and powerful". The created "Feibai" calligraphy style has a great influence on later generations and was rated as "wonderful and strange" by the book end. He collected more than 10,000 volumes in his life, and there are still 4,000 volumes in his later years. Twenty volumes of collected works were lost earlier. Zhang Yan of Amin Dynasty compiled Collected Works of Cai Zhonglang, and his works were also included in all the later Chinese.