Gu Youquan received strict basic calligraphy training from his teacher at an early age. Wei Guan studied under Mr. Mai, a famous calligrapher in Lingnan, while studying in Guangzhou Art College. During my work in the library of Huazhong Normal University in 1960s, I had the opportunity to observe and study a large number of inscriptions in the library. In the early 1960s, he began to learn from Mr. Tang Zuishi, a famous epigraphy calligrapher, and made great progress in art. Calligraphy can be used in various forms, especially seal script. Seal cutting is based on Zhejiang School, and it is good at Chinese printing, Japanese printing and Indian printing. Calligraphy works have participated in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th National Book Fair and Zhengzhou International Book Fair. During the period of 1986, he visited Macao with the Hubei painting and calligraphy delegation and made a painting and calligraphy exhibition. Four screens of seal script "Yueyang Tower" were exhibited, which received enthusiastic response and was praised as contemporary Deng. Yilin, Macao Daily, made a column comment. He has participated in the Sino-Japanese calligraphy exchange exhibition for many times, and his works have flowed into Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, France, the United States and other countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and have been collected by cultural and artistic departments at home and abroad. Since 1970s, dozens of calligraphy papers and technical lectures have been published in professional newspapers and periodicals such as Calligraphy, Calligraphy Newspaper and Hongkong Pu Shu. 1989 cooperated with Wen Shangguang to edit the college calligraphy textbook "General Theory of Calligraphy Teaching" for Wuhan Calligraphy Art College.
Mr. Gu Youquan, a famous calligrapher in Hubei Province, died on the afternoon of April 10, 2065438, at the age of 83.