Life mechanics, calligraphy and painting, especially seal cutting. At that time, people called him, Yang Dalu in Xuancheng and Wang Renfeng in Shucheng as "the three masters of Anhui". There is a cloud in the biography: "I have so many hobbies in my life that I can't catch up with them." Only in stone carvings, the best is particularly good. Three generations of seals, as well as stone carvings since the Han and Tang dynasties, are all collected in vain to follow suit. "Calligraphy is true, grass, official script and seal script are all excellent, unique and unique. Ancient seal script is better at its length. His research on calligraphy is extremely meticulous, and there is a book "The True Solution of Calligraphy", 1932 published in Shanghai. The book is divided into eighteen chapters, which introduces in detail the use, structure, selection of teachers and nourishing qi of calligraphy. " Taking the 5,000-year exam can prove the source of 3,000 years, open up a smooth road for the laggards, open up the strange theories of predecessors, hate words, and break the heart of reading. "Postscript to the True Interpretation of Calligraphy says that it" entered the present Li with the method of auspicious words, including writing and writing as a secret biography. "Mr. Yu Youren wrote a poem for the book:" Zhang Shuhou, a real person in the sky, should also rest in the east, west, north and south. Shooting tigers and killing dragons in the sky, growing vegetables and writing books on Lao Shouzhou. "
Painting is not refined. In his later years, he likes to make ink plums and colorful red plums, and his brushwork is vigorous and steep. According to the cloud, it is made of the brushwork of seal script and the brushwork of cursive script.
People call it calligraphy, which originated from stone carving and is called "Zhang Tiebi". It is common for him to carve his own seal. Giant tablets are all written and carved by themselves, and they are often carved on the stone with a white blade without writing first, which is no different from that carved at the end of the book. It is said that when Zhang Shuhou was a teenager, he learned to carve stones with a knife when he saw a stonemason forging and polishing. For a long time, you can directly carve stones with a knife, use it as a pen, and use it freely. The knife method is simple and perfect.
There are many Tibetans everywhere, especially in Anhui Province. Unfortunately, since the Anti-Japanese War, it has been defeated repeatedly. It is said that Quan Daohan had a volume of "Plum Blossom Atlas" before his death, on which there were inscriptions in various styles, such as truth, cursive, official and seal, and all the seals were carved by himself, which is a three-off. There are two volumes of seal script album pages, both of which are kept by Yang. Stone carvings include Tong Yuan Elder Monument in Xilu Temple, Five Martyrs Monument in Anqing, Nine Martyrs Monuments Monument, Fan Chuanjia Martyrs Monument, Bixi Jingshe Monument, Yongquan Temple Monument in Shouxian County, Wabu Fangshi Tombstone, Meihua Monument in Hejiao Mingjiao Temple, and private tombstones.
In addition to the publication of The True Solution of Calligraphy, there are two volumes of History of Huai Shang Revolution, which are monographs of Huai Shang Revolution (the manuscript is kept in Guan Shudong's office). There is a volume of Biography of Old Huainan, which is a biography of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Nian Army, painter, Fang Wai and other figures since the end of Ming Dynasty. There are also two volumes of Notes to Shangshu, one volume of Lian Quotations, one volume of Yin Cun after Shu, several volumes of Poetry Talks in the Evening Hall and dozens of volumes of Poetry Talks Record.