Among the ten emperors in the Qing Dynasty, from Shunzhi to Daoguang, Qian Wen's calligraphy was dull, stagnant and rough, with no artistic flavor of calligraphy. It didn't change until Xianfeng Dynasty, and Qian Wen's writings were all important ministers of Daoguang Xianfeng Dynasty. Ancient Money records the handwriting of Dai Shen, a great painter in Qing Dynasty, such as Xiaoping Tiemu of Baoquan Bureau, commonly known as Dai Shen Xianfeng. Casting in Xianfeng period (A.D.1851~1861), it is the most complicated one in Qing Dynasty, with more than a thousand different versions. Qian Wen was written by Dai (A.D. 108 1~ 1860), a painter and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. Dai used to be an assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and he had high attainments in poetry, calligraphy and painting, printing and so on. Qian Wen's works are slim, elegant, refined and moist, which breaks the lack of artistic characteristics of money wares in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It can be seen that there were few writers in Qian Wen in Qing Dynasty, mostly for regulation and less innovation. Isn't this a testimony to the high development of autocratic imperial power?